skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you create product videos and screencasts?
Some examples:
https://cdn.loom.com/assets/marketing/hero.webm
https://a.slack-edge.com/5f6f2/marketing/img/homepage/hp-prospect/channels/bring-your-team-together-in-channels.mp4

As a dev primarily, I spent some time learning video editing over the past week. However it is not clear to me still how people create video like the above example videos to show the product and its features. Wondering how people go about creating / editing video screencasts ?
If you like this I can’t recommend Brain.FM[0] enough. I use whenever I need to deep work/think about things and I find I have long stretches of incredible productivity combined with noise isolating headphones

They also boast a lot of actual research that backs up why they play the sounds they do and such.

It’s been a life changer for me, really. I hope I never see the day they go out of business cause I am heavily reliant on it to maintain productivity at this point (thanks ADHD)

[0] https://www.brain.fm/
Marginal tax rate (which is specified) is at least how much you'd owe on every dollar of income after. Average tax rate is how much tax you actually paid against income.
Give me a different path to the content, and I will gladly take it. The reason I take this roundabout route is that YouTube owns the monopoly on online video.

And Google still makes money off me because I can’t block their ads on Apple TV—I just don’t want to hand them money from my own accounts. They have become incredibly user-hostile once they felt secure in their monopoly position. That attitude completely turned me off.
Comparing it to lists of best-selling albums [0], the major artist that isn't even present in the RS list (vs. ones that are but not by their best-selling album, e.g. Santana's Supernatural) is Celine Dion (Falling into You), which record sold 32 million claimed copies. Once you get down to 20-29 million copies you see a lot more best-selling albums without their artists appearing on RS's critical list, from Bon Jovi to Linkin Park to Norah Jones to the Backstreet Boys to the Spice Girls.

Also, film scores (such as The Titanic OST) are not on RS's list.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums
Yes. The Cook Guardian piece did a great job of making me understand the weaselly underpinnings of this case.
Where does it say it is real?
> I don't have any of the conveniences described above, because I'm not crazy or gullible enough to buy an IoT appliance.

It’s a deep hole when you fall it, but you can have what you want.

ESP8266 and ESP32 chips can be made to to do all sorts of magic and are very inexpensive and easily flashed.

There are a variety of option for programming them from flashing with mostly-premade software (ESPHome) or do it yourself with Arduino. Mine all tie into Home Assistant.

There are a range of sensors that do all sorts of things.

Mine post to a Slack channel for stuff I want to know about.

The time invested is vastly more than the time saved, but I love it.
Not all, my Windows machines are yet to see any instance of WSL running.

As for your bash example, I have run various versions of it across many kinds of POSIX like OSes.

Yes Linux is irrelevant, it is just a free beer UNIX clone, tomorrow another UNIX clone can take its place.
I used to work in a noisy open plan office with multiple people around me on the same calls, it was very difficult to ignore 3/4 of a conversation so I started listen to a thunderstorm with heavy rain to block the noise/voices as white noise did nothing for me. Now that I work from home in an office on my own I still use the thunderstorm when I need to concentrate on one thing for a few hours. I think I've done some version of Pavlov's dog on myself.
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/09/26/kari-kemur-fronsku-ferda...

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/09/22/logreglan-hafdi-afskipti...
Classical computers might not find the optimal schedule but can likely solve for good enough scheduling for a fraction of the price. I’m curious if the difference would result in millions daily for a single air operator company
An alternative to Tiled, oh thank the maker.
Code from main.js: https://www.patatap.com/src/main.js

Enjoyed playing with it. It would be nice to see some WebMIDI support so it can be triggered with a MIDI keyboard.

On the same topic, I found Google's Oboe project really interesting. It's a C++ library for audio that works on both Chrome (via WASM) and Android (with AAudio). This talk from Google I/O 2019 gave a demo/walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GaD0RCp-Q0
This looks very useful - thanks.

The pre-approved plugin list (https://www.altis-dxp.com/resources/pre-approved-plugins/) returns 404 though :(
>Gotta say in my opinion it didn't age well for a paper published in 2020 (but pre GPT-3).

Agreed. The glaring issue with their argument falls out of their own introduction. What is the "linguistic intent" of the sentence "When was Malala Yousafzai born"? Well, it falls right out of a natural language training corpus which will, with high likelihood, be followed up with her actual birthdate! So there is some non-trivial signal within the training corpus of linguistic intent. Capturing this intent is then just a computational problem. But the objective function of predicting the subsequent word has within the space of solutions the linguistic intent of the writers of the training corpus.
Coming to the US, I was surprised I need a prescription from a US doctor ($100+ shakedown) to get glasses or contact lenses. This is what happens when you let special interest groups write the law.
It seems to me as if all the economic criticisms of grant writing and funding committees (it's rent seeking that can destroy value, it distracts people who actually know science, it makes short term bets, it encourages fashions) could just as easily apply to venture capital. What's really different?
In 2020, the best application of the Beatles catalog would be a preschool songbook. Fight me.
> It's not a Distro.

Sure it is.

It's not a general purpose distro (running on GP/COTS hardware), but it is a software distribution built around a Linux kernel.
For our users we use Kerberos authentication with AD, rather than SSH keys. Once a user has a TGT on their desktop, ticket forwarding takes care of SSH SSO from there.

The same TGT can also be used for other neat things like secure and transparently automounted homes and other directories via NFS4 or CIFS.
It’s normal for UIs to need some sort of nesting, e.g. menus, tabs (including things like tab panels and ribbon UIs), flexible split panes. It’s possible to do all of these without a tree, but you’ll be doing what nesting does, just at a far more painful level. Switch from tab A to tab B → hide all the A widgets, show all the B widgets. Adjust the split position → recalculate the position, width and height of every element that’s “within” it. Scroll a scrollable panel → adjust the y position of every element that’s “within” it, and also probably refresh the clip masks that every widget must now have since scrolling makes partial occlusion possible.
A. They have no clothes, no shelter, only an apple to eat, and are being told this is paradise.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this, please, and please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601088 also.
Simple solution: pay for MS office instead.

> And when you point this out, you're usually told that you should instead stop doing your work and fix the broken tools yourself.

show us an example of you being told to do this.
That’s what we thought about IE and Edge until one day, things changed.
How to Get Rich Quick
I felt cheated this also particularly because I'd never take the time to break down the storage I used when it was a free benefit so I became locked in.

I had used multiple free accounts for years for the same purpose with minimal aggravation.

I wouldn't mind a little compensation for the nth time they have cheated,closed,broken or otherwise fucked up a product or offer I trusted from them.
Nothing about what Assange did strikes me as journalism though. There is more to journalism than just publishing. Any journalist will tell you that distinction is not just professionally important, it goes to US first amendment protections that may not apply to publishing alone.

The basic way think about this is that journalists tell stories from facts limited by professional ethics. Publishers disclose anything they want that may or may not be legal. Wikileaks intended, very directly, to publish things and not tell stories.

Perhaps an even better way to think about this is that journalism is original writing. What percentage of published material from Wikileaks was originally written by Wikileaks?
What are the criteria required for an OS using the Linux kernel to be called a “distribution” then?

Including GNU or free software in the definition seems arbitrary...
Is there a class of applications (that aren’t apps from a store) that must be runnable?

Or do you mean that distro is short for “GNU/Linux distribution”?

I’m not arguing for/against (since it’s obviously a long-standing debate), what I’m interested in is the criteria for what makes something a distro.
Assange 'conspired' to commit real journalism, which is considered a heinous crime in America.
As far as that era of music goes, I would think Franz Ferdinand, Hot Fuss by the Killers, or Silent Alarm by Bloc Party would be more deserving than AM. Why does Arctic Monkey need to have two albums on this list?

Edit: never mind, guess their debut was on the 2012 list and then removed in favor of AM on the latest list.
Ask HN: For a voice POC on Alexa, which platform / stack / SaaS should I use?
I read that and was a little disappointed. He argues it's basically just a human invention and skirts around the obvious counter arguments that say aliens would discover the same maths if with different language to describe it.

He also tries to politicise the debate which I feel is kind of silly.
But WSL comes with a choice of distros to run on it, so how can it itself be a distro too?
Hah! In the slideshow, you can even see the evolution of their logo in ads. I always wondered if the resemblance to Crate&Barrel was just a coincidence.
I get what you mean - I know people with similar views. So please read my comments as written by someone who's just wired differently.

For me, the perfect break from 8 hours of work isn't analog chores. It's playing a videogame. Or working on a side project. Or reading a book. I don't know why is that, perhaps because I just don't tire in front of computers: I can stare at a screen for 16+ hours and my eyes don't even get dry (I contrast that to some of my co-workers from previous jobs, who'd have to take breaks to put saline drops in their eyes near the end of the work day).

This of course puts me in a risk group - I have to actively manage myself to not become a couch potato. I've been working from home for more than 3 years now, so I know I can easily do the "work -> videogame -> sleep -> repeat" routine without ever getting away from a computer for more than 15 minutes. Being married definitely helps with ensuring I don't spend the whole day in front of the screen.

But the bottom line is: even after an exhausting day, I don't find rest in physical chores. Never had. So I welcome every opportunity to get rid of them, as I always feel I have more interesting stuff to do.
Agreed, though the question of how much funding do we give to each of the current promising-seeming approaches is a difficult one. Going all-in on a single approach would be very risky, but spreading the funding so thinly that no approach succeeds would also be a mistake.

My personal choice would be to give SPARC (a tokamak design, somewhat smaller than ITER since it would use better superconductors to produce the magnetic field) and magnetized target fusion (see General Fusion for a company that is doing this) enough funding that they can produce working reactor prototypes as fast as possible. Spread the remaining money across a few other promising approaches. I'd even give some small amount to super-risky "tabletop fusion" experiments, just because it's fairly low cost.
Wikileaks provides an invaluable service, they much to teach us. The pulled back the curtain and revealed...

- diplomats sometimes engage in diplomacy
- the Iraq war was bad
- many other revelatory items they don't want you to know about

Also this is fun too, perhaps to keep things interesting (November 2016):

"Hi Don [Jr] if your father 'loses' we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do."
I'm sure they spent well over $10k doing it which shows you one of the problems with over-engineered solutions.
Sounds identical to articulating a concept in any informal language.
I suppose this PoC shows how bad it can be, and you should ask, would a machine from a "major manufacturer" be any better, or how high do you think the chances are that the product manager from that major manufacturer would just look for the cheapest vendor offering IoT, and would be fooled by the sales people saying "Oh yeah, our software is very secure!" (they'll tell him this lie over the Zoom meeting that has "end to end encryption"...).

And showing the face of the devil and saying "Gimme money" is an obvious PoC. In 5 years the error message will be "Problem 0xDF. Please contact support at [scammer's number]". And then? Sending a fake repairman with a hefty bill would take too much time, how about a remote "repair" and a repair bill?

"We can send someone out to repair it, but that'll 2 weeks. Or we can do it over the Internet in 5 minutes, but it will cost $10, which would you prefer?".
It’s being inflation adjusted.
The Case of the Missing Bullet Holes (2017)
Software that is maintained only increases in size until it is no completely unusable on the original hardware. Each successive update leaves less flash space and RAM for the user's payload.
The standard is WebAuthn: https://webauthn.io/

Otherwise there are HTML5 input field autocompletes which tell the browser what the field is for. Chrome is very good with this and you can fill out an email + new password in seconds.
Cuisinart also makes one that takes roasted beans and does everything else. And having dated a girl who owned one and lived in a studio apartment, I can tell you that it also serves as the world's rudest alarm clock.
Powerful models are trained using large amounts of data that most people do not have access to.

They are also trained powerful infrastructure that most people do not have access to.

So, to speak of democratization is interpreting the current state of affairs incorrectly.
I think that if you already have all users in a authz/authn system then anything will feel easy compared to the alternative, but I'd definitely not call them simple.
Yeah, we European Emacs users went to the states to earn real money :^)
To be completely honest, I like to think I would go down to where the problem is and have the people dealing with the problem look for a solution first.

If you approach a third party as "a big company" looking for a "solution", you'll just get "a big solution at a bigger price"
Sure, but "middle class" doesn't really mean much, the median income in the US is $61k.
Then the correct game-theoretic action to make this behaviour stop is to leave a 1-star review on any app that asks.
2017 thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375056
In my local University, OWASP is the place the teachers quote when it comes to security related things. For same reason great deal of exam quizzes comes from OWASP catalog.

Especially I'd like to highlight the Cheat Sheet Series in here: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/Glossary.html
I've never used Impress before today, except once when I need to adjust some PDF's and I opened them in the wrong tool. I've only ever used Docs seriously.

Clearly the UI cannot be that bad.

Edit: Also, nothing I wanted was more than one click away.

Edit 2: There's nothing wrong with disliking a piece of software, but it does seem disingenuous to just flat out say it's bad.
Coming from Germany my belief is that Americans grow with a lot of noise like air conditioning, TVs constantly on and housing walls generally being very thin. So maybe they are used to that and take comfort in it. I personally hate white noise but a it seems a lot of Americans get nervous in absolute silence and look for something to fill in. Whenever I go back to Germany I am always surprised how quiet the houses of my siblings are.

Just my non scientific theory.
There was an actual randomized trial that came out recently [1] where hospitalized patients were given extremely large doses of Vitamin D (explanation of equvalent doses [2]) and it dramatically reduced ICU admission.

This supports the idea that Vitamin D helping with COVID is probably causal rather than just a correlation.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

[2] https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/finally-confirmed-vi...
Your comment here and these ones break the site guidelines terribly badly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24575850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24575257

We ban accounts that post like this. I don't want to ban you. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site to heart? Obviously you're a good contributor here but the community is fragile and comments like these just destroy it. I'm sure that you're not out setting fires in your neighborhood, or punching strangers in the nose, so please don't do the equivalent here.
Maybe the problem is that they are a s*ty agency that randomly fines people and expect them to pay up. I don't have knowledge how the IRS works but I know at least one tax agency in this world that would fine you random amounts and just wait for your reaction. They are not in the business of fairly auditing your numbers because they'll lose, so they turn to poorer persons that they can bully.

Another thing, many countries expect rich people and rich companies to hire government-certified accountants to verify your fillings (known as a Statutory auditor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_auditor ). This makes it harder for these companies to do stuff the non-audited guy can easily do.
I've worked from home most of my professional working life (20+ years). Some years less than 100% some fulltime.

I love manual chores. During RSI breaks, (previously pomodoro breaks), five minutes cleaning out the washer, hanging up laundry, weeding a patch of vegetables, pruning a shrub, chopping wood, collecting fruit, feeding chickens or just petting my cats.

E.g. plucking weed in my garden gives me headspace to 'zoom out'. To see bigger pictures. Evaluate if 'm ye entire morning updating the linter' benefits the company at all (no). Or if performance really is an issue for customers in that area. Or if this idea for presentation-models really helps with velocity.
I would love a solid answer as well, but you have to realize most "money" out there is credit and its effectively how our economy works, so you don't necessarily need to make real money to make real money.
> It's funny that Americans on HN and reddit are trying to blame Boeing's technical incompetence on Indian suppliers and subcontractors. Why are Airbus planes not suffering similar problems and why is Airbus not blaming it on Indian suppliers and subcontractors?

It could have something to do with American business culture as well.

When American companies outsource, they seem monomanically focused on paying the absolute least amount of money per body, which tends to get you relatively incompetent people in any location. They will then engage in brazen denialism that doing something like that will reduce quality.

Maybe European companies prioritize quality more, and are thus willing to pay for more of more skilled people when they offshore.
It is a long post with a lot of good points. One minor thing I would argue: the "setter support" in languages is not really a plus for observer patterns.

In many such languages support "setter" and use such to naively implement observer patterns, you can see a lot of repeated updates for the same object through the call chains. Because often than not, you are not update one property for one state object, you need to update a set of properties across some number of state objects, and simplistic "setter" based observation cannot differentiate these and coalescing properly. People can workaround this and implement "backpressure" etc, but it just to add more complexity on a broken promises.

What you really need is an observer implementation with transactional guarantees. Thus, the state change cannot be observed until an update transaction is done. This will naturally reduce number of unnecessary updates, and doesn't really need "setter support" from the language.
I want to try this, but why is it an app and not just a website?
My understanding of entrapment is that it's convincing someone to do something they wouldn't ordinarily. I don't think "Wanna bomb that building?" Qualifies as entrapment. It would be difficult for undercover police to catch drug dealers, for example, if they couldn't ask the dealers to sell them drugs.

Entrapment would be more like "We're going to bomb that building, and if you don't join us, I'm going to kill you... Hah! Just kidding, you're under arrest!"

"Government agents do not entrap defendants simply by offering them an opportunity to commit a crime. Judges expect people to resist any ordinary temptation to violate the law. An entrapment defense arises when government agents resort to repugnant behavior such as the use of threats, harassment, fraud, or even flattery to induce defendants to commit crimes."

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/entrapment-basics-33...
A bit of forgotten history is that the first set of bill designs were supposed to be fictional but in fact the designer(s) had copied existing bridges. Oops. AFAIK the EU never pursued the matter, they just forgot about the fraud and paid for the set of definitely-fictional designs that are now on the bills.
Shouldn't I own part of gpt3 because it's trained on my data and likely spitting out what I have commented somewhere on the internet?

I think ml models should be public unless the data itself isn't.
What I’m looking for is the “ready for pocket” device that has wifi, a screen, and some input like a keyboard. Are there any ESP32 or Teensy kits that yield that kind of thing in a pretty decent, durable result?

Thanks!
Yup, "different strokes for different folks" is very much a thing here, and I can't help wondering if we're going to see the wild and varying elements of the individualized-cyberfuture made popular in comics and video games arriving sooner than expected, or in entirely different forms than popularized, or even a new way entirely of discussing the "digital divide" at large.
I think it's likely that social animals are almost all self aware. How can an individual animal manage social relations within its pack without a knowledge of self and of other selves?
A 'Cure for Heart Disease'? a Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys
Do they have outline mode yet? Been asking 15-20 years now. :D
After reading the problem definition, my reaction was: you'd either weigh it and use a solenoid to kick it into a defect box, or you'd use air to knock the empty boxes from the line.

I've seen both methods in use on production lines; so I assume that this story is something made up by someone trying to sell some kind of consultancy service?
As far as I can tell they only state that for the conference in Norway: "[...] Assange was identified as a 'lecturer.' A review of the other names on the list revealed no other persons known to be associated with WikiLeaks"

To me the fact that they wrote "other persons known" indicates that they are not sure if there were other members present.
The machine just needs a voice synthesizer to be able to talk to Google Home: https://youtu.be/oKNwqFFJaMU?t=50