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Show HN: App to create animated videos from website/SaaS
I have created a desktop app that can create short and engaging videos for your product/website.

You just enter a website and select a template with animations. Or can animate anything on page.

Example of how to make a video:
https://talevideo.wistia.com/medias/r7qmbljyhx

More video examples:
https://twitter.com/hey_sergei/status/1469041478437687298

https://twitter.com/hey_sergei/status/1477983425462218753

Key features:

- no need to do screen recording

- always up-to-date content, you can re-export video with same effect if text on site changed.

- select and animate any element on a page

- record and replay mouse/keyboard actions.

Everyone loves a good video. The problem is that creating a product video can be hard, especially if you’re not a professional.

That's why I plan to add much more templates with wizard steps to make nice videos even when you don't know from where to begin.

It's still an early beta version and not everything is smooth and has bugs, and not easy as I want it to be.

But I really want to hear feedback.
What do you think?

[Link] https://talevideo.com
I've got no problem with debating this sort of reasonable thesis. I only have a problem when people push extreme conspiratorial meme narratives designed to gin up and spread partisan emotion while being systematically immune to disproof like a religion. If you point out their thesis has an issue because of some government mortality statistics, they immediately move to conspiratorial doubt of the validity of those statistics. These folks are just a baby step away from the mental diarrhea of 5G COVID, Bill Gates vaccine chips, etc.

FWIW, in my ideal world, the government would have had a stockpile of a couple dozen N95s for each person, and we would have distributed them immediately after the initial outbreak and enacted some serious rules with teeth about wearing them. That probably would have been good enough to keep the hospitals from getting overwhelmed. NPIs could perhaps have been limited to sit-down restaurants and similar activities.

I also think that, while anti-lockdown types may be right about some government mandates, they may be over-estimating the impact of those mandates. Most of the socioeconomic impact of COVID has been from individual people choosing to avoid their normal activities because they don't want to get COVID.
Don't have time to mess with it right now, but does it normally return about half results in Russian or is that something my phone/browser is doing?
Slightly unrelated, but this proposal is my first time running into tldr pages (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr).

Has anyone used them before (or the variants that the repo mentions)? Are they good? Their live demo seems to be producing decent-ish results from playing around with it. Tried a random sampling of non-default programs on my computer and it's got some of them, but not most of them.

Is this a space I should be looking at more, and is there a dominant project that's getting more attention/coverage of obscure programs?
Using external memory instead of encoding all of the knowledge in the model will take over all branches of applied ML.

A recognition model should use a similar mechanism to store short term context in a memory buffer from previous frames and a large external database of long term key value pairs that retain relevant semantic information for given embeddings.

Doing so will make it possible to update and expand the models without having to retrain and enable much better zero/few shot learning.

We already have a hacky version of this in our production app for food recognition. For new users we use a standard CNN to predict the items present in the image, once a user logs a few meals we use nearest neighbor search to match new images against previously submitted entries, which works extremely well.
The thing XHR added was:

1) POST.

2) Of arbitrary content.

3) With an arbitrary Content-Type header.

You don't get an OPTIONS for the sort of XHR request that you could do with an <img> tag (always GET). You don't get an OPTIONS for the sort of XHR request that you could do with a <form> tag (GET or POST). You only get OPTIONS if one of the following is true:

* Your request method is not GET/HEAD/POST

* You set a header value for a header other than Accept, Accept-Language, Content-Language, or Content-Type.

* You set Content-Type to a value other than "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "multipart/form-data", or "text/plain".

* You have upload listeners on the XHR upload.

* You use ReadableStream in the request.
At times like this, determination is going to separate the good version of yourself from the great version of yourself.

Burning out is hard to recover from (if at all). You've already done quite a bit by being able to name it. There's the old saying of "name it to tame it" and you're well on your way.

Now you should focus on what is triggering your emotions of feeling this way. Is it work? It is not fulfilling your purpose? Is it something else entirely?

The time to work on yourself is now. Give yourself the extra time to recover and come back stronger than ever. Come up with a plan and execute! You've got this!

This is coming from a person who was in the same boat, but decided to move forward because everything pointed to my legacy at my job being unsustainable and I'm eager for something new after having a job for 10 years and starting interviews again.
I agree if one chooses to invest in riskier investments, but it's straight forward to invest in financial products that provide a rate that move in lock-step with home loan interest rates.

These products are lower-earners, but there is limited exposure to risk.
When something isn’t working, you don’t point at ideologies and say “if we followed this to the letter, things may get better”. You change something.

None of the changes so far seem to be catching industry wide. Perhaps it’s time for a change that comes with teeth.
That "fact-checking" is misleading.

The original (official) data shows how likely is someone to die if vaccinated vs unvaccinated. "Rate" part of "Death rate" means the number of deaths is already divided by the population in one of the groups (vaccinated or not), so the size of a group doesn't affect the rate.
First instance of a news report I could find on Youtube, precisely two years ago. I did my best to preserve the original title.
>>I meant "Practice maketh perfect" isn't a new message

It isn't. But it takes a lot of effort to make the obvious, obvious.

That's where unfortunately you need these things.

For example merely saying Where there is a will, there is a way, doesn't exactly cut it, until you actually watch somebody go so some distance doing a what you considered a impossible thing.
Looks nice, especially in the full screen mode. Not sure what this is for though. Anyone care to enlighten me?
There's no such thing as an addiction to a normal stimuli. Addiction is a medical word that should be reserved for people dealing with the problems associated with taking chemicals that directly alter wanting/desire in the brain. Even "gambling addiction" is just a relic from an uninstrumented past and really should be removed from DSM-6 at this point.

Saying that internet addiction exists (something you won't read about in credible professional journal) is done by for-profit institutes that want you to pay them to talk about and handle "internet addiction". Or by useful ignorants with unrelated incentives.

I get that this guy is just joking around about "addiction" and his approach to dealing with his own motivations seems realistic and useful. But when people start calling something "addiction" and meaning it it inevitably leads to the use of violent force by governments and restriction of freedoms. The "internet" is not addictive and even pretending it is only emboldens the ignorant and malicious.
> Please let me pay you for this app.

If you wanna send me money, you can buy my other app ;) https://plainorg.com
Thats the joke. Maybe I shoulda included "it's horse food".
Well - I was gonna say, we should get a drink - but here is where I think those old worn-out social roles and gender roles actually serve a purpose. What I'm trying to get at is that we had role models in our lives - I think about my dad or my uncles, who were tough men - who had no fucking clue what they were doing but they just did it. They were rocks for the people in their lives. And I look at these sort of excuses for boys now, i.e. men in their 20s who want to claim female sensitivity and let it override their relationships with women (who they treat as mothers, to wash and cook, like boys in Italy treat their girlfriends) and at the same time make a claim to woke/expanded mindfulness. Jesus fucking Christ. It's a joke because it's total male insecurity masquerading as sensitivity protected by a claim to righteous identity.

Sorry. That wasn't to your point, that was just a rant about what I see so much of in relationships these days, since 2015 or so. Since you were allowed to redefine your identity as a victim even or especially if you were oppressive toward your partner.

To your point, I don't know how to say this except that you are a man. You don't have to tell yourself that or always be it, or be right (ever) or be strong (usually). You just are. And fuck yeah, in this particular situation, it's hard on your mental health. I stored it up for ten years and finally said, without thinking, "you never give anything back, you just take", to my girlfriend, when she was ... let me abbreviate. I always knew when she was about to go into a depressive state. I wouldn't usually tell her, but I could set my watch to it. Sometimes I'd make the mistake of saying - while we were out having a good time at a party - "in an hour you're going to crash and attack me, and not get out of bed for days." And she never believed me. And it always happened like that.

Sorry man, I'm just not able to take all of this and put it into a logical inline post in response to something. This happened and continues to happen, and what you call it or what I call it is pretty stupid to argue about. To me it's being a man, but, not like I have to fake it, just, I have to suck it up. These gender roles serve well because, just imagine if you or I had a nervous breakdown. We're not allowed that.
What are the current use-cases that aren't scams? Except for currency, since I don't think that's what Web3 is trying to sell, and I think most are familiar with the value propositions of cryptocurrencies.
Once I no longer need my computer I try to donate it to someone. There are some charities that will fix/upgrade them and give them to someone else.

I like the reuse concept (as a general rule I buy refurbished equipment when ever I can) so if you don't need it any longer, maybe someone else would find it useful?
20-25 years ago there was at least lip service paid to the idea of "how do we improve software quality", but somewhere along the line that got lost under "move fast and break things", which paved the way for "as a service" madness. I don't want your half baked junk, I don't want constant updates, I don't want monthly fees for perpetually shifting, broken crap. I don't want any ongoing relationship with a team of "devs". I want to buy it once, and if it doesn't work I want my d### money back.
We don't need to use cars to get to places, so why do we use them?
And no, dapps have been around for 8 years but essential infrastructure to allow for complex ones has been popping up only in the last year or so. (see https://thegraph.com)
Normalize the data by years of development experience and country of origin.
Statisticians have a saying, “all models are wrong, some are useful”. What we have is that math is useful for modeling physics. But it is just that, a model in so far as we know. Believing that math or logic is intrinsic to the universe is not all necessary to using math and logic for modeling physical phenomena. There are quite a few physicists and mathematicians who don’t believe math is an intrinsic part of the universe.

It’s not at all clear that the Law of the Excluded Middle is an intrinsic part of the universe.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10127

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=701

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25227/using-the-multivers...
This. But I'd say don't just donate the whole sum. Talk to whatever accountant you find about creating a foundation and building an endowment. At $20k+ per month in seed you'll quickly ramp up to millions of dollars in the endowment and can build a foundaton that runs in perpetuity to enrich the lives of a lot of people less fortunate than you.
You don't even need an SPA. Having the backend + frontend share the same state makes development so much faster and easier it's shockingly refreshing. When building a SaaS project last year I decided to just ditch React/Angular/Vue and did everything server-side like it was 2005. I was extremely pleased at the result -- everything feels snappy, secure, and native for the browser. I was shocked at how much time and headache I saved: not having to design/deploy an API and all the trimmings (ACLs, CORS, JWTs etc.), not having to spend X hours a day wrestling with Webpack/hot reloading/npm/tree-shaking/state management, having direct access to backend secrets/state/APIs and just spitting out HTML, it's just so....lovely. It simplifies performance tuning as well, the only thing I need to optimize is the server, which is easy to do because I have 100% control and visibility, compared to debugging/optimizing JavaScript for a million different clients.
Resurrecting Rock Stars with Plastic Surgery
TikTok didn't seem to have any problems.
Well, you can run their os on your hardware or in a virtual machine using https://xpenology.org/
Sorry. It's a native iOS app.
List of solo entrepreneur discussion threads on Hacker News
For inspiration and learning. Feel free to add to the list.

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
The rise of the one-person unicorn (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28187204
Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them? (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930
Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21389776
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479588
Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583312
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150144
Ask HN: What are your passive income sources? (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798447
Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions? (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026699
Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12318449
Your best passive income? (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
What was your best passive income in 2014? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243
Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months? (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255
Ask HN: Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs? (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934103
Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income? (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111
Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772224
Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772903
Yes, that's me :-)

Easily installable Linux shouldn't take much longer, for those adventurous enough to be happy with a bunch of missing hardware support (but still a usable machine for a subset of use cases). We're pretty much tying up loose ends to get to that point now, I have a quickly shrinking list of TODOs. Of course, "proper" support for everything will take longer :-)
>> How do we create more people like this?

Very few companies or other management structures would ever sanction this kind of work. They might recognize it as important, but it's too big and open ended to "allocate resources to". So for this to happen you need to pay people for more of a general "make stuff better for us" role. Even that's hard because you never know what you're going to get.
"How would a user verify the search engine's claim about searching millions of sites was true."

Search for things specifically on those pages, by very specific phrases and such.

Of course you have to find them yourself first for that verification.

I can say having set up some very teeny tiny websites here and there that the googlebot is hooked up to a lot of stuff. I'm not even sure how it found a couple of them as quickly as it did. Things like "if someone adds an RSS feed to Feed.ly" seem to do the trick. None of them were sites trying to "hide" or anything and I expected them to be found eventually, but they got found much faster than I expected. Or maybe they just scan new domain registrations, though it seemed to me it wasn't that that triggered it.
Evaluating front end frameworks and not choosing any
The wet dream of every authoritarian everywhere:

Get people to accept a system of Universally Unique identifiers to facilitate population control as a DB query.

Like we don't already have issues enough with people trying to do that.

Libra or whatever was pulled after Facebook was put in the hot seat by Congress and regulators for non-proactive compliance with regulators. Turns out when your the 900 lbs gorilla in the room, the bar is still higher on expected due-diligence when unilaterally upending a regulated space that also happens to play into international policymaking and enforcement.
Apache APISIX, a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway
Malicious Telegram Installer Drops Purple Fox Rootkit
/s AI finally reached the pinnacle of human intelligence: when asked a question it will now roll eyes and loudly declare: "Let me Google that for you".
The total capacity is 1135 litres, how much safety margin does the tank have build in and how would an almost full tank affect flight behavior?
The article quotes an MD: "The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago"

The person I'm replying to mentioned "hospital overcapacity".
Actions have consequences in society, and public actions moreso. That's part of the cost of being in one. I don't think it's particularly outrageous to expect that people who say and do hurtful things, either intentionally or out of ignorance, should pay consequences.

> What gives you the right to determine what people are allowed to have opinions about?

What indeed? It seems on one hand you're expressing outrage against other people's expression of their own opinion, while preventing yourself from similar scrutiny. You can't have it both ways.

I appreciate this conversation, for what it's worth. It's echoed one that I've had to myself for a while. At the end of the day, I think we mainly disagree on whether or not these are proportional responses to the level of harm caused. Personally, I think the vast majority of these dozens are either justified, or they're outliers.
>this time around it settled on adding RF harvesting as another way to keep the clicker functioning whenever you need it.

This is a funny sentence. The original "clickers" were mechanical and acoustic, hence the name. No electricity required!
> My two cents, to start we need to stop building things with such low-level tools.

Interesting -- my take is more that we should throw away the ever growing pile of high level tools and architecture and cruft and start all over again at the low level (I think accumulated complexity -- and accumulated expectations due to complexity -- cause a lot of issues). Heck maybe start by writing an OS and some useful applications that run on a $1 microcontroller that you can hand-solder on a cheap two-layer PCB. 256kB of SRAM and four megabytes of flash ought to be enough for quite a lot..

That said I don't necessarily mean we should abandon all progress e.g. in programming languages and revert to assembly and C'89.
Except I did, and your answer was "Yeah but you don't need blockchain for that!", which further confirms that you don't want to hear answers.
I don't see your correction. Individual word or grammar preferences are to Sapir-Whorf what tactics are to strategy.
Astounding! Whereas I just got a laptop from work, a Dell Inspiron that dies if I leave it in my backpack over the weekend.

How has x86-64 managed to go so wrong for mobile devices and power usage? Is it really purely because of backwards compatibility cruft, or just goals that aren’t aligned with low power usage in idle?
On one hand I like take-home exercises because they are closer to what is a real world job and I guarantee the quality of my deliveries. Up to now I can say I've passed every single take home exercise that was thrown at me. On the other hand... the time I spent on those is abysmal. If I sum it up, I must have spent over a month working on take-home exercises. And even if I passed all of them, in the end no company gave me an offer because I wasn't a cultural fit or something. One company even ghosted me after having me to do a 1-week take-home exercise where I had to build an entire app, front end and back end, that consumed an open data API that had 1 million rows.

I still prefer take-home exercises because are more realistic and make more sense than timed, algorithmic exercises. But I wish companies would do their cultural fitness thing _before_ having candidates to spend their time on their code challenges.
I emailed this suggestion to the mods.
Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Practical Introduction (2014)
Is there stronger evidence than correlation==causation to point to the market instead? I think that's what sends most people down the conspiracy kick. You have two seemingly reasonable explanations for a thing, yet one is considered ridiculous.
Amen.

For those with poor executive functioning, or ADHD, I can really recommend the podcast "Hacking your ADHD": https://www.hackingyouradhd.com/podcast

Ironically, it's less focused on "productivity hacks", but rather a functional self-understanding why we "fuck up" and how to manage our limited brain resources and most importantly: Anticipation of willpower depletion/different moods and mindsets.

Personally, I thing the typical "productivity hacks" blog posts shared here, are quite toxic, as they rarely speak about resources, resting and regeneration, or ask why work anyway? Especially coming from the US, where people work much longer, have less time off. There is a flair of normalizing self-exploitation and walking a path towards burn-out and sickness, and I don't even think most of those blog post are authentic, long term success stories - just farming clicks and subscribers for the attention market. They are much like Instagram distorting self-expectations.

The ADHD community is a parody of the HN crowd in that regard, people share new "super effective" tricks and routines enthusiastically all the time. Finally we found the solution! But sober us knows these tricks will not stick for more than a week or two - and really, we shouldn't be online right now to begin with. The thing is, that improving daily task management is not to be thought of as a project, but am ongoing maintenance process. So in that community, there is also the sentiment of changing "routines" all the time, to keep them interesting and challenging.

So maybe, you even need come up with a new scheme every day. That's fine too. In any case, I dare you to not forget to evaluate your need for regeneration, day dreaming, sleep and pleasure, and anticipate different moods and mindsets you know will be present.