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Hello everyone!

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Infinit Backgrounds - A backgrounds Generator for Youtubers and Streamers without studio

Remember the days when filming in your bedroom with a potted plant in the background sufficed? Yeah, those days are long gone. Today, viewers are meticulous. They're noticing everything—the lighting, the sound quality, and, perhaps most noticeably, your backdrop.

This backdrop issue is a persistent problem for many creators, myself included. You could have the best mic and lighting, but if your backdrop is shoddy, that's a dent in your production value. Moreover, if your space doesn't lend itself well to being a filming location, what do you do? Start house hunting?

So, I did a bit of digging—surely, there had to be a solution. And indeed, there is.

Many prominent YouTubers are utilizing 3D backgrounds to simulate studio-like setups. It's mind-blowing! The upside? All you need is a green screen and voila!

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And this is where Infinit Backgrounds swoops in to save the day.

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I've just published the first version of the application.

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Have a nice day!
What his comment is missing is that in families where both parents work outside of the home doing a job they are passionate about and would like to spend more time doing, they almost always are not able to work as much as they would like to, either on their actual work, or on side projects. I would love to only have to work 32 hours per week at my current salary and have one day per week to myself when the kiddo is in school. Sometimes I would use this to do "work" (maybe working on things I don't have time to get to in my day-to-day, learning new skills, having and working on side-projects), other times I would use the time to work on the house, do yard work, and other times I might go for a hike, or just sleep. Consistently having time to do activities like these would make me a better worker when I am at work, and a better parent and spouse when I am at home.
Information reduces uncertainty. A lot of talking or a lot of misinformation does not increase information but noise.
> That list includes the US, which hasn't had commercial reprocessing in many decades.

But it also includes many countries that reprocess currently.

The US has not reprocessed fuel in many decades, and never on any significant scale, because the Carter Administration outlawed it based on mistaken concerns about proliferation, and it's been a political pariah ever since. It has nothing to do with any rational technical assessment.
It's time we start building/switching to a decentralized social network. I'm an experienced product designer who always aiming for the best there is for a human, open to commit to something like that.
Reverse engineering!
Your username is hilarious in context of this post. Sure there are a lot of horrible things that it's introduced. Replace social media with any other technology..what good have computers brought? What good has the automobile brought?

It is all perspective and humans will use tools for good and bad. There is plenty of good in the world thanks to social media.
I would make the weight trade in an instant to get replaceable batteries back. I dont see why waterproofness has to be sacrificed to get it though.
Yes, of course. But that's because you know what you're doing. Someone who didn't know what they were doing could end up with a puddle of gas on the floor, which could then turn into a cloud of gasoline vapor, which could then turn into a bomb if they dropped a wrench the wrong way.
Or they just create one phone for the EU market and don't market the rest?
Next step should be mandatory software updates. For something like 7 years from initial sale. Which would allow 2 years of normal sale cycle and then at end 5 year of support.
> Right now it reads like (weapons) and (facial recognition).

That's because that is what it says. The parent comment's confusion was due to both parsing the comma as a list separator instead of a conjunction as well as not recognizing the implication of the "s" at the end of "weapons".
Does it handle files larger than memory? I've been using dhex for that purpose.
Fundamentally it's about meaning. People like Carmack find it meaningful to do ambitious projects and push their abilities to the limit. Some goals require more time investment than 40 hours per week.

Obviously not everyone finds that lifestyle appealing, and that's fine. But I don't think it's hard to understand why somebody would spend a lot of time on the thing they truly enjoy doing.
Would you also say it is non-sensical to claim more work gets done in 40 hours compared to 48? Or perhaps 56 hours?

Why is 40 some magical number to productivity? What if 40 hours leads people to padding out their day with extra bullshit like meetings or needless admin that ends up sucking away more of the time they could spend on their actual work than if they never had to pad things out by only working 32 hours?

For transparency I live in [redacted] where the standard work week is 35 hours. Also I've never found the [redacted] with their 35 hour work week are less productive than our friends in Asia with 45+ hour work weeks. Regardless of time worked the productivity output is roughly the same for any given week.
You have a laptop that is poorly designed.

X64 chips are made that are both performant and power efficient.

I recommend the i5-1340p -- it's an animal.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that small devices like phones and tablets are exempted. Thanks for nothing.
Were you screened for morality or ethics at your current job?
I agree with this. As a layman, I've always understood "orders of magnitude larger" to just mean "way too big" and "exponential" growth to imply "out of control".
I grew up in a DIY house too. We worked on everything, every thing.

I had given up doing my own auto maintenance for a number of years. I picked it up again this year. Auto Shop hourly rates are more than mine and I can do it myself, already have the tools.
"No politics" inevitably means "No politics the moderator/owner disagrees with."
I fix lots of things and there is no experience like doing something, there is also this weird cross-pollination thing going where knowledge acquired in one domain helps you in another. So while I am well aware that most of my repair jobs are net negative in terms of actual material value generation for me, the gradual increase in my capabilities in many different domains ends up helping me even in my chosen specialisation. By this point I am just generally at an advanced beginner stage of anything after some basic research (which I have naturally becomes quite good at).

There is also a skin in the game effect that even a paid random plumber is not actually that invested in doing a good job and, while you cannot compete in terms of speed of executing a fix, or possession of special tools, you can compete - and exceed - on final quality simply because you really care about the final outcome.
I heard they try to hire for aptitude/talent. The sophisticated stuff they will teach you if you’re hired.

This is similar to how math Olympiad students are picked, most questions involve combinatorics and Euclidean geometry instead of advanced calculus, as anyone can understand a basic counting problem, but it’d take a few semesters to define the terms in a typical calculus problem.
I don't know that this is always the case, or if it's a scale thing.

I remember great, classic forum threads with 100+ pages that would get referenced, maintained, etc. It felt like being put on the same level as everyone else in sequential order was a pretty even playing field. It also gave you the ability to summarize and respond to a few different comments at once instead of having to navigate multiple content threads.

That said, I don't know if forum discussions would work for r/funny posts at that scale. It's literally a consistent 10K comments, all junk pretty much. The number of pages would blow up constantly, and it would definitely be harder to navigate the reactions.
Adobe (and others) have offered tools like Warp Stabilizer that analyze the image to calculate movement. In my experience they are able to smooth things out a bit but nothing compared to what a gryo can do. Plus those image based tools take a long time to calculate.
I'd much rather be able to swap a charged battery for the drained one in my phone especially in such circumstances as when I'm in a foreign country and dependent on my phone (for e.g. safety, to get around) and there's not a iPhone cable or charge point around. It seems like a no brainer, certainly from a consumer benefit perspective. Using batteries as a mechanism for hardware upgrades is ridiculous, instead of the features of the new hardware that should be the compelling, selling point and the way to a value statement that wins hearts and minds.
I'm surprised to see DigiCert name coming that often.

I know they are a major certificate player and that it really helped they supported (signed) Let's Encrypt intermediate certificate for instance (also others, as the article mention), but I don't really understand what do they gain from this? In th end, customers now have more choice, and possibly many free alternatives to DigiCert itself. I guess this kind of people may not all have created certificates through DigiCert in the first place, but I still feel I'm missing something here.
Open for a couple days in advance and only for members of that sub. The indefinite one should have opened up for a new vote. Maybe r/nba could have provided a link to an alternative sub for discussing the nba finals on Monday.
It’s hard to leave, but very feasible to cut cardinality, add sampling, and reduce costs once they cross the line
They pulled out Emmett Till being beaten to death and I'm being hyperbolic?
I'm surprised that educators think their goal is to get "more"/"most" students involved in the subject they are teaching.

Lower education's educational goals are to expose students to all the things. So, that they have the opportunity to find out what education (including none/little) and what life they would enjoy. Secondary goals would be to instill a joy of learning, to prep the few that should go to college for it.
This is not a good article. It basically thinks about the employer in Marxist-like ways (class relations, owner of means of production etc).

Within the legal framework, here is what you have to do: whatever your employer asks you to do. No, if your employer believes that Linux isn't right for their business, or that you can't work from home, you are not supposed to do that.

I think smart employers will give a lot of agency to engineers to make some of these decisions, but it's not your call. If you want to make these decisions, become an employer yourself.
Stop micromanaging everything what the hell
Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns (2021)
This graybeard has just never found himself needing or wanting a goto. Not since he coded in BASIC on his Osborne 1, which tells you just how gray his beard is.

I did once find myself using the continue <label> construct -- once. It was so unusual that I remember it. And was also unsurprised when a subsequent refactoring eliminated it.

I have occasionally found myself with something ugly. Maybe a goto would have cleaned it up, if I'd considered it. But in the end, that code got written without the goto, and was probably better for it. Somebody else would have had to look at that code some day, and I know that goto is so hard to reason about that they would have found it very difficult to maintain.

In the end, your primary motivation is that your code works. If the code smells, then it smells. Just remember that your secondary motivation is that your code also has to be maintained -- possibly by someone else, and possibly by you after you've forgotten what assumptions went into that goto.
Can you turn which moderators affect your feed on and off? if there's a moderator going on a senseless censorship spree, i'd like to just be able to unsubscribe to them so their changes don't affect me.

Additionally if the moderators i am subscribed to aren't moderating enough of what i would like to avoid seeing, i'd like to be able to subscribe to more moderators to cover any gaps, without affecting the website for other people who might want to see the content i want to avoid.

These would ensure that i can actually control my personal experience and have unparalleled agency on your website, without infringing on anyone else's experience.
For sure, would love to chat about it. I'll reach out
You're just saying that because you're not cool enough to get an invite.

On the other hand, I'm actually too cool for tildes.
Did Einstein, Neumann or Feynam surpass their professors? If the measure is scientific progress then yes but if the measure is professing then NO.

When you finish reading "The Feynam Lectures" you feel unstoppable but then you open a problem book and youre stomped because youve just picked up someone elses mental model.

A good professor holds your hand just enough for you to build your own mental model and doesnt just regurgitate his own model. [0]

[0] https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
Yes, and it was not that well designed to be honest... the successor is quite a lot nicer and it's called Javalin[1].

Same philosophy but just got things right where Spark, being the "first" (in the Java world, using the design inherited by Sinatra[2]) had a few design issues.

[1] https://javalin.io/

[2] https://sinatrarb.com/
To be honest he is very much commenting about his roam of experience and not as research article but as a personal comment on HN. This should be allowed and should not be discredited as such (as this comment is a comment on the OP and not on someone saying that this comment should be generalized). Being in such an environment with some other obsessed researchers around me and the European court ruling that requires work documentation to be enforced just published. I understand the direction of the comment although I think it can only be applied to very limited situations. The argument seems to be like: do not regulate or discredit drugs because there is some people successfully self optimise with them knowingly taking certain risks...
Ask HN: How dangerous is external JavaScript included with govt/banking sites?
Hi HN. Yesterday was at the IRS "Direct Pay" site:

- https://directpay.irs.gov/directpay/payment

and here is where the JavaScript it uses is loading from:

- irs.gov

- google-analytics.com

- googletagmanager.com

- medallia.com

IRS requires you to provide extensive information to pay taxes online.

I've also seen a bank including something called "launchdarkly" as well, which does not inspire confidence either. Can't log in without it loaded.

So, isn't this a data leak and could be dangerous? Does google and medallia know my SSN, AGI, etc now?

Or does https prevent form data sharing these days? If it is the case, how to push back on the spread of analytics companies being used in confidential situations?
But because it will be likely you who will be paying for the internet connection, it is like buying a rope for your enemy to hang you with it.
Things like replying to messages via. the watch. On iOS the ONLY watch allowed to do this is of course the Apple Watch.
I opted for "This space intentionally left blank".
I expect each EU hardware design mandate to be worse than the previous, now that they've got a taste of the power...
> this and the USB-C issue strike me as misguided, policies from people who aren't qualified to to make the decisions they are making, and aren't listening to experts

Experts? <chuckle> In Brussels - just as in Washington - they listen to lobbyists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/lobbyists-euro...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2023/04/24/...

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/05/15/the-power-of-l...
The last time I was in [a certain part of] Kiev

Welcome to (certain parts of) Berlin, SF, NYC and scores of other places. Where sometimes even less pleasant things are to be seen. The fact that nobody does anything doesn't mean they find it to be "perfectly normal". Rather they are horrified, or simply inured -- and don't dare get involved for obvious reasons.

If anything such occurrences are far less common in Kyiv than in the above 3 places.
I think there was a sweet spot right before major social media adoption where lines were more clearly drawn. By that I mean you could find information if you needed/wanted to but you were constantly bombarded with it in tones that spoke it with 100% confidence with the sole purpose of getting you to click on something.
This is relatively subtle stuff, but here's an attempt at describing the general problem. I'm going to describe the deterministic case, but the probabilistic case is effectively the same.

Let's say you have a bug you suspect is from an interaction of any one pair of 10 features being "on" or "off", but you don't know which specific pair causes the problem. Encode each of the states you could set up your code by a 10-digit binary string: 0000000000, 0000000001, 0000000010, 0000000011, etc.

We could try the 45 possibilities in some order, and we would expect that on average it'd take us 22.5 tries to find the bug. But notice how your "target set" is smaller than the universe of strings: there's only 45 pairs of features, but 1024 strings.

What happens if we try a random string of ones and zeros? Now, instead of catching just one possible pair, we are covering many pairs. The only problem is that we now won't be able to know exactly which pair caused the problem when it does. But we can build a corpus of strings that don't trigger the error vs. strings that trigger the error, and a random sampling soon converges on the correct pair.

If you think about why this works, it's because any of these random strings has about a 1/4 chance to trigger the bug: wlog we can reorder the bits so that the buggy feature are the first two digits, and then we see that we have a 1/4 chance of hitting "11" on those two digits.

The problem is that as you increase the size of the subset that needs to be active, the probability that your random strings will actually catch the bug decreases exponentially. For any _fixed_ target size k (the number of features that need to be active), the overall complexity is still polynomial in n (the number of existing features). But if k is a constant fraction of n, then this technique takes exponential time in n.
it's quite common in medical research, even highly quantitative work. And I've seen it in every field I've worked in, which spans biology, physics, chemistry, typically with a quantitative bent.

I once had an advisor edit my draft over night and submit it as a paper with a bunch of juiced up numbers that weren't true, but made sense to the advisor even if the underlying scripts I ran didn't support it. I complained to them and the paper was withdrawn before publication, and immediately left their group. this was in quantitative biology- hard core bioinformatics with very sophisticated modelling.

But yeah, real experimental physics is hard to fake since reproduction is usually more straightforward than in other fields.
From the article, that is in fact their explanation. There's just possibly some other data that could point the other way, but it's not heavily emphasized.

There have been other studies that showed weird correlations to ionospheric activity and earthquakes, but only ever in retrospect.
That wealth is not sitting in a bank account somewhere. It is in the form of corporate ownership, stocks, it is part of the economy. Some of it is never raw cash.

Are you purposing the governement take 99% of ownership of endless corporations? That's pretty much what would happen, if you taxed 99% of billionaire's wealth.

And if you did that, who would the governement sell the shares to? Remember, you just taxes those nasty billionaires, taking 99% of their wealth, so there is no one to sell those shares to.

And next year, there are no billionaires left. And likely the economy has crashed, because yeah, the government knows how to run large corporations well.

All that "billionaire" means, is that the person directs private enterprise. Get over it. We need leaders, and they're it.
I think the policies are pretty well informed. I do think USB-C was a huge problem, and I don't think it was coming in a few years.

I'm not skeptical of replaceable batteries. I think the policy that forces them to be removable on top of working with 3rd party manufacturers is a good idea.

I don't think replaceable batteries or USB-C requirements restrict the industries ability to move forward.

Edit: You can continue to argue in this thread, but the point of this reply was simply to point out that the parent comment was all thinly veiled opinions with no substance.
I'd love to see a poison mod take up their offer then and start the ball rolling on asserting some rights.
What about replaceable flash memory? That’s a consumable too.
I still do not agree with that rule. Replacable batteries are at odds with water tightness. I would have bought more phones if mine didn't survive water to a great extent.

I think instead the regulation should focus on making parts available and phones reasonably easy to repair. This will most likely include switching out seals, which are needed for the protection from water.
I'm going to assume you genuinely aren't self-aware, so please don't be offended by this attempt to help.

You lead with this:

> If anyone is thinking they are bigger than they are it's these mods.

This is a textbook generalization, a "blanket statement". The next few sentences attempt to reinforce this generalization. A one-sentence disclaimer at the end doesn't change that.

If you want to talk about your experience with <some members of large group X> then do that. But please don't project that across <all members of large group X>.
Cameras have been weatherproof with replaceable batteries for years, it's called gaskets.
And both are members of HN!
blame Bob Ludwig for that
Isn't that pretty much what immobilizer bypass modules have done for years?
This sounds like it could be the death of the platform, or at least the beginning of. I can see it devolving into bot generated content and intrusive ads. Once being a site noteworthy of high signal to noise ratio for content (ie google'ing with 'reddit' for quality search results) will now enshitify as it attempts to squeeze out every drop of revenue.

Had the owner of twitter not fired all of his employees, they very well may have been able to seize the opportunity and develop an alternative which could have integrated with their current users and product.
I'm a bit confused on the meta level.

If it actually works well in practice, why aren't there quite a few memory-safe, single owner-based systems programming languages out there? Is it such a new idea? (The author argues that it's not, C programmers have been doing it without compiler support for ages).

Or is only a part of it new? If yes, which part?
And handling the 11th unique story on a single topic being posted and voted up by brigades that week? Considering people's user history when making moderation judgments? Having the context to understand new dog whistles? All things that are technically possible, I guess, but it requires a lot of complex prompting, long context windows, and effort placed into moderation tools that Reddit doesn't seem to have put significant effort into before.