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Show HN: Clippulse – Promo Videos Made In-Browser, No Editing Skills Required
Hello HN community,

I am thrilled to share Clippulse, a tool I've been working on for the past month. It’s a platform that enables anyone to create promotional videos for their products or services directly in their web browser, with no prior video editing experience needed.

The idea was born out of my own struggle with creating a promotional video for another product I was developing. That task turned into a month-long task that resulted in a mediocre output (at best). At the time, I didn't realize it, but as time passed, I kept seeing more people facing with the same issue, and I realized this was a common problem needing a solution.

With Clippulse, you can fully customize your video's aesthetics, from background colors and text styles to the size and position of elements. You can add both text and images, select from our growing list of 15+ built-in animations, and even upload music to your video. One of the features I'm most proud of is the ability to automatically sync your video's transitions with the beats of your music, all with a single button press.

The intention behind Clippulse is to make the creation of promotional videos less intimidating and more accessible for everyone. Whether you're running a SaaS business or want to showcase any other type of product, it offers a streamlined, user-friendly process.

I want to note that it's still a work in progress. I'm shipping new features, customizations, and animations on a daily basis. Which is why each piece of feedback I receive will not only help improve the platform but will also directly influence its evolution.

I'm eager to hear your feedback and answer any questions you may have. Your insights will be invaluable for improving Clippulse and making it a truly helpful tool for everyone.

Thank you!
Lowest frequency ones are most effective for deep water and seems lowest operating depth is 6000m which is much deeper than the titanic at ~3500m. see: https://www.skybrary.aero/articles/underwater-locator-beacon....
It was a joke (:
The funny thing is, Adobe greatly overpaid for Figma and they know it so this is like a godsend.

They would much rather just pay the $1 billion breakup fee and forget about that 2 years when all of tech got a little "loose" than be forced to go ahead with such an expensive mistake.

Best case scenario it will take Adobe nearly a decade to grow into that valuation with their figma product.

And even thats really pushing it.
Webb Telescope is powerful enough to see biosignatures in exoplanets, says paper
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding_machines.ht...
Spring Modulith is trying to enforce strict module boundaries.

I haven't yet tried it myself, but it looks promising:

https://spring.io/blog/2022/10/21/introducing-spring-modulit...
How to Communicate a Feature Sunset
I asked Bard to suggest improvements to a SQL query I wrote. It suggested that I change my filter to improvement performance. The filter I had was:

WHERE Column1 <> Column2

The suggested improvement:

WHERE Column1 <> Column2

When I pointed out that it just gave me exactly the same code, it apologised and suggested this improvement instead:

WHERE Column1 > Column2

I'm trying to understand how this helps me become more productive...
If you are interested in the subject, I suggest you start with Wikipedia:

> Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
If ever dragged back to the office, I pledge to not ever introduce a new idea ever again.
The coming Chinese megaconstellation revolution
The crucial component is that you verified the result (by running the suggested command and observing it giving you the expected result).

This is different from asking it for an explanation or definition of something and not cross-checking every "fact".
Turris Omnia has been nice, based on OpenWrt. They announced newer models, but I can't find them listed on the webpage.
startupschool.org will definitely help too
> People are decentralizing because it gets damn expensive to run more than 100,000+ users (or so) on a single server that is owned by a hobbyist / part-time sysadmin.

Is it? If only a tint percentage of the userbase would donate some negligible amount, it can run indefinitely. Computers are insanely cheap compared to the possible value they can produce. Also, if they wouldn’t put random websocket connections for no good reason than it would scale much better (khm, lemmy)
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying
I love you.
Falling for phishing attempts: An investigation of individual differences
Thanks, that was really good and with amazingly convincing detail of the technical things. Wow! Now: scared. Eh.

The most jarring thing (to me) on a quick perusal was the idea that a programmer would walk to a Peet's coffee in another building (from the sound of it, a bit of a walk at least) and return, and still be drinking from an espresso. I mean those things are tiny, and meant by (The Italian Coffee Overlords) to be drunk more or less like a shot straight at the bar. Whatever.

Obviously, this being a human behavior thing, there are going to be hundreds of people who walk around with espressos and sip on them for hours, it's just ... a bit off, at least to me.
That's my guess also, it refuses to provide verbatim quotes from famous novels.

But that's not how Copyright works: quoting a short snippet from a long novel is entirely legal!

The filter was also blocking quotes from some public domain works, which is just madness.

The censors at OpenAI are overdoing things to an insane degree. That whole team seriously needs to be cut down to 10% of their current size, because they've run out of useful things to do, and now they're starting with the dystopian 1984 levels of censorship.
Yup, for fun. Building a game from scratch almost from from the bottom. Starting with a CPU, sound-chip and graphics-chip (using an FPGA). On top of that a Forth system and on top of that a platform game. Lots of fun and a great learning experience.
Everytime you increase the resolution all the requirements in term of cpu, ram, bandwith, storage explode for production, media distribution and end user explode.

It is not just replacing one screen for another on client's side.
Hearing loss or damage is more of a challenge than vision issues as well. Wider dynamic range doesn't hinder visual understanding the same as it does audio.
Ask HN: Do you have any recommendations for Etsy? (for Notion Templates)
I plan to sell my Notion templates on Etsy. I've seen a few examples. I'm thinking of choosing a shop name and username with a good SEO-compatible keyword. If you have any additional suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Here’s an example where Bard is making up studies to support RFK’s thesis that drinking water causes transgenderism: https://twitter.com/EbenThurston/status/1670619027608092674?...

It’s flat out lying, yet folks are using its output in arguments.
> Can you give some examples of how ChatGPT “does better” than a human searching for something and then using their own cognition to make sense of it?

Certainly! ChatGPT outperforms human search and cognitive processing in several ways. For instance, when you require a quick, step-by-step tutorial to fix an issue in an application or program, ChatGPT excels. Instead of searching for an online tutorial yourself, ChatGPT provides you with immediate, on-the-fly instructions. This saves you from sifting through search results and having to verify the quality of each tutorial before attempting them. ChatGPT's instructions are already evaluated based on probability, eliminating the need for time-consuming quality checks. By receiving a concise, step-by-step list, you can swiftly proceed with your task, making it significantly more efficient than relying solely on manual searching and critical evaluation.
Introducing the Rust Leadership Council
Absolutely, currently remaking and old arcade game (SAMI) with a team that has skills beyond engineering, because engineering and a bit of guitar is about all I have time for :)

It's a great way to learn a lot, and it has definitely helped me with how I approach problem solving and software design in my day job.
Sure but nobody knows the word “confabulation”, and lying / making things up implies intent.

So “hallucination” hews close enough to have good explanatory powers.
Also, if you compare same laptop available with a 1080p screen or a 4k screen, the former gets much better battery time.
It was always so draining going for lunch with work colleagues, that couldn't stop talking about work and tried to eat as fast as possible.
Yes, especially on the "real" islands that are only accessible by boat, that money will not go very far. You'll have to pay to bring all the materials on the ferry, put up workers in a hotel etc...
I'm confused too.
In parts of Asia, it's common for workers to bring a sleeping bag, office lights turned off during lunch break, and take a nap.

In the US, I used to sneak away for a nap during lunch. It's amazing how much more energy I have in the afternoon.

I think naps should be encouraged by managers in American work places. For example, give a small bonus to people who take 15-30 minute naps. I know if I ever run a company, I'd have a nap policy and provide safe spaces for workers to nap. A long time ago, bosses discovered that coffee increased productivity. I don't see why 15-30 minute naps shouldn't be encouraged by bosses.

Most people are somewhat sleep deprived, whether it's insomnia, anxiety, long commute, parenting, etc. For me, if I didn't get more 7 hours of sleep the night before, my productivity is half of a normal day. A nap can boost a worker's productivity significantly for half a day. It's better than stuffing yourself with coffee, which is unhealthy and provides more of a nervous energy than productive energy in my opinion.
Yeah, LCD tech isn't going anywhere; unless OLED is or becomes cheaper (long term, it probably will), they'll be churning out LED panels for decades to come yet.
What are we looking at here? I'm confused.

The fact the model is trained on copyrighted material but OpenAI are trying to hide the facts?
SCO OpenDesktop installation manual had something to this tune about booting and drivers :D
> I absolutely love Achill, it's stunning out there. I would love to live out there, if I knew I had reliable internet so I could work.

It's stunning yes. But also extremely remote. I just need new people and new impulses daily. But I guess it's not for me :)
I got a 218 ppi 27 incher, and I was disappointed when English is crisp but my native language is a pain at small font sizes. My 350+ ppi mobile renders them fine at those sizes.
I agree with your comment/ assessment. I just read Guy Kawasaki’s “Wise Guy” and he amongst others describes Jobs as this perfectionist. He was big on getting details and polish right.

He also described that working at Apple and under Jobs as scary. If you didn’t bring your A-game you would be fired rather quickly.

Anyway the book is interesting.
Animal Sex: How Octopuses Do It (2015)
They had it in the half screen view so some of the UI had mildly burned in
The reason I stopped making games... The tooling! It takes way too long to open Unreal Engine, or to do anything within its UI, and Unity gives me "bad vibes" (technical term) any time I open it. I know these days there are other engines, but I started my programming journey by learning game engines, and perhaps I should have learned programming properly before jumping into game programming.
Having worked in the help-line business, I can tell you that many corporations would and do use LLMs for their helpline, and used worse options before.
I feel that if most of your tests relies on mocks it is a symptom of a very side-effected programming style. If you cannot unit test most your business logic then you are probably mixing up your business level code with side-effecting code (like calling APIs or DBs).

Personally I've found it better to split pure business logic and side-effecting logic as close to the edge (API endpoint handler) as possible. Then it is trivial to see where side-effects happen and you get to easily write unit tests for the business logic that matter.

Mocking is mostly always a pain and I would rather not mock at all and do proper end-to-end for integration code if possible.
It's probably a matter of demand vs cost; I'm confident technology can make displays at a higher DPI, but... why? If it's not for consumer use (e.g. 4K, now 8K screens which are IMO completely gratuitous), if they can't scale up to produce millions of panels, it's not worth the investment beyond the research of whether it's possible.

Anyway, the next frontier is (has been?) VR, which needs / needed high DPI but small screens.
Grumbles something about standard computer power cables (IEC 60320 C13) not being ‘kettle leads’ (IEC 60320 C15) …

Though you can use actual high-temp rated kettle leads if you like - they fit and are safe in C14 sockets.
Thanks for the example!

While I would definitely, definitely think critically before running a command from the internet, I can see how that use case makes sense for ChatGPT if you’re willing to roll that way.

>…take a few minutes to skim through and look for the relevant options (which is what I wanted to avoid by Googling…

Ah, I see! We are using the phrase “googling” differently here. I explicitly mean googling as a verb that involves reading and parsing information, not the act of avoiding reading or parsing information.
Deep dive into 2022 State of DevOps Report
The Nix Flake Checker
Do you consider yourself not a normie but someone with genius-level intelligence?
I always thought the one-group-per-privileged-action-or-device model could have been taken farther than it was rather than diving into ACLs and capabilities (which IIRC OpenBSD doesn't support anyways) or the various -kits. Is it just that it's an absolute pain to administer, or is there a deeper problem lurking there?
> One of the things I learned from researching sleep in preparation of becoming a parent is that sleep is sleep. Rest is not sleep. To get the benefits of sleep, you have to sleep.

I agree with the parent comment you replied to.

There's a middle mental relaxation state that is not deep sleep, which will give enormous benefits for mental freshness aftwerwards. I identify it when my mind is no longer "driven" by my conscious process but is wandering off, and I am awake and aware of this status.
For at least one of these tools / domains, local SSL is available. Details here: https://docs.lando.dev/core/v3/security.html
I did for a bit, but it's a bit tricky, in the sense that differently from other types of products, games have a very strong separation between the artistic and the engineering aspects. This has very significant consequences.

If one works alone on a game, they may find that they keep solving technical problems, without actually producing a game, but rather, producing an engine. If one works in a team, and nobody takes a creative lead, the same thing happens - technical advancements in the game, but no content.

In the right conditions (either a balanced team, or a single dev who enjoys both aspects), game development is fantastic - from the engineering perspective, game development is a very challenging (in an interesting way) field. But I think it's not easy to find the right context.
Yes, I made rotaboxes and posted here recently [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33718124]
OTOH, if "simple logic" (or, often enough, thinking from first principles) seems solid, and no one seems able to point out a specific error in logic or a specific faulty assumption, and all the criticism boils down to "smart people write smart papers on this therefore you know nothing therefore you are wrong" - I'll put my bet on the "simple logic".
Of course I don't agree, your question is worthless.

"Why would a for profit company invest into basic research without a clear goal to monetizing that research while their competitor is spending that money on marketing?"

The only form of R&D spend that cannot be monetised is that which fails to better meet consumer demand, which is a purposeless waste of money.

Rephrase your question so it make sense.
In fact the original MVC was done with Smalltalk which has a persistent image. So the Smalltalk system itself _is_ the storage layer in which model objects live.
Developer tools to add to your stack
10 developer tools to add to your stack.

1. Fig: Build visual apps that streamline Terminal workflows.

2. Docusaurus: Docusaurus helps you ship a top-notch documentation site in no time!

3. Ngrok: Ngrok is multiplatform tunneling, reverse proxy software that establishes secure tunnels from a public endpoint such as internet to a locally running network service while capturing all traffic for detailed inspection and replay.

4. Warp: Warp is a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams.

5. FlutterFlow 3.0: FlutterFlow is a low-code platform that empowers people to build beautiful cross-platform apps.
this isn't strictly true and the weird edge cases add more mental energy than conforming to the expectation of "all of the content I was expecting".

For example, clicking on one of the profiles I follow, and then their followers. This will only show the profiles I also follow on that remote server. Do that again, and it gets even worse.

Where instead, the "thing you expect to happen" is to list, 1:1, their follow list as it exists on the remote server.

Other things, for example, not fetching someone's post history earlier than before you followed them, when you're browsing their profile. e.g., a user with 100 posts that you just followed.

I'm aware of the technical reasons (you weren't subscribed), and the open source reasons (not enough volunteers to fix the bug); but both are inadequate to a new user, frustrated and lonely, struggling with a lack of network effects, where having a delightful app might save that experience.
I can confirm. See below ROT13 for proof.

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‘zip -r’ is first result for https://serpapi.com/playground?q=How+to+zip+folder+in+linux+...
> There is ample evidence of competition and innovation outside of Adobe and Figma in the market

This can be true at the same time as Adobe buying Figma, integrating it into Creative Cloud and jacking up prices being bad for competition and consumers. The threshold for the EU commission is a dominant position in a market that can be abused, not "monopoly". Especially in a market that has significant barriers to entry.

https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/antitrust-...
The equivalent of hallucinations in LLMs is false memories [1] in people. They happen all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory
Fair enough. Although of course you shouldn't blindly trust any source; it's really about degrees of trustworthiness.
Do you know the difference between training and inference? If not, this conversation isn’t going anywhere.
It's a perfect demonstration of why such acquisitions shouldn't be allowed in the future.
One of the main reasons I created V.

It's pretty much Go with Option/Result that forces you to handle errors:

f := os.create('foo.txt') or { println(err) return }

https://vlang.io/compare#go
Failing to draw lines between ‘script’ and ‘program’
While I would say GPT is creative, the law doesn't have to agree with me.

Also, there's the possibility that all things creative are the human form of peacocks' tails, and if that's the case then the cost and difficulty matters more than the outcome, and any discussion based on capitalist incentives is fundamentally flawed.

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/an-end-to-c...

(I wrote this 52 days before ChatGPT came out, the reference to GPT-3 is based on the stuff OpenAI released before the chat interface).
>In fact, we're at the point now that we can even do real time ray tracing, which was unthinkable at any typical resolution just a decade ago

So are you saying that we should go back to "just wait for the picture to render..." era just because we can have higher density?

Top-End RTX 4090 cater for a niche market.
I was going to mention something about PXE, but according to Intel it has no security at all:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

> As network technology has improved, the limitations of PXE Boot are more apparent. PXE has no mechanism for encryption or authentication, is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, does not scale outside of local networks, and has reliability issues associated with TFTP time-outs and UDP packet loss.

[snip]

> One of the key issues with PXE is a lack of security. The TFTP & UDP transactions associated with PXE may be the last unencrypted traffic on your network and are trivial to intercept. This boot process goes against the “zero trust” concept applied to today’s networks.

However, UEFI to the rescue:

> The UEFI Specification introduced HTTP(S) Boot in in version 2.5. HTTP Boot combines the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to provide system deployment and configuration capabilities over the network. Compared to PXE Boot, HTTP Boot can handle much larger files than TFTP, and scale to much larger distances. PXE depends on UDP broadcast You can easily download multi-megabyte files, such as a Linux kernel and a root file system, from servers that are not on your local area network.

Because HTTP is now a layer of the network stack.
Do you consider HMAC-SHA1 to still be secure for the foreseeable future? Or you know of something that can get close to breaking it? It seems to be quantum-resistant too.
For me, it boils down to SEO spam. Gaming pagerank has led to many SEO spam blog sites ranking relatively high, but with a low signal/noise ratio. Often times, it is a lot faster to ask ChatGPT something, compared to wading through endlessly verbose Google results.
You should try Godot. Open source and extremely lightweight compared to Unity and Unreal. It's pleasure to use, none of the baggage of the other engines. I'm a patron contributor. Fantastic for hobbyist tinkering and also viable for full blown commercial games.

https://godotengine.org/
I wonder if the endgame is that each suid binariy will have separate group associated with them. I don't have obsd at hand, what the situation is like currently?
> Note: certified biosafety cabinet not to be worn as mask.
Which was always so silly. No amount of screen brightness can make up for loss of detail in a dark scene and even OLED maximum brightness is enough to hurt your eyes.
How? It can use what’s in its context window. I can copy paste documentation or code it’s never seen before and ask it to operate on it and get useful answers. This is what practically all the new AI tools are built on.
Booking a seat on a floating wreck between Tunisia and Greek would have been much more adventurous.
And cheaper.
Sometimes a headline is all you need. Often times people won't read past the headline.