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Show HN: Camera and Me, Manatee – Composable video editor running 100% browser
Internet browsers continue to advance, gradually taking on more functions of desktop apps. This sparked my idea to develop an application that could serve as a simpler alternative to OBS Studio in specific scenarios.

Moreover, I aimed to create an application that would streamline the process of making screencasts without excessive effort, yet still provide enough control for a distinctive touch. Over time, I've been working on this project during my limited spare time.

After exploring a wide array of features, I eventually narrowed down my focus to develop a user-friendly and composable screencast recording tool.

There is so much still to do to improve usability, but I think it's in the stage that I need to get some feedback.

What do you think about it? Could it replace your Loom videos? Or something else you are using?
Hmm, I suspect for example "rambly long post" is more common ADHD trait on stimulants than off. Maybe that's what you're talking about?

Besides that, I think, generally, traits will be "a combination of reasons."

For example, even before stimulants folks w/ADHD had bursts of energy and attitude that can be similar to stimulant-driven quirks. Those quirks are probably just more common w/meds
GDPR explicitly defines the necessary terms
In my experience these days, across several dozen games in my Steam library (admittedly largely omitting competitive multiplayer games other than CS), it has been most games, most of the time, on a basic Ubuntu install on hardware I chose mostly without checking for Linux compatibility. If you want to play video games without paying Microsoft for user-hostile systems, Linux has definitely become a genuine option in recent years.

I have a Windows 10 install on my machine that I have been thrilled to discover I’ve only needed a handful of times in three years (mostly to disable the rainbow vomit RGB that Linux doesn’t recognize).
Some of my favorite concepts from undergraduate computer science are how some data structures and problems are "naturally" recursive and lend themselves to recursive algorithms.

For example, tree data structures and singly linked lists work well with recursive algorithms for elegant processing. Problems like parsing a grammar, dynamic programming (knapsack, etc.), and many more are easier to comprehend with recursion.

"Foundations of Computer Science" (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html) is a favorite book that does an excellent job at showing how to think and reason recursively.
I think a lot depends on what you think a "unit". If you use a leaf function as your unit I think that that's often much too low level but larger modules with relatively stable interfaces can make good units that are productive to test.
Yes, exactly.

GDPR also includes restrictions of speech - you can’t talk about corruption convictions if they happen more then x years ago - that I wouldn’t mind the US going to war against Europe to shield these rights.
If you don't like Christmas pudding you must be eating the wrong sort of Christmas pudding!
This impression is dramatized. I'm a technical user, I can't detect a difference between browsing websites on Firefox and Chrome 99% of the time. I imagine the non-technical user notices even less of a difference.

I think the decline of Firefox market share has a lot more to do with forces outside of its control than the quality of the product.
Consider contributing or donating to what was intended to be the replacement of Gecko (Firefox's web rendering engine), Servo.

https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo
There really should be a legend somewhere, but in practice the amateur astronomy community has standardized on a convention that's more or less the same in color scheme and scale to the one reported here: https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2020/colors.html.

You'll see the same scale in use at other light pollution sites, such as:

http://www.cleardarksky.com/maps/lp/large_light_pollution_ma...

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

https://cires.colorado.edu/artificial-sky
I'm suggesting that in the long run, any organization that is hierarchically "overseen" by humans with outsize power compared to the employees (aka a "Board" of special people that are better and smarter and more politically well placed than disposable employees), will inevitably exploit the structure for selfish gain with a probability of 1.

The STRUCTURE is wrong is the point.

The entire concept is built around would-be-aristocrats (Board) coercing the management and employees into allocating property (Money) based on their whim with no accountability or democratic function. It is built to exploit.

Instead they should organize as a non-stock cooperative so that is effectively impossible to exploit. That's the actual answer.
4 day work week for restoration of family/friendship bonds.

Won't ever happen as long as the powers that be glance enviously at China's 996 (9-6, 6 days/week) culture.
Um, it's extremely comparable. You basically just described the human process, but used bigger numbers lol.

Go on any art site, whether it's drawings or writing, and a massive amount of the human learning and inspiration you see is just copying from others, too. People drawing their favorite characters, writing fan fiction that copies from their favorite books, etc.

This is so extremely comparable to AI it's weird to me that you don't see it.
Compared to FAANG AI capacity funding, MIRI's budget is like bus fare and a box of donuts.
Memory and finetuning. If it was easy to insert a framework/documentation into GPT4 (the only model capable of complex software development so far in my experience), it would be easy to create big complex software. The problem is that currently the memory/context management needs to be done all by the side of the LLM interaction (RAG). If it was easy to offload part of this context management on each interaction to a global state/memory, it would be trivial to create quality software with tens of thousands of LoCs.
OK, I accept that distinction. But IME it's the behaviour that confers the status. Sure, wealthy people can have status despite behaving like oiks; but that kind of status isn't "upper class". Class is recognized from how you speak, how you treat others, your taste, and things like knowing which fork to use.
This feels like a new development. I regularly attached a wiimote over Bluetooth to my Mac in the teens. It was my go-to clicker for presenting slides. I needed a dedicated program to map the controller buttons to the inputs I wanted, but the wiimotes attached over Bluetooth without any extra hardware.
I would go further and say this: Never treat foreign ccTLD’s (two-letter domains) as anything you can just register and use a domain in. You should only ever use a ccTLD of your own country or region you actually have your main presence in.

Your domain name is often your most secure key to your entire online identity, and you want that to be on as a secure legal footing as possible.

Older discussion here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32797286#32801880>

Disclaimer: I work at a domain name registrar.
Donoghue vs. Stevenson
Regular people cannot handle using torx.

Philips is nice because (untrained) people naturally will over-tighten the fuck out of every screw they encounter. Philips cams out and prevents them from going too far overboard. In fact its literal design goal was to make a screw that is hard to over-tighten.

I know if we used torx on some of our products, we'd spent 10000% more time on removing snapped screw bodies.
> LLM's can't gut a fish in the cube when they get to their limits.

Is this an idiom? Or did one of us just reach the limits of our context? :P
You cannot. Most of their funding comes from one source: Google, and that is pay per impression largely. Unless they get another large source of funding to offset what they're going to continue to lose, then they will shrink until they disappear.
At mailpass.io we tried to embed some of these ideas straight away. Easy to ignore certain domains. Easy to delete all messages from a specific domain without sending any kind of tracking this was done
Or maybe they could just ban KBM play.
Please share the prompt!!

/s it is so beautiful. Really helps to understand the shape of humanity at a global scale. Middle East and Korea made me reflect.
We do it that way so “we” can have lower taxes.

We is in quotes because various demographics/political tribes want to pass the hot potato.

The beauty of the health insurance system is it allows you to deliver differing qualities of healthcare to different voter groups.

For example, high voter participation groups like old people can get Medicare that pays providers more and hence more providers are available. And Medicaid for poor people on the other end that pays much less and has stricter rules on prior authorizations. And you can give Senators healthcare that pays providers more than other federal employees, and so on and so forth.

I actually find it impressive in some sense.
Awesome. Thank you for sharing this.

I love the fact that Penn & Teller, along with Rob Pike & Dennis Ritchie (!), knew that Arno Penzias (!!) would choose to watch clips of Penn & Teller over clips of some soap opera star and some daytime show host. At all times, Penzo thought he had made a choice, but he actually hadn't!
I think the alternative engine is a thing folk think will block G from more hijinks, like maybe WEI.
> They mentioned their coworker and most companies have upgrade policies.

Upgrade policies aren't driven by new requirements, or performance improvements. Some companies have mandatory hardware replacement policies which mostly serve to allow their tech support staff to standardized on a small number of devices. Getting a M3 MacBook Pro replacement just because your employer doesn't want to maintain an Intel MacBook Pro is hardly indicative that a M3 is worth spending money on, let alone replace a M2 or even M1 MacBook Pro.
As a non-native, the fourth video is the weirdest one, much more different than the others, including the first. Sounds like "coureege".
Yes please do more to explain to people how much time something will take. I have lost count the number of times I start to answer a survey (cuz I'm happy to provide feedback) but after 3-4 questions, I'm thinking "yeah I don't have THIS much time") and give up.
For the price of Macs, I get Lenovo and Dell graphic workstation like laptops, e.g. Thinkpad P series.

While I am a big NeXTSTEP fan, I am not paying for the experience in detriment of less capable hardware, specially when I can just rent Mac hardware from work from our R&D pool.
Recursion is inductive.

Inductive methods are very common in everyday life. [1]

Formal inductive logic is not.

Maybe it's unsuitability for rhetoric plays a role.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081860
Was is a pre-checked checkbox by any chance?

There's also a few dark patterns to confuse the user to check the box. Put it next to a "Accept T&C" and people think they have to check it.

Or word in a vague way. I doubt it said "We can sell your DNA to 3rd party who can then patent it".
Isn’t funding .uk and .us domains just as bad then, if you’re going by the amount of blood that is on a countries hands(regarding this particular piece of history, or all of it)?
Sure, I can register a .me, or a .com, or a .net, or a .org, or like 100 other TLDs. I don't have this issue except on .us.

WHOIS redaction is a standard feature of domain registrars these days, about N-1 TLDs support it, and like you said I can vote with my feet (and I am).
Understanding Addition in Transformers
What strikes me most is that the correlation with population is still weaker than expected - at least it appears (eyeballing it) that Europe has a larger/more extreme light pollution than India and China combined.

It also shows the lack of development of eastern Europe's rural areas. The contrast from one country to the next is quite strong.
But uninteresting to an art specialist like you does not make it uninteresting to his many, many fans. Of course what he does is art, what meaningful line can you put between art and craft? I'd even argue that he has far more impact on the world by bringing a little aesthetic happiness to millions than even a Turner-prize winning artist like Tai Shani, who's meaningful only to a few.
They're not amalgamations. They're not collages. The algorithm isn't memorizing the training data.
Half baked idea: What if you have a tree of nodes. Each node stores a description of (a part of) a system and an LLM generated list of what the parts of it are, in terms of a small step towards concreteness. The process loops through each part in each node recursively, making a new node per part, until the LLM writes actual compilable code.
Because they oppose spreading the views of a politician who staged a coup and attempted to end free elections? A person who is currently on trial in federal and state court for doing that?

Keep in mind that this was posted two days after the coup attempt, and emotions were running high throughout the country.
"Games like Myst have incredibly realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections"

Am I missing something here? Is it 1994?
Give Mozilla money. Stop beating around the bush.
I still use pip + venv for everything and I don't really see a reason to change. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I understand it, tools like poetry aren't really anything "official" as pip is, just something that popped up and gained some traction. It's only the pyproject.toml format that was standardized, and poetry happens to be one of the tools that supports it.
> “For people that don’t see our vision yet, people that don’t see what’s happening here at X, stop giving any of that oxygen,” she said. “Don’t pay attention to it.”

Yes, don't listen to the outsiders who question the Vision. They're only doing so because they haven't purged themselves of their body thetans, yet.

There's a blurry line between over-enthusiastic corporate-speak, and cult-speak, and this is sitting somewhere on the line.
I _highly_ doubt this would replicate.
I bet they just leaked test data somehow and won't generalise.
This comment reads like an entitled gamer complaining about the next Call of Battlefield IV is "literally 0/10" for not including their favorite RGB-colored skin for a submachine gun.
You'll still be able to successfully sue people "when their [AI generated] song strongly resembles another copyrighted work".

The question is that vague resemblance is subject to copyright.
Very cool, it would be helpful to have a key for what the colors mean. I can deduce that white, is little to no darkness, and shades of green mean dark, but it would help to give that little context.
Do they need another large source of funding? Everything I’ve read about Mozilla seems to say that they only spend a small fraction of their income on Firefox. Maybe FF could spin off the way Thunderbird did.
What a sad life it must be to be constantly fearful and anxious of every social interaction.
its not an issue because they will have to leave the market soon due to an inability to provide a product customers will pay for
SVT-AV1 has still a lot of visual quality issues. PSNR, SSIM, VMAF are useful metrics, but optimising for these won't get you the best encoder.
x264 didn't get its reputation for going after PSNR and SSIM.
Ask Google to provide even more funding to Mozilla?

Beyond that, FF should be alive as long as there are paid developers to keep it up to date in terms of W3C web standards and security. Mozilla is a non-profit whose revenue is mostly unrelated to the number of FF users.
This is one of the best things I've read on the internet in a minute. It's a modern Koan.

Just use your freewill.

Delightful.
It's funny -- I saw the headline and immediately did a CTRL+F for NameCheap. It's the same registrar again and again[0] for what seems like years now[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626618

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24231307
So let's imagine a company like Garmin experiences a ransomware attack. Their business is paralyzed. What would stop them from paying the ransom and what could possibly be an alternative to that?
I don't think X as "sh" in Spanish exists (but I could be wrong). But Mandarin as transcribed in pinyin has it.

Also in English x is pronounced as z at the beginning of some Greek-derived words like Xerox and xylophone.
The Role of the Control Flow Graph in Static Analysis
The airlines have trouble scheduling flights, though...

;-)
I assume you’ve skimmed the paper, because it addresses and mitigates exactly the scenario you’re describing. I can understand if you assume that it’s impossible to achieve an uncompromised system from a totally compromised one, I did the same mistake at first. The solution really seems like a magic trick.
Some of the comments I see kinda get to the point, but not all the way. I've grown up in a fairly liberal part of the southern US, with a high African American population so these are the kind of conversations I encounter fairly often.

Cultural appropriation is widely understood to be when someone in a position of power (most commonly a white person) utilizes something that is heavily related or socially seen as "part of" a minority community. For example, a white person wearing a Native American headdress. The issue that the minority community has with that is that they are routinely belittled or put down for participating in that part of their own community. For example, a white person wearing a Native American war bonnet to Coachella is appropriation, as war bonnets are culturally significant to Native Americans and you have to earn the ability to wear one. Meanwhile, many white Americans still put down Native American customs as "witchcraft".

When it comes to food, music, or clothing, you're pretty good there. It's primarily just avoiding things that are culturally or spiritually significant to a culture. I.E., don't wear a headdress if you're not Native American, don't act like you're the best rapper ever if you grew up on a farm in Kansas, or say you make the best gumbo in the world if you've never even been to New Orleans.
Maybe they have a point.

Given that you where arguing that using python on the most popular OS in the world should fall outside of a 'normal' use case python should focus on, perhaps you have a too narrow view of what "correct and normal" python usage should be.
So we have a phenomena where people of group X report anti-X content. Is there an accepted term for that? Not quite the Streisand effect.

I wonder how much that contributes to the viralness(virality?) of some of this hate speech? It's definitely not healthy and a good reason to get off social media.
>I'm not sure what TFA means

It comes from RTFM, but instead of the Manual it's the Article.
The Law of Two Feet https://medium.com/@hari.lhk/the-law-of-two-feet-continuous-...
The article is clearly a virtue signal. If the person developing the solution doesnt want to pay for the .io domain, then so be it. They don't have to get the morality into it.
I agree, although I suspect most people nowadays interact with Firefox for the first time via the mobile app rather than the desktop. The difference between FF mobile and Chrome is pretty noticeable. Overall usability is worse, if not also performance.

If you're using Chrome on mobile, and the differences between the desktop versions are negligible, why would you not just stick to Chrome on desktop as well?
> I'm a technical user, I can't detect a difference between browsing websites on Firefox and Chrome 99% of the time.

That is exactly what they are saying.
I refuse to make this assumption. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm getting a lot of mileage from assuming kindness and honesty at the start of every interaction.

Well, with exception of those which need to be shot with Hanlon's handgun[0]. There's surprisingly many of those, and not where people would suspect (e.g. I see it more often interacting with small businesses than with larger ones) - but in most interactions with others, I find it best to not reach for the handgun until it's clear it's needed.

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[0] - "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691282
The only time I can detect a difference is on complex web apps like Photopea which by their own admission is optimized for Chrome.
Kill it.

Replacing it will be a gargantuan effort, but until it's truly dead every attempt to do so won't even be given a chance due to appeals to "just use firefox" or to stop diluting the efforts of the firefox team.

Firefox as it stands is a zombie sucking the efforts of good talented developers away from hypothetical new hopeful things.

As others have said, it's also a backstop for Google against antitrust suits. Firefox surviving without any hope of ever thriving is the ideal scenario for Google.
I think it’s this.

Mozilla seems broken. I love Firefox and its mission, but I have no idea what Mozilla’s mission is. And they seem too beholden to Google to really make a browser good enough to threaten them.

I think we need another “true” open source group of devs who just love browsers and love writing browsers who would like to fork and work on.

I would support such a group, but I don’t think it exists and don’t know how to effectively encourage it.

But I feel like donating money to Mozilla is actually counterproducti
Pretty sure that behaviour is as illegal as taking company code with you when you leave, inserting kill codes into software you work on, etc. Being paid to write software for a company and intentionally gimping it in that way probably also invalidates any liability insurance that a contractor may have as well.
As a generally healthy person it's very disappointing that catastrophic plans are only available for under 30s. [0] For me it makes the most financial sense to pay out of pocket for incidentals/annuals, but be covered for catastrophes e.g. get hit by a bus and wake up in a hospital.

What magical event happens to people at age 30 that led the legislators to ban catastrophic? Would love to see the actuarial data on that. I have no knowledge/evidence of the reasoning but to me it definitely smells like lobbying.

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/catastrophic-health...
I genuinely wonder what the Mozilla leadership think when they see threads like this.

Do they just not see them and float above the real world in some bubble where a web browser is some abstract thing that has no intersection with reality? Do they know they exist but pretend they don't? Do they scoff and say "they just don't understand, bless them"? Do they scoff and say "those idiots still think we care"?

How is possible to command generational wealth for the platform: millions upon millions in funding, and the goodwill of nearly all open source enthusiasts, over decades, have the entire community basically unanimous in saying "this is going downhill", see all the metrics agree and still plough onwards and downwards?

For a friend, how can I get a job like that?
I think Mozilla disappearing might be good for the web. They're a sick company IMO, and Firefox kind of sucks.

"We care about your privacy" but they also send your memory dumps to Mozilla when Firefox crashes. "Might contain private data" ... yeah ok. Just one of infinite examples, really.

I bet in a couple of years after we would see the development and rise of an actual non-corporate browser that serves the user. No telemetry, build-in ad blocking, no extension signing, no pushing services, no build-in ads or search engines, more powerful extensions, etc.
What's silly about that? They go next to the "hey I want theft", "hey I want fraud", "hey I want arson" stickers.