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# Introduction to Newcar

Newcar is a modern front-end animation engine based on CanvasKit-WASM. With the support of Skia’s WebAssembly version, it not only ensures performance but also brings powerful drawing capabilities.

## Features

1. Highly customizable API.
2. Chain syntax, different from traditional animation engines and game engines that require saving objects as variables, chain syntax enhances development efficiency.
3. Equipped with a core similar to Vue's diff algorithm, further ensuring animation efficiency and "on-demand updates."
4. Capable of running in browsers as well as locally with ffmpeg on Node.js.

## Future Plans

1. From the mods directory in the project root, Newcar has already released a math module (including number axes, Cartesian coordinate systems, function graphs, etc.). Upcoming modules include geometry, markdown, dynamic charts, UI, physics, mind mapping, and more.
2. Future releases will introduce an event system, transforming it into a hybrid engine for both animations and games.
3. Additional features like an animation tree.

## Background Story

When I was in junior high, during a math class, the teacher pulled out an old projector from the Qing Dynasty to explain a topic, but the Flash presentation couldn't be opened because the computer didn't have Flash installed. This made me think, since Flash was so powerful yet obsolete, why not create a library similar to Flash myself? So, I started thinking about it in September 2022, and began coding in December.

Initially, Newcar was quite rudimentary, even based on native Canvas, with poor performance and complicated steps for creating animations. The later versions of Newcar, while mimicking Flash, also incorporated design principles from other animation engines like Manim and SVG animations. The latest version of Newcar has been completely rewritten and redesigned, but future versions will feature even more powerful functionalities.

- Documentation: [newcar.js.org/zh](https://newcar.js.org/zh)
- GitHub: [github.com/dromara/newcar](https://github.com/dromara/newcar)
- Bilibili: BugDuck Open Source Team
- Twitter: @bugduckteam

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cd /

dpkg --get-selections >>installed_packages

git init

git add installed_packages /etc /home/*/.* /root /whateverneeded

git commit -m "system init"

on a new system just copy over the .git folder

install packages from installed_packages, then
git checkout

reboot

that's all :D

or there is chef, puppet
Theoretically they could make links that are not posted in a comment private, and once you post the comment they would be made public.
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Yea, it's easy to make up answers like this, but it's pretty much bs.

A bigger part of the issue is almost everyone is running on the same few cloud providers so if that provider has an issue huge portions of the internet are impacted.

Another side of the problem is the massive size of many of these systems attempting to serve billions of records in short periods of time in a consistent manner, this can be attributed to unqualified people, but it's not just that...

The amount and number of systems doing complex things has exploded. Yea, the internet back in 1999 may not have gone down much, but mostly it was serving static pages. It wasn't trying to fill orders at 10,000 locations and keep an eye on the inventory of all these places at once. This comes back to the fact we've probably never had enough well trained, qualified people to run all the systems we're creating.

Systems failures almost never boil down to one thing, but a collection of issues at the same time.
If it was really intended to be temporary, it would have included a sunset clause.
Of course there are no people in the car. I can’t take a walk anywhere without seeing at least one Waymo drive by without anyone in the front seat. This is old news. It’s really really funny reading these takes. We’re living in the future and there are still people making predictions about it.
Digital watch for power.
Can you utilize streaming compilation of the Wasm modules? This significantly improved load times in Photoshop Web.
Choosing not to pay money for what they call "free" shipping you don't need is different than choosing not to pay money for TV you're not watching?
> risks inadvertently establishing harmful precedent

What sort of harmful precedents might be established?
Absolutely not a fan of JSON. It’s not typed, and I definitely don’t want to know about each tools schema (and it’ll be worse without the definition).

There is nothing wrong with Linux tools, they do one thing and do it well.
Ball also lectures on quantum information theory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7v5NtV8v6I
> It commits you to the VC track.

That's not true. YC always supports what founders want to do. If founders don't want to raise VC, YC supports them in that choice.
For example, your comment
I personally also strictly disagree with their feedback: "try many small things, experiment, tinker, and build a portfolio of multiple income streams".

This is very much the indie-hacker route, but honestly, if you have one thing that's working out, it's usually better financially (though maybe less fun if you like purely doing engineering/product work) to try to grow it than to build a portfolio.

As someone who went through YC, but started out more on the indie-hacker side, I want to mention that going through YC in particular does not close the door to just continuing to build a successful, growing business without raising one round after the other.

I think some indie-hacker influencers encourage this kind of us vs. them thinking about VC's, and the truth is somewhere in between.

I know of many businesses who have decided (either by choice or through a lack of fundraising options) that the ideal way to grow and scale their business after YC is to not fundraise. It's something that YC partners explicitly acknowledge. They understand that an alive business can continue to grow, whereas a dead business is just dead.
Is one company comparable to general internet?
Private Equity and Software Are Competing to Eat the World (2020)
I've come to the same conclusion about long COVID in April May of 2020. The evidence is shockingly overwhelming and has been grossly ignored. Some of us have found cocktails that work. Would love to discuss if you are interested.
AI is amazing at making music....I couldn't believe this album[0] was made by AI.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_SjjXFJLk
Yeah I use ansible (in pull mode) for my home automation for just such a purpose. I have the router open up port 443 to my one box, then have haproxy read the header for the incoming traffic and route it to the backend on the box whether a docker container or a local service. Foundry VTT, jellyfin, etc.

All from Ansible, all to a private github that I just SSH into the machine long enough to run ansible pull.

That way, when I run into errors, it's just rinse and repeat to iterate my ansible playbook code until it is perfectly fit for this exact situation. Is my code maintainable and enterprisey like my work ansible? NOPE. But it's okay, it's my private code that nobody but me uses. I even do direct commits on master because I can, it's my tiny naughty guilty pleasure.
I hope, perhaps against mainstream opinion, that the myopic focus on the young will be proven flawed.

I see the launches and highlights YC posts on LinkedIn and elsewhere and see no one like me, yet am confident I would both benefit from it and be more likely to build something amazing than the majority (that being a particularly uninformed opinion, since I know only a few personally).
There was wording in googles latest terms of service that seemed to imply that there would be recourse for certain violations and they wouldn’t jump straight to closing accounts and ignoring users’ pleas…I wonder if that’s a cultural shift that might extend to developer accounts and their android app store. If not today, hopefully soon.
OK, you want FISA to be stricter. But way up thread, someone made the point that it’s FISA itself that puts any meaningful balancing constraints at all on the Constitutional power of the executive. This includes the FISA court—made up of real, lifetime-tenured federal judges of the same robes you would like approving warrants—that is there by law to be watching out for just your parade of horribles.

The poster was roundly criticized for being correct.
"Buy index funds. The end."

From what I've heard (and as finance isn't my field, my knowledge should be considered worse than ChatGPT), if everyone had a truly omniscient genie, the markets would become perfectly efficient, and a perfectly efficient market has no room for profit because any profit opportunity is immediately arbitraged out of existence.
> The catalyst for acting boldly to prevent or defend a major event is much mor political than informational.

Could you explain what you mean by this? On a tangential note, have you considered talking/explaining this with politicians/academics studying this field? Or is it more of something that's already known to those familiar with the field?
I agree with you but we're not talking about providing any value for end users but about venture investments and raising capital. You don't need to actually provide any value, you just need to convince someone with money to spend it, promising more money in the end. This money may never actually materialize (see Uber) but you can still receive a lot of money year by year, based on someone else's expectations.
I never understood why, barring lack of money, people would rather read something on a screen (even if it is e-ink) instead of holding an actual book in their hands and reading it that way. The smell alone of any book (used or new) is worth it

Anyway, I've heard calibre is good. I've never used it though
Actually it does :-). I get that being pedantic can be fun but if you actually forcibly misinterpret things base on pedantry you might find it doesn't serve you nearly as well as actually thinking about what was "meant".
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A lot of people here seem to be missing that Buhler is a _current_ research scientist at NASA, leading the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy. Here's a 2022 paper he is an author on:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220007230/downloads/Fi...

Here's an article on the NASA web site from April 10, 2024 quoting him:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/nasa-tec...

which says he is a lead researcher on the Electrodynamic Dust Shield project at NASA. Here's a similar article quoting him:

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nasa-eds-techn...

He's playing with alternative propulsion engineering on his own as a side project. If you watch the video of his presentation at APEC he says two groups have replicated some of his work. He's tested it in a vacuum. He has not tested it in space but would like to. Maybe that will make the effect disappear. But he's a leading expert on electrostatics at NASA, currently working for NASA, and he thinks this is real and he's been playing with it for a long time. He says it is trivial to reproduce, you need like $10 worth of material (more to do it in a vacuum). It's hard to see why he would make false claims and jeopardize his day job.
Thank you for a wonderful product and for drawing attention to this issue. Given all the anticompetitive changes from Microsoft recently, I am worried desktops are only going to get worse and become fully like mobile devices soon.

I think current antitrust legislation isn’t enough. We need different laws with easier enforcement. And instead of wasting time with laws and legal battles, we just need trillion dollar companies to be heavily taxed and use that money to fund competition.
This.

Also, why run different OSes on your machines? And why the need to reinstall stuff?

I just run Arch on everything, and I haven't had to reinstall a machine in many years.
US House approves $61B in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling
> Science is more traditionally IMO considered to be a recursive process with rational (i.e. theory) and empirical (i.e. sense data) steps.

That's true, but like so many traditions, it's wrong. Science can be justified entirely in terms of empiricism.

To be clear, it is not at all obvious that this is possible (it relies on the Church-Turing thesis), and so people can be forgiven for making this mistake. But it's still a mistake, and it's grounded in ignorance.

> Empiricism in practice goes off the rails pretty quickly with things like subjective idealism and the belief that there are no external entities, only sense data etc.

Unless your sensory experiences are radically different from mine, then you have to concede that those experiences behave, to a very close approximation, as if external entities exist, and a good explanation for that is that external entities do in fact exist.

Ironically, that explanation turns out to be wrong, but to see that you need to dive into quantum mechanics. And the justification for quantum mechanics grounds out in the sensory experience of perceiving the results of experiments. There is no escape from empiricism in the world we live in.
Where Quantum Probability Comes from (2019)
Math like words are tools. When you want application instead of tool operating instructions, go into physics or computer science (or both).
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869760 - Oct 2023 (320 comments)

The fact that this was reposted only 6 months later makes this a dupe by HN's standard (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Normally we would mark it as such, which removes a thread from HN's front page.

I'm not going to do that, though, because the principle described here is more important: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

"We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story" is the first rule of HN moderation. That does not mean we don't moderate at all—that would be too big a loophole. But we always moderate less than we otherwise would.

A related principle is that we trust readers to be smart enough to make up their own minds. Between this thread and the one I posted yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091622) I think HN commenters are doing a good job of that.

Edit: although it follows from the above, I should probably say explicitly that the [flagged] marker on the post is because of flags that came from users, not moderators.
What are you expecting exactly? Most people aren't going to have a massive effect on the world, whether in philosophy or not. Philosophy is far from the only academic discipline in which most practitioners don't have a significant impact on the world.
How do you know it's correct, though? Except to check the answers, or ready access to colleagues--but now a global network, and plenty of problems to review besides. There's no excuse anymore. I could even post questions myself, and find explanations enough.

Leaning on the compiler and staring at a segfault would have been pretty discouraging before Java, for example. Folks who may have given up may have found Python learnable or more forgiving. Once past that initial hump, and writing loops, operations against a database, and we're off to the races.

But there's plenty to practice in math, with textbooks even. Maybe we needed to learn to compute, do enough exercises calculating--the same as printf() and console.log()--to get the bits before proofs, before the higher-order ideas, could stick.
Yeah, I love that stack. I then rsync those backups to backblaze.
No issues, single machine, no fucking around with stuff like kubernetes (and I also got rid of docker, so that annoyance is also gone)
Thanks for sharing. That's kinda pricey, in the vicinity of 1-2 employees.
What about the argument presented in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100070 did you find inadequate?

The reason it's not circular is that it grounds out in actual reality.

I suppose you could deny the existence of actual reality. If you want to do that, you are beyond my ability to help.
Good luck of finding such place! I also noted that friends of my son were initially all from the same courtyard (obviously). Now the majority of them lives in a three kilometer radius. He has friends in a school, courtyard and in a sport club. They intersect only by a half. At this age you easily make new friends and also easily get rid of those with who you doesn't fit. I think, that the more people you meet being young on a different activities and can easily visit by a bike, the more chance that you will find the ones who will be your real friends through the life and the wider your world will be. This is another point to live in a crowded but cyclable area.
So what do you suggest, suppressing or censoring dissenting voices?

Your comment also doesn't add anything to the conversation, does it?
you still need to know the schema of the JSON which could also use a dry run as well. not really sure how just because it's JSON solves that in your mind
I struggle to nail down my political affiliation because there’s literally just one party. They quibble over materially irrelevant hot button issues to create the illusion of choice, but all the bullshit that robs me and my kids or strips us of our rights is _always_ “bipartisan”, passed without reading in the dead of the night. And yeah the only two choices in our upcoming “elections” here are a guy with profound dementia who shakes hands with invisible people, and a narcissist moron con man who writes at a fourth grade level and capitalizes nouns for no reason. And neither side considers this to be a problem. I’m beginning to think this is some kind of a joke and the ruling class is just trying to see how far they can take it before people revolt.
Tesla shareholders, who sued to renege on Musk's compensation package.
NixOS or Guix Systems are the less archaic way, civilized people (Lisp vignette here) have in 2024 to manage digital life. Learning Nix is a pain but learning enough to been able to run a PERSONAL infra it's not so challenging.

Trying to replicate "the cloud" at home is a nice way to tie their own genitals, hang some loads than start jumping.

Said that: do not use Raspi or NAS, assemble a small desktop, it can be a NAS, a router, a server for any kind of service and it's just common commodity hw, the best supported in the FLOSS world, the quickest to be replaced/the cheap for spare parts. Desktop iron today does not eat that much electricity and have enough for most common needs. And using NixOS or Guix System you do not need to run a gazillion of stuff just to show a damn hello world, so you can milk you hw as needed.
That sounds a bit far-fetched to be honest. Right now by not rendering them you're impacting everyone, not just some underrepresented users :)
> There was a real moment in the House where it might not have, at least without a warrant requirement. My Congresswoman was one of the attack dogs on this issue. She thought they would get an outpouring of support. She didn’t. The call sheets registered basically zero calls in support, and several lobbying against. So she caved. (This is a pattern I saw play out in New York years earlier in another privacy battle.)

What's odd/interesting to me is that there's been little chatter of late regarding this. I spend an unhealthy amount of time on HN/Reddit/X and save for a few mild posts (as opposed to alarmist or clickbaity) on the topic, I barely see anything. During the net neutrality thing back when Ajit Pai was around I remember there was massive support. And I don't think I've ever heard of the NY privacy thing you mention. I wonder why it's so.
I think it's funny you're objectively wrong but continue to insist you're right. Anyway, I'm not gonna waste any more time correcting someone that's allergic to learning.
There has been a chicken and egg problem for gpu intensive media on the web. WebGL overhead limits complexity -> demanding applications remain native -> tooling for WebGL/WebGPU is limited or lags behind.

I bet these are some of the most complex WebGPU programs.

Congrats on the launch! Good luck on the optimization.
S-tier move by YC to promote this nonsense to the front page to make the pro-YC post from the other day look less sketchy.
Trap. The most primitive and predictable form of electronic music. Not surprised.
First money in at a 40M valuation? Assuming this is pre-seed, that seems like the investor is taking on a lot of risk based on the distribution of outcomes.
A loud audible ratchet mechanism. Just to add to the annoyance.
Yeah I love OSMAnd especially since its new 3D mode. Which is really useful in my area that is far from flat. A normal map doesn't really work here even with contour lines.
Pointing this out seems to popular in comments, and doesn't seem to add anything to the conversation.
I’m not familiar with the permissions system but on both iOS and Android I’ve encountered apps that ask for things like location permissions allegedly to find local devices. I assume that’s also due to a lack of fine grained permissions?
If I'm writing an instruction manual for a lathe, I'm probably not going to run through all the varying things you produce with the lathe. I'm going to talk about correct use of the lathe. It won't help you understand what a lathe is for, but it will help you use the lathe correctly.

I think the same goes for mathematics instruction. The thinking is that you will soon take courses that will make specific application of these tools that have broad application.
I question the assumption of "for more". Singling out individual companies based on specific foreign ownership is of a completely different character than making general laws aimed at preserving individual liberty.

The way I see it, going down this path cements continuing centralized control from corporate and government authoritarian synergy - for example the actual mechanism of this bill is targeting the Apple/Google corporate app repositories, because telling individual users that it's illegal to communicate with TikTok is a straightforward first amendment violation.
And don't mention a dislike for "that one thing" too many times.
Yeah, they were mostly for eggs and pest control, most of them lived 2+ years. They didn't make the best meat to be honest
You probably already know this but just in case:
You can specify an interface when using ip, e.g. ip addr show dev enp2s0
If you didn't now it, give ocrmypdf (python/tesseract wrapper) a try, all you need is `ocrmypdf in.pdf out.pdf`. It's not super-perfect but works well enough in 99% of common cases.
Is that uncommon? Like with healthcare insurance, capital punishment etc.
Doesn’t side loading still pop up a warning message about security that helps deter users from going outside the Play store?
Has YC published age demographics for batches somewhere I’ve missed? They’ve talked a bit about it, but I haven’t seen hard numbers.
Ansible has been better than Chef and Puppet for small environments. I looked at cdist but it wasn't faster for my use case. Also, Ansible executes rules ordered unlike Chef and Puppet which helps reduce your state space. If you incrementally maintain servers, by definition, your only tested configuration is the one you executed. The way to improve reliability is to start from the same (container) state, and now the only maintenance ought to be changes (OS upgrades has been it for me). Ansible across 1 server and 2 desktops with no changes takes ~3m17s and I wish it was way faster. As of know I manage with tagging things and only running a subset of things. Consider standardizing on a single distro (I use Debian and it's served me extremely well over the years). +1 on centralizing, too, till you have an use case that requires more servers. servers <= containers. Simplify. Kubernetes is complicated.