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Show HN: I Built VideoSnack – Repurpose Videos to Text Content with AI
I'm creating how-to videos for my other SAAS products and I built my own process where I would take the Youtube video transcript and add it to ChatGPT with a couple of optimized prompts to turn it into a tutorial like blog post. I would take the resulted text, add it to Google Docs where I would format it, add images, links and so on, and export it to my WordPress website with DocPress (a tool I built for that pupose).

Based on this experience I built VideoSnack, a Google Docs add-on (for now) that does all this with a couple of clicks. Just add the YouTube video, set your options and you get a ready to be published blog post or other types of content like newsletter, summary, tutorial, show notes and more.
> You’d be consigning yourself to (potential? Inevitable?) ego death, in the long term.

I have some bad news for you. We are all consigned for inevitable death in the long term. That also involves ego death.

> I’m not sure I could think of a closer technological parallel to “selling one’s soul to the devil”

You are projecting your values here. There is nothing inherently "selling" or "devil" about a procedure like that. It is a tool. Can be seriously evil, can be beneficial. What matters is how it is used, who is in control of it and whose goals it serves.
Library to supercharge your use of LLMs
YouTube will soon ask audiences to add context to videos
I think that piece of data reinforces the point. If the "stayers" fall off the charts faster, there ought to be no reason, outside the oligopoly argument, to presume that the replacements would be from the same set of artists. Were it not the same stuff over and over again, wouldn't you expect something novel (i.e. some other artist) to replace them, at some level? But, it doesn't look like that's what happens, and also that it's happening less frequently than it once did.
Reality of European "Tech" Industry
The irony here is incredible. The LLM is lazy, you say? I do wonder where it learned that...
Examples look like pretty basic Photoshop filters circa 20 years ago.
5 years feels pretty long for a laptop warranty to be honest. (I'm typing this on a 2019 Intel MBPro, but it's getting pretty long in the tooth, and if it had died already or last year, I would not have felt like I got an unreasonably short lifespan out of it.)

Do I expect a laptop to last 5 year? Yes, most of them. Do I think it's inherently problematic or that consumers were "cheated" if say 25% of laptops only last 4 years instead of 5? I do not.
There's also never an actual fire. Like at least put a video of a fireplace on in the background.
You're describing the improper use of any tool.
I would have liked to bring a penknife to school to sharpen pencils, but it's probably good that they were banned.
I think Scheme works well for the kind of conceptual overview the course is trying to provide. I think there is something to the argument that Scheme syntax is not ideal for readability of larger programs, but I would wager that the bigger reason some students find SICP confusing is the same reason it blows others’ minds - the whole approach is at a higher level of abstraction than most “intro to programming” classes.
We can thank Jack Welch and the MBAs who aim to be like him. Loyalty is a two-way street.
I don’t think there should be a monopoly on anything, Swiss watches included. It stuns growth and innovation, raises prices, and leads to a less dynamic economy.
I'm trying on a mental model re: Epigenetics. How does this look:

Your genes are a recipe book, not a blueprint. What recipe is chosen is based somewhat on environmental effects. When you reproduce, you shuffle together the parents book + the earmarks on the pages.
Securities Class Action Lawsuit Against Roblox Corporation
When you have a slack conversation with a coworker they are often not 100% accurate.

Working with an LLM is much like working with a coworker that has a knowledge base as wide as the entire internet.

It is exceptionally useful. There are a wide range of applications that may even require 100% accuracy in final output but do not require 100% accuracy in every conversation that leads to that output.

For the last 6 months I have built things that would have taken me 4x as long in programming languages that I’ve never used before.

I am a team of 1 that has the output of a team of 4 without the overhead of meetings
I loathe those ordering kiosks. Having them in the drive-through would make me even less likely to go there. Which would probably be a good thing.
I quit a company that was showing all the signs of trying to get rid of its senior developers so a couple of us jumped ship before the inevitable layoff. I went straight into another place that the recruiter said "preferred to hire more seasoned engineers." In my 5 years there I only remember two engineers that were under 30. Median age probably hovered around 50.

There are outfits that realize that you get better with experience and want to capitalize on that. Unfortunately, they seem to be few and far between.
But (and I agree with the GP) they are. They are overwhelmingly more productive, in a way that you often can't even compare quantitatively.

They are also a lot less productive. It depends entirely on what you are doing.
Not related to the 6c rating, but later in the article they quote a range estimate of 400+km.

Whenever you see a CLTC range rating, just know its considered the most inflated of range ratings. Its basically 30% inflated from the already 20% inflated EPA range estimate.
https://archive.is/3kFMW
Large Language Model Confidence Estimation via Black-Box Access
But if you could control the DJI drone with some other transmitter, perhaps running OpenTX, and also replaced the video downlink, then there'd be no DJI hardware using those frequencies.
That means they're descendent of arguably the most powerful woman in the world's history, Eleanor the Aquitaine [1].

She's married to both King of France and King of England, and mother of three kings during her lifetime including King John Lackland Plantagenet (progenitor of all 43 US presidents except one).

This takes a new meaning to the popular idiom "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree".

[1] Eleanor of Aquitaine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
The reality is that the European Commission had the gall to investigate the US's premier companies before the US did. Until the US inquiries are over, it's absolutely silly to start pointing fingers at the EU when they very well could have been outdoing the US at it's own due diligence.

It's genuinely unreal how pissed off HN and Twitter gets at the idea of capitalism destroying what they like. It's all fun-and-Google-graveyard until someone suggests that your iPhone or your favorite social media site could get ruined by an overzealous CEO. Now you're screaming like Chicken Little because an obvious anti-competitive racket has been identified and outlawed, get a grip. Laissez-faire, meet savoir-faire.
Transplanting stem cells from young to older mice slows Alzheimer's development
That new line in the first paragraph was added _after_ this comment was written.
Nobody calls them regulations, come now.
Testing both your code and the message system is exactly what you want, since if the message system is broken in a way that upstream didn't catch, you want to learn about it during testing and not production, if possible.
> I still don't understand Haskell

It's not you. Haskell has very bad syntax. It's not hard to understand it, it you rewrite the same things in something saner. Haskell was developed by people who enjoy one-liners and don't really need to write practical programs.

Another aspect of Haskell is that it was written by people who were so misguided as to think that mathematical formulas are somehow superior to typical imperative languages, with meaningful variable names, predictable interpretations of sequences of instructions etc. They, instead, made it all bespoke. Every operation has its own syntax, variables are typically named as they would in math formulas (eg. X and X'). This makes no sense, and is, in fact, very harmful when writing real-world programs, but because, by and large, Haskell never raises to the task of writing real-world programs, it doesn't deter the adepts from using it.
This is great! The UK is showing great leadership in this.
This is all capitalism. Monsanto is the logical conclusion of capitalism. Everyone else is just playing catch up. Unfortunately, any politician who does try to do something about it gets vilified as anti-American, based on decades of cold war propaganda against other economic systems.
Single-use means $20K - $50K, not $2K. What militaries are competing against with the Houthis and in Ukraine, is 20 - 50K drones and right now taking them down with $2MM missiles or a 50K drone taking out a 2MM tank. Dial those numbers up and you can see how the imbalance in cost is unsustainable. They don't need drones to be 2K.
I worried/worry sometimes the localized focus means I take focus off the big picture race. But I increasingly believe in order to get past the level of good tech pay and solid wfh gig, you have to have your localized life setup strongly as it’s the foundation of a bunch of needed go pull off bigger things - self-confidence you can self govern your own routine, evidence from small outputs that your efforts can lead to bigger outputs, and so on.
when my senior year rolled around, I still didn't know what my major was going to be. I visited a guidance counselor, and she viewed all the classes I had inadvertently taken, and I'd fulfilled 3/4 of a History degree (a Southern History degree, no less - they offer it at my alma, Ole Miss). So I just went with that and read a few more William Faulkner novels : )
The $174,000 is from:

The profiled manager's base pay: $85,000

Monthly bonus for hitting financial targets: $5,000 - $7,500
I don't see why. Drones are pretty simple manufacturing wise. The issue at scale is the supply chain of cheap motors, cheap control boards, and cheap batteries.
Yes, the best way to understand python closures is that scopes are first class objects in python (accessible via locals()) and closures close over the containing scope itself, not the single variables.

Also worth keeping in mind that, AFAIK, there is one scope per function, which differs from other languages that can have nested scopes inside a function. I think the list comprehension is the only exception in python3, which was changed so that names no longer leak out of it, which was frankly insane in py2.
I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking here as they’re so completely different and the effects on society are different as well. Are you suggesting there should be many unions and each one not allowed to get big?

In general I’m pro-union as I think they largely protect poor workers from getting fired and make everything more expensive. But you also have to recognize that sometimes society needs counter balance, even if inefficient.
I've seen lots of fast food places where there is covering. They avoid this problem by installing thick steel tubing in front of the covering so overheight vehicles hit that instead.
The school has broad powers to regulate student behaviour. Part 7 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
The irony of this response is that I didn't actually claim that you said any of those things. I commented on the book's content and the summary you gave.

Thia reaction of yours is telling though. As well as how you finished your original message:

> niceness has become a huge red flag to me ever since reading that book. I much prefer someone who is good (in competence and/or in behavior) than someone who is nice.

"Niceness" as a red flag? How does that not confirm what I wrote and put you in the camp of those agreeing with the book's message?
Finding a Product Name with ChatGPT
Play, Purpose, Perspective: How to Make Resonant Learning Happen
Our society isn't equipped to handle new developments like this, and they "just happen" before anyone gives much thought to whether they will lead to bad outcomes down the road.

When an immigrant who was handcuffed and tazed subsequently died in Canada, the investigation started asking questions about the use of tazers. They wanted to see the testing and data that showed they were not lethal or long-term harmful for use on humans.

It turns out no such testing had ever been done. Companies just started making them, so Police forces started buying them and using them on people. To this day there is no data about the consequences of using them.

Same thing for smartphones in schools and a TON of other things in our world.
That an official government document explicitly mentioning that school staff is allowed to search a device without law enforcement (either being present, or authorized by warrant) is problematic in and of itself.
Completely forgot about SSI! What a cool feature
Master Hexagonal Architecture in Rust
I can see it going either way.

A century ago in the US, a lot of support for Prohibition came from the impact of liquor, yet Prohibition itself also banned beer.

I can very easily believe that the backlash against dark patterns, against deliberately addictive apps (games and social media), against advertising getting squeezed into what would otherwise be normal conversations, against the surveillance that currently manifests as GDPR cookie popups because almost everyone both corporate and government would rather annoy people than stop snooping, may well lead to a new Prohibition on all such things.

But will this new Prohibition throw out the baby with the bathwater? Smartphones do a lot of genuinely useful things.
American centric shortsighted drivel… and posted on Twitter. What a joke…
Ditto is a Nostr community server, and it implements Mastodon's REST API
> This is about planning for the future. In the event of a war the US wants a large existing base of domestic drone manufacturers. Today, that just does not exist at scale as most are made in China. This is similar to efforts to re-shore chip manufacturing.

I don't think the US military generally uses off-the-shelf consumer products like the Ukraine military does, so does this actually affect them? They would be getting drones built to order from a military contractor anyway, so I don't think it really matters what the leading consumer manufacturer of drones is to the US military from that perspective.

Chip manufacturing seems like a slightly different situation in that if another country restricted US access to chips it would affect the entire US economy, so I think it has security implications in a broader sense where security is interpreted to include the stability of the US economy as a whole, rather than military supply specifically.
What p-values are, and how to sell books with bad statistics
Thanks for this. I hadn't heard of openobserve before. It looks awesome.
Show HN: I made this simple design for my home page
Do you think the tail doesn't get in the way too much?
I wonder if they really need a CUDA rival.

This AI stuff has progressed a bit. Intel has been working on interesting stuff with OneAPI. It might be the case that things have progressed to the point where the primitives are well enough understood that you need something more like a good library rather than a good compiler.

In the end, more people seem to love BLAS than Fortran, after all.
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It is important in service like this.
I'd love to see if there's some fundamental limitations of the protocol that prevent this, but nscd and its protocol are woefully underdocumented, and it's not even stable, technically, since it's part of glibc and the server and client can change their protocol whenever they want.

Making a new, properly documented protocol, independent from That One Libc You Want To Get Rid Of Anyway, is probably a good idea.
photoshop requires human work, but this is fully done automatically, that might be the major difference
So you admit that technology is inherently harmful to human beings' cognitive development?
Maybe true for families with older kids. I currently work from home most days and we have an 11 month old baby.

My typical schedule sees me working until 5:30pm, playing with the baby while the wife cooks until 6pm, eating dinner together until 6:30pm, bathing the baby getting it to bed around 7:30pm, then doing various housework, family admin tasks, or evening activities until 9pm before unwinding for an hour and going to bed to "sleep". The schedule is actually more pressured on days where I go to the office and don't get back until later.

My wife does have the opportunity to go to the shop in the morning or afternoon, but it is very contingent on energy levels (sleep is rarely good), baby nap times (variable but better off being respected), baby activity classes etc... . Going to the shop itself can take longer as you may need to suddenly deal with a nappy change or tantrum. It's not reasonable to expect it to happen multiple times a week.
If we had EVs that charge 20 to 80% in less than 10 minutes, it could be a real game changer. No more range anxiety. You could use charging stations more like gas stations (when you need to). Might also make it so people don't feel like they need EVs with as much range.
That's assuming that while the passionate untalented person has been working hard at it, the talented person has just been sitting on their laurels, which doesn't really match my experience. People who are naturally good at an activity tend to perform that activity more, since people tend to enjoy succeeding.

An untalented programmer who has worked their way to competency would probably make a good teacher, because they can impart all the things that didn't work for them, but they're unlikely to be as good as a talented programmer, given equal cumulative hours of practice for each one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704761
That's why owning and operating smart phones should sinply be illegal for children. Where the age limit should be is debatable, but letting as young as 12-year olds have one is an absurd failure for a society.
My initial reaction was that WFH allows employees to work for anyone in the country, and therefore employers are opposed because it lets the national market instead of the local market determine the price they have to pay for talent, and that employers are "fixing" the problem by demanding in-office.

On second glance, though, employees also face a national market rather than a local one, and can be underbid for the job by anyone in the country. Maybe employers like that, and employees don't.

But maybe it's like this: WFH means that employees can leave more easily. If you work in the office, and you're in my town, there's only so many places you can go. I can mistreat you (bad bosses, bad raises, bad working conditions), and your options are somewhat limited, and you're more likely to stay. But if you're full remote, the whole country is open to you (without even a relocation), so you're more likely to not take it.

So I suspect that maybe bad bosses and bad companies want to avoid WFH, because remote employees are less constrained to put up with the bad conditions.
> This led to situations where a lead is asked in a quick IM or call “are we doing X in our system?”

If you're "representing the team" in a technical call, you should either 1. be prepared to yourself go as deep technically as the other participants, or 2. bring someone deeply technical along to provide that expertise. These "quick side chats" are like trying to pass answer notes back and forth during an exam. Too late bro, you should have studied.
As much as I agree, teachers aren't really paid well, don't regularly get any training to improve their teaching, and don't have time at the end of the day to make efforts to improve the next day.

Even the best teachers won't be engaging to some of their students.
Many home routers are in the sub-$200 price range. I've seen low end devices under $50/usd. There's not much more to squeeze out.

And many won't be paying more, or installing OpenWRT, OpnSense or anything else on their own. I wish more open options were supported from vendors, but they have to lock down and make sure you can't run on frequencies or wattages not allowed in $COUNTRY, less they see massive fines.

I'm using an OpnSense device with a commercial AP myself.. it does cost a bit more, but works great and will be updated beyond what any home router will. Most seem to want a discreet all in one box.
Professor here (not UK-based nor K12)! I try my best to engage students with the material I create, but students must also have an inner motivation to learn (be it to have a better future, to create more opportunities for themselves, etc.).

Oh, I would also like to earn a little bit more, at least the same as a junior or mid-level developer! I have MSc students earning as much as me, with 1/10 of my experience (that's why I'm teaching them). I like to teach, but damn, I would like to be equally compensated! :)

It's a two-way street..
These look great! Can you explain a bit about the underlying technique? Is this using InstantID?
I've seen this before. To quote a barrister friend of mine, regardless of the law, it mostly depends on how big a stick the person having their device confiscated wields. The stick in this case is connections, parents etc. They rely purely on submission to enforce this policy. A simple "no" removes consent and their ability to do anything about it. If after that it is forced upon you, then things get "interesting" to quote him because it depends how they try and enforce it.

For example the barrister friend in question's daughter had her phone confiscated and it went missing in custody of the staff. The school disclaimed all responsibility but paid the moneyclaim out for a new phone quietly when the relevant stick was wielded and removed their policy of confiscation immediately as they worked out it was a liability. Turns out that while the law says they can do this, it doesn't mention anything about having no duty of care of other people's property at the same time...
I think they’re suggesting Guevara was a criminal and murderer and we shouldn’t idolize or memorialize him. America has strong and deeply ingrained anti-communist sentiment.

I think that regardless of your political leaning, he is an interesting piece of history.
To clarify:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704761
He is very humble for a king. Many are prone to vulgar and ostentatious displays of wealth. However he has the dignity of a hard worker. Many could learn from his example.
Be thankful that consumer/hobbyist drones haven't been banned entirely already (banning other model aircraft along with them as collateral damage).

Especially after all the footage of essentially-hobby-grade drones with familiar open-source flight controller software being turned into very effective weapons of war in Ukraine.
Absence of MFA led to the Medibank hack, regulator alleges
> To the vast majority of programmers, syntax matters.

And yet, when you tell them the reasons, why some other syntax than their Java/PHP/Python syntax would be better, they usually counter with "It's just syntax." or "Every language can achieve the same result, why care so much about syntax." or similar.

> C-style with brackets, or python whitespace, or Ruby do/end, these fit better the brains of the majority of programmers. Perhaps not the majority of HN readers but the majority of corporate devs.

I would need a source for that.

I think most programmer's brains have simply not been exposed to other syntaxes much or much too late, when their brain already calcified the C-style syntax. Or they don't actually care.
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I'm just pretty allergic to the word "the" in discussions of this, in general. This seems like it could be a useful technology, but no one thing is the path forward.

The path forward is to invent and scale and tweak and improve lots of different things.
By 'they' do you mean Amazon?