skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys! I've been building SaaS products for over a year now and to promote them and drive traffic/users, I primarily relied on text-based content marketing like writing blogs, newsletters, etc. I've been looking into ways to expand into video marketing on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts but didn't spend at least 30-min and go through the hassle of copy/pasting my blogs into ChatGPT to create a script, finding matching stock footage, and editing them together on iMovie each time I create a blog post or newsletter.

And yes, I know that there are a few tools out there that can automate this process but I couldn't find one that would allow me to effectively create and manage videos across multiple projects, so I ended up building CopyClips, which lets you easily go from text to TikTok-style faceless videos in under a minute. I've been using the tool for my own blogs and newsletters and expanding into video content has boosted the traffic to my sites significantly.

The key features of CopyClips are:

- Start with any text, URL, or prompt to create an AI-generated video script (you can also choose between different LLMs, like ChatGPT, Llama, etc).

- Choose between using stock footage from Pexels/Pixabay or AI-generated images (based on the video script) using Stable Diffusion.

- Select from 45 different AI voice styles to narrate your video and optionally add background sounds that are trending on TikTok.

- In-built Editor: edit the generated video, customize the style of text overlays, change the background music, replace video footage with either stock footage or your own videos, regenerate AI voiceovers, and more.

- Export videos in HD quality and in multiple size formats (9:16, 16:9, 1:1, 4:5)

- Collaboration: invite team members to collaborate, and create organizations to manage videos across projects or clients.

CopyClips is still in public beta so you can create your first video for free: https://copyclips.ai
> because of mock-reality mismatches.

you also need to test the mocks against the real thing separately.
Do you think the official EU site uses unnecessary cookies? https://european-union.europa.eu/
I appreciate the candor and the analysis, but I think it's missing the forest for the trees.

Medical providers care about people, and indeed are responsible for the health of their patients. Some of those patients turn around and bite them. Others die - some die at your hands. Providers, especially doctors, take responsibility for that, emotionally and otherwise.

No person and no system of support can be designed to completely avoid that. There is no religion or personal discipline that will erase the emotional and moral cost of hurting people you're trying to help.

Some say their lost patients help them do better for their present patients. It's a bit like Lincoln saying at Gettysburg that these young boys did not die in vain - while knowing many were avoidable.

Medicine may be a business, and it may even be a calling. But just realize that people doing medicine lose their innocence, in ineffable and unsharable ways, and try to respect that.
As one of the "systemically important" (too-big-to-fail) banks, Wells-Fargo can make many bets that, when they lose, will ultimately be covered by taxpayers in the next round of bailouts, but if they win, will reward insiders & shareholders in the periods between bailouts.
In some countries/banks you can generate one-off CC numbers that are tied to your real one. I use it all the time for online services.
Got a source?

This article says 58% of Americans say they live paycheck-to-paycheck: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/09/most-of-americans-are-living...

This article mentions 78%: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-pa...
Doesn't this seem at odds with the facts?

China isn't militarily supporting Russia or Ukraine. Ukraine's drone army is built from cheap Chinese drones. China is neutral. The argument that it hasn't sanctioned Russia means it is a party to the war on Russia's side is an argument of the form "if you aren't with us, you are against us." But then, you'd think the US would levy the same kind of vitriol at e.g. India.

China is led by a General Secretary of the Communist Party's central committee. Taiwan and China are recognized by the United States by international treaty as one country.

China is "attacking" the US? The US and China are in economic warfare (an economic war started by the United States under the Trump Administration). The reason for this is the US sees China's economic rise as a threat to its global position.
> because the education loans will kill you and you need the big income on the other end to fix this

Being a surgeon doesn't have the same level of demand as a role in family medicine. Both roles provide an income for sustaining oneself, even through student loans. Also, the subject in this article has "been a doctor for 13 years".
> "Rich" people don't want socialized healthcare because of perceived or real disadvantages of that system. Not because "the poors might get it".

That's fair, I should have said "because the poors might benefit". Rich people don't like socialized healthcare because they, by definition, will pay for people who can't afford it.

The problem is when people who will benefit from this identify with people who will lose from it.

> People can and do support a variety of causes and policies without they themselves benefitting from them.

They do, but here we're talking about the opposite: People being against policies they benefit from, because they identify with the group that will not.

P.S. I liked your comment, it was a reasoned reply that furthers the debate, thank you.
Backend-agnostic enumeration is not useful.
Be aware that they sometimes send folks to collections (with the corresponding credit hit) over this; most of the subscriptions are worded as annual commitments.
Pretty surprising that the FTC decided to go for something like this.
Sounds like many of the acute problems are microfrustraions created by poor software design and engineering. Slow login/relogin, unrealistic scheduling, illegibility of pre- and post-surgical tasks to the timekeeper, etc. We can't solve the structural problem, but better software could help create more humane working environment under the constraints.

Of course, the real problem is running medicine like a business, but technology can only serve the megamachine...
They shouldn't be; they use DJI basebands, so banning DJI and their affiliates using the FCC Covered List should also prevent Anzu from getting new FCC equipment approvals. It's unclear whether the FCC would revoke existing approvals, although it certainly seems like what Congress wants. And if they do, it's unclear if they'd go to the effort to hunt down Anzu and Cogito, but on paper, they certainly should.

By the way, there's no US-written software on Anzu drones. They're just green Mavic 3 Enterprises with a phone app that integrates the DJI SDK. Flying a DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise and an Anzu Raptor using Aloft Air Control will produce exactly identical results in terms of American-ness and data transfer.
There is an About Us link towards the bottom of the page, and the company name Proton AG is spelled out in the article as well as at the bottom of the page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_AG
That's not it. You need to pony up a few thousand dollars for a minimum CD order. Back then selling a few hundred CDs meant you broke even. Distribution was via your shows or email lists and mailing them.

Now distribution to the entire world is basically free and you don't need to pony up money to print CDs.

Anyone pining for the way things used to be, wasn't there and is looking through rose colored glasses.
They drove me off Lightroom, I was just a causal user. The upsell spam and ads in Adobe Reader has also driven me away from that too. I would have considered buying an upgrade for both, but the price was never right for casual home use. Now I don't use any Adobe products at all.
Note that the tweet you mentioned as proof is incorrect.
I couldn't find the text quoted there, nor in the attached video.

I can see how some civilians were hit by the IDF as collateral damage, but it is not widely accepted that the IDF was "the biggest butcher of October 7th" as the tweet claims.
I was at a party once and was introduced to a nice person who worked for Adobe. At the time I was heavily into photography, and I started praising Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately (due to a lack of editor) I continued with how Photoshop was great, unlike so many other Adobe products. Then I attempted to apologize by saying I was wrong and rude, but it is just that Adobe policies are so nasty. Saw the guy on BART the next day, he didn't make eye contact. I still feel both bad and right.
> Between shockingly obtrusive GDPR consent forms

Imagine if companies didn't collect copious amounts of user data and didn't try to use every trick in the book and all known dark patterns to make you give up that data.

"We care about privacy by selling your data to 2765 'partners' and are blaming GDPR for this"
I prefer dependency injection instead of mocking. Not only is injecting a "mock" service better than monkey patch mocks in pretty much all cases, but it's an actually useful architectural feature beyond testing.
Correct, but unfortunately that applies to the vast majority of websites. It wouldn't be so bad if the consent dialogs had an option to reject all optional cookies but unfortunately too many of them still try and trick or force you into accepting all cookies.
I don't even consider the food okay... I liked a few breakfast options, but the prices of even that have gone up so much the past 3 years, I won't even go then. It wasn't that long ago that the breakfast burrito was $1 (then 2 for $2/3) and they had some sandwiches 2 for $2/3/3.33/4/5 ... When I'm paying over $10 for a couple breakfast sandwiches and a drink, I'm out.

They definitely seem to be squeezing more out of their franchises than ever at this point. They will push technology optimizations, but they're at a point where service and price just isn't there. If I'm spending $15+ for lunch, I may as well go to Applebees/Chili's, etc.
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Wow, this is fascinating! What stopped you coding? My assumption is that the reframing would mostly be positive. I can see how it would help to reframe some bad experiences with more understanding for both yourself and the other parties.
Corel's (or whatever they call themselves now) stuff is generally pretty ok, and most of their stuff still lets you buy it outright.

I don't know much about Affinity Photo but Paint Shop Pro and Aftershot have been "good enough" for the limited uses I have for photo editing (though I'm definitely far from a professional). CorelDraw is, I think, a very decent vector drawing program if nothing else.
And the fees are basically pure profit while the interest payments have a huge cost and risk.
I think hospitals (or the companies running them) have cynically exploited Covid on top of everything else. Huge sacrifices from everyone to ensure the facilities didn't get overwhelmed but then also NOT doing anything to improve those facilities or the people that work and are treated in them.

It is no wonder that people have lost whatever little confidence they had in "the system."

No one will give a damn the next time a crisis rolls around and it will.
Except you can totally use a DJI drone for war. I saw a video the other day of such a drone modified to drop airsoft grenades. Does not take much to replace it with the real thing.
Many comments are about the danger of over mocking, which is right.

But, I’ve also suffered the opposite: having to use a lib that assumes it only runs in production, and always initialises some context no matter what (up to assuming only a specific VM would be used, never ever elsewhere, especially not in local)

In the wild, I’ve rarely (if ever) saw code that was too testable. Too complex for no reason? Yes.
I love SICP, but I will say this: there's a certain class of "great" textbooks that sometimes get recommended by experts, that aren't actually that great for someone learning something for the first time. They get the reputation as being "great" because they are great for people that already have a good basic grasp of the material: They are precise and pithy, and they contain insights that are deep and useful, but hard to appreciate if this is your first encounter with the material. (Kleppner & Kolenkow would be a good example of a freshman physics textbook in this category.) With all due respect, I would put SICP in this category. Which, of course, is a noble and important category, but maybe not the most important category if you're just starting out on a topic.
I have a take on this. As technology makes it cheaper to distribute things (I'm thinking all the way from printing press to VHS to streaming) the target audience grows. Each revolution in distribution broadens the pool of consumers. A book in the 1500s was only available to (and therefore likely directed at) wealthy and highly-educated people. Today, many (or most?) people can afford a Netflix account. Almost any Western person can watch a Tiktok video. I'm not trying to say that richer people are somehow better than the average person but I hope it's fair to say that, as media can reach more and more people, the target audience becomes less "sophisticated".
Translation: "We hoped it would go quietly and not ruffle anybody's feathers, but it got a real lot of bad press, and we aren't ready to sacrifice so much for Putin's pleasure, so we are rolling it back".
You have to add some extra assembly before main if you don't use the C runtime. You have to write _start, the actual entry point that CRT usually takes. https://github.com/fsmv/dfre/blob/master/code/linux32_start....

This is for -nostdlib not -ffreestanding
>T ∈ (0, 1] is a parameter called temperature which controls the “softness” of the probability distribution. In our experiments we choose T = 1.0 for maximum response variation.

Why is temperature bounded to be <=1? If you want more "creativity" out of the chat model, can you just set T higher and recover a similar distribution to the base model?
> The public good intended by the quotas doesn't go away because more people suddenly want a pill that makes them instantly feel better and more productive

Just to be clear you're claiming it's better to have a shortage (which affects both legitimate and illegitimate users) than to increase the quota and allow more illegitimate users to get their hands on the drugs?

>And how do you account for the tons of raw material that manufacturers had on hand months into the shortage?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adderall-shortage-ad...
1. Yes it does

2. It clearly explains which cookies it uses in the linked policy page

3. It has an opt-out that is as easy as the opt-in (as required by law)
This would have to come from the firmware in the drone looking up what the no-fly zones were. GPS is transmit-only location, it can't write no-fly zone data to a particular drone.

The drone would look it up through a connected cell phone using a web service like this:

https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr_map_ims/html/

I think (hope) it would be a hard sell to send different data from faa.gov to DJI drone lookups versus other brands, but on the other hand this complete brand ban is apparently politically possible.
Kids should be able to get their phone back when they leave the school. This means if they are kidnapped, either a kidnapper went onto campus and kidnapped the kid or the kid left the campus without retrieving their phone. It also assumes the kidnapper would allow a victim to keep their phone, which would be quite the dumb decision.

None of this seems very likely...
I think that's an excessively optimistic assumption about hardcore capitalists.
You should back up your claim of "they have all the keys", because for things like email and file contents they claim they cannot decrypt them because they do not have those keys (which you have said they do).

I believe it was stated on the page you copied those stats from
https://proton.me/legal/transparency

> As stated in our Privacy Policy, all emails, files and invites are encrypted and we have no means to decrypt them.
> It wouldn't be so bad if the consent dialogs had an option to reject all optional cookies

As is explicitly required by law
Despite my general hatred for printers, pen plotters have a special place in my heart. The mesmerizing way the plot is done or optimized to minimize movement if you’re plotting in E size paper is something to behold. Doing something j conventional is all the better
We make so much in China, I don’t get what the deal is, here. Just that a US billionaire isn’t making the money?
Closing a credit line penalizes your credit score in general. It's why the standard recommendation is generally to leave the accounts open, forever.

Another thing for the FTC to investigate/stop.
There's already around 10,000 medical doctors that don't match with a residency program so they can't practice medicine. These are qualified MDs who graduated from medical school who are ready, willing, and able to work but they are told "no."

Expanding residency to cover all qualified MDs would be a great first step.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/health/medical-school-res...
The sun doesn't always shine.
The biggest issue for me is working on distributed systems. It's non-trivial to run many different servers and clients through a debugger all at the same time, components often have timeouts that are going to trigger due to the delay you'd cause even if you could, and much of the most vexing behavior happens in the networking stack rather than in your own software, and you can't run Linux in a debugger while also running your own software on top of the Linux that is in a debugger.

This is why we have logs, metrics, and traces. They attach at least some of the same instrumentation you'd get out of a debugger but all the time. You lose the flexibility to stop, step, and modify program behavior at runtime, but also gain data that is representative of what happens at full speed, which may be the only time certain bugs manifest anyway.
Why do you expect only the teenage users of TikTok to not understand? I would say the vast majority of all TikTok users wouldn't/couldn't understand. If not that, they've definitely consumed enough content specifically swaying them in the other direction that they would be defensive about it without even knowing they've been swayed
It is like you don't know American history at all.
Taiwan has a solid national health insurance plan. The number of small and medium sized businesses is very high for a country with a working age population of 16 million people:

Taiwan boasted more than 1.59 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to the White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan, 2022. This accounts for more than 98 percent of all enterprises, an all-time high. Further, SMEs employed 9.2 million people, representing more than 80 percent of the total workforce.

https://www.moea.gov.tw/MNS/english/news/News.aspx?kind=6&me...

I think the official number undercounts the many micro-businesses that exist around the food industry, markets, and services.
> When creative cloud was very first released, it was excellent value. I was actually quite supportive of Adobe's initial SaaS strategy. It was well and truly a "why would anyone ever pirate photoshop ever again?" type of product.

This is the entire issue with these kinds of things. They always launch at a good value because they know they can capture the market. Yes if they were benevolent or whatever it'd be fine, but these things almost ALWAYS turn into cluster fucks.

They couldn't launch at worse value than the current product line because they need full adoption before they can put the screws to you.
> Nuclear is the most efficient and "cheap" way to lower greenhouse emissions

This is false. New nuclear is much more expensive than renewables in most cases. It's possible there are places in the world where renewables are particularly expensive and new nuclear could approach being competitive now, but even that will not last as renewables continue down their inexorable experience curves -- experience curves that nuclear has failed to exhibit.
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AI will eliminate a lot of creative industry jobs regardless of what people at Adobe say.
I'm of a similar vintage, and I found debuggers valuable when I was debugging Windows 3x and 9x programs, C or MFC C++. You needed to get in to the data structures in memory sometimes, and Microsoft made good debuggers at the time.

Modern development, scripting languages and web development, I rarely use a debugger, setting it up for each of the various languages we jump to is too much bother.
Genuine question; what does Acrobat Pro buy you over the free versions and/or OSS competitors?

I uses Apple Preview a lot because it lets me edit and sign documents pretty easily, and that came bundled with my Mac. What does the Acrobat Pro include that isn't in the free stuff?
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I've only ever used Krita, really. What features am I missing from photoshop? What is that gulf that I do not see?
Nuance lost while attempting to approach the topic from GP's perspective. I don't personally adhere to cancel mob culture. My point is: they're likely all some variety of cartoon villain, given (my experience of) the sort of people who make it to that level, so singling out a bunch of compelling products because you know one specific dude who is peripherally involved is a socially-inept tosser is disingenuous at best and self-sabotage at worst.
That hasn't been my experience at all. Not sure where you are, but in the Phoenix area, I have gone several multi-year periods not spending anything at McDonald's. They had messed up my order more times than getting it right.

Worst was going ketovore... how the hell hard is it to put two pieces of meat in a box without a bun and nothing on it? OR getting 3x "2 strips" of bacon and counting to 6.
Very good point. That was literally the magic of early Basic. One could do something quickly. And the imperative nature of the language gave a simple point of attention mental model. I feel that point is lost in many criticisms.
Their discounted rate is $5/month.

I once called them to stop sending me mailers, and they said they'll stop for two years, I said no, stop forever.

I took my vehicle to a place that sold my information to SiriusXM and they resumed the mailers.

But this time... I just created an account on their website and changed my address to their headquarters and phone number to their phone number. They can spam themselves for all I care!

(I've done this with other businesses that don't respect their potential customers with great success! Often the people I speak with don't seem to recognize it when I give them their company's address or the 800-number that I'm called them at.)
Not sure why you are being downmodded. Stefanik touts herself as a MAGA princess, but she's nothing but a grifter.
It should be noted that in spite of the devastation of Tokyo in WW2, many parts of Tokyo retained the pre-war system of neighborhoods and streets, where streets might often not be straight, or start and terminate abruptly within the boundaries of a neighborhood.

Like some other responders, I also lived in Tokyo pre-google maps (in the 90s). The system of location one would use in central Tokyo was:

(city 市 or 都 = such as central Tokyo)->
ward (ku 区 = such as Shibuya-ku, if in a city) ->
area within ward (such as Aoyama) ->
the block / area (chome 丁目 = such as 7 chome, or 7th area)
the house number

For those unfamiliar with an area would first observe the map at the nearest train station to locate the area / chome. As one was walking and potentially got lost, could check street posts for the current chome and an occasional neighborhood map / sign to locate more precisely.

Personally I found navigating this way a lot of fun and an alternative hierarchical way of thinking about location.