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rogierhofboeron Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics

Lot's of flash comparisons in this thread... I'll share some tools I've not seen mentioned before:

Google Web Designer is what Google created to 'replace' flash for ads, but it can also be used for other purposes. It has a WYSIWYG editor, timeline, events and scripting.bl But no Lottie support https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/

Expressive Animator (paid, but not expensive and with free trial), made for SVG animations, can also export Lottie. https://expressive.app/expressive-animator/

And there is the open source Glaxnimate, which does support Lottie. https://glaxnimate.org/

rogierhofboeron Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming

You're not alone, I have the exact same experience.

I already gave up on anything complex, but it also fails at relative simple things.

It goes like this: The first answer does something useful, but is not the full solution or contains a bug.

When told, it apologizes and gives code that does not even compile. Then when trying to get it in the right direction, it gets worse and worse.

Then it hallucinates a non-existing library,that should solve the problem.

And in the end I end up writing the code myself...

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?

Same here. Windows Commander when I bought it and still using all the time.

rogierhofboeron Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

I am missing a very important one:

Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=168s

And lot's of others here: https://go-proverbs.github.io/

rogierhofboeron Is YouTube (Partly) Down?

Thanks for you suggestion and it is good to know this, but in my case I can rule out the cause. There is a spike in downdetector for YouTube at the time of my comment, so it must have been a larger glitch somewhere...

rogierhofboeron Is YouTube (Partly) Down?

I can browse, it plays ads, but no actual video starts playing.

Edit: A few minutes after finally asking, it works again...

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Is there any open source/open hardware Echo Dot alike?

https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/

Unfortunately it isn't going as well as they'd hoped: https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/

Or you could try reSpeaker (different options available): https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker/

An older interesting comparison of mic arrays: https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Payment gateway for multi-vendor marketplace as an early stage startup?

I am not sure if I understand your exact requirements, but maybe split pay out is the functionality you are looking for.

https://developer.myccv.eu/documentation/payment_api/online_...

Full disclosure: I work at CCV https://www.ccv.eu/en/solutions/payment-services/online-paym...

rogierhofboeron Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book

Same in The Netherlands: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0017452/2021-07-01/0

rogierhofboeron Color has been disappearing from the world

Immediately thought about the movie "Corpse Bride" from Tim Burton, where the world of the living is grey and the world of the dead is very colourful. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0121164/

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?

https://www.musicdevelopments.com/

Technically not ‘AI’ though, more based on music theory ‘rules’.

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?

Philips Momentum series, technically game monitors, but do come in 55 inch. Note these do not have any DVB tuner, so you’ll always need a separate mediabox to watch TV.

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days

Two options to consider, no personal experience with one of them though:

https://frame.work/nl/en

https://nl.starlabs.systems/

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?

Not sure if you are joking, but almost every modern car has Bosch (sensors, battery, ABS, wipers etc) and/or Samsung (displays, DRAM etc) components.

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?

It are Miele specific models though, some are very similar to high-end Liebherr models, but they are not exactly the same. Especially the interiors differed the last time I checked.

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Most Reliable Modern Refrigerator?

Or Liebherr, Miele does not manufacture refrigerators, Liebherr makes them for Miele…

rogierhofboeron We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)

A while back, Andreas Zwinkau collected this kind of stories. Please post him if there is anything not yet listed.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

rogierhofboeron Ask HN: Which smartphone to buy as a tool, not a toy

If you say phone as a tool https://www.catphones.com/en-gb/cat-s52-rugged-4g-smartphone... pops up in my mind...

rogierhofboeron Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories

Display intermittently blanking, flickering or losing video signal:

https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...

"Surprisingly, we have also seen this issue connected to gas lift office chairs. When people stand or sit on gas lift chairs, they can generate an EMI spike which is picked up on the video cables, causing a loss of sync. If you have users complaining about displays randomly flickering it could actually be connected to people sitting on gas lift chairs. Again swapping video cables, especially for ones with magnetic ferrite ring on the cable, can eliminate this problem. There is even a white paper about this issue."

rogierhofboeron Open-Source Virtual Background

I had success by replacing the get_mask function with:

    from keras.models import load_model


    model = load_model('models/transpose_seg/deconv_bnoptimized_munet.h5', compile=False)


    def get_mask(frame):
        # Preprocess
        frame = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

        simg = cv2.resize(frame, (128, 128), interpolation=cv2.INTER_AREA)
        simg = simg.reshape((1, 128, 128, 3)) / 255.0

        # Predict
        out = model.predict(simg)

        # Postprocess
        msk = out.reshape((128, 128, 1))
        mask = cv2.resize(msk, (frame.shape[1], frame.shape[0]))

        return mask

The model file I got from: https://github.com/anilsathyan7/Portrait-Segmentation