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spsphulse··on Webcams aren't good enough
You can still get quite an improvement by tweaking settings.

I followed this[1] video tutorial. I was surprised to see especially how much of a difference white-balancing and using a custom LUT does.

https://youtu.be/8WSB2OtXysU

spsphulse··on Ask HN: What are the signs that someone is intelligent?
I'd reckon sense of humor to be good indicator. If you're about to tell a joke in a room full of people, some people can consistently gauge early where you're going with it. And I find that intelligent.
spsphulse··on Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies
The username packs a punch as well.
spsphulse··on Ask HN: Collection of Pitch Decks?
That’d be great.
spsphulse··on Ask HN: Are you going back to the office soon?
Different countries, different waves.
spsphulse··on Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions
Thank you! That'd be immensely helpful.
spsphulse··on Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions
Yes. Fantastic project! Woul love to know more details & key architectural decisions.
spsphulse··on Ask HN: My startup has more annual subscribers than monthly. What to make of it?
Hi Trey, is that you?
spsphulse··on Ask HN: Why saving webpages on hard disk has not got better?
I'm happy user of Chrome extension called savePageWe
spsphulse··on Ask HN: Startup Pillars
This might also be helpful

https://www.holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/

spsphulse··on Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
^This. I would love to know this as well.
spsphulse··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
Is there a SOTA library for common web scraping issues at scale( especially distributed over cluster of nodes) for Captcha detection, IP rotation, Rate throttling, Queue Management etc.?
spsphulse··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
Definitely! Scrape the disk, not the web.
spsphulse··on Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?
That’s great!

What is it that you do for a Living now? Did you stumble onto it or made a gradual transition away from coding?

spsphulse··on Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
Great job!! I looked at your HN profile & it looks like you’ve a knack for similar websites that compile information from comment threads.

I suppose you’re using NLP, specifically NER. Is there a blogpost that details your general approach? Or could you suggest how to extract such information from threads?

spsphulse··on Anti-racism sites hit by wave of cyber-attacks
Good ol Reddit Yes-sir-oo.
spsphulse··on Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models
Yep. Complete agree with sbarre. Could you kindly share more details? Would definitely like to do this as a weekend hack.
spsphulse··on Jitsi Meet features update
I’ve been using Jitsi for a couple of weeks and my experience has been pretty good so far.

Got a quick question if someone can answer. Is is some how possible to use OBS stream with Jitsi? For my use case, I work with an one MS-Excel window capture & my webcam input capture in the corner, to explain some concepts to my students.

Any help appreciated.

spsphulse··on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
Great work, Arpit! Keep it coming.
spsphulse··on The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
I was naive enough to click in hope.
spsphulse··on Ask HN: What are some projects I can build to better learn software engineering?
Thank you.
spsphulse··on Ask HN: What are some projects I can build to better learn software engineering?
Understood the first two. Whats MUD?
spsphulse··on Free Online Courses from Top Universities
I'm new to data structures and algorithms. Saw this fairly new course from UCSD+HSE mentioned in one of the comments here. I'm finding it pretty interesting.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-structures-alg...

spsphulse··on Whats Going On, Amazon?
I was on Amazon to buy the book 'Getting Things Done' by David Allen. And I stumbled onto some really odd reviews that didn't make sense. So I parsed the reviews and did some basic analysis.
spsphulse··on Blender 2.80
A newbie here who plans to learn basic video-editing. I am in a dilemma whether to go for Davinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere. While the first is free, I noticed there are very very few assets(LUTs, Lower-thirds, Transitions etc) that are freely available for DR. Perhaps because it is still in its nascent stage. Do you happen to know any resources to find such assets for Davinci Resolve?
spsphulse··on Data Engineering Cookbook
This is good.

Although when I think of a cookbook, I'm mostly interested in some re-usable snippets of codes that can be used again and again. A good example would be Chris Albon's site https://chrisalbon.com

For eg: - a recipe for splitting comma separated values in a column into multiple rows or - a data cleaning recipe that removes all unwanted spaces/trailing newlines/punctuations

I've searched but never come across a compilation of such re-usable code snippets anywhere. Would be glad if anyone has any resources like this.

spsphulse··on How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram
Same here. Count me in too. Happy to lead/help this initiative.

And tbh I don't think it needs to be projects that make $money. Any automation/ML based projects that make life easy for the coder should qualify. Eg: A simple Python script I wrote as hobbist helped me build a meme page with 17K fb followers when I was in school. I had no intentions of monetizing it. Just harmless fun.