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Show HN: CVAT-DATAUP – a more data-centric version of CVAT
by touta18 | 2025-08-25 15:33:57+00:00
Hi HN! I’ve been working on CVAT-DATAUP, an open-source fork of CVAT. It’s fully compatible, but I’m pushing it beyond annotation — with a cleaner UI, better dataset insights, and easier job management. The main goal is to turn CVAT into a data-centric platform, where agents and pipelines help with annotation, validation, and dataset quality — putting data at the heart of the workflow. Repo: https://github.com/dataup-io/cvat-dataup

Medium post: https://medium.com/@ghallabi.farouk/from-annotation-tool-to-...
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-25 15:33:59+00:00
I was going to disagree with you, but… huh. It doesn’t work on buttons. Thought it did. Selection is set, but focus isn’t. Further workaround: Shift+Tab.

This feels like it may be a bug, but at the very least it’s not a recent regression—I tested Firefox 44 and it shows the same behaviour. (44.0 is the oldest version I can run now, apparently. I tried 4.0 first, the first version with linux-x86_64 builds, which I have run successfully in the past, I think even in the last year, but now all versions before 44.0 are crashing on startup.)
by CodingJeebus | 2025-08-25 15:34:12+00:00
> The fight over the water has pitted residents of Fort Garland who have plumbing and pay for metered water against those living outside the city limits with cisterns. The board of the Fort Garland Water and Sanitation District — which cut off water sales to rural residents Aug. 1 in a 3-2 vote that wasn’t even on its meeting agenda — has devolved into shouting matches and dysfunction.

I don't begrudge people who choose to live outside of municipalities in order to avoid taxes, but it's hard to empathize with them when the municipality they're not paying into makes a decision on behalf of their own voters/taxpayers. Hopefully the county/private sector resolves it soon.
by justlikereddit | 2025-08-25 15:34:19+00:00
I've used AI to get meaningful results(working code) out of it.

The service provider got little useful out of it because I'm fine using their free versions for it.

Also. AI is not as good as it's going to get. It going to get much much better than it is but it's going to follow a mostly mundane trajectory getting there.

According to the AI hype merchants we should see titanic super-AGI slug it out in the sky, by year 2023. That clearly did not happen.

What we will get is hype for current model+1 and disappointment when it's released for the coming decades.
by Difwif | 2025-08-25 15:34:46+00:00
Seems short sighted to me. LLMs could have any data in their training set encoded as tokens. Either new specialized tokens are explicitly included (e.g: Vision models) or the language encoded version of everything that usually exists (e.g: the research paper and the csv with the data).

To improve next token prediction performance on these datasets and generalize requires a much richer latent space. I think it could theoretically lead to better results from cross-domain connections (ex: being fluent in a specific area of advanced mathematics, quantum mechanics, and materials engineering is key to a particular breakthrough)
by palata | 2025-08-25 15:34:54+00:00
Well they care about your [object] after they sell it to you if regulations make them. It's as simple as that.

The fact is that if you buy a Google Pixel now, you already get 7 years of security updates with the Stock Android. And the people who care about GrapheneOS won't keep it 3 more years without the security updates (that only Google can provide for the proprietary bits).

So I'm pretty sure that a GrapheneOS user will not keep their phone longer with GrapheneOS than they would with the Stock OS. But a GrapheneOS enthusiast will definitely buy a phone that supports GrapheneOS vs a phone that does not.
by wildzzz | 2025-08-25 15:35:21+00:00
There are two big features that Adobe supports that I just don't see common in other readers. First, the schematic capture application I use will generate a PDF of a schematic that has metadata of each component accessible by clicking it. The schematic will show "R179, 100ohms, 0.125W" but clicking to see the metadata will show a part number along with whatever other data the BOM has. No other reader I've used will show this data. Since the schematic PDF serves as our "immutable" copy that goes into our CRM system, it's nice that you have everything you need without having to open Cadence. I believe this is some sort of JavaScript extension to PDF that is likely incredibly exploitable so this is likely why no one else seems to support it (and why Adobe always seems subject to CVEs).

Second, we use Adobe's comments to markup released drawings or other documents for changes. Then both I and QA put our signatures on the PDF and it's either sent to the factory floor for immediate implementation or sent to the document owner for them to incorporate into a new release. Other readers don't always use comments the same way or don't respect the read only attribute that comments and signatures should have.
by asoneth | 2025-08-25 15:35:29+00:00
> Point-and-click instructions are limited to only 1 desktop...

If a consumer product (computer, phone, TV, microwave, printer, radio, oven, washing machine, etc) requires reading through more than a quick start guide to access the advertised functionality, then it has failed as a consumer product.

> GUI instructions can't be copied and pasted

Training my nontechnical friends and relatives to copy, paste, and execute terminal commands they found on the internet does not strike me as a very good alternative.
by jabl | 2025-08-25 15:35:35+00:00
Intel should have split 15 years ago, ideally, but I'm not sure that splitting now isn't better than not doing it. If they fail to catch up to TSMC, it's possible that the manufacturing branch will drag the design branch down with it.

If they split, it's likely the fab side of the business will need a large infusion of cash in order to catch up (be it in the form of a government bailout or something else), or then they have to accept becoming a second-rate player. For which there is still a large market, so they might actually do decent-ish there. But that pretty much leaves TSMC in a monopoly position.
by umbra07 | 2025-08-25 15:35:41+00:00
I mean, if you use SOTA models, they just about never hallucinate on these sorts of topics (elementary through lower-division college math), school-level history, science, etc. I only ever see hallucinations when using non-SOTA models, when using an intermediary product, asking about obscure information, or occasionally coding. I don't think any of that applies to being a elementary-high-school tutor.

Writing is probably the most difficult subject, because even now it's difficult to prompt an LLM to write in a human intonation - but they will do a perfectly good job at explaining how to write (here's a basic essay structure, here are words we avoid in formal writing, etc). You can even augment a writing tutor chatbot by making it use specific, human-written excerpts from English textbooks, instead of allowing it to generate example paragraphs and essays.
by feoren | 2025-08-25 15:35:41+00:00
> the poor person in question should

So you are telling poor people how they should live their lives after all. The core point I made that set this whole thing off. It turns out this whole thing actually is an excuse to decide how poor people should live. Thank you for proving my point for me.

> So one guy (who wasn't an economist BTW) who died over 20 years ago and whose ideas have been long abandoned is your big example?

Are you kidding about being abandoned? Reaganomics has not been abandoned, it has been enshrined as the idol of American capitalism. Almost every element of the ongoing and ever-accelerating enrichening of the rich and the disenfranchisement of the disenfranchised can be traced to ideas put in place during the Reagan administration. And the guy who invents "supply side economics" and the economic policy of the United States for the next 50 decades is an economist, regardless of what his piece of paper says. There are plenty of Chairmen of the Fed that you could look at under a similar light, and they are mostly "official" economists.
by jfengel | 2025-08-25 15:36:01+00:00
There are absolutely people who are too busy to do something that feels meaningful to them.

But that one is ancient: that has been the case for most people through history. I actually find it hard to put myself in the place of the overwhelming set of people whose lives were solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Even the most harried single parent today is not more overwhelmed than they were.

I suspect that there is a difference in that it's no longer most people. Most people can find at least some time to be fulfilled -- and it would be awfully nice if we could devote some of that to fulfilling those who are working 80 hours a week while raising children. Unlike the poor peasant, we have plenty to go around now.
by tsimionescu | 2025-08-25 15:36:03+00:00
Comparing regular people's shopping to the super-wealthy is absurd. Regular people care, possibly quite a lot, about costs and cost/benefit ratios. To the super wealthy the cost of most regular goods is entirely irrelevant. Whether their yogurt supply is 10 dollars a month or 200 dollars a month makes no difference to them. But it makes a huge difference to the vast majority of people. Even people who would be happy to pay the premium for very good yogurt will want a very good experience from this.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-25 15:36:08+00:00
Forget climate change, the best reason is national security. Russia's war plummeted Europe into gas shortages and price hikes. Many countries would love to not be dependent on them. And since WW2, all war requires vast quantities of oil; maybe drones will reduce that a bit, but you still need to move stuff (and people) around a lot. So you need a reliable source of energy both in peacetime and wartime.

For the US, the best reason is sustainable energy. Gas, oil and coal are not renewable, so you eventually need to adapt a new form of energy. Just transporting it is problematic, with most communities rejecting pipelines. In the meantime you're polluting your local environment and putting workers at risk. Whereas if your energy plan is largely "the sun shines", "the wind blows", and "dirt holds heat", that is ridiculously more sustainable.

The biggest problem we have is we demand too much energy. AI has made this problem way worse. Nuclear is the only thing that's going to fill the gaping chasm of demand.
by homakov | 2025-08-25 15:36:12+00:00
IMO OAuth2 is very poorly designed. It has several structural issues: "Connect this OAuth provider" hijack your main account, redirect hijack allows to leak either auth codes through Referrer or access_token through #hash passing, "state" CSRF token is optional and usually ignored etc

I have an old writeup on that and solution to it https://sakurity.com/oauth - better analyze it with LLM if interested in authorization protocols
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-25 15:36:18+00:00
Is it true that wind power has polarizing cultural branding, or do opponents of wind power fabricate cultural issues with it to justify their opposition? Vestas for example, the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines, has a US site that's framed pretty much how you're recommending (https://us.vestas.com/en-us).
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-25 15:37:03+00:00
Publicly funded projects get conflicts of interest too.

My strategy is to let conflicting parties fight it out over round of publication. This has at least three major benefits:

1. It forces the conflicting parties to be open and release their data for scrutinization. 2. It tests the peer-review process, helping create improvements that benefit all peer reviewing. 3. It lead snarky journal articles, which are more fun to read.
by tremon | 2025-08-25 15:37:20+00:00
Yes, the issue is still present and worse than [on] Windows

I'm not sure about that... over the years I've gotten lots of perfectly functioning hardware from my father because it didn't work for him anymore because of a new Windows "upgrade". Scanners, printers, audio and graphics cards all got their turn of becoming expensive paperweights after Windows introduced a new driver model and the manufacturer couldn't be bothered to rewrite their old drivers.
by DonaldFisk | 2025-08-25 15:37:22+00:00
> I don't have a problem with holding companies responsible for the products they sell.

That's why I wrote, "A publisher had to ensure that the material in the magazines was legal to print." Web sites should also follow the laws of the countries where they are based, but not be required to follow other countries' laws. In the specific case here, a UK body is trying to collect daily fines from a US based web site (4chan.org) with no physical UK presence.

> An ISP doesn't do that.

For over a decade, they have been blocking traffic to/from web sites deemed unsuitable for children, by default. Which should make people wonder what this adult verification is actually for.
by dcre | 2025-08-25 15:37:49+00:00
I don't think anyone really knows, but I also don't think it's quite an either/or. To me a more interesting way to put the question is to ask what it would mean to say that GPT-5 is just applying patterns from its training data when it finds bugs in 1000 lines of new Rust code that were missed by multiple human reviewers. "Applying a memorized pattern" seems well-defined because it is an everyday concept but I don't think it really is well-defined. If the bug "fits a pattern" but is expressed in a different programming language, with different variable names, different context, etc., recognizing that and applying the pattern doesn't seem to me like a merely mechanical process.

Kant has an argument in the Critique of Pure Reason that reason cannot be reducible to the application of rules, because in order to apply rule A to a situation, you would need a rule B to follow for applying rule A, and a rule C for applying rule B, and this is an infinite regress. I think the same is true here: any reasonable characterization of "applying a pattern" that would succeed at reducing what LLMs do to something mechanical is vulnerable to the regress argument.

In short: even if you want to say it's pattern matching, retrieving a pattern and applying it requires something a lot closer to intelligence than the phrase makes it sound.
by evaXhill | 2025-08-25 15:37:49+00:00
From personal experience (London based), I’ve seen a least 2 meta x rayban shops in high traffic areas, which never seem to be empty. Adding to that, recently on social media someone expressed a similar sentiment until they saw what the glasses themselves look like, then realized they looked like ordinary glasses and are undistinguishable if the recording light is covered by black masking tape
by gforce_de | 2025-08-25 15:37:55+00:00
I really needs more benchmarks, especially decompression time. Also the sizes are interesting for very small images, but for real images, there are maybe better lossy variants:

nz_scene - PEP = 73.542 bytes, lossy-PNG = 43.557 bytes, lossy-WEBP = 26.654 bytes, lossy-mozcjpeg = 15.716 bytes

So it's not about filesize here, it must be decompression speed.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-08-25 15:37:57+00:00
Many people on this forum might agree with the statements that Windows (increasing ads, tracking and bloat) and your browser not serving you (Chrome Manifest V3, etc.)

Adversarial relationships can and will happen given the leverage and benefits; one only need to look at streaming services where some companies have introduced low-tier plans that is paid for but also has ads.
by belter | 2025-08-25 15:38:14+00:00
"...A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen minutes. The story ends on a fearful note, as more and more of the world's writers are forced into licensing their names—and all hope of human creativity—to the machine..."
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-25 15:38:41+00:00
>If you like experimental movies and/or are you’re into filmmaking, go for >90% critic and 65-85% audience for gems. If you’re not, you will HATE these movies.

Just checked some random “weird arthouse” movies I liked, mostly horror genre. It holds up pretty well. And I wouldn't in a million years recommend these movies to anyone that I didn't already know liked "these types" of movies.

The Blackcoat's Daughter: Critic 77%, Audience 52%

Possessor: Critic 94%, Audience 59%

The Lighthouse: Critic 90%, Audience 72%

The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Critic 79%, Audience 63%

A Ghost Story: Critic 91%, Audience 67%

Midsommar: Critic 83%, Audience 63%
by teiferer | 2025-08-25 15:39:06+00:00
You are not hiking much in the mountains, are you? 1000m of elevation gain per day are no problem for a slightly out of shape sit-all-day programmer. Not sure how high up you want me to go, but given a high enough mountain (and a thick jacket and supplemental oxygen) and most people here can do that in a few weeks or months.
by normalaccess | 2025-08-25 15:39:50+00:00
YouTube is “riding a tiger,” and the moment creators realize they hold the real power, the game is up. I believe the platform purposely creates a fear of the unknown with intermittent reward–punishment cycles. Random rules enforcement, videos taken down, strikes, demonetization, throttling... The algorithm becomes a sort of deity that people try to appease and they turn into cultish devotees preforming endless rounds of strange rituals in hopes of "divine" monetization favor.
by jfengel | 2025-08-25 15:40:02+00:00
As I understand it, Waymo is restricted to areas that it has mapped extremely well, i.e. major cities.

Which also happens to be where most of the money would be, so it's probably a good bet. Tesla seems to be hoping to displace Uber in the suburbs, while being an also-ran against Waymo in the denser downtowns. That includes ferrying a fair number of people into and out of cities, where Waymo can't (currently) go.

That's probably not as lucrative as Waymo's core market, but it could have some decent margins.
by 1523124 | 2025-08-25 15:40:18+00:00
The medium has been the on the front of culture wars as far as the 80s. I would certainly not count on it as something to take a break from current politics as the others OP have listed. Now, if the club is about making actual animation, as oppose to discuss / critics some shows, it would be a different story. But most anime clubs aren't about that.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-08-25 15:40:23+00:00
I agree with some of what you said, but doing it without warning seems unnecessarily harsh. This quote from the article is pretty ripe though:

“I was always drawn to the mountains when I was traveling around the country and, to be honest, it was affordable,” she said. “It was off grid. It had a structure. It was away from people. The view is incredible. There’s climbing, hiking. It was somewhere I could afford and have land in Colorado.”

I wanted to live off the grid, but not that off the grid.
by mcbobgorge | 2025-08-25 15:40:26+00:00
There's something similar in Philly- I went to Temple University and many drunk kids would either fall asleep on the Broad Street Line or mistakenly take the last express train, which skips over both of the Temple stops. As a result, you have to get off somewhere in North Philly (the worst part of the city) and wait for someone to pick you up.

Different kind of despair than Tokyo lol
by SpaceManNabs | 2025-08-25 15:40:51+00:00
I think the issue with the math is that it doesn't read well.

For example, the paragraphs around the paragraph with "compute the exact Poisson tail (or use a Chernoff bound)" and that paragraph itself could be better illustrated with lines of math instead of mostly language.

I think you do need some math if you want to approach this probabilistically, but I agree that might not be the most accessible approach, and a hard threshold calculation is more accessible and maybe just as good.
by Jensson | 2025-08-25 15:41:16+00:00
Communism gives politicians 100% control over the country instead of roughly half like they have in capitalist democracies, So people wont vote for communism because its autocratic.

You never want all power to be in the hands of a single group of people, capitalist democracies separates private from public, so politicians regulating companies are not the same people who are owning those companies. Communism can never work since its an autocratic system with a single player, you need multiple actors.

And yes, in some capitalist democracies company leaders are close bedfellows with politicians, we call that corruption, it isn't like that in all countries.
by NegativeK | 2025-08-25 15:41:20+00:00
I've heard this point raised elsewhere, and I think it's underplaying the magnitude of the issue.

Background scanner noise on the internet is incredibly common, but the AI scraping is not at the same level. Wikipedia has published that their infrastructure costs have notably shot up since LLMs started scraping them. I've seen similar idiotic behavior on a small wiki I run; a single AI company took the data usage from "who gives a crap" to "this is approaching the point where I'm not willing to pay to keep this site up." Businesses can "just" pass the costs onto the customers (which is pretty shit at the end of the day,) but a lot of privately run and open source sites are now having to deal with side crap that isn't relevant to their focus.

The botnets and DDOS groups that are doing mass scanning and testing are targeted by law enforcement and eventually (hopefully) taken down, because what they're doing is acknowledged as bad.

AI companies, however, are trying to make a profit off of this bad behavior and we're expected to be okay with it? At some point impacting my services with your business behavior goes from "it's just the internet being the internet" to willfully malicious.
by jfoster | 2025-08-25 15:41:21+00:00
I caught a local train from Minakami to Niigata last year and went through this station. I hadn't heard of it at the time, but it felt like you might imagine from reading this.

Condensation built up on the train windows. Afterward, there seemed to be a very active thunderstorm outside and it was around sunset time. The condensation made it impossible to see out the window besides some very surreal orange/purple tones and flashes of light. I hope I can experience that again one day, but I've only made the trip once so I'm not sure how common or rare it might be.