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Show HN: Vizard – AI video editor repurpose long video to bite-size highlights
Hello, Hacker News community! I’m Gary, the founder of Vizard.ai. I am thrilled to introduce you to our cutting-edge AI video editing tool that is designed to help content creators/marketers/businesses alike to repurpose long-form webinar/event/speech videos into bite-size social-ready highlights.

As a beginner in video editing, I struggled with the complexity of professional video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro. I found it overwhelming and challenging to use, and I would eventually abandon my efforts to edit videos. But I knew that video content creation was important, and I was determined to find a solution.

Being an expert in AI, I decided to use my knowledge to simplify video editing. That's when I came up with the idea for Vizard.ai.

I have trained several deep learning models that work together to simplify the video editing process. The first model is a computer vision model that segments the video into pieces. The second model is a speech-to-text model that transcribes the voice in the video. The last model is a scene change detector model that detects changes in the video.

When I combined these three models, I was able to edit the video like editing a picture. I could trim the video by transcript text, making the process much simpler and more intuitive.

Our tool is intuitive, easy to use, and designed to simplify the video editing process for beginners. With Vizard.ai, content creators, marketers, and businesses can quickly and efficiently repurpose long-form video content into bite-size social-ready highlights, increasing their reach and engagement on social media.

I am excited to share my story and the story of Vizard.ai with the Hacker News community. Thank you for your time and consideration, and I look forward to your feedback and questions.
They verified the protocol, not the actual implementation: https://github.com/rosenpass/rosenpass#security-analysis

This is still a pretty neat result! End-to-end proofs from high level protocol to low level implementation are mostly still a research topic.
The first level of consistency is: consistent with the world around us. People have two legs and two arms. You eat off plates. GPT is good at this. But if you want to build Ant World it'll be hard.

The second level of consistency is: consistent with a stereotype. So "standard fantasy world" is going to be consistent with fantasy tropes. (Mostly, except with a strong tourist industry and the occasional café; the modern world leaks in.)

The third level of consistency is: consistent with what you explicitly state about the world. That's the city backstory. If you want magic to come from the sun and you can catch magic in little sun basins and then use that to power your dishwasher, then you can state that... but it may have a hard time remembering that, and a harder time extrapolating all the effects. But GPT won't entirely forget it, and may even come up with some interesting ideas.

The real challenge though is: consistency with the author's as-yet-unfulfilled desires. That's where an interactive tool that allows co-creation with the AI might offer something, but it WILL be a struggle because the author must develop, articulate, refine, and reform their ideas, and the AI may help or resist, but often will simply make it clear the gaps that exist between desire and vision.
A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle (1965)
Services are deployed from a monorepo. Deploys are only allowed for main branch commits that have passed CI. If the main branch is broken, nothing can be deployed beyond the last successful commit.
Future super-AIs may cite this as justification for their actions.
I am pretty sure it's gonna carry the same spirit as Ruby / Rails (MRSK)
I don't know.
Before reading Casey, I'd say most, if not all, of my APIs would look like the "clean code" style.

The process was "think about the model, design a class hierarchy that fits with the model, add the operations". Even if I don't think about extensibility, that's how I thought my code.

Why? Because when I think about performance, I used to think about algorithms and I/O optimizations (for example batching).

Now I'll look into this data-oriented programming-thing and see how that applies to my platform (embedded Java) :D
Not compared to the most popular one, Aperol.
Sure, it ticks this exact box that the help article mentions:

> Your organization operates in a highly regulated industry, like aerospace and defense, financial services, or government.
I've been using Asahi Linux since the alpha was released March 18th 2022. Because I used an M1 Mac Mini and many of the features (WiFi/HDMI) were ready then, it became my daily driver a few weeks after that.

Today, I run Asahi Linux on a M1 Ultra Mac Studio using Sway (https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/stuff/AsahiSwayM1Ul...), and 100% of the features I use are there in Asahi kernels and userspace (sound/Bluetooth/audio/HDMI/USB/10G Ethernet/WiFi/GPU driver).

In short, it's the fastest RISC Linux workstation you'll find, and has been rock solid in every way. In fact, it's so fast, it messes up the timing of K3s (you just have to remember to put resource limits on each pod to prevent the CrashLoopBackOffs).
And with your comment, we now have both unhealthy extremes represented, viewpoint-wise.

We need not spend all day tearfully mourning how Earth once was, yet we also clearly shouldn't tarmac the whole thing and turn it into a Costco.

It is very possible to embrace industrialized existence while acknowledging the importance of, and promoting, biodiversity.
I think most folks here are advocating for MacBooks, which you absolutely could not build or buy an equivalent of in the 1000$ range. Desktops are a different class of hardware altogether.
>There is also room for more optimizations

I surely hope so, else the "10%" speedup mention in the existing jit version is not worth it. Short of 2-3x in gneral, it wouldn't...
CPython is very focused on speed; and is already planning and working on adding a JIT in the near term. I would guess they will implement their own rather then merge Pyston but the end result for people using Python should be similar.

The CPython team is (correctly) very concerned with code quality and the ease of maintenance. This favors starting with a very simple JIT; very aligned with the interpreter.
For all the intelligence individual humans exhibit, humanity as a whole behaves indistinguishably from a slime mold [1]. If we treat humanity as an organism where individuals humans are cells, then the behavior of the organism is to just spread mindlessly across the planet and extract resources until they're exhausted and it dies off. It seems that there's a phase transition happening at scale where all the internal complexity of human society is reduced to a very simple behavior.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-...
> Today, any information stored only on a floppy disk is essentially gone. Imagine the incompatibility of today’s DVD in 1,000 years.

It depends. If it's some unimportant personal data, sure. If it's the only backup of the entire Wikipedia, I'm sure we can find a way to read it off whatever it's on.
Götz von Berlichingen – The “Iron Hand” of the Renaissance (2019)
Thanks! At least changes look recent so there must be some plan to upstream it.
Arthur Hayes, the Original King of Crypto, Is Back
>You would also be out of luck if you are trying to get a side-gig or pick up a part time job on weekends to make ends meet.

"Buy a bus pass like the good poors, cash side work is evil"

-the people peddling these things, but using nicer words"
Isn't gradient descent basically PID over parameters?
And tricks like momentum basically a low-pass filter integrated in the PID loop? It's quite weird how not that many concepts from analog electronics domain have gotten carried over to ML.
It’s been known for some time that English started as a pidgin language, but some recent linguistic analysis suggested that it wasn’t a pidgin once, but twice. And that’s why it’s particularly messy.

Despite another responder’s assertion that William the Conquerer was Norse, the fact is that he spoke French. So you had a ruler who didn’t even speak English, and a ruling class that was familiar with French.

Which, by the way, is why English names for animals and their meats are such a mess. For the most part the peasants raised the animals and the aristocracy ate them (still an era when protein deficiency limited the upward mobility of peasants). So animal names are from one linguistic root and meat names from another. Sheep/mutton, cow/beef, pig/pork,ham.
See also https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the...
> Ubuntu and RedHat seem to be stuck in the past

Like offering users a GUI click-through installer?
For all the "AI-powered" hype, I expected a lot more than an automatic background removal tool. It doesn't even do a good job around the edges - there's a noticeable halo, especially around hair.
Everything Curl
On AI taking over jobs: The world is based on gifts, not transactions
Suggesting code that doesn't have to work is like 1% of the problem, the other 99% is validating and fixing it.

We're nowhere near there yet.
You are the one who set up the goal posts. Just because you don’t like where you put them up doesn’t mean you can change them once people prove you wrong.

Nowhere did you say that Facebook’s innovations have to be the reason the end user uses the product, or even used by the end user at all. All you said is that they have never innovated. That is the bar. And it is clearly extremely low as Facebook has done lots of innovating with products used by developers all the time.
Is there any indication that the insect was alive and reproductively relevant when he plucked it off the side of the building? I've lived in areas where swarms of dead & dying mayflies (aka fish flies) appear on the sides of buildings every year.
Can we aggregate all the other ai avatar generators for comparison, why is this one climbing up the front page?
That's what they're doing, generating a key using post-quantum crypto and using it as the PSK - from TFA: "The tool establishes a symmetric key and provides it to WireGuard. Since it supplies WireGuard with key through the PSK feature using Rosenpass+WireGuard is cryptographically no less secure than using WireGuard on its own ("hybrid security"). Rosenpass refreshes the symmetric key every two minutes."
From what I understand the basis for their model are these two described in these papers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07651
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13628

Lot of tricks put together for a great final result it seems
Yes it does! As of Feb 14th: Valentines day present. https://neon.tech/docs/release-notes
Oh yeah, the scrambling is more to help deal with pixel errors than it is to provide any sort of cryptographic safety.
Application Security: Under the Hood
Nord Security App Sec Team Lead, Žygimantas Kaupas, takes us through the various phases of protecting our applications—from initial assessments and threat modeling to manual testing and bug bounties.
I'm old enough to remember it. And young enough to have been one of those eternal Septemberers. =)
> an inability to read and understand the specification

I'd say that being able to read and understand what others want is part being a "good communicator", alongisde understanding reviews and comments from other devs and addressing those.

Also, good code is good at communicating what it does to future readers, via comments, variable names, and structure. And if you do that, you're being a good communicator.
Loneliness reshapes the brain
I wonder how many engineering hours will be spent on tuning the GTA style strip club NPCs to be the right level of interactive while staying within the ESRB rating.
>“The last time I taught ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ I discovered that my students were really struggling to understand the sentences as sentences—like, having trouble identifying the subject and the verb,” she said. “Their capacities are different, and the nineteenth century is a long time ago.”

Are the standards to get into university that low?
I’m an undergraduate doing CS at a ~T25 school and this article is 100% true. I think outsiders have almost no idea the extent to which cheating is rampant especially in engineering classes. We are talking about Copilot, taking exams with 2 or 3 of your friends who are former students in the class with you, bathroom breaks to Google answers on the in person tests, copying project source code from former students in classes who put it on their Github because they need something to put on there when they apply for a job, requesting “mental health days” any time something is due, and downloading entire homework’s off CourseHero because the instructors didn’t change anything from last semester. Most CS classes now just have projects worth about 40%, homework worth 20%, and the rest come from in person exams. This means someone who cheated on all the assignments and doesn’t actually know anything will likely at the most get a low B. Online exams are widely perceived to be cheating bonanzas among the student body.
It's not news in ML (machine learning) that whenever you do have a reasonable understanding/model of the underlying task and an algorithm for solving it, you should use that and not try to apply ML to learn a model from data. If an acceptable non-ML solution exists, then usually nobody reasonable would suggest using ML (unless they just want to pad their resume) because the known algorithm will usually do the same thing with much less computation and more reliability and interpretability.

However, there are many, many useful real world tasks where we haven't been able to do that (e.g. almost all of image analysis, image generation, a significant part of of text analysis and generation tasks), so for these tasks the (valid) criticism doesn't really matter, as we don't have any reasonable alternatives - if let the network develop its own model, we get a somewhat working solution (with all the risks you mention), and if we don't, then we best we can make is unusably bad.

If all the windows in your car are painted opaque black except the rear window, then driving the car by looking out of the rear window to see where you have been can be as good as it gets.
The code signing project I worked on was formally verified. The whole time they were verifying it I found horrible bugs that needed fixing. One even made it past soft launch. So great job boys but this doesn’t help me.
> Why would Ford want to do this for sales anyway, in the case of a sale, the financing company pays ford in full. The only exception would be if ford financed the car with its own financing arm.

Ford has a huge financing arm. And it will probably get bigger as interest rates rise, because they have more room to offer lower than market interest rates as a hidden discount without dropping the purchase price.
Didn't they also contribute heavily to PHP?
People have found ways to bypass and reverse (albeit with reduced quality) Photodna

Edit: here's a source https://www.anishathalye.com/2021/12/20/inverting-photodna/
my solution to beat the tab accumulation problem is to have firefox simply close all tabs, clear browsing and download history, clear form and search history, and clear cache upon the user choosing to close the program. if the browser or computer crashes the tabs and everything else still exist. if a site meets your interests, bookmark it. note that cookies remain but are usually cleared periodically. also you can setup a folder of bookmarks, or a new tab page, that you can open up everyday and check the websites you want.
Some classes of people view anything that improves pedestrian and cyclist life and public transit to be fundamentally limiting access to cars.
I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but have you checked out any x86 SBCs? The Rock Pi X is a good one that's reasonably cheap (USD $59). The Pi 4's GPU is absolutely pathetic in terms of power even compared to weak x86 chips.

edit: Forgot to add that I'm pretty sure the Pi shortage is still ongoing. I bought a 4GB Pi 4 kit in 2019 for $100 and it's like $200 now.
Yes I think if you work at a software company "GA" as a status in release management has a well-understood meaning - "general availability." However stating something is "generally available" in the headline only to followed by the lede that states it's actually only GA for a premium tier of product users feels a bit disingenuous if not click-baity.
What is wrong with that?

Nothing at all. This used to be common practice after fun events like the great depression, WWII, etc... I grew up with the stories from those times and watched how my relatives would prep, can and store foods because they knew things can go sideways at the drop of a hat. They experienced it first hand. Current generations in first world countries for the most part have not yet had the pleasure and thus normalcy bias and denial are stronger.
I agree a lot are subtle. The one that jumped out at me was (I think) Jennifer Aniston on the Petra cover, where they make her jaw bigger (which seems the opposite of what one would want to do).
Is it mispricing to price gauge during a shortage?

Probably not, but I certainly wouldn't find it ethical. I see the same problem here, except the shortage is artificial scarcity of a digital product.
There may be two extremes, but that doesn't mean both of them are wrong or "unhealthy".
Think that is an average, it is so workload dependent. For some things it can be multiple times faster.
All this BS Apple has been doing is why my family and friends have largely switched exclusively to WhatsApp, although unfortunately that’s a little more troublesome now with Meta’s privacy issues.
I remember using Splunk (where the author used to work) at a previous job.

In the spirit of sharing What I learned at X, here's What I learned at Shazam:

Part 1: https://umaar.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-working-at-shaza...

Part 2: https://umaar.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-working-at-shaza...
>The biggest problem with an ignition interlock device today is that they're extremely unreliable. As implemented they are also very intrusive

Money spent making the device not suck reduces profit. Nobody will care when you abuse your customers because your customers are convicted criminals.

Pretty much every company selling stuff that people need to use to not violate the terms of their sentence is like this.
I've never heard of the FDA funding a drug study, that is more a NIH thing. If the FDA were sending out requests for proposals I would expect them to be about:

- testing food for contamination

- inspecting food facilities and farms for safety

- ensuring drugs are not contaminated and that safety reports are coordinated

The NIH is the one that provides funding for health studies... please understand that I'm not saying it's good or correct that studies of supplements aren't getting funding, I'm saying that the FDA is not involved. Direct frustration at the right target, pharmaceutical companies (i.e. capitalism) having no interest in unpatentable low cost treatments and NIH/government not funding such studies when they should.

I agree, the NIH should study all these things -- and does if you look at their budget, via tens of thousands of individual academic research groups with less incentive to not study supplements. Capitalism is still there, but if anywhere can study it without worrying as much about profit motive it'd be academia or a national lab.

I also agree that NIH should have more money targeted at low-profit drug studies. That's unfortunately the kind of thing that gets determined by congress unless they decide to do it on their own.

The best situation is one where the legislature requires a minimum amount be spent by an agency to support certain kinds of research (for instance, they do this across the federal government through the SBIR program for small businesses).

https://www.nih.gov/ABOUT-NIH/WHAT-WE-DO/BUDGET

> The NIH invests most of its $45 billion budget in medical research for the American people.

> Over 84 percent of NIH’s funding is awarded for extramural research, largely through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state.

> In addition, over 10 percent of the NIH's budget supports projects conducted by nearly 6,000 scientists in its own laboratories, most of which are on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The remaining 6 percent covers research support, administrative, and facility construction, maintenance, or operational costs.
I've just tried this and I can't tell any difference. Could it be because my laptop has an Intel and an nVidia 3060 I wonder?
My biggest gripe is when iPhone users share video or images, they are grainy nonsense. If Apple just moved to RCS this would be solved, but they refuse simply because they know it handicaps their competitor. The react thing has largely been fixed by Google on newer versions of messenger. It's impossible to fix the video stuff. People outside the US don't get it. They say everyone should switch to Whatsapp, etc, but getting millions of people to do that across tons of fractured messaging apps when there is one protocol that everyone can use...isn't easy or even viable at this point.
Is it "good whiskey" or whiskey flavored PGA.
Writing a readable, maintainable and future-proof code is a distinct skill, widely different from writing code per se. One-time contractors with fixed result-based pay are tend to ship "just working" code, thus most of closed-source commercial one-developer code is an utter garbage. Looking into open-source projects may give a totally different perspective, because OSS authors are actually care what other will say.
I don't disagree with that sentiment. Although it is more understandable that many outside of the US/CN/RU might use foreign social networks, because they don't have any major domestic alternatives... whereas the US has several direct competitors to TikTok.
There's nothing wrong with being prepared. The last few years has shown us you can't even completely depend on stores being accessible and stocked with needed daily supplies in an emergency. Having extra supplies on hand because of the possibility of a flood, war, civil disturbance, power outage, earthquake, environmental disaster, or other emergency is completely wise.

If I lived in Ohio right now for example, I'd want to have a large pile of gas masks too. There are people in America who desperately want to have these supplies right now for an emergency, and the media is mocking somebody who is prepared? Say what?

I'm not 100% sure of the psychology of it, but I think that people that are deeply trusting of the government are very disturbed that preppers exist because preppers are showing that they're not trusting the government at all which I think sets off some kind of warning in peoples' heads that maybe they are wrong and they don't really know how to process that. Hence, the extreme hatred of preppers displayed in much of the media, despite their activity usually not harming anybody else.

To be perfectly fair, on the flipside there are extreme preppers who seem to have some kind of unhealthy compulsion. And despite being relatively poor, some spend much of their time and money digging out full bomb shelters and filling them with years worth of food and canned goods, which doesn't seem healthy. But if you're doing a reasonable amount of preparation, and you're reasonably well off financially to afford this modest effort, kudos to you for wanting to ensure your family has the best chance in an emergency situation.
Actually, I think there is a case for fraud, somewhere in this mess and if authorities care to pursue it. Lying to the public, to encourage the donation of shoes, then various "middle men" making profits selling them, and where it was known that no recycling was taking place.
Just be sure to thank all those stackoverflow repliers for this!