skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

I've been working on an open-source project called VividCut-AI, and I'm excited to share it with the community. VividCut-AI is a tool designed to automate video editing tasks using AI. Whether you're a content creator, video editor, or just interested in the intersection of AI and media, I think you'll find this project useful.

Key Features:

Automated Video Clipping: VividCut-AI can automatically clip videos based on relevant content identified by AI, saving you time and effort.
Face Tracking and Cropping: The tool detects and tracks faces in videos, then crops the video accordingly, focusing on the most important parts.
Content Extraction: It can extract and process video segments based on user queries, using a Faiss index built with Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5 embeddings.
Why I Built This: As someone who has spent countless hours on manual video editing, I wanted to create a tool that leverages AI to handle some of the more tedious tasks. The idea is to free up creative time so that editors can focus on storytelling rather than technical details.

See It In Action: Check out the sample videos in the repository:

Before Processing: downloaded_video_segment_1.mp4
After Processing: 0_final_video.mp4
These examples show how VividCut-AI transforms raw video segments into polished, ready-to-share content.

Get Involved: The project is still evolving, and I'd love to get feedback, suggestions, or even contributions from the HN community. If you're interested, feel free to check out the GitHub repo and give it a star if you like what you see!

Thanks for taking the time to check out VividCut-AI. I hope you find it as exciting as I do!
Pumpkin: A Minecraft server written in Rust
does this break huggingface-cli download??
Well, the ones where they forgive it right away don't write blog posts about it, so you don't know about them. I guarantee that every case which makes the front page is either an example of a mistake made by an individual support engineer following the wrong script, or the person posting it is being dishonest about what actually happened (I recall a particularly suspicious recent one where they hid the name of their site). The cloud providers all have a policy of forgiving these sort of cases. The only speedbump is ascertaining if it was a genuine mistake.
Neat!

> The default image is 2 gigabytes in size. This can be increased (but not decreased!) through the resize command.

Is this the smallest size of an industrial SD card these days?
There is something about this particular worldview and the username “tactical coder” that will never not be extremely amusing to me.
I don't doubt that it is awesome as an experience. However unless it gets cheaper it is not going to get enough users, and without enough users it is not going to get enough apps. Software devs are expensive and businesses want to address the largest possible market.
Both positions can be correct.

There can be legitimate objections to nuclear power, and it can be in the Russian interest for those objections to be heard as loudly as possible.
In the UK cell numbers start with 07 and landline numbers start with 01. And there is no region encoded in a cell number, but landline numbers begin with an area code.
Their competitors also have money and people
You mean Twitter? It's pretty much opposite from what I want from a platform.

What I want is more or less Mastodon. A feed ordered by date, a complete lack of algorithmic suggestion (unless maybe I explicitly ask for it), a complete lack of advertising, and stringent moderation that enforces things in my preferred direction.
> I instead search for people who are using the product I wish to buy with Linux, and see what they say about its compatibility

I'm not sure if you refer to friends or strangers on the internet.

In the former case, one is restricted to a very small pool of models to choose from.

In the latter case, "strangers on the internet" who say that their hardware "works perfectly", are typically completely unreliable; saying "my hardware works perfectly is treated as a badge of honor, so there's a perverse incentive.

One example, in a lot I've personally experience, is that I've read from multiple "strangers on the internet" that the wifi from the laptop I'm typing from, "works perfectly". In reality, the Linux drivers are half broken (on Linux, it has a poor signal).
with 30%+ of the raw cost of chip manufacturing goes to energy usage alone

Is the marginal cost of production at all relevant compared to the upfront capital outlay?
Link?

I really doubt this is true, I'm European and check this kind of stuff often.
> Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe?

They are portable in Europe (I said that in the second part of my comment), but it seemed like they weren’t in the US, because otherwise, the post is a bit strange. The author just tried every number from his area code to find the owner, when it is possible/likely that the owner has a completely different area code. That’s why I thought it might be that the current number always reflects the actual area code.
UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises
You’ll likely have worse problems on deck in that case, with no fashionable scapegoat to blame this time, even if we consider the effects of the wars alone. If you’re complaining about hearing too much about political drama, that just means you’ve been insulated from the real problems that haven’t reached your social class yet. I predict it won’t be long though.
MBPs are overwhelmingly bought by businesses for their employees.
In clinical medicine, the system needs no reform, because almost nobody's goal is to do research. Clinical research is pretty unique in that it serves almost entirely hierarchical advancement rather than science. Be honest, when was last time you saw a clinical researcher formulate a consistent research hypothesis and constitute a solid project around it? Almost all projects are basically: 'I'll test that with homemade shitty stats because it's trendy!'

So IMO, the first reform to conduct is to turn clinical researchers into real scientists. That won't be easy.
Iron age problems. Wasn’t a problem in the good ‘ol bronze age.
The problem with not caring about hobby developers is that it means developers won't be as familiar with your cloud environment when time comes to pick one for the next "real" project.

I would also expect a price cap feature to be useful for experimental/no-approval-required projects at work. In fact, if I ran a cloud project for work as a small team-internal project, a cost explosion would become an even bigger bureaucratic nightmare than if it happened at home.
Cannot agree more. I actually run into much worse scenarios with network config on Windows 11 before. Could not set DNS manually with settings app. Had to turned to control panel, but again, could not set IP address manually. Tried to use command line, broken too. Eventually had to combine the 3 and spent hours to complete a simply task should have been finished in 30 seconds. For sure, that's really great experience.
that's what I do. I suppose the Reddit folks do not care about the rss because either they forgot about it, or because it doesn't serve the full content, so it's not useful for apps.

My trick: subscribe to the "top weekly" feeds for each of your subs, which keeps the fire hose at a very manageable level.
Yes, though eg Linus Torvalds famously said that them mailing around tar-balls was better than CVS.
> I have a small userbase, but zero issues with spam and abuse.

You have zero issues with spam and abuse because you have a small user base, not because of the fee.

Twitter has TONS of paid accounts for spam.
No idea. r/Steam is spammed with same posts, unable to access Steam https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/new/

Steam don't have any official status page sadly.

https://steamstat.us/
Input Crowd, Output Meaning
Iranian hackers targeted Biden, Trump staffers with WhatsApp accounts
But that's exactly what they are saying. Numbers are just ported over to a different provider, so there's literally no certainty you can even pinpoint the provider they are using from a number. The prefix belonged to a provider, but you can move numbers as you move providers.
Interplay between tie strength and neighbourhood topology in complex networks
Did you mean to reply to me? I didn't claim it was or wasn't okay, or that I was enlightened. I am merely pointing out that one person's journey to separating themselves from being concerned with vanity and status of their vehicle doesn't remove the large population of people predisposed to behave otherwise.
> Take headings, for example: in component-based development, I often don't know (and shouldn't care) what level a heading is in my reusable widget, but I am forced to choose regardless.

We could have used <h1>s everywhere with Document Outline:

<body>
<h1>top level heading (parent sectioning element is body)</h1>
<section>
<h1>2nd level heading (nested within one sectioning element)</h1>
...
</section>
</body>

Unfortunately, this was never implemented in browsers and was removed in HTML 5.1.

https://html5doctor.com/computer-says-no-to-html5-document-o...
You banned Kinder surprise eggs and have more school shootings per month than others in a decade.

You had the January 6 United States Capitol attack because field by the former president which led to the death of five people.

Somehow Americans fear to become a tyranny (maybe because of all the armed people) and at the same time ignore all the people already dying like they were already living in a tyranny.

I'm from a country that was turned in a tyranny but I fear people with guns more than my government.

>The US is a wonderful amazing place.

Have you been to other countries?
Same, I have been on Windows for over two decades. Now I'm migrating away. M$ pretty much broke every good things that were rock solid before.Just like you, there are something I don't have an alternative yet, so still have to hang on a bit, but I feel I might just have to bite the bullet and ditch it.
> originally Apple tried to sell their bland aluminum box as a fashion accessory--and it was only after multiple iterations that they found out health and fitness was the main appeal and focused on it.

Wristwatch fitness trackers had already established this as baseline market fit long before Apple. The benefit of the Apple Watch for me is to not have to carry a phone in my pocket and still be able to do smartphone things like message, pay for things, or even make calls if I need to. Then the pandemic needed you to scan QR codes to do contract calls, and then normalized QR codes for restaurant orders, so I'm back to the phone and my watch gathers dust.
> I'm kind of concerned for security things with LLM written apps - you can ask it to do things and it says yes, without really thinking if it's a good idea or not.

you can ask it to consider your concerns too
24 megapixel almost-lossless photos dumped straight from the camera are too heavy to be used directly on the Web. They also have lots of metadata including GPS location, that people usually don't want to share.

In practice you'd want to resize it (HD is 2mpx, and 4K resolution is 8mpx), and recompress to quality suitable for viewing not editing (makes huge difference in file size).

The necessary recompression step makes the input format mostly irrelevant. The upside is that JPEG XL is free to use, so it's possible to legally write tooling using it without touching the mess of H.265 patents.
Is it time for another company rename to llama or data or something a la AI ?
"good for a while" is incompatible with "anonymous" : which means there's no account that could be linked back to you (think how 4chan is used).

Also it tends to be made illegal for obvious reasons (even if in practice, everyone but the most careful user eventually gets identified by their IP, the logs of which Web servers are legally obligated to keep in most states).

Otherwise, if you actually meant pseudonymous payments, well, Flattr actually tried to do it. Flattr 1.0 basically died in the 2012-2013 Twitter APIpocalypse, while Flattr 2.0 never managed to get enough reach, unlike the Silicon Valley backed, new competitor, Patreon.
Thanks so much or the early Saturday morning flashback to my Geocities page. Can you add a spinning “under construction” sign, those were my favorites.
SolarWinds left critical hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product
Depending on the kinds of games you play, Linux + Proton can provide an excellent gaming experience now, often times better than on Windows, with fewer stutters.

Some multiplayer games with kernel rootkit/anticheat might not work, but I haven't encountered any Linux-specific issues in the games I play. I'm sure this isn't the experience for everyone but it's worth a try.
You're still missing the fact that the Hue ecosystem and Hub predate Matter, HomeKit, Google Home by more than a decade. Can their bulbs even be made compatible with Matter, physically or are they lacking hardware pieces?
Several domain registrars / hosting providers (including Njalla) accept Monero, which is as untraceable as you can be. Or Monero can be used to indirectly pay a bitcoin invoice very easily (even Namecheap accepts bitcoin)
That is debatable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_...

The Yemen war is/was pretty brutal, and SA happened to back the ousted president. The even called the war an "operation" (sound familiar?).

We could also go back further to Saudi Bin Laden support, which was conveniently ignored in all business deals.
> There was no need to invent yet another operating system and desktop environment to replace the ones already existing.

Actually there was. My web apps can be used in Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, Meta Horizon OS, etc. thanks to it being a standard that is more or less not controlled or gatekept by a single entity (browser monoculture aside). Java applets died because of it.

You could argue that it wasn't wise to shoehorn interactive functionality in what was essentially a document presentation format, but that's another story. Having documents and applications intertwined is often cited as a drawback, but I disagree with that since we often want to have app-like behavior for parts of documents, or document-like behavior for parts of apps. Think e.g. interactive programming tutorials with executable REPLs and code examples... we have the ability to create books that are alive, and that's simply amazing.

Thing is, the Web platform is what won, and for good reasons. GTK, Java Swing, and other supposedly multiplatform toolkits did not lose just because -- they lost because the Web is objectively better.

HTTP is awesome. HTML is awesome. CSS is awesome. JS is awesome. JSON is awesome. WAI-ARIA is awesome. The whole web stack is awesome.

I feel that all the negative sentiment around it is just because we cannot fathom how much worse it could have been had the HTML5 effort never happened.
https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/14
Database in the Browser, a Spec
That site is good - i might have missed it in your site but one thing I’ve run into with custom elements today is accessibility - testing with a screen reader has shown up lots of issues. Maybe custom elements aren’t perfect but they are handy.
Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
Just came across this Kaparthy tweet:

Programming is changing so fast... I'm trying VS Code Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 instead of GitHub Copilot again and I think it's now a net win. Just empirically, over the last few days most of my "programming" is now writing English (prompting and then reviewing and editing the generated diffs), and doing a bit of "half-coding" where you write the first chunk of the code you'd like, maybe comment it a bit so the LLM knows what the plan is, and then tab tab tab through completions. Sometimes you get a 100-line diff to your code that nails it, which could have taken 10+ minutes before.

I still don't think I got sufficiently used to all the features. It's a bit like learning to code all over again but I basically can't imagine going back to "unassisted" coding at this point, which was the only possibility just ~3 years ago.

[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827143768459637073

I wanted to get some broader feedback before setting everything up. What’s your experience with this stack?
They mention validation in software which suggests a hardware implementation is a way off with a lot of practical issues that might crop up on the way. So best of luck to them but i wouldn’t expect to see hit the market for quite a while - saying they are “on the edge of euv chip making” is very optimistic.
IMHO, anyone who doesn't say "momento mori" to themselves, and reflect upon what it means, at least once a day is missing out on life.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori>
I still don‘t understand why apps like apollo did not add a balance account used to pay the necessary API requests. Combined with heavy caching this should have been easily possible and financially viable. Someone could have even built a cache gateway backend for multiple 3rd party apps…
What is the goal of quest? Is it to get mau? Is it sales and marketing for eng (come work at _, where we have fun projects like these Glasses - sounds familiar), is it to develop and flex hardware muscles? Is it to make sure Meta is competitive if/when there is a paradigm shift away from mobile?

I think Mark is thrilled to have a hardware product that they can deploy their ML models to. Was that intentional? Obviously no, but at some point they're paying for optionality.

They want the option to build a million hardware units in a year, they want the option to build a competitor to Apple's next hardware device (frankly, in the counterfactual that AVP took off, Meta was extremely well-positioned)

Meta is a money-printing machine, and so they have choices: invest in moonshot hardware (or ai) projects, stock buybacks/dividends

They have a huge dividend. What do you want them to do? More stock buybacks? Make less money?
I had the same need and also cobbled something together to do it. This project looks far easier to use, so I will also likely switch.

Checking the Dockerfile this also uses qemu to run the actual ARM binaries, I really liked how easy it was to set this up back then. All I had to do was loop mount the RPi image and then chroot into it. Everything else was handled transparently by qemu. Of course, I didn't have nice things like resize, so I was limited to making small additions.
This! LLMs have a lot of potential to fill the "support person" role for high-functioning autistics.
Perhaps a minor nit (or maybe not), but when you say

> The true cost of nuclear is not sufficiently priced in.

That's also the case in general for fossil fuels too. Pollution from burning fossils kills. (And this extends of course - be it lithium mining or recycling PV panels or composites in wind turbines.) There are very few, if any, truly priced-in mass-market commodities I can think of.

(Another not so minor nit is fortunately the EU-ETS exists, but it has its own issues/criticisms which might get too long for this comment.)
King John's treasure is still very much a part of the cultural
landscape in Norfolk. Anyone digging a hole for gardening or
construction purposes runs the risk of some smartass coming along and
asking whether he has found King John's treasure yet.

I saw a documentary some time ago that I can't find any more about
some guys who raised money to look for King John's treasure with
ground penetrating radar. They were unsuccessful but with more money
and more recent technology there might be a startup opportunity in
there somewhere. On the other hand, I can't imagine they'd be allowed
to keep it.
I've replaced 99% of Google search with ChstGPT and more recently Claude.

The experience is much superior. No noise, just the information that I needed.
Substack (YC W18) Is Hiring Machine Learning Engineers
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs
Later on the article says

> To eliminate this problem, Professor Shintake aligned two axis-symmetric mirrors in a straight line and used a total of only four mirrors instead of ten.
Canon and Nikon are also working on alternatives such as nanoimprint lithography [1]. Chinese universities and companies are working on particle accelerator based EUV sources [2]. Question is, will they be able to actually commercialize it before ASML manages to get improved versions of their current litho machines out the door? Commercialization of a technology like this can easily take 5-10 years, and ASML aren't twiddling their thumbs. Once the incumbent has a technology that is, say, 80-90% as good as the challenger, the big players will always choose them to minimize risks.

[1] https://semiengineering.com/nanoimprint-finds-its-footing-in...

[2] https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/china-to-bui...
It says in the article what the problem is.
Agree that people may want this to be a bigger factor than it is, or no factor at all, depending on their personal feelings on Musk and his politics.

I would say its hard to argue it is likely some factor in the middle. I'd love to see it studied.

I'll anecdotally add that I've always found Teslas design language pretty ugly, but did pine after the status of owning one briefly. Now I would never buy one for the association with Musk. So there you have it, scientifically there are at least 3 of us, and at most 8 billion of us. Further study is needed.
> that's crippled by an insulting and nearly-useless micro-HDMI port

:P Feels like a page out of the Apple playbook…

“There’s a dongle for that”

https://a.co/d/ez3xF2i
Congratulations on the NLnet grant! I'm one of the 'silent' contingent on Reddit - frequently reads, but never posts. It is possible to use Mastodon or another ActivityPub application to interact with Lemmy (and vice-versa) to some extent, which will hopefully allow the two types of social networks to help each other grow.

Would it be viable to add a setting for your own Fediverse account so that you could click on the communities to redirect them to your own server? For instance, if I search for /r/switzerland, there would be a button by the Fediverser suggestion of switzerland@feddit.ch to open it on my own Fediverse server - like the 'Take me home' button on the Mastodon web client.
The issue with that argument is Windows keeps depreciating existing functionality so old experience is worthless fairly quickly. Nobody has decades of expertise with Windows 11, at this point with how little Windows 3.11 experience still applies. Remember .ini files? Yea how relevant is that today? How about using a DOS prompt recently?
Pico CSS seems to style checkboxes without pseudo elements: https://picocss.com/docs/forms/checkboxes

(It uses `appearance: none` instead.)
Practically forcing people to change mobile phone numbers when moving from one place to another is a level of evil I didn't not expect to exist in Canada.

Any idea if the premium was due to technical limitations or just to milk the customers?
I'm surprised it didn't do more than touch on probably the biggest reason: we already pay a huge amount for education out of taxes, so the educational budgets are allocated by bureaucrats, and not by education consumers (or their parents).
Wow, could you imagine? A warehouse full of maybe-broken Apple products. What a fun place to check out!!
That’s another source of frustration. God only knows how many hours I’ve spent on individual problems like yours, and what did I learn from diving into the specs and reading every Stackoverflow post on the topic? Nothing. Only how the intricate interactions within CSS eventually allowed me to solve that particular problem, details which I’ve long since forgotten because they’re not relevant anywhere else.
This was a fun personal project, not a business, and it sounds like they were aware it was going to get shut down the whole time.
bingo, they could re-release 20 something year old windows xp and people would do just fine (or better) with that interface.
Do you have some source here to provide for the curious?