skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the questions!

So far everyone is accumulating clip annotations on video files over time.

I'm thinking of clips as essentially write-only/append-only annotations. Labels or metadata attached to sections of videos rather than new files. The system is designed to support overlapping clips and allows you to filter/view all clips for a video.

To clarify, Video Clip Library is purely a search engine - it doesn't composite or edit videos. Although it will let you re-encode to save space. I built it for scenarios like: "I have a catalog of shots from the last five years, and when working on a new project, I might want to reuse B-roll or footage I've already taken." A YouTuber doing a Then and Now will find footage from their first year.

For me personally, the virtual clips feature will improve my learning process. I'm not a professional videographer. Naturally I spend time studying work from more skilled creators, trying to understand what makes it effective. I'm excited to take notes on specific moments - "these are the places across many different videos where I feel afraid" or "interesting rack focus technique here" - with notes and tags scoped to their own clips. I was already taking these notes in Obsidian. But it wasn't great.

I find a beauty in the layering: I can create overlapping clips that represent different aspects of the same footage - one layer for emotional responses, another for technical observations. Note: here I'm creating them manually one hour here, one hour there over months as I find the time or interest waxes. I might only annotate a few thousand clips across a couple hundred films in my lifetime. That's ok. I don't need the computer to understand the videos perfectly frame by frame.

The professional use case that prompted this feature is different - teams collect footage, then editors assemble compilations and marketing materials months later. They will run AI models to annotate videos as they're ingested, or apply new models to existing catalogs. Then someone with a creative concept can quickly search: "Do we already have footage that supports this idea or do we need to shoot something new?"
https://www.newsweek.com/student-loan-repayment-income-drive...

> The Trump administration has gotten rid of applications for income-driven repayment plans from the federal aid website.

The change occurs as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked income-driven repayment plans in its February ruling. That means former President Joe Biden's SAVE plans and PSLF options are no longer available.
Plenty of other reasons they could have voted the way they did?

https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-the-...
Enlightenment - and slavery. And the ethnic cleansing of the natives.

Americans from the very beginning started playing on words - "all men are equal, but women aren't men, natives aren't citizens, and negros aren't even humans"
I will leave aside my own judgment of the things you've listed. I don't agree with all of them, but I do agree with some. My exact opinion doesn't matter here.

What matters is this: you can agree that Trump has done good things and still think he's done horrible things as well. A shit sandwich is still a shit sandwich. You shouldn't eat it just because the bread's edible.
Why would it get tangled? The reel is on the drone side, so it just unrolls freely as the drone moves forward.
Because the bible teaches hypocrisy, a very important skill that will help create future leaders.
I am reminded of a poetic moment from a former US army person who told me of sunlight glinting off the trail of wires left behind after practice launches of wire guided MANPAD type systems. He said they were like spider silk in the dawn.
Really interesting. I'm bookmarking your comment for later.

One thing you can do is separate the information fetching from your bar completely. I have a service that runs every minute or so to fetch available updates from the arch repositories (including aur), it writes its output to a file and then my bar regularly updates it's displayed information based on that file.

I don't have the service definition uploaded anywhere, but you can see how simple it is to then integrate it with anything here [1]. This is a status bar I'm building with qml. It's not ready to be released yet, I'm at 0.7.0. Only tested on x11/i3wm so far. Last time I launched it in wayland/sway, there were some issues but it's been a while since. Since it's built with qt complex and non-blocking interactions are available out of the box. For example, switching workspace by clicking an icon in the bar, or switching the format of the displayed date time.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~hantz/buffalo/refs/0.7.0
SaaS Is Broken: Why Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Is the Future
If you’re saying humanities don’t matter because you can’t learn them on YouTube or via ai slop then that’s a very sad point of view.
The First Amendment specifically speaks about government not limiting free expression. An indeed, school boards are a branch of the government, not a private organization. Their actions may be seen as a real infraction on the First Amendment.

Thank you for the correction.
https://archive.ph/AktCB
En búlgaro, el equivalente a *"tocayo"* (una persona que tiene el mismo nombre que otra) no tiene una traducción exacta de una sola palabra, pero se puede expresar de varias maneras:

1. *"съименник" (suimennik)* – Es el término más cercano y significa literalmente "persona con el mismo nombre".
2. *"човек със същото име" (chovek sŭs sŭshtoto ime)* – Se traduce como "persona con el mismo nombre".
3. *"тезка" (tezka)* – Una forma coloquial más rara, influenciada por el ruso.

En el uso cotidiano, los búlgaros suelen decir algo como *"Имаме едно и също име"* (Imame edno i sashto ime), que significa *"Tenemos el mismo nombre"*.

Here the AI says there is no translation, not only there is one, I use it frequently: Адаш https://rechnik.chitanka.info/w/%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%88
Great, thanks. I've run across ORACC before, but I didn't know widespread digitization was part of their aim (i.e., I had the impression it was a database of artifacts digitized elsewhere).

> There are probably around 1-2 million cuneiform tablets that have been found so far. Many of them complete, but even more of them as fragments.

That's a pretty amazing number - that so many have survived. It seems like it would take too much luck, unless some library has endured this long.
the issue is consumers don’t actually understand textiles, what they are looking for, and mainly buy a product based on how it looks and fits. And of course consumers prefer cheap clothes.

The result is some good purchases, and some bad purchases, but it’s a crap shoot unless you do research. Frustrating for sure.
...flight of the valkyries playing in his wired earbuds...
Unrelated.

- The dispute was after the movie released.

- Only one of the Wachowskis could be convinced to come back.

- WB had tried and failed at least once getting a new Matrix movie off the ground after Revolutions without the Wachowskis.

- The Matrix Resurrections features the line "[Warner Bros. are] going to do it with or without us."

More background: https://ew.com/movies/matrix-resurrections-scene-doing-seque...
> Quals will never be implemented at large in undergraduate mass-market coursework.

I believe proctored math placement tests are still common upon matriculation at less-selective colleges (e.g., directional public schools). Usually Accuplacer or done in ALEKS. That said, the outcome these days may be corequisite section placement rather than remedial course placement. Colleges have to balance readiness against the graduation delays that remediation adds (which often lead students to drop out entirely).
The weird part is that they are also advertised on Instagram. More than once I have gotten an ad from an account showcasing these fiber optic drones and their R&D operation. And you can openly contact them for inquries.
kind of a rate-limiting technique but i'll try to make it better, as for the sources I might do that in the future
Payroll desktop application with python that works closely with an old time clock that only generates xls files (i know i should use c++ but I'm too lazy to learn it and I just need to get it done lol). I'm planning on open sourcing the project once it's in a more usable state.

Also, I just started on building a web application with golang that will make it easier for hobbyists to share their creative works (like manga, paintings, etc.) by providing a much better platform for their creativity to show. Right now it's pretty bare bones but it'll be a cross between myspace and patreon essentially. Main difference being the ease of use and the ability to showcase your work directly on the same app, without having to host your works on a separate service and promote it on another.

Lots of ideas, so little time to implement them.
> you're going to add a role (standard, unless you have custom roles), which you technically have to map back to the permission you need

Which is terrible btw. You dont "technicall" have to do that, you really cannot add roles to custom roles, you can only add permissions to custom roles. Which makes it really hard to maintain the correctness of custom roles since their permissions can and do change.

> ...If only we could do something like: dry run and surface all the required permissions, then grant them in one fell (granular) sweep.

GCP even has something like that, but I honestly think that standard roles are usually fine. Sometimes making things too fine grained is not good either. Semantics matter.
Mine was reasonable, but barely a fraction of what I’d say I spend most of my time doing online.
Wonder how it's possible.

> "The breach of contract lawsuit against Warner Bros. came after the studio introduced “The Matrix Resurrections” in December 2021 on its HBO Max streaming service the same day the film was released in movie theaters. Village Roadshow complained that the Burbank studio’s pivot away from an exclusive theatrical release had destroyed the value of a key franchise."

-- how is that true? Did they lose that much box office money on Matrix Resurrections that cashflow or lack of revenues made them collapse?

> “A confluence of macro-economic factors have weighed heavily on the company’s balance sheet,”

-- Now we're getting somewhere. An unbalanced budget? What might have caused it I wonder? Would they have a worse time than the other studios or have less cash reserves etc?

A shame the article doesn't give many answers. Would love to know.
So which one actually ejected? Tre or Cheez?
Do you also have a safety spike [1] installed in your car?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike
Past discussion from November 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42098475
It sounds like he was “out” for weeks possibly, though? Seems like an overall very strange situation.
No, no, and no. This is exactly the problem!

You define conservative ideas as fascism in one swoop and now "they" are all evil, all discussion stops, and you fall in exactly the trap you accuse the other "side" of. We do not need sides. There is no "The Right" as much as there is no "The Left".

Of course we need to not allow fascism (and the populist MAGA nonsense), I have stated nothing to contrary.

For the record I tend to be strongly liberal progressive (see my various comments, although I keep politics on HN to a minimum).
But I also realize that only liberal progressive ideas are not enough, just handouts do not work, people want jobs through which they can support themselves, we need a working economy, reduce debt, etc, etc.

So, again, I wish we would come together instead of drifting more and more into extremes. If we did come together, we would not have a problem with fascism in the first place. We would not be so easily divide by populists smoke bombs like trans-athletes or alleged violent immigrants.

This is not "hopelessly naive" but intensely practical and necessary.
If only the USA as a country compared themselves with countries that do better.
Is there any research that shows that failing years in school and remaining longer than expected is linked with blindly believing anything AI grifters say?
I‘m building a Duolingo for Jazz Language.
I just finished my Mac speech to text app: https://whispertype.com
This phrase in my comment: perhaps not it kind but at least degree

That not negation of the article and is instead questioning the extent to which their observations are accurate vs caricatures influenced by an outlook on their customers that is already, in software terms, “user hostile”.

The last time I taught in college was about 8 years ago at a school with a similar demographic fit, and I can recognize a fair bit of what the author say but not at all to this degree. I still work in the industry and there’s a post-Covid shift that I think strongly explains a sharp downshift in students feeling attendance is important, but I think that aught to resonate with the HN crowd with respect to a now-common feeling that dogmatic adherence to mandatory full work-from-office isn’t necessary or worker friendly. Consider all the more how that feeling would take hold for young students that spent significant formative years just prior to college being fully or highly remote.

On literacy, that’s an area I have some analytical experience in. As far as I have seen, at least a fair bit of this perception is from the fact that students view homework etc as low-stakes writing but higher stakes get more attention and the end product reflects more ability than might otherwise be shown. Also, the professor in this article may simply not be adept at getting the best results from a group of students that sense the dislike aimed their way. However my analysis side also predates ChatGPT.
I interpreted the title as a manuscript by Merlin rather than about Merlin and was deeply confused for a bit.
>Why doesn't opposing capitalism count as a policy?

Yeah, fair point, I hadn't really thought about it that way. You're absolutely right, that is obviously a policy, and one that people don't agree with, woe unto them...

I guess it's like that author said: "It's easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism." I fell in to that trap of assumption, taking that not as a policy prescription, but as a far off amorphous aspiration.

I guess because it's obvious to me that even if he had had a super-majority that "ending capitalism" would still be a decades long reconstruction of the economy, not something one could put in to a bill put to congress. Plus I always saw him more as opposed to unrestrained capitalism in segments of our life that were basic needs, rather than opposition to capitalism as an idea. I must admit I do still hold some rose colored glasses, I guess.

>I should acknowledge, they were all boomers.

haha. unsurprising. I know first hand the type you describe, as someone who campaigned for him twice and is involved in local politics.
> That’s been happening from Leftist criticism for generations.

I'm talking about the principles: freedom, rights, and self-determination as self-evident, essential goods; progress as essential and good (real progress, not padding bank accounts); knowledge as the way humans can change their world; and knowledge provided by science and scholarship.

The left has criticized many things as lacking in knowledge and threats to freedom and rights, and the institutions, but not these principles.

> It wasn’t the MAGA movement that started dismantling Western culture in the US.

It was a branch of conservatives before them, but MAGA has fully embraced it. Look at the denial of freedom and human rights, replaced by a naked, aggressive embrace of oppression and cruelty. Look at the contempt for those things and progress, in the name of power. Look at replacing science with ideological disinformation - at even aggressively destroying science - even when it costs millions of lives, such as during a pandemic. How much blood is on their hands - how many needless deaths? Nobody talks about it.
> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda?

I think you got it backwards.

The question you should be asking yourself is why did so many Americans supported and even applauded the idea of murdering a CEO of a medical insurance company.

You barely get this level of reaction from condemning sadistic murderers with the death penalty. But when it happened to a specific CEO of a specific healthcare company, you saw a wave of popular support across the US.

Why do you think regular working people leading regular working class lives enthusiastically applauded it?
A reactive computational notebook with an effect system. Kinda like a "factorio for workflow processes." I want to use it to build backend pipelines or AI RAG pipelines. I'd be able to replay network effects for debugging. It is multiplayer and can be easily deployed to a server.

I'd always found web app backends to eventually need something that chained background jobs together. And inevitably, it was something bespoke without a lot of observability. It was always frustrating to maintain. And while building AI RAG pipelines, I've run into the same problems.
Now correct for income and see if it isn't linked to income rather than skin colour :)
> and more on the idea that a dictionary in the general sense is a mapping of input values to output values, and you can think of functions that way.

So what's the difference between a map and a dictionary then?

> Here's a really short example I put together

Much appreciated. I don't really know Haskell (nor any other functional language), but I'm pretty sure I understood it.

> This particular representation of dictionaries isn't necessarily something you'd really want to do

Yeah that's pretty much what I had in mind, and yes it's possible but it feels forced. For one you're not actually removing an element, you just make it impossible to retrieve. A distinction that might seem moot until you try to use it, depending on the compiler magic available.

> I'm actually co-authoring a talk for zurihac this year on this pattern

Sounds interesting, will check it out when it's published.
I haven't listed the reasons I am pointing the underlying lack of internal critisism in the democractic party and their supporters.

The democractic party was terrible in regards to many issues many people cared about.

You should stop caring about Trump and care about what people care about.
Equinix and Digital Realty are gold standard especially if you need comprehensive remote hands but $$$. CoreSite is also good and cheaper if you're in the US.
”To build capacity, the companies are competing for valuable spectrum rights—airwaves to carry their signals—which are in limited supply. Apple’s outer-space investments have drawn Musk’s ire, people familiar with the matter said. SpaceX has pushed federal regulators to stall an Apple-funded satellite expansion effort.”
Good work, I still use Windows 9X for emulation for DOS, 16 bit Windows, and 32 bit Windows programs. I do legacy systems and retro programming on them.
Where is this happening? URL?
I guess being unpriviliged this still guarantees the dragons are restricted your process, otherwise the chip would have a security problem. So as a heuristic you could fork your process, and try to execute SIMD operations (detecting known nonstandard versions and failing them), and if results seems fine send a "ok" flag up a pipe. (or compile this into a separate test executable)
The top marginal tax rate was 91% from 1945-1963. It was still 70% up until 1981.
That’s like saying the workers have all the leverage. They make the product, they should have all the power.

Unfortunately, leverage in the workplace comes from controlling the budget, which is the administrator’s job, not a professor’s.
It used to be that you had to mingle with people, and if you had a particularly crazy take on reality there was a dynamic where 80% of people around you IRL would not really take you seriously because respected people didn’t—especially if you were otherwise not appearing to be a socially well-integrated and productive person. This had a chilling effect on extreme views and helped somewhat bring the outliers in, so to speak. Now, even if you never leave your house, cannot hold a job or a relationship, you can find any number of people who share your extreme views, and the more extreme the views the tighter the community (due to justified exclusion IRL).

Naturally, it did not take too long for other people exploit that newly found dynamic in context of democracy and use tech to manipulate such people with fringe views for own short-term gains.
Nintendo handhelds from GB to New 3DS XL were mostly very pocketable (except for 2DS.) I am still a fan of the 3DS XL form factor, and the dual screen clamshell design. DS and GBA SP also had great clamshell form factors. 3DS was also fun to carry around for streetpasses.

But I really like the Switch in handheld mode, and I actually want a bigger screen since for me it's more of a baggable rather than a pocketable, and many games have tiny text or UI elements sized for docked/TV mode rather than handheld mode.
I'm not accusing Matt Y. of lying. I like him and subscribe to his Substack. I'm just saying that the article illustrates the shortcoming of his approach to public policy. His data-driven approach to public policy is based on an overly optimistic view of reliability of the data.
How does this make me a fascist? I am a fascist for thinking you’re dumb if you were allowed to vote and didn’t? I can’t judge someone for something without being called a fascist?

I think we have some very different definitions of words here.
That is probably a great idea!
Did Krebs comment on government suppressing discussion during COVID? The article reads like suddenly there are attacks on freedom of speech. It's been raging over the past four years.
Andrew Gelman: "No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits."
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/no-i-dont-... (Adding this older link here for cross reference)

A thread on Gelman's article is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006595.
I'm almost surprised that you had that few battery swelling incidents although I assume that in a corporate setting laptops tend to get refreshed before you're likely to have swollen batteries. I've had one myself in an Apple MacBook Pro but it was a pretty old model when that happened. (Also an older iPhone that was driving my stereo system when I went to replace it after doing an upgrade.)
He's describing how I acted as a college student in 2006 (notably, pre-phone), and how my mother experienced being a professor in 2008. I really don't like when I see arguments like that.
Condé Nast providing an invaluable public service here.
> Actions buried deep within menus.

Maybe they are though in CS school that every layer of abstraction is better. I don't see other explanation for this level of stupidity.
Miriam Adelson, the widow of Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, in 2020 election contributed $90 million to a pro-Trump super PAC called Preserve America. In the 2024 election, she gave $100 million to a pro-Trump campaign committee, making her one of the largest individual donors supporting Trump's candidacy. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of the Lobby's money.

Very Freudian of you to equate pro-Israeli zionist lobby with the "Jew".
This is called suppressing "disinformation" in the other circles.
It definitely has its limitations, but I think it's good enough for a start, might add a few more as well