SamPatt

Emotions do seem to act as signaling, but is that the same as an attempt at manipulation for the benefit of the individual?

It seems conceivable in social groups that having an honest accounting of how people are feeling (via emotions) available to the group might benefit the group in achieving their goals while not always benefiting the individual.

Many comments are mocking the "Non-technical teams are now shipping production code" line as an obvious disaster waiting to happen.

I think this will be commonplace in the not too distant future.

Some disasters will happen, just like they did before AI. Skeptics will gleefully point out these failures while more and more non-technical teams ship code.

I can second the sentiment, I have had kdenlive crash on me several times without saving.

I still use it because it's great for quick and simple things, and I save frequently, but it is extremely frustrating when it happens.

Yes. This is why copy-trading often fails.

You can see when they buy or sell a position. It's on the blockchain so it's all public. And yes, copying positions is called copy-trading and it's extremely popular.

Orders aren't public though. Only the actual trades. This is important because by the time the trade is known by others very often the edge is gone. Especially if you have other people watching the same trader and they all try to copy the trade at the same time.

Ah I understand you now. Yes I could have had a service do the digitizing then only done delivery myself. And given the time investment that probably would have been more sound. I don't think I'd do it all myself if I did it again.

I didn't know Gemini models were that capable. I admit I'm still skeptical about this approach though - even if it were capable of accurately labeling people and locations across decades, there's no way it could know when a scene is of personal interest. I kept a running log for each sibling as I was manually doing the labeling, knowing what they'd want to see, which presumably is only possible for me and my siblings to do with any accuracy.

If AI could ever do that then we've definitely hit ASI!

I'll have to try that next time

Yup, you nailed it. This was my exact concern.

It wasn't about having the videos held hostage, but about the ease of accessing and viewing them. I didn't want to do DVDs at all - frankly, that's just a bad experience to go through 200+ hours of unlabeled video.

Hi gwern!

My siblings are very much not developers. That's a lot of data for them to download, store, and figure out a way to view.

I was worried they'd just see a list of filenames and not put in the effort. By creating a streaming experience, I thought they'd actually watch them.

You might be correct that Gemini could have helped, I didn't test it, but much of the knowledge of who was in a scene, where it was, and why it would matter is inside my head. I doubt any model could effectively label locations and people over 20 years of video.

As to the opportunity cost - I'm currently looking for work, so mine is undoubtedly lower than yours!

I'm sorry to hear that. I agree. I'm fortunate. I hope that you can enjoy the memories as best you can.

Bro, you're paranoid. I'm the author. Look at my blog. I write my stories myself. I wrote a geoguessr article last year that hit the top of HN.

Yes, I've used VLC. But I'm using a fairly new machine and hadn't installed it yet.

Why does it strain credulity to make this myself? I explain it step by step. I enjoy using AI to build stuff myself.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I posted this 5 days ago, and it didn't seem like anyone saw it then, so I'm happy folks are enjoying it now.

I would absolutely try that first.

It's the Big Video8 cartel astroturfing.

Really? I'm the author and I can't conceive of any way this could be considered marketing. It's a personal project, I'm selling nothing.

But I am looking for work, so hey, if anyone is hiring and they enjoyed the post, then email me.

It's a joke; my grandma worked as a switchboard operator in the 1940s for two weeks. As she says, she "disconnected half of Washington DC."

We often refer to government agents as "feds." I wasn't considering an international audience with my title, apologies!

Glad you enjoyed it. Definitely get some good videos.

I have a NAS backup as well.

Thank you, and thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that.

Immich is great, after doing this project I installed it for our current family photos and it works well, although I keep hitting a bug where older photos are blurred and never load. I need to investigate that.

Thanks for the tip! Part of the issue of automated scene detection was that there isn't any way to get the other metadata, such as who is in the scene or the date.

But I could have probably auto split the entire file at the start then just do that metadata per file. Although I found being able watch the entire video was quite nice.

Agreed. Applying the intelligence we already have more broadly will have a huge impact. That's been true for a while now, and it keeps getting more true as models keep getting better.

I found coordinating skill usage across worktrees quite annoying, how are you managing this?

5.2 Codex is excellent at reviewing commits. I haven’t used 5.3, I assume it's as good or better.

Especially for large commits, it's become indispensable.

Or maybe when we actually see it happening we realize it's not so dangerous as people were claiming.

Everything has tradeoffs - those panels themselves take energy and rare earth minerals to create, and getting both of those requires pollution, primarily in China where they have lower standards than western nations.

So filling Canada with panels because they're cheap isn't likely the best environmental choice, on net. Though I admit I haven't done the math here, it's just an intuition that "just build 4x panels" isn't the solution.

Yes, and it's wonderful to see. As the article itself explains, this isn't due to government led redistribution of wealth anymore:

> The 20th century infrastructure model was:

> Centralized generation

> Government-led

> Megaproject financing

> 30-year timelines

>Monopolistic utilities

> The 21st century infrastructure model is:

> Distributed/modular

> Private sector-led

> PAYG financing

> Deploy in days/weeks

> Competitive markets

Agreed. But there are poor people in Canada, and forcing them to pay more money (and slightly lowering their own quality of life) so that wealthier Canadians can install solar panels is, at least, a debatable policy.

Everything has a tradeoff. That's a foundational truth of economics.

Environmental protection is a luxury good in economic terms. The Environmental Kuznets Curve is compelling to me. It's extremely difficult to assess the ROI on long term investments, particularly when your country has unstable rule of law or conflict.

I'm pro-solar, it's amazing technology that empowers individuals and communities. I just don't agree that everything I love I must force other people to pay for.