skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried a few times and this is my experience

1. Doesn't work at all on Firefox 133.0.3 (64-bit)

2. Works on Chrome 131.0.6778.205 (Official Build) (64-bit)

3. No existing links do anything but a sub second "Generating" which disappears quickly

4. Does not work in Incognito on Chrome 131.0.6778.205 (Official Build) (64-bit)

My prompt kind of worked but ended at 48 seconds

Prompt: "Describe a honeybee learning which flower to land on in a field using Markov Decision Process with Bellman updating":

https://tma.live/video/88f535b5-0e5f-41ca-9bd8-e35e7aa8a95a

I ran it a second time and got a longer video of 1:55 but it primarily just created Text. It also didn't explain Bellman's equation and wrote it incorrectly:

https://tma.live/video/88f535b5-0e5f-41ca-9bd8-e35e7aa8a95a

The second prompt kind of worked but ends at 47 seconds and then loops the final 4 seconds forever.

Prompt: "Describe how the OODA Loop, MDP and SPA learning approaches are the same"

https://tma.live/video/ee7b5048-3fde-4f1a-8ec1-c8bb48883c75

Overall this worked as described. It's more than fast enough, but fails to deliver on consistency and graphics.

A few more iterations and fine tuning and you'll have a solid Beta. I can see this being very useful after another year or so of use and tuning.

Great work and congrats on shipping.
Umm..late comment, but people are still buying smartphones made out of plastic, even recycled plastic these days.
Ah, yes. Back in the '90s I'd visit Wordsworths in Harvard Square every few weeks to pick up the latest volume of Apple developer documentation. Great bookstore, great books. (Didn't use most of them, but it definitely made me feel hip in an Apple-centric way.)
I was surprised to read they don't expect atmospheric burnup and are targeting a splash down in the Indian Ocean. I really hope someone didn't mess up some mundane detail in their calculations.
Old women are not women?
How do you reckon Rakuten makes money to afford those cashback dollars?
One idea. Just a thought. You could find ways to help OTHER people succeed?
I suppose in my case, both? I use my first name everywhere, but keep my last name private.

The theory behind it is that my first name is common, and having that one common element shared between so many people that make usernames creates a barrier to gathering information easily. If my name was too unique, then it would be easier to find and identify my activity, but as-is, I am not the only person on the net with my username, so anyone performing research has to spend extra time weeding out those people.

Also, I generally don't post anything I wouldn't stand behind anyway.
In Canada, one cannot lump all immigrants together even those from the same part of the world. Canada used to be pretty strict on immigration only allowing highly skilled individuals from all over the world. But in the last decade this has changed to just importing as many bodies as possible. I won't go into the reasons for this change but it has dramatically altered the character of the country in this time.

We have essentially imported an entire massive underclass to run all our fast food restaurants and other such jobs.
Right, exactly! I personally felt much less safe in Paris than anywhere in the US (including Chicago and Oakland), which is not to say "I'm right and you're wrong", it's just entirely subjective and often the result of having not traveled extensively enough or lack of understanding.
There aren't any rules.

Or to be a bit more precise, the rule says any "European state" can join, but there are no set-in-stone definitions of what that actually means.

People here are mentioning Morocco as the example of a country rejected for not being European, but that's not quite accurate: Morocco got rejected from the European Communities in 1987, six years the Maastricht Treaty officially established the EU. Maastricht Treaty specifically put the European Commission in charge of figuring out which countries are considered to be "European", but as far as I know, they never said no to anyone. They did say yes to Cyprus, Georgia and Armenia.
Even if we take a family of 4 as an example, who are at most 1/3rd of Netflix's user base according to another commenter, that means having 4 TVs/PCs, all on at the same time, and all with Netflix playing. That seems like a real edge case at the fringes to me, not least because it would necessitate no one in the family being together.
Trump boosting the economy again?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2024/11/11/vil...
It depends on the complexity of the project. I assumed something nontrivial, like this project. I outlined some thoughts on the effects of consistent development and what the project might become in a comment above (current state vs. becoming a go-to visualization tool in the field for years to come).

Regarding the JavaScript ecosystem—I never mentioned it. Replacing one tool with another has nothing to do with the evolution of a single project.
Lots of Europe has ethnic strife and tensions. Bosnian / Serbian. Czech / Slovak (until recently). Spain has its breakaway ethnic movements. Ireland like others mentioned is a close analogue.
TBF, those are 2 EU languages.
Yes this is where I split from my fellow leftists. I will not allow a parallel society to exist. The daughters of Indian parents will be granted the same rights as those of Western parents.
There will be no dowries and no caste system.
>whose physical presence spans a majority of a major continent,

I take your point, but this part isn't true. Canada is a little larger, and then there is also Mexico which is about 1/2 the size, so US is roughly 2/5ths of North America.
Agreed! My take is that usages still can infringe if the output produced would otherwise infringe. I would take the fact that you use AI as the particular tool to accomplish the infringement as incidental.
Wrong

The EU parliament is elected and the EU council is indirectly elected.
Everyone else paid the bribe (Zuckerberg, Altman, and Bezos all donated $1 million) so I guess it doesn't make sense to be the odd man out. I'm predicting that Pichai will be next to go to Mar-a-largo to bend the knee and paid his tribute.
Speedrunning idiocracy. We're so all-in on this lol.
My first thought was "Hah! Water viscosity doesn't change that much with temperature!" But it actually does; it's twice as viscous at 0°C than at 30°C.

https://wiki.anton-paar.com/us-en/water/
I don't think the image is an artistic representation- I think it's an actual micrograph of fluorescently labelled cells. They may have called it that because some level of postprocessing was applied. In short, when this type of micrograph is taken, it's generated using a sequence of laser pulses, each laser pulse has a different wavelength of light designed to match one of the fluorescent labels, which itself emits a different wavelength of light. The images themselves are collected in grayscale and then a false-color image is created by coloring each grayscale image (mapping gray intensity to luminance) and compositing them. The color mapping does not recapitulate the underlying colors of the images that were taken although usually when these images are rendered, a color very close to the emission wavelength of the fluorescent label is used.

That said it's not impossible to conjure up prompts that would make a generative AI produce images that look a lot like a micrograph of cells. I skimmed the referenced paper and didn't see this image but I suspect the authors provided it in the PR package they must have distributed.
> Turkey had a well functioning democracy

Turkey has a functioning democracy it's just that most of the population loves populist rhetoric. Erdogan's party lost mayoral elections in all the major cities.

> Solid economics

Turkey had a GDP PPP of $3.45 trillion in 2024 (12th in the world)

> Didn't have the death penalty

Turkey doesn't have the death penalty.

> Found some sort of resolution to conflicts on its borders

The conflict in Syria is resolved in Turkey's favor. The potential conflict with Greece is a different issue though.

I don't think Turkey's EU application being in limbo is because of whatever excuse EU politicians can conjure up at any moment in time. It's because Turkey, if accepted into the EU, would be the most populous country, the biggest country by landmass, the most powerful country militarily, and the youngest country in the EU. Turkish agriculture and manufacturing would be a lot more competitive compared to EU products.
From the first few paragraphs it doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

"Now AI has made everything more complex!" "AI is embedded in everything we do"...

Sounds like marketing gibberish and obfuscation, combined with self promotion.

That's just my read at first sniff.
Yeah I agree, I don't see the point in waking up so early for crossword games either
> more that I'm unsurprised

Bingo.

You want to stick your lawyers on them and try to punish them and extract as much money as you can out of them? Fine. Whatever.

>> not screwing over their partners and customers?

I wasn't around to organically take in this situation, but being introduced to Honey by seeing this blow up today, I can only say: "...no? I don't think so?"

Take, for example, the wild west days of rampant SEO exploitation (I'm talking like 2000s or 2010s era) and its race to the bottom, and Google's subsequent refinement of the SEO program over the years. Why am I supposed to root for one side over the other, again?

Their bottom line purpose is the revenue stream; this is not a FOSS project that does so much as to not even solicit donations.

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I hope the top thread writer from that HN discussion five years ago is having a field day dancing on top of his I-told-you-so mountain :)
Voting with your wallet only works in competitive markets. The vast majority of what you use day-to-day have been monopolized so you don't really have a choice.
> a couple of famous Haskell folks.

Who?
10%?!? That's not grounded in reality - only ignorance, maybe prejudice.
Just apply everywhere, the market is terrible and you will need to cast a wide net.
> what could be the supposed benefit of committing each line like that?

If you're making two meaningfully different changes, I would always say two tiny commits are better. Not only for organization, but to make it easier to revert just one change.
The issue is that those equations just fall out of the three laws of motion, gravity, and a surface with a particular shape. The equations of motion here aren’t things Norton came up with, they’re what you get when you analyze Newtonian motion on this surface.

Likewise, the branching function isn’t a result of stitching together two equations of motion. It’s a result of analyzing the motion of a particle with a certain initial velocity. Work the math in an entirely conventional way and the result is that the particle travels up the dome, stops at the top, and stays there forever. Since Newtonian physics is symmetrical with respect to time, that means you should be able to reverse the particle’s motion at any point and have it traverse the same points at the same times, but backwards. This means that you can have a particle that stays still for an arbitrary time and then spontaneously starts to move.

You can’t object to the equations of motion unless you object to Newtonian physics. The particular equations of motions here are derived from Newton’s laws. The only thing that’s chosen is the shape of the surface, and it seems sensible to say that a surface can have any continuous shape in Newtonian physics.

There are a few ways out of this.

1. Declare the problem to be unphysical and therefore ignorable. This has the notable benefit of being objectively true (totally smooth surfaces don’t exist, solid matter is made of discrete particles, blah blah blah).

2. Decide (or accept?) that time reversibility in laws of motion does not necessarily imply time reversibility in a specific evolution under those laws. I’d bet this one is attractive to programmers: of course the integrator isn’t required to return to the initial conditions when you run it backwards. Time reversibility? Take a backup before you run, and restore if you want to go back.

3. Declare that Newtonian physics forbids certain shapes. This works but seems totally arbitrary.
> As you admit, “The US has its own problems”, so it is not successful

That's not at all what I was saying. I believe the US is wildly successful in integrating immigrants, since it is a nation of immigrants after all. Even the native population, which, despite what you said, was not entirely "killed". The indigenous population today owns a significant portion of land in the US and many tribes benefit significantly from using it or leasing it out (speaking from personal experience, the Agua Caliente and Apache tribes). Whether or not those tribes are "flourishing" is another fascinating story, but they certainly have the resources and potential.
2025 will hopefully be the year I choose to retire, at 38, and $6M saved up in liquid assets (very boring index funds).

My tricks will be:

- Living modestly. I never spent more than $50-60k a year in my life even while living in Silicon Valley and traveling internationally a few times a year. I plan to keep it that way, it will probably go up a little bit if I have to pay for my own healthcare on the exchange.

- Traveling extensively but to cheap destinations and off season.

- I am also a dual citizen US/EU so if the US healthcare situation becomes too wild (e.g. ACA gets repealed) I can get universal healthcare in my home country, which is “free” (in quote because in order to get into the healthcare system there I would need to become a resident, which comes with a substantially higher tax on dividend/capital gains than US, but that’s still an infinitely better deal than the US healthcare situation).
I only use my real name, it's a lot more professional than posting via an alt.
Yeah I don't agree. I'm building a product in the space, and the number one problem is correctness, not latency.

People are very happy to sit there for minutes if the correctness is high and the quality is high. It's still 100x or 1000x faster than finding 3rd party developers to work for you.

I wish the models were getting better but recently they've felt very stuck and this is it, so agent architectures will be the answer in the short term. That's what's working for us at srcbook rn.
This paper has been available for a few weeks, and I wrote an article [1] exploring how to apply its inner workings to the design of multi-agent systems. If you can design "reasoning" at the model level, you can also design "reasoning" in larger, more complex systems using the same principles.

https://melvintercan.com/p/lessons-from-reasoning-designing
My concern is stuff that can get you in trouble can change. Jews in 1920’s Germany probably(?) didn’t think there was any reason to hide that they were Jews.
Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
Super cool! Great idea!
In NL the housing shortage is blamed on immigrants whereas the actual reason for said shortage is absolutely the politics of the right-wing cabinets for the last 15 years who did nothing significant to improve the speed of housing construction.

It’s not that strange as one of the political parties basically explicitly protects business interests and oh boy did they profit. It’s political nihilism.
These are amazing examples! Thanks for all the feedback, detailed info, and persistence in trying! HN hug of death means I'm running into Gemini rate limits unfortunately :( will def make that more clear when it happens in the UI and try to find some workarounds.

The other issues are bugs with my streaming logic retrying clips which failed to generate. LLMs aren't yet perfect at writing Manim, so to keep things smooth I try to skip clips which fail to render properly. Still also have layout issues which are hard to automatically detect.

I expect with a few more generations of LLM updates, prompt iterating, and better streaming/retrying logic on my end this will become more reliable
It's the shortest path to Hyrum's Law, certainly.

> And obviously with or without reflection anyone can already modify the private field.

This bit, I don't understand. Wouldn't that require unsafe?

EDIT: Just to say: Abstract data types usually require upholding some invariants which all the operations on those data types must uphold at entry/exit. If anyone can do whatever, then what's left othen than just a bag of bytes?
I'm not sure what you're responding to. I'm asking whether there is any bit of the place that is worth differentiating from what was said above, not having a prejudice about any which 10%
As a millennial Canadian, this. I've never seen this much disdain for immigration, not even close. Definitely can't blame people though, our immigration rate is completely insane, talking multiple times higher than the US rate or the EU rate at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis.

Our GDP per capita has gone down every quarter for what, at least 2 years?

Medical care, cost of living, everything is the worst I've experienced in my lifetime. When I was in university our dollar and average income were both higher than the US', now our dollar is at 70 cents USD and our average income is 40% lower...
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Time reversible systems make causality fuzzy. There’s nothing special about this example in that respect. You can’t object have ball A hit ball B. A causes B to move. You can then reverse it, end up with an equivalent but time reversed system where B hits A, and B causes A to move.
Sounds like the integration might be at effective gunpoint (threat of deportation) and not entirely voluntary.
Conscious unbossing
Yes, that should've been "no one."

I think I understand the disconnect. In Canada, anyone who is living here but is not a citizen is usually considered an immigrant (unless they are a refugee). Once they have their citizenship, they're just Canadian. We don't really make the migrant distinction, at least in my experience.

So when I say that we need to reduce the number of immigrants living in Canada in 2025, I only mean we need to reduce the number of temporary foreign workers. Part of the problem is that many people who came on temporary work visas don't plan to leave, they intend to exploit loopholes in the system to turn what was a temporary visa into permanent residency. So yes, in theory we just need to not extend the visas. In practice things will be messy.
Under the OG Constitution, the House was the only branch of government directly elected by the people, and therefore most accountable to them. The terms were short (biannual) so that legislators would regularly be held accountable and easy to replace. A lot of the other machinery of government was put in place as a check on all this democracy, so that momentary passions and demagoguery couldn't bring down the government through a kind of mob rule.

The founders further recognized the special democratic legitimacy of the House by giving it the sole power to impeach and to propose legislation that spent money.

You can fairly characterize the framers' attitude as "the democracy is coming from inside the House", both for good and ill. The strong presidency we know is more a function of precedent (set by Washington, Adams and especially Jackson) than an explicit feature of the Constitution. Whether Congress or the executive would have primacy was an open question for the first few decades of the country's history.
hey thanks for this! inaightful
If you ask an AI for the best pizza place in town how would you know if the answer is paid for or not?

There's no defense against a future in which an AI response has undisclosed purchased bias. Regulation is impotent.
Hijacking deprives someone else of their rights. Living differently than your neighbor doesn’t change anything for your neighbor. Nothing is “hijacked”.
H1Bs America Doesn't Got Talent
Many are fretting over H1Bs displacing US jobs. Who needs them when theyre already displacing you via outsourcing.
Tree of Thoughts: Using Simple Search Algorithms with Your AI Agents
A migrant is simply someone who moves from one place to another, in this context from one country to another. The legality of said move is irrelevant, and they are additional people that need housing and services. The number of people who have moved to Canada, through an unending series of special programs and exemptions and visa waivers and programs is colossal.

But if we must talk about illegals, yes Canada has an enormous number of people who technically aren't allowed to be in country. They came here legally -- given that this government is so set on not being racist that they removed virtually all checks and restrictions -- and just...didn't leave, for instance it's incredibly common for legal temporary residents to bring their parents here to "visit", where visit means live here. And anyone thinking the five million with expiring visas are going to leave is deluded.

As to housing, it basically hit peak insanity in 2016 on its natural curve and stagnated through to 2020 (literally - 2020 was slightly below 2016, inflation adjusted). So this government juiced every immigration channel to the max, leading to a massive inflation in housing. Yes, it was immigration that caused that, as something where demand closely matches supply is going to be massively out of balance when suddenly demand vastly exceeds supply over a short period of time.

One of the parent posts lamented people "blaming immigrants". I don't blame immigrants. I do blame immigration, however, and a government that turned a blind eye to the catastrophic effects, buying as much time as they can by just telling everyone that it's racist to dare question mass migration or its effects. All of Africa, South Asia and the Middle East can't just move to Western countries. That isn't rational or sustainable.

"targets almost exclusively wealthier / skilled people"

Have you not updated your priors since 2003? Wealthier/skilled people make up a very small minority of Canada's new residents. An absolutely tiny proportion. Which is a big reason Canada has had multiple years of GDP/capita contraction. We have millions of doordash drivers and Tim Hortons workers imported from abroad.

https://dennisforbes.ca/articles/10000_brainiacs.html
You can get cheaper hosting of open weights from a commercial provider than you can closed weights from the same company. So even if you’re not hosting yourself, openness is a major factor for price competitiveness.
This isn't true. There are about 1 million international students in Canada and they aren't cherry picked. Basically anyone who gets into any of the strip mall colleges in Ontario gets in, and many of them are basically just diploma mills "selling" Canadian immigration status to anyone willing to pay. There is nominally a requirement to be self sufficient financially but it just requires showing you have 20k CAD in a bank account somewhere. Many people fake this by borrowing 20k to show the sufficient balance and then pay it back, and even if they aren't faking it, having 20k isn't enough to support yourself in Vancouver or Toronto for a year.
Is it as bad as they're making it out to be? The fdroidserver get_first_signer_certificate can give a different result to apksigner, but then fdroidserver calls apksigner anyway for verification, and F-Droid mitigates the issue in various other ways.

I think F-Droid were acting in the right up to that point; and then the latest update (regex newlines) is 0day? Has there been a response from F-Droid about the updates?
goodnews is the market is still too early, a lot of people still dont know these things exist. as long as you keep showing up you're gonna get a piece of the pie