skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the starting point of your project and (keeping AI hallucinations in mind) how a simple prompt can generate a quick overview that can be used to visually grasp a topic/concept: https://mindmapwizard.com/view.html?id=1740053924303

What I would like to see improved are:
1. Option to choose the format of the mind map. Hierarchical is clear, but it could branch out in all directions from a central idea instead of reading LTR like a flowchart.
2. Canvas editing mode to move the position of the branches. At the moment they are quite close together with not much space between them, which makes it difficult to read.
3. Edit the branches directly on the canvas instead of just in markdown.

There's definitely more to improve, but I think that's enough for now ;)

Hope the feedback helps, keep working on it!
Base-Load Nuclear Reactors for Dispatchable Electricity
None of what you are saying is true.
This is hardly the first instance of "if only venture capitalists light their money on fire, we can have nice things."

Spoiler: Venture capitalists don't light their money on fire, and we can't have nice things.
There is a chasm of difference between your purpose and the purpose of something you do.

If you build a chair, the purpose of doing so could be to sit or to earn money by selling it. We can derive exactly which from your actions and the outcomes, but there is still an identifiable purpose. However, it is entirely different to claim your purpose is to build chairs.

Similarly, in my previous example someone can hit someone else with the purpose of harming them, but it doesn’t mean that person’s purpose is to cause harm.

Do you see the difference? I do kind of feel like I’m discussing middle school philosophy here. I surely hope that is not my purpose. This whole conversation was unnecessary with a tiny bit of steel manning on your part, don’t you think? Does it truly seem reasonable to you to claim an entire species’ purpose is to do something they do not only not pursue but actively avoid? I’m confident you are able to see the point by now.
You haven't yet learned the lesson of the Trump victories. The lesson is that he can just do whatever he wants, and there are no adults in the room to stop him.

Elon is starting to catch on.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/its-easy-to-save-billion...
Really interesting model, I'm looking forward to play with it.

But what I want is a multimodal agent model capable of generating embeddings for a humanoid control model like Meta motivo[0] rather than directly outputting coordinates.

Meta motivo is still a toy model, trained on the SMPL skeleton, which lacks fingers which limits its capabilities beside having some fun with it. They could have used a more advanced based model, SMPL-X, which includes fingers, but there isn’t enough open motion data with precise finger motion to train a robust manipulation model anyway.

Most existing motion datasets come from academic motion capture setups, which are complex and not focused on manipulation tasks (and also pretty old). I believe this gap will be filled by improvements in 3D HPE from 2D video. With access to thousands of hours of video, we can build large-scale motion datasets covering a wide range of real-world interactions.

This will enable training the two components needed for dexterous humanoid robots: the agentic model that decides what actions to take and generates embeddings that can be read by a control model that accurately models hand and finger joint movement.

Given the rapid progress in the capabilities of SoTA 3D HPE from 2D video, and the vast amount of videos online (Youtube), I expect we will see humanoid robots with good manipulation capabilities it the not so distant future.

[0]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/metamotivo
Ok but these are going to be humanoid robots, so it makes sense for them to use the appliances that have been designed for use by humans. I don’t really care if tasks like doing the dishes or doing the laundry take 1 hour or 10 hours, as long as they get done.
I don't see that accommodating this behavior is prosocial or technically desirable.

Can you think of a use case?

All sorts of bots want this sort of access, but whether there are legitimate reasons to grant it to them on a non-sharded basis is another question since a lot of these queries do not scale resources with O(n) even on a centralized server architecture.
These sessions are used to record clips that they can show their constituents. They are not for real debate.
Sure, maybe the teenage hacker was acting in good faith.

> Based off of this reporting it's not conclusive.

The (linked in article) Krebs article is pretty damning, including screenshots of why he was fired.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...
Yeah, I also found this a bit unintuitive at first. I’m building a workflow engine myself (https://pgflow.dev/pgflow, not released yet), and I’ve been thinking a lot about how to model the DSL for the graph and decided to make dependencies explicit and use method chaining for expansion with other step types.

Here’s how it would look like in my system:

new Flow<string>()
.step("llm", llmStepHandler)
.step("decider", ["llm"], deciderStepHandler)
.step("agentOne", ["decider"], agentOneStepHandler)
.step("agentTwo", ["decider"], agentTwoStepHandler)
.step("workflow", ["agentOne", "agentTwo"], workflowStepHandler);

Mine is a DAG, so more constrained than the cyclic graph Mastra supports (if I understand correctly).
"We only support macOS only at the moment, so please let us know which platforms you use and we’ll notify you when we offer support!"

MacOS is becoming the default platform for development now? This in and of itself, is a threat.
The difference is that in most dictatorships that have "elections", the elections are run by the central government. In the US, the states run the elections. Sure, the US federal government has some levers and influence, but I think our elections are less susceptible to presidential tampering due to their decentralized nature.
I survived cancer because of modern medical advances.

I'll take the world with Rituxan and CAR T-cell therapy, thank you.
This makes me wonder - would chickens grow more efficiently if you cook their food for them?

When we invented cooking it gave us a massive advantage because of the nutritional efficiency, yet we feed animals just random raw stuff. Would feeding them porridge instead of grain lead to higher output?
When making a new repo, reset your initial branch back to master with the following command:

git config --global init.defaultBranch master

There's the equivalent setting in GitHub.
List of startup accelerators (in case you don't get into YC)
So that's the same as on Mastodon. What's the difference again?
Trump has prohibited Musk from being involved in any reviews where he was a material conflict (FAA for example).

You keep saying things that are blatantly untrue, people give you massive evidence they aren't true, then you keep saying them. Why is that?

Elon Musk’s Companies Were Under Investigation by Five Inspectors General When the Trump Administration Fired Them and Made Musk the Investigator

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/02/elon-musks-companies-...

https://www.levernews.com/trump-purges-inspectors-general-in...

Agency sent a memo to all agency staff notifying them that “all election security activities” would be paused pending the results of an internal investigation. The memo also stated that the administration was cutting off all funds to the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center—a Department of Homeland Security–funded organization that helps state and local officials monitor, analyze, and respond to cyberattacks targeting the nation’s election hardware and software.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-doge-layof...

FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/fda-...

https://gizmodo.com/doge-reportedly-cuts-fda-employees-inves...
Democracy is held together by people willing to follow the rules.

In Trump's first administration they realized the trick is to just move so fast that you flood the system and can do whatever you want before anyone sees through all the noise or has a chance to stop you. Steve Bannon was interviewed on camera saying as much.
The NYP is important and they report facts. I don't identify with the comedian's critique. I agree that it is odd that the elite news organizations have turned so biased and subjective so as to elevate the other half of the media landscape, and not the FOX News types. NYP is one of those organization diligently reporting real, fact-based stories in human terms. That's my personal experience anyway.

I've been infuriated over and over by AP presenting nonsense as the news, and perhaps I hold them to a higher standard based on they way they position themselves. More than once I've had the reaction that their high-profile reporting was flagrantly wrong. I've never had that reaction to a NYP article, and I seek out the NYP when reports in other outlets are vague or insufficient.
No? Thinking the world has gotten worse is classic old person chuntering from time immemorial.
I think it is just easier to comprehend if the edges/dependencies are explicit (as an array for example).
I'm following AI news and models for few years now and i have not read about your Grok2 controversy.

Nonetheless, i do not use grok and i do not try it out due to it being part of Musk.

I'm also not aware that Grok2 was communicated as the top model in any relevant timespan at all. Perhaps it just didn't deliver? Or a lot more people are not awaare of how to use it or boycot Musk.

After all he clearly doesn't care for any rules or laws it is probably a very high risk sending anything to grok.
>This can potentially enable an end run around congress and the courts in that the President can easily choose to interpret laws in a manner inconsistent with the intent of congress and courts

Good.

I hope they do so. Because if trump and friends do it it'll get struck down and precedent will be established. It will likely be too late to stop them, but it will stop the next guy. And the next guy may very well be some establishment swamp creature that would never have encountered any resistance from the other branches doing the same and worse.
Before this EO the executive branch policy on court orders was "always listen to them." This EO changes that to "ignore court orders if they conflict with what the president wants"
Ah, reinforcement learning.

Edit: explaining it in text

they have run the equivalent of

expected_output = torch.tril(torch.matmul(A,B))

ai_output = ai()

In the nested torch expression above for the expected output, there is an intermediate value (the matmul). The backing memory for this is returned to torch after the entire expression is computed.

The model's code which runs directly afer this then requested memory of the same shape (torch.like()). Torch has dutifully returned the block it just reclaimed (containing the expected output) without zeroing it. And so the model has the answer.

Pretty crazy that this was the code it converged on regardless of the fact that it invalidates the original claim.
Ever ate a carrot? The whole plant has to be "killed". Killing doesn't even make sense in the context of plants, a lot of them can just be cloned from a leaf, stem or root. Where do you draw the line between damaging and killing a plant, the termination of the apical meristem? The plant will stop growing but it can still clone itself, or grow more apical meristems...

This whole argument is absolutely meaningless.

edit: just pointing out I'm not directly replying to you but to the whole thread.
Great system of check and balances that it can be so easily by-passed.
I personally don’t think much of the maximum entropy principle. If you look at the axioms that inform it, they don’t really seem obviously correct. Further, the usual qualitative argument is only right in a certain lens: namely they say choosing anything else would require you to make more assumptions about your distribution than is required. Yet it’s easy to find examples where the max entropy solution suppresses some states more than is necessary etc., which to me contradicts that qualitative argument.
> The spoils system was still prevalent in many state and city governments until the mid 1900s.

Chicago, NYC, the entire state government of New Jersey....

That stuff still goes on today.
well tbf their server pro support is actually good, but we still had a lot of minor issues, we barely had a dead one in Production. Most problems arises after unpacking. Like the one I told.
Of course we had dead transrecievers and dead hard drives, but the pro support guys only want the support zip that you can create from the drac and they ask for some details and than they order replacements parts for you.
This is a great article on finding actual savings. Surprise surprise, it doesn't look like scapegoating and witch hunting the enemy of the week. https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-27-we-found-the-2-trill...
Grok 3 AI and Some Plane Geometry
At Elon Musk's Web site X, just saw their
invitation to try their AI software:

Grok 3 is here. Try it for free.

The world's smartest AI, Grok 3, is
now available on X and iOS. Tap
below to try.

There is a lot on the Internet about how
'smart' current AI is in general and also
for math at

https://epoch.ai/frontiermath

Okay, for a "Try":

Given triangle ABC, by construction find D
on AB and E on BC so that the lengths AD =
DE = EC.

As a college freshman, solved this quickly
using an idea I cooked up in 10th grade.

So, just gave the problem to Grok 3. At
first, it did well restating the problem.

Then it tried, guessing at the length AD,
using a compass to draw a circle, etc.,
and finally stated why that effort didn't
work, i.e., the guess for the length AD
was just a guess and likely wrong.

Then did this ~4 more times.

Net, it quit and, thus, failed.

For the English language part, it did
okay. For finding an idea that solved the
problem, it never got started and failed.

An idea that solves the problem is likely
not in the Grok 3 'training' set. So,
Grok 3 is good at plagiarizing English
text but not at 'understanding' it.

Knuth's program TeX is good at formating
math. The text editor Kedit beats a
typewriter for entering text. The program
Aspell is good at checking English
language spelling. A Brother printer is
terrific at printing English language
text. But none of these four have much
hope at solving this geometry problem.

If Grok 3 failed at what I cooked up in
the 10th grade, then there is not much
hope soon for AI at

https://epoch.ai/frontiermath
And then they'll lose federal funding for all sorts of things. The states will sue, possibly win, and Trump will say "make me", and the judiciary will sigh and say "we can't".
- Musk does not have the authority to fire anyone, or terminate any programs. He's only an advisor. It's up to agency heads to act (or not) on any recommendations.

- The team aren't accessing data they don't have appropriate security clearances for.

- They don't have write access to data, only read access.

- Musk is not authorised to review any agency or program where he has a material conflict.
Reference please! To my knowledge DOGE has not uncovered any obvious cases of financial fraud. Every example of their cost-cutting that I've looked at (and I've dug!) has been lawfully congressionally appropriated funds being spent according to guidelines from the previous administration making reasonable interpretations of the congressionally passed budget. The new administration forbids spending on initiatives related to increasing diversity, equity, or inclusiveness or decreasing climate change, as well as disapproves of most kinds of foreign aid. None of this is fraud.
It seems the only thing the supreme Court can do now days is rule if something is unconstitutional or if a last has been broken. But has no check on the executive according to the regimes arguments. The only check is for Congress to impeach and convict apparently. And there are too many demagogue followers in those changes for that to ever happen.
Try this then: every animal eats other living things to survive. We have been doing it for a billion years. Is a basic drive built into it DNA. After that, is just a question of which living things you are going to eat.
> Reality has a famously left wing bias.

Personally I would say that extreme left supporters are in my experience much louder and more emotive with their arguments.
> Just personally can't relate.

I would have thought the same about 10 years ago, and then ... life got interesting.

I was always going around with at least a book! How bad a punch is after all? Is it worse than tripping and falling with skis? And we still want to ski more almost immediately, right? Just work out a bit, get some protective layer, try to come up with some sustainability strategy with Chris so he doesn't punch in the same place all the time, and let's go!

... and now I can relate a lot more to the character. But after many years I read a book this year! (I mean other than this ~150 page short story. :D)

Mental health shit is insidious.
Corporate greed back at it again!
As long as they keep the data safe the audit is legal?
And this is why the executive branch was never meant to have as much power as it has today.

We've spent the better part of 80 years moving power from legislative to execute and granting executive a whole host of new powers.

We made this bed, now it sure seems like Trump is making us sleep in it.
> Chickens are very sweet animals, and are quite intelligent. You will grow to love all the silly things they do. You can pet them, they are super soft, and can become quite tame. They can purr.

Chickens are ruthless and will not hesitate for a moment to kill and then cannibalize their coop mates. The best way to avoid it is to have a single breed as they tend to start by attacking anything different, literally spots or discolorations, on other birds.

Yes, chickens will eat other chickens.

> I'm told the eggs taste way better, I don't really notice it because I really only eat my own eggs, but perhaps I just got used to them.

All eggs taste the same. Which is great because eggs taste great.

> Your wife may one day want a chicken to live inside the house. You may one day agree to this, and then miss it when the chicken is living outside the house again...

Chickens are filthy animals and the thought of having one indoors is disgusting.
State power has only gotten weaker and weaker compared to the federal government over time.
Because it isn't the case. For good reason. So it isn't acceptable. Spend some educating yourself about security standards like FedRAMP and build a mental model of things that are or have been true, and the reasons they were made so.
I used ed in Termux on my cellphone to write http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/justhash.c in August. Someone, I forget who, had mentioned they were using ed on their cellphone because the Android onscreen keyboard was pretty terrible for vi, which is true. So I tried it. I decided that, on the cellphone, ed was a little bit worse than vi, but they are bad in different ways. It really is much easier to issue commands to ed than to vi on the keyboard (I'm using HeliBoard) but a few times I got confused about the state of the buffer in a way that I wouldn't with vi. Possibly that problem would improve with practice, but I went back to using vi.
I had one of these growing up, until it was replace with a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack. Well, I kept it around until I moved into my second house.

I had TI Forth, the huge accessory box, a disk drive, the works. It was fun, I learned quite a bit and have forgotten most of the Forth that I learned.
I don't understand why you think a human-inspired general purpose robot won't be able to learn to deal with the issues in your bullet point list.

We're already seeing in AI that given human examples they can "learn" to act the same way, and a robot wouldn't have to go from never having done any plastering to being an expert plasterer in a single shot. They can be trained once using the expertise of professionals (both explanations, and videos of them doing work) such that they don't make the same mistakes you make on a first attempt - and once trained once, that knowledge can be rolled out to all robots running that software rather than needing to teach each one individually. Hell, even without expert advise in the training, they could even learn how to do it by trying it in a demo room (or a virtual environment) thousands of times until they figure out what does and doesn't lead to the desired end result...
Heya (also from TO ), I had something similar in mind when I built https://www.producthunt.com/products/hitechjobsca , had to shut it down during covid but happy to connect and brainstorm ideas in the Hrtech space if you are up for it. Contact in profile.
Annotations were adopted to cut down on the massive amounts of XML that was used to configure everything beforehand, still a lot was loosely wired for "extensibility" and people have learned that it was 99% overengineering so that's cut down these days in various ways.
Thats just crazy.

I'm curious when someone will do the right experiment in a way that some LLM on Cerebras will do the reasoning so well so big so fast, that it does something very novel
Dan Scolnic Shows That the Universe Is Still Full of Surprises
Perhaps why yesterday he was saying he should take over the running of DC..
i didn't realize keeping backyard chickens for food security would be so controversial when i posted this
Agree. Shameful.
Yeah, but they can't live in the park, you see, even with a good attitude.
> When it comes to government spending though, shouldn’t the public have a right to know precisely, with dollar-level accuracy what they are being asked to pay?

Doing that does not require anywhere remotely near the level of data access DOGE has been given.
DOGE is literally making up that people had bad work reviews to justify firing them. They are liars 100% down.

They are literally firing people first and then calling them back? How is that efficiency?

I cannot believe we are talking about these people seriously with all the BS "We saved $* Billion dollars to stop Mind Control News" on the DOGE "website".
This was right in the COVID house price dip (we sold our house then, cost us about 50k). Those houses are now worth 700-800k.

The ruling applies for 5 years so of course you can't expect it for 8 years in a row.

I know a few people who have used it. If you own a house and have any entitlements then you're either paying a few EUR or are getting back a few EUR (so NET INCOME is higher than your GROSS INCOME).

I personally didn't use it because I believe in paying my fair share. As a high earner it's wrong to be a leech. Although I've since learned that the multi-billionaire families here have an even better deal (1% effective tax rate) that I've since changed my mind.

It is an extremely generous ruling which makes it possible for people who wish to migrate here with families to make the jump. You get to keep almost all of your money for a few years but are expected to use it to integrate and cover your migration costs (which it does).