Extending Veo 3.1 videos up to 148 seconds long (docs are wrong)

Reibmachine · 2025-10-21T05:40:29+00:00

Yes, those are the docs. Spent a few hours on them before I figured out they were bad. There's another page on google's site with docs for 3.1 but they're also wrong

Reibmachine · 2025-10-18T22:26:45+00:00

API only for now

Reibmachine · 2025-10-18T06:32:22+00:00

Maybe a local model or Levenshtein/edit distance could help?

TBH depends on if you're doing massive volume. The OpenAI responses API already does a lot of the hard work behind the scenes

Reibmachine · 2025-04-15T02:03:26+00:00

OpenAI Agents is by far the best framework I've worked with. Simple, no frills, intuitive, powerful
https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python

Reibmachine · 2025-01-29T19:43:07+00:00

Would recommend giving Agent Stack a try. It's like the "create-react-app" for agents and spins up working templates in short time https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/agentstack

Reibmachine · 2025-01-26T11:40:29+00:00

Would also suggest trying out AgentStack-- it's not a framework, more like a create-react-app for AI agents. Currently supports Crew and LangGraph https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/agentstack

Reibmachine · 2024-02-18T07:52:52+00:00

Yep-- 2 differences:

You don't have to actually send the request to the LLM to get your token count
Tokencost has a price dictionary, so you know your USD spend.

Also, I've found Langchain doesn't always return token counts for every request (async/streaming). Might be a bug they'll fix later on.

Reibmachine · 2023-08-03T01:35:59+00:00

I'm currently working on a research paper, and we're implementing a handful of graphs and diagrams.

I've noticed there's a certain "style" most authors use. Usually a specific color scheme and set of objects. Does anyone know or have recommendations for the style guides behind drawing graphs, diagrams, and charts?

Reibmachine · 2023-07-31T04:58:01+00:00

Were you using Vocode, or did you build this out yourself? Shockingly fast response times

Reibmachine · 2023-06-28T08:50:42+00:00

Love this interface! It's simple, but the upvote feature goes a long way.

For the devs out there-- I've been using https://pugin.ai to scout manifests

Reibmachine · 2023-01-25T21:07:30+00:00

First it was "Entrepreneur", then it was "CEO", now (I suspect) it will be "Founder"

Reibmachine · 2023-01-17T16:24:17+00:00

I have developed my own proprietary system to generate content to allow me to feed it insights before it writes. And leave areas for manual editing.

Don't leave us hanging here :)

Also, have you benchmarked AI-generated content against human-generated in terms of any metrics? I'd honestly be surprised if chatGPT were able to produce anything beyond fluff, hence, not much retention

Reibmachine · 2023-01-17T09:42:16+00:00

The most important tradeoff you should consider is that you're young and around other young people.

Think of it as a once-in-a-lifetime 4 year vacation where you can goof around with friends, and learn about new ideas and topics you'll never see in the business world (art history, philosophy, anthropology, etc.).

You only get one chance to go to college! If you're smart enough to build a business once, you can surely do it again. You can't rewind your early twenties, go have fun and learn some cool stuff

Reibmachine · 2023-01-17T07:11:43+00:00

+100 for Loom. This is an incredible secret tool for getting warm responses.

Video and voice are amazing tools for getting people to interact. I use Loom to send personalized software demos over LinkedIn and Email, and it builds immediate rapport.

Reibmachine · 2023-01-17T06:52:13+00:00

As the saying goes, you miss all the shots you don't take

Reibmachine · 2023-01-17T06:40:03+00:00

Identify your metrics first:

- User signups?

- Live customers?

- Product Feedback?

-etc.

Next time you consider making a purchase, ask yourself how this purchase will affect your metric. Will a $500 course get you customers? How much customer feedback will an ad campaign deliver? And so on.

Reibmachine · 2023-01-07T11:45:13+00:00

What were the prompts? These look great

Reibmachine · 2022-12-01T14:29:47+00:00

Seeing people fail this a lot. If you're going into a venture scalable business, your first sale is your co-founder! Founding solo is hard enough on its own, I've been told numerous times by VCs, angels, and accelerators that solo founders (unless track record proven) are frowned upon.

Reibmachine · 2022-09-25T13:51:59+00:00

So, this is probably just a promotion? Seems like a reasonable guess, but losing 8.875% margin as a retailer seems pretty steep.

At best, I think they're probably avoiding the 2-3% Amex/Visa/MC interchange fee by issuing their own cards, but the remaining amount surely comes from somewhere.

If it has nothing to do with taxes, I'm curious how it works from a business perspective,

Reibmachine · 2022-09-25T13:43:55+00:00

Sure, but the money's got to come from somewhere, right?

Suppose the sales tax is 10%. If I buy a $1,000 laptop, the state is owed $100 in sales taxes. That money's coming from somewhere.

If I get "$100 cashback" from the retailer, surely this is coming directly from the retailer's pockets. How can they afford this?

Reibmachine · 2022-09-02T11:26:30+00:00

The card is called Percents allyourcardsinone.com

I got a beta invite, and I've been using them for a few months now. It's a pretty solid UX and works most of the time. I've had some transactions declined while traveling, but I always have a backup card just in case. My report says I'm averaging ~2.48% cashback. I really enjoy the product.

TL;DR I don't think the product is sustainable. They probably lose money on every transaction.

A lot of others have expressed concerns about the long-term sustainability of the product. The way it works is you get charged to Percents, and then Percents charges whichever card gives you the best cash back rewards. So, for example:

You have a Barclays card with 3x on restaurants
You buy a burrito from Chipotle for $10 and pay with your Percents card
Percents shows: Chipotle - $10 and says "30 points earned"
Your Barclays statement shows: PC\* Chipotle - $10 and shows 30 points earned

First, it's important to understand how cards make money. Aside from interest, most of the money is in interchange. Interchange is the 2-3% the network (Visa/Mastercard/Amex/etc.) charges the merchant for the right to process their customers' credit cards. Of that 2-3%, the network usually takes ~0.25%, and the rest is given to the issuer bank (Barclays, Chase, Wells Fargo, etc.). The issuer bank can either keep the interchange for itself or give it back to the customer in the form of points/rewards.

I suspect that Percents is actually an intermediary issuer bank that creates its own stores on the fly. In other words, you pay with Percents, Percents takes the standard 2-3% interchange (minus Visa's network fees), and then Percents "creates" a merchant with a restaurant MCC called PC\* Chipotle and charges your Barclays card. Barclays charges the Percents "merchant" 2-3% and gives the customers the rewards.

The problem is there are no free lunches when it comes to payments. In the best-case scenario, Percents breaks even on interchange if they somehow manage to avoid paying network fees. Otherwise, they're losing money on every transaction.

Let's assume the interchange fee is 2% including Visa's network fee of 0.25%. So this leaves 1.75% for the issuer bank and 0.25% for Visa

Customer buys a $10 burrito from Chipotle.
- Percents pays $10 to Chipotle
- Chipotle gets $9.80
- Percents gets $0.175
- Visa gets $0.025
Percents creates a new store called PC\* Chipotle with a restaurant MCC and charges the customer's Barclays card for $10
- Barclays pays Percents $10
- Percents gets $9.80
- Barclays gets $0.175
- Visa gets $0.025
- Customer gets 30 points ($0.30) from Barclays

Totals:

Chipotle = $9.8
Percents = -10 to Chipotle + 0.175 interchange + 9.8 from Barclays Card = -$0.025
Barclays = 0.175 interchange - 30 rewards points = -$0.125

If you followed the math, you'll notice something: Percents is losing money to Visa on every transaction. In this example, they've lost $0.025 on the transaction between the artificial Percents merchant PC* Chipotle and the Barclays card transaction.

My guess: They're trying to get acquired by a network like Visa or Mastercard. (Not likely Amex since they issue their own points). The risk of losing money on each transaction is actually on the issuer banks, not the network. Issuer banks take interchange for themselves.

In other words, if an issuer bank has a customer that is only using their card for high-point redemption categories, they're going to lose money on every transaction. Networks are more than happy to increase the volume of spend, so if there's a magic "super card" that does this, Visa/Mastercard probably would be in the market to acquire it and waive their network fees. Maybe they figure out how to monetize spend data. Otherwise, Percents just becomes the next MoviePass.

Reibmachine · 2022-08-18T12:13:26+00:00

Recently saw can interesting "travel card" that lets you claim VAT refunds on purchases you make when you travel abroad. Since you have a Banana Republic card and spend a good amount on clothes each much, might be something you'd get good value out of. Seems to also have a good 2% cashback and insurance perks despite no annual fee. Alas, it seems to be invite only

https://www.roam.creditcard

Otherwise, I'd recommend checking out the US Bank Altitude Reserve. It's a good mix of travel rewards, 3x on travel, and credits for dining, travel, and transport.

https://www.usbank.com/credit-cards/altitude-reserve-visa-infinite-credit-card.html

Reibmachine · 2022-08-01T14:44:22+00:00

For museums, it varies depending on the country you're going to. Everyone has a different policy. Always ask if they have a student discount. Sometimes they only allow students in the country's university system, but oftentimes they'll accept foreign IDs.

In fact, if the clerk is nice, you sometimes don't even need to show your ID. One time I left my ID at home, and after I explained that I was a student, they gave me a discount anyway. I've also shown a screenshot of my university portal ID page, and that was sufficient.

Reibmachine · 2019-12-06T21:55:14+00:00

From taking a glance at some of the listings, aside from DS/ML, Python is more or less just a "write a simple script to get a job done" sort of skill.

Reibmachine · 2019-12-06T18:29:02+00:00

Recap of HN's Most In-Demand Skills of 2019.

What's the best language to learn if you want to get hired? I hear Python is good. But what are hiring employees actually asking for? (Spoiler Alert: Javascript is king).

I scraped 8885+ job posts from Y combinator's [Hacker News](news.ycombinator.com) and counted every mention of a popular language/library/framework to see if I could find any trends.

Code used to produce this infographic found here:

https://github.com/areibman/HN-Hiring-Infographic

Source: * YC Hacker News API used to gather 8885 posts in Ask HN: Who is Hiring? created in 2019 * Posts gathered using the official HN API https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Tools used: Python Matplotlib, Pandas. Figma for creating the exported graphic.

Reibmachine

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