skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your mental password-generation scheme is equally susceptible to the “master password” being lost or forgotten. Why do you assume you can remember a bunch of rules plus a password, if you can’t remember the password itself?

Synchronizing is easy, put it in a network share or Dropbox/google drive/iCloud. If for some reason it’s inaccessible, keepass/dropbox will synchronize any local changes the next time you open the manager while you’re at home. This is a solved problem.
Singapore's Dirty Money Problem [video]
It looks like you very dramatically missed the point
I think this trend to talk about startup practices in large orgs is more executive nostalgia and a complaint about all the processes put in place to catch mistakes that have been made before.

The same people as developers would be pursuing rewrites of rock-solid 20+ year mature software projects because there's a trendy framework.

Large organizations don't have 'startup spirit' because 'startup' companies fail. Employees of large mature orgs with 6000 employees didn't sign on to a company that's got a good chance of not existing next quarter. They're not taking massive risks and throwing halfbaked features into a brand new product with 1 client hoping to get bought by facebook or maybe an insurance company.

If those big companies are really complaining about not having startup spirit maybe they should provide an exit for the VCs and aquihire (briefly because the engineers will all leave asap) a startup!
Am I missing something? This doesn't sound like an attack at all. I'm interpreting it as just "don't host ffmpeg yourself and try to write distributed encoding workloads etc., just use our hosted solution instead which handles this stuff for you." I don't get how this is an attack - plenty of businesses are built this way.
I’m extremely skeptical of this approach. Until proven otherwise, with a model that users actually find useful, I don’t think this can work.

It would be nice. But I’ve seen too many nice ideas completely fall apart in practice to accept this without some justification. Even if there are papers on the topic, and those papers show that the models rank highly according to some eval metrics, the only metric that truly matters is "the user likes the model and it solves their problems."

By the way, on a separate topic, the 90/10 dataset split that you do in all of your examples turns out to be fraught with peril in practice. The issue is that the validation dataset quality turns out to be crucial, and randomly yeeting 10% of your data into the validation dataset without manual review is a recipe for problems.
crashed chrome :)
Fish rots from the head and this was a reverse takeover if there ever was one. Boeing not only lost its way, it lost its head.
But the "I am your father" wasn't in the shooting script anyway. The script said "Obi-Wan killed your father", and it was changed to "I am your father when James Earl Jones" said the line for the voice of Vader. Maybe it is that way in subsequent published scripts but not the original.
You don’t get it. More and more people append "Reddit" to their search because it’s the only way to find opinions written by humans.

For example try searching "best coffee grinder" and "best coffee grinder Reddit", the quality of results (and arguments) is night and day. This is true for any "best x Reddit" query.

We don’t specifically want Reddit results, we want results that are not obvious SEO/AI spam. Ideally I’d like the ability to add ":humanblog" to my queries to get only blog results, but it’s not possible, so "Reddit" is the best option left.
There are too many counterexamples.

Normally I’ll deep into the apologia and explain stuff like “why VHS is actually better than Beta”, which, yes, is something I believe. But I only have a limited stockpile of apologia for why the market chose correctly and gave us the better product. There is an unlimited supply of counterexamples, where an inferior product won out, even when you consider things like manufacturing cost.
> DPO is pretty much strictly better than RLHF + PPO

Out of genuine curiosity, do you have any pointers/evidence to support this. I know that some of the industry leading research labs haven't switched over to DPO yet, in spite of the fact that DPO is significantly faster than RLHF. It might just be organizational inertia, but I do not know. I would be very happy if simpler alternatives like DPO were as good as RLHF or better, but I haven't seen that proof yet.
By "Rands" and "couple rands", do you mean books from here?

https://randsinrepose.com/books/
As a FAANG employee, working with ML, what do you want to get from other companies, besides more money?

It's hard to have more chips, for example. You run less experiments, you have less throughput in an already computationally tight environment.
I could also create my own fonts with or without ligatures. We are (or at least I am) judging a font by its design. Which is, well, the most important part of it. Are we allowed to do that?
I've considered various concepts for the brake design and think the way forward is to use friction brakes. The original Cubli uses bicycle brake pads, but this has its disadvantages. I'm thinking about using a (possibly bidrectional) band brake for my cube, similar to the one used in the "M-Blocks" [1]. Based on this video and the associated research paper, I'm quite optimistic about this kind of brake.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5UDKaWJOo.
It's certainly an interesting and helpful idea. Kudos for working on the idea, and it will be exciting to see the progress in a year or two.
"Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘worth basically zero’ if it cannot make its cars self-driving"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-worth-14...
Seems like a very personal and fortunate take depending on what you do or when in time that experience is based on, not that it's irrelevant, just far from generalizable, especially right now.

Companies are looking for almost any reason to turn someone away, so a guaranteed offer coming from a phone screen, or for that matter even getting a phone screen, is either exaggerated, you're consistently incredible, or/and you're consistently incredible and in a niche with very little competition and big names on the CV.

Even the author of the article admits they got quite lucky with the low numbers they experienced before getting an offer. I don't mean to be dismissive, but the markets are quite varying and intensely either saturated, competitive, or/and sparse right now, depnding on which market you're in and what your CV or skills look like, to the point where as a frontend dev I'm considering just switching to knitting or something more lucrative
Just another language Google tries to push, it doesn't really solve anything Python/JS/Bash et all can already do.
Remember Carbon who was supposed to replace C/C++ ?
I may be wrong, but I think it will be the same pattern as Carbon here.
wow I never knew pass(1) cost money, how does that work? isn’t it GPL and all????

(keepass2/keepass xc are more user-friendly and free, strongbox is another good front-end for keepass files as well.)
I experienced a wave of nostalgia seeing the covers of these books. Many of the BASIC listings were for the 'lowest common denominator' version of BASIC, and being lucky enough to have a BBC Micro, I tinkered with them to improve the graphics and sound.

I tried downloading "The Mystery Of Silver Mountain" book, and several pages in the listing part of the book appear to be blank (e.g. pages 18, 19, 20) when viewed with Preview on macOS. They display correctly in Windows 10 with Edge, and when viewed online (in Google Docs?)
>Writing that off as a loss should be considered fraud, especially when there's an offer for it.

From wikipedia:

>In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

Where's the deception here?
And it’s acceptable to bill me €16 every month and then only stream full res when I happen to be on a big screen device?
As a software engineer who cares about privacy but does not have much experience in security, ops or much time in constantly patching servers, I trust Google more than myself in not getting hacked, messing things up or unintentionally leaking my own pictures to the public.
I've seen a lot of agile shops and in my experience most of them have the right idea and relatively few are really abusing it. The friction with any project, agile or not, almost always boils down to estimation. "When will my product be done?" That's a really hard notion to disabuse regardless of process. No methodology has successfully solved for predicting the future.
Gitlabs birthplace is the Netherlands actually, but they wouldn't be Dutch if they let that get in the way of profit making ;)
Communism is essentially corporatism for nation states.
I'd say the original already isn't ambiguous: Kenobi directly tells Luke that Vader murdered his Father. The "from a certain point of view" scene had to be added in ROTJ to explain away the retcon.
Like with any other business, you talk to the sales team and come to an agreeable middle ground.

We don't pay 'list' for gitlab SaaS.
It's defrauding the taxpayer
Can vouch for J. W. Rinzler's books. All of the ones I have are phenomenal and really help contextualize the creation of some of the best movies of the past 50 years.
And none ever will, but organizations will keep chasing that brass ring.
The point was to instill fear in any would-be dissidents; This effect might have cancelled out any increase in determination the attack might have spurred.
I always assumed it was written this way on purpose and thought it was a cool moment. Oh well.
I can't speak to how the ideas are implemented in practice within the US Marine Corps, but a few specifics are given in "Marine Corps Doctrinal Publications 1—Warfighting," which is likely a similar document that I've found to be helpful [1].

The following excerpt encourages respectful debate, instead of blindly going along with a leader's plans:

"Relations among all leaders—from corporal to general—
should be based on honesty and frankness regardless of disparity between grades. Until a commander has reached and
stated a decision, subordinates should consider it their duty to provide honest, professional opinions even though these may be in disagreement with the senior’s opinions.

"However, once the decision has been reached, juniors then must support it as if it were their own. Seniors must encourage candor among subordinates and must not hide behind their grade insignia. Ready compliance for the purpose of personal advancement—the behavior of “yes-men”—will not be tolerated.""

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The idea of erring toward respectful disagreement when warranted with leaders, instead of being a yes-man, has helped me greatly with building trust in teams I've worked with in the past.

However, I don't believe that it's always the best approach that "juniors then must support [decisions they disagree with] as if it were their own." I get that you can seem less confident by saying "{My manager} wants us to take this approach," instead of saying "We're taking this approach."

But for decisions that you personally disagree with, the best approach would include an acknowledgement of the downsides. Phrasing might be: "We're doing this because of XYZ reasons from the leadership, while acknowledging the downsides ABC."

I believe that this phrase is balanced: it avoids directly saying that you disagree with the decision (which can lead to people implementing the decision poorly, possibly making it doomed even if it turns out to be the correct one), while also acknowledging potential downsides (because the juniors are likely to see them too). An expression as if the decision were truly your own might mean an enthusiastic delivery without acknowledging the downsides, which reduces your own credibility with your direct team.

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In any case, I believe that reading about the approach—even if one doesn't agree with every idea—is a worthwhile exercise, as I've found that much of the principles remain relevant across vastly different organizational environments.

[1] (1997) https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCDP%201%20Wa...
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Ford, GM, Volkswagen, BMW, etc.
Sure, but I think, for example, representation learning, doesn’t involve manipulating an array of strings.
"fraud" doesn't mean "losing money in a manner I don't like", so I ask again: where's the deception here?
Are you just reposting your own tweet as a HN headline, and then again as a comment? I get the insinuation that you found a smoking gun of Google impropriety, but there's a simpler explanation. It's a next-token-finding machine, so if you ask it things that only other LLMs would be answering online, and essentially no humans answering, you'll get parroting. You lead Gemini into starting with "I am trained on a massive dataset of text and code that includes ..." and then having to find the next token, based on the 2024 internet. Since 99.99999% of instances of that string will be people posting chatGPT chats online over the last few years, I could see how it would fall into the same pattern.
The short version is that almost everyone with enough access to make a local copy of the movie is financially and/idealistically incentivized enough by future opportunity within the industry not to risk it.

For everyone else, there’s law enforcement supported by unlimited budget for prosecution from the industry.
Microsoft in the early 90s was a half day of onsite interviews with 5 or 6 people, plus lunch. And this was for a summer internship.
Wayback link to post: https://web.archive.org/web/20200416233116/https://likewise....

Things they mentioned as being different from Armenian life:

* You pay federal taxes and state taxes to a myriad of different agencies with different limits or starting points on all of them. Property taxes, vehicle registration taxes, sales taxes, etc.

* The US is more focused on being procedurally fair (you have rights that must be ennumerated to you upon being arrested, etc) but not on being just (he mentions child neglect for latchkey kids, mandatory sentencing, a woman accused of kidnapping for trying to take her child away from his abusive father with a custody agreement)

* Poor federal safety net

* Suburban housing and little mixed-use zoning leads to required cars, homogeneity of America, lack of walkable anything

* Individualism (not knowing all your neighbors; he mentions that in Armenia if you had a test for a tumor multiple friends would take off work to weep in the waiting room with you; the idea of being an automaton in your company rather than a human with emotions)
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I am puzzled. I read the article and I don't see that. Did the article get updated, maybe?
The portable terminal in the video - with its tiny CRT, covered by the keyboard when packed up - reminded me of the Compaq Portable, one of the earliest portable PCs (1983):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable
4.0, as expected, even seems aware it's a small code demo and some more insight https://chat.openai.com/c/68a51900-4d33-4d1b-bd14-247a739183...
There is competition— they’re just not American companies. It’s an interesting conundrum. Will breaking up the civil part of Boeing help or hurt their ability to compete internationally?

My sense is that a proper rebuild would lose them significant market share for a long time. I’m not sure the government will permit that. They’re a significant part of the economy and nobody likes being in office when it contracts.
As a writer it's not uncommon to have a separate person (sometimes an editor) trim down/punch up dialogue. Dialogue writing is basically a separate skill from prose or screenplay writing, though the best writers are good at it too.
Hey! Thanks for your questions!

> So from what I can see, I am limited to sending notifications to one person at a time or everyone, correct?

On messages, the only limit is the number of messages sent per day.

As for the "enterprise" plan, I think the problem is the naming. Because at the moment there is no teamwork as such, and it is supposed to use one or a limited number of people (number of devices).

Thanks again for the feedback, it gave ideas on how to improve this point. I can easily add device grouping, and the ability to send notifications to a specific group.

I have in a backlog of tasks to implement teamwork, but I've been putting it off because I'm not sure I can attract some big companies.
Cool, thanks for the advice!
Does anyone else think it's weird that we have to submit ourselves to these little authoritarian fiefdoms or starve?
Well, his sheets of paper could be obtained by 10s to 100s of people with physical access who then might figure out the obfuscation (or burn down in a fire, but copies mitigate that).

Some fancy password manager service can be attacked by anyone with a network connection or the budget to buy the company. And there's an actual incentive to attack the password service because it doesn't just have parent's passwords, it has many passwords.

I think the only downside to the sheet of paper is that people with physical access are probably more likely to be specifically interested in you, and therefore willing to put in the effort to figure it out. But they'd probably figure it out anyway if they're that interested (install a keylogger or camera or something).
But that's not what Gitlab is saying, that BayAreans are better workers. They maintain that they're merely adjusting for regional CoL, for the same person in the same position. They can hardly get closer to saying people are interchangeable cogs.
Agile is a tainted term. For it's proponents, it's become nothing more than a vacuous manifestation of the No True Scottsman fallacy. Anything that works is True Agile, and anything that doesn't is Not True Agile (or would be True Agile if you weren't holding it wrong). The principles that underlie Agile are either entirely self-evident and can't be claimed as a particular benefit of Agile per-se, or they are hopelessly naive about the way people, and companies, actually work. Agile itself has no real original ideas, and offers nothing of value.

At this point, the best thing we can do is let Agile, all of it, die.
Why? I almost bought it.
That they actually incurred the losses they claim to have incurred, so they get a tax break. The taxpayer is defrauded.

They would rather delete the movie to claim the tax break than sell it to another studio offering more than the tax break.

If you think they actually lost that amount of money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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I bet the owners of the film studio had a really hard Christmas that year, with no profits. The issue is that the studio takes the profit if it succeeds, the taxpayers take the losses if it doesn’t.
For this exact reason, I decided to instead buy Surface Pro 9 and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. It works amazingly well. Moreover, all my notes are automatically converted to PDF and syned to my gitlab.
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Hey HN, I wanted to share a simple game I made last night using Nuxt.js.

Let me know if you like it, or if you’d like to see any changes made to improve your experience :)
The tension is fundamental and comes from a perfectly reasonable desire to know how much things will cost, how long things will take and what they will get at the end.

Adequately communicating, negotiating and managing the uncertainty is the core part of agile, "do what you want" isn't going to fly, that's why teams don't have complete agency on process.

I agree the politics and "fog of war" in large companies is tiresome and wasteful but it seems to be almost unavoidable once you get to a certain size.
Keep FFmpeg —We -I:r (D!)
Most studios moved to a high security environment a while back. Only Covid reopened things a bit, and not sure how long.
Where do you draw the line? If an artist pays a model and paints her, is the artist to be prohibited from destroying the painting because it sucks, and because the model wants credit? What about a music producer who pays a studio band to record a song that turns out to be terrible -- is the producer prohibited from deleting it?

It's the tax write off for destruction that's fucked up, as @cnees says. Failures are part of the process of creation. If the producer says the market value of the work is zero, they've committed tax fraud if it's not.

The solution to their "attribution" problem was found by directors a long time ago when they didn't want their names on a film: it's directed by "Alan Smithee."

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000647/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
You’re 100% right. In every case where I’ve been a part of agile, you have someone at the top that’s wanting predictability. If I told them to pick between 5 guaranteed features and 10 features but they don’t have control over the timing, they’d pick the former every time (well they’d try to pick 10 guaranteed, but ultimately they’d rather have predictability than velocity).
I remember in the early 2000s reading a short story collection, a sci-fi book in the nanotech subgenre. One of the stories had something to do with organisms that would search for newer axiom systems in which they could thrive, somehow the more interesting, or rich, axiom systems being the ones that would give better survival odds. Does anyone remember the particulars of this story? I've been wanting to reread it for some time, but haven't been able to locate it.
It's a demo snippet of how to setup the workflow, it's not meant to be a working production example a self-rewarding model or a faithful reproduction of the original paper. Whether self-rewarding LLMs are a good idea or not, it's a valuable and very active area of research in the literature today. This is a library for ML researchers who should actively research and study these avenues along with the pitfalls you're mentioning. But in order for them to do that, building these workflows have to be accessible to them, which is what this library is meant to do. It's not meant for the "hobbyist" ML-community, they should not be using synthetic data today in this way, it would likely lead to subpar results for any practical model or task.
> What bad thing would have happened to Russia, had Putin not decided to attempt an invasion?

Ukraine would've joined NATO. [1]

There was no reason for the US to contemplate, if not to pursue, Ukraine to be joining NATO.

Could you consider the collective panic and US reaction if a bordering state were to join the CSTO for example ?

Coups have been performed in countries much farther for much less. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I wonder what would happen if a bunch of extremely bankable talent - the Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, Tom Cruise crowd - quietly got in touch with Warner Bros and made it clear that they would avoid working with any studio that had a track record of cancelling completed projects for a tax write-off.
Also the social safety net in NL covers a lot of things you have to pay for yourself in the USA.
the deception is assigning a zero value to the movie, when it's not zero.
That they lost money on the film.
Ahh yeah, that makes sense. Cheers for doing that. I enjoyed unwinding it and playing with it.