skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40 basis points is an insanely large grant for 10-20 hours of work. They wanted 160 bps: 40 per person. At any normal company, you would have to work 4 years to get that amount. If you work at a company as engineer number 1-5, prior to any funding, you might expect 50-300 points, over 4 years, after working for a small salary, and under highly uncertain conditions.

These expectations are ridiculously misaligned and totally unreasonable.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal?

I think everyone who reads it had that experience at some point. Going back through the archive for the bonuses you missed is half the fun!
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Looking through the codebase for these to assess the teams review health is a fantastic idea!
¿What sort of calendar do We want in this Millenium?
¿What sort of calendar do We want in this Millenium?

Let me take a quick, unpracticed stab at this, on behalf of Lifesaver Labs and lifesavers.army.

There was a discussion earlier about the Kodak Calendar. Do We want to retire the 12 Month Julian in Our Long Now technical architextures, and operate on the 13 Month Kodak or, better yet, the 13 Month Pax Calendar?

i've been working on a Lifesaver Labs Calendar, which would intercalate, as the 7th Month, a Month called "Teaching" (تدريس, 教导, शिक्षण, Enseñanza), or altarnatively abbreviated as "Tea" or 茶, चाय, Té, or شاي (Tea), in i18n⁺⁴. Since Lifesaver Labs is a revision of the Pax, there would be no disruption in the weekly sabbatical cycle of any religious calendar, and carries all the advantages of the Pax base.

i've thought a great deal about the mechanisms and value associated with a changeover, as Amortized over a Century of Altared Life Moments. We'll need to work together as a Calm⁴unity to socially "hack" large regulatory entities like Congress and the UN to enthusiastically consent with a 13 Month Calendar Plan, but consider the advantages of a Perennial Calendar.. they're mindblowing, enormous, and easy for anyone to see just by glancing at an old, useless paper calendar laying around, simply because of the Annual Offset, or the consistent 6% - 10% revenue and expense throw that happens from Janus (January) to Februar (February) to Mars (March). We can start "working up" Dv Standards by going to the mat on Mars and the 13 Month Calendar, in preparation for something larger and more important.
How do you modify something that is "read by the recipient"?. Let's use this example as a case studies. This guy in this article http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/man-accidental... Can you explain how he'd have corrected this situation with your services? Enlighten us with a step by step correction if you don't mind. Just trying to understand your services.
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I'd expand the scope of "good advertising" to any and all factual non-manipulative details about the product - pictures, features, tradeoff decisions made, intended use, impartial ratings, and so on.
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Having quit 7 days ago, I can tell you that the worst of the symptoms (headaches, aching body, etc.) mostly passed within the first 3-4 days.

But the lack of energy is real and persistent. My body and routine are both recovering.
Yes, that is indeed a downside, plus if you have hold luggage you have to consider the extra time to get it out of the first plane and checking it in to the second one which might well not be possible if the transfer time is as little as 30 minutes.

But assuming you have margin for that and since we are comparing the two same flights, we can assume that our loss is also the airliner loss, hence they will make everything they can to make the transfer work for the people that bought a single fare.

Therefore I see the difference in price as insurance against something that the airliner themselves have an incentive to avoid.
Additionally to the risk, as with any insurance, I also consider the cost of the worst case scenario.

Most of the time my decision is not to pay the "insurance", unless time is critical and missing the connection means more than hotel + extra flight.
A thousand times this.

If you want revenue for my view, ask me for some money. I'm happy to pay for content that is useful or entertaining, so give me the chance. But name your price in terms of some currency. My eyes, my choices, and my browsing habits are not for sale, and that's not negotiable.
I'll never forget a conversation I had with one of Amazon's devs about real-time ad bidding.

When you load(possibly -ed not sure if this is still the case) a page Google says to it's advertisers "Ok, how much will you pay for an advert to be served to this id" and they had some tiny number of ms to respond based on the data they'd collected about that user.

The article author rejects that mass adoption of adblocking will cause the advertising industry to come back with a better deal that doesn't include egregious privacy invasion and that it will in fact just kill small media companies relying on advertising revenue. The two are not mutually exclusive, it's a shame that some companies will inevitably fall through the gap but as others have pointed out this doesn't create a moral obligation to you to accept the current 'deal' ad companies are offering. Don't fall for this crap, mass surveillance by advertisers must die.
Every time someone in my family has been prescribed an SSRI the doctor has listed this side effect, though they don't always use the term. The doctor that I am most fond of in fact lists the side effects in three categories, this one being in the most unlikely one. Then says should it be a problem it can be treated with therapy and benzos. He also mentions that there are options there for how fast they act. A therapist knowing this can offer coping skills. Insomnia can be a problem in particular and for that there are options outside of benzodiazepines. Finally there are non SSRIs available as well. For our family at least it has not been an unmanageable issue.
> The best predictor of university physics scores is...wait for it.... university physics scores.

<sigh> And how do you predict university physics scores for people who've never been to university?

It's pretty obvious that for someone already doing a job, that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. So your comment is unhelpful and condescending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Well, I have to agree that advertisers and a lot of sites have put us in a bad spot. Sites like Wikia drive me nuts because they've gone so overboard with ads that they all but force people to find a solution.

But does your comment mean that sites who make a concerted effort to have as few ads as possible will be fruitless in their efforts?

I run a fairly bandwidth heavy site (MobyGames) and really try to find a reasonable balancing point. In fact the ads don't even cover hosting costs. I decline ad networks that do real time ad bidding or videos or lots of tracking scripts. So I'm really curious if you and others would consider a site like this to still not be whitelistable? If not, at what point would you consider it to be?
Meh, i hold that what made gold money was the face stamped on them to verify they were of a certain weight.

Straight gold without it is a questionable commodity as the usage, at least for the time, was ornamental at best.

But once measured up and stamped you had an item that would not lose its weight much over years of storage (even it if was down a hole or at the bottom of a lake etc).

What made it money was not the metal itself, but the process.
I have a feeling this will be downvoted like hell but objectively speaking, if this Billy guy really wanted to, couldn't he just drop the software and let these "teammates" do whatever they want with it, and hire another developer and start from scratch? I'm saying this because I don't believe there's much value in some software built over a weekend which doesn't have any users yet. (Maybe it does but the users probably came and will come from this Billy guy's sales and marketing due to his expertise). Compare this with for example GroupMe, which is a pure consumer app, which blew up over a hackathon weekend. In this case it was the app (which was built by the team members) that brought users. If one of the founders wanted to go build another groupme clone after the event, he could, but it wouldn't get enough users anyway that way. I am not saying I am rooting for this Billy. He's an asshole and everyone knows that. I'm saying this Bobby guy is not so much better either. I couldn't help feel disgusted reading the entire passive aggressive thread, plus the fact that he posted this on Medium in an attempt to "bully" Billy.
So sometimes, the population of a trial does not show efficacy but some subgroup does. Like folks with a different gene, a different stage in the disease, etc.

Frequently those sub-populations lack statistical power.

So then a new trial will be made targeting that sub-population if it looks promising enough (i.e.: cost vs. potential benefit/market size).

Is that a bad thing? It's variable whether the study that failed to get statistical results will get published and if so, how.

The legally required filings with the FDA are done in any case.
A lot of defensive talking around technical terms, mixed with a bunch of typos and topped off with unfair attacks.

Not very classy. And the point of Aphyr still stands I think. In default mode it is easy to get corrupt data with Galera Cluster. That InnoDB on a single instance can have the same problem makes it all the more troubling and I'm glad I moved away from MySQL a long time ago.
> Publishers are offering their content for free

No, they are offering their content in the expectation that they will be rewarded for producing it, via ads. It isn't free.

Are you saying it's moral for you to read their content but circumvent their business model?
You need a >crouching< desk?
This is not an ethical issue. You don't get to just send whatever information you want to my computer because you paid some underemployed 20-something 50 bucks to slap together a listicle.

If publishers want people to look at ads, then provide useful, non-obnoxious ads. I have precisely two sites whitelisted in adblock, Penny Arcade and Reddit. Both are known for screening their ads to be unobtrusive and relevant to their audience.
This calendar is Dead on Arrival, because it would throw off the Sabbath again and again for HhÅÆI ⏣, HhÅÆJ ⏣, and HhÅÆC ⏣.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Calendar

A True Perennial Calendar that works much better than the Julian, and can be Adapted with a Contest for Name Changes for Each Month and Day of the Week (Restday | Bestday Coin Flip resolves the otherwise difficult Re:Naming of Saturday and Sunday, each asserted as the Day after Ædam's Creation in the Ædamic Branches).

i would start with the Proposition that the 7th Month, which is formally named now after a bloody and utterly horrific alpha-male military dictator, should be called "Tea:ching" (Teaching or Tea, with both flexibly used, in the ∆ English Calendar). It could be "Teaching Herstory" or "Teaching History", or the "Her.story ⇌ His.story" Month. All those are interesting options, and would love to see calmpetition for the Best, Principle.ed Names for Each of the Months.

i would suggest that We can use "lifesavers.army calendar" as the Provisional Title of the Calendar, to help guide Naming toward the Core Imperatives under which We All Self-Organize, but as with all things, i know myself to not be the Wisest at Nomic Naming Questions of these kinds.
I do not see marincounty being a bully in that comment, just some odd punctuation. This discussion is derailing from the topic at hand.
Did you check the post history? Specifically this post (and the reply from a mod)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10173736

Which follows this earlier post and warning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110718
I did that at my first full-time development job. There was a 50 line method to refactor and it was making calls to some other methods so I printed maybe 5-6 pages of code. It helped to get away from the computer because I could focus only on the logic that I was refactoring rather than worrying about making tests pass or seeing it work in a web browser.

It's easier to solve a problem when you remove all the fluff and noise. On the other hand, you won't know if you have a good solution until it's implemented. A bit of a trade-off.
Caffeine tolerance built up over time may play a role.
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Just pointing to the fact that 'Virtually impossible in CS' is a concept that changes over time. The better the context the better the joke.
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Other than having a couple of independent psychiatrists tell me, I have no source. I've searched high and low for years but have always come up empty.
As much as I want to identify with the writer of this, it's hard to. A seasoned dev, especially in startups should know that a Startup Weekend can be amateur hour when it comes to people knowing the rules and norms of business. There are many ways to do startup weekend right, but being the dev for someone else's vision is almost certainly one of the wrong ways to handle that weekend, it just breeds too many resentments.

The author is right, the devs have the power now, so why did they cede it?
You are absolutely right. I stand corrected.
The moral of the story is people like Billy won't succeed in the tech industry, because the 'coders' have choices.
Generally if you're quoting Texas politicians you're already on shaky ground.
I definitely understand that perspective - and to be clear there are good ad providers out there, we just haven't been winning the war in our own industry.

I don't think a pinky swear would work either, but I think if the browsers can enforce better standards we would be able to move forward. Of course the problem there is that the largest advertising company in the world owns the most popular browser in the world.

An ad blocker that only blocks bad advertising would be a good way to encourage this.

I wish a form of micro-payments or subscription would work, but most publishers have found little luck with this. (look at all the people here who complain about a paywalled link, or find a way around it)
> Would you say that 14-line Perl program is capable of
basic reading comprehension? I wouldn't!

I would say it is not because it does not understanding the
relation between objects; it only understands that sentences
starting with "why" should be answered with everything after
the string "because". Also, in your program, if there are
two instances of "because" in the source, your program will
only choose the first one.

This line is arbitrary. These programs aren't "understanding" anything, they are just able to generate different facts. Your "AI" is very input-dependent too, which was his point.

I am still bothered by the title, as your program doesn't "comprehend" the text -- only you do that. Your program restructures the text and answers to a very limited querying mechanism; there's no comprehension, only information retrieval. They're not the same. Knowledge Graph and Freebase are comparable (/ much larger) efforts.
OK then let me add "Rails" to that sentence if this makes you feel better. I learned to program Rails because I wanted to build stuff. I couldn't care less about "quality" of other people who's using it

Rails was and is the most productive web development framework and that's why I use it. I don't even know who's in rails community.
Yep. Austrialians I know are notorious for calling things "gay". I don't think the concept of gayness is going on in their heads, that's just the word they grew up using to make complaints with. This Billy even said that all his friends were assholes and he likes them that way. They probably "insult" each other as much as they did the programmers and it'd just their culture.
Buiding a strong evaluation function is only a small portion of what is needed to build a competitive Chess Engine. It is necessary to have a fast (and reasonably accurate) evaluation function paired with some form of tree search.

Not to belittle the achievement, but the neural network is still very far from being able to play `expert level chess`.
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Spot on, yep :)
That last link in particular as a very good read for me, thank you for sharing.
Nice, now how can I use it to get a better fare?

I see that I should:
* search for the round trip even if I go in just one direction
* try to buy each connection separately if I have time to spare (maybe using multicity).

Any more tips? Is there a nice system that would automate it for me?
It's because Bobby is an adult and is still fighting the battle against the jocks that everyone else gave up years ago, and can't deal with people who do not toe the party line on what he considers acceptable language with fortitude or maturity. This colors whatever good points he may have with an aura of something like entitled peevishness.
The real issue with the video in the article is that the main two guys answering questions don't seem to really understand Bitcoin. Making the statement that as the number of transactions grow, that the price of bitcoin will drop is just completely wrong. The number of transactions will only grow if adoption grows and that will change the supply/demand curve in a way that increases the value. And what's with the first guy being so obsessed with PhDs and saying XT hasn't been peer-reviewed. The review process for Bitcoin is seeing adoption by those running full nodes, if people approve of XT, they will adopt it, if not, the fork will fail.
There are many sites who have taken this approach. The Deck is a great example. Also StackOverflow, reddit, etc.
Classic example:

The iron ball fell on the glass table, and it shattered.
The glass ball fell on the iron table, and it shattered.

Human readers will pick the correct antecedent for "it" in each case, so it's not ambiguous. But correct interpretation depends on knowing something about how likely glass and iron are to shatter.

I love these kinds of examples, but I don't think they ought to significantly deter the kind of work shown here; it depends on the application, but basic interpretation could be very useful even if it can't handle every case.
180 patents later
The title of the article is "Ethical Adblocking", and you still think no moral argument is being made here?
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> 0.4% is not a lot, but it's a weekend of work, and if the startup ends up worth $10m or $100m then it's a nice kickback for a weekend's work. If it ends up being worth nothing, no biggie, after all you just worked there a weekend and didn't do anything after to make it a success.

How can you say this with a straight face? A $100M company takes years to build. You think in 2020, if these guys walk away from the table with $400k each for ~20 hours of work they did in 2015, that's reasonable? That grant would be bigger than anything any subsequent engineer would earn, and it's beyond dubious to think the contribution of this guy -- who's patting himself on the back for figuring out a CRM schema -- is worth more than the guy who stays for 4 years and actually helps brings the product to maturity and exit.

In reality, each of these guys did at most $1,000 of work. If you wanted to express it as equity, they're off by at least one decimal place. Them coming away in 2020 with ~$20-40k is a much more reasonable valuation of their contribution.
>Yet, sales people get commissions.

And they usually have lower salaries because of this. Many "eat what they kill" and if they don't sell they don't make money.

> Executives get bonuses when the quarter is good

Everyone in the company I work for gets bonuses commensurate with how well the company does, even the engineers.

You just listed a very, very small part of every company. Other than sales people and high level execs, no one else has their compensation tied by a significant extent to their productivity. The rest, the accountants, financial analysts, business analysts, strategy analysts, marketers, billing analysts, researchers, designers, managers, etc. all are in the same boats as the engineers.

>But Engineers, who actually do the f'ing work

Construction workers actually "do the f'ing work" as well and they aren't compensated extremely well because although it is a very hard job there are many people who can do the job. There are also many competent engineers who can probably do your job as well, lowering your salary. I work in finance, and there are even more people who can do my job well than there are engineers who can do your job well, thus I am not paid like an engineer. This is how the labor market works.
We test human "reading comprehension" with the assumption that humans have an underlying world model.

This is starkly different from a machine whose only ability is information retrieval -- this program (and more advanced versions e.g Freebase) parse and restructure text to be more retrievable. But there is no comprehension because there is no world model.

You wouldn't call parsing a google search query "reading comprehension."
HN shows underscores on hover, which at least lets you check if something is a link by mousing over it. But it falls apart on touch devices where hover doesn't exist.
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If a web app is huge, it should have a plugin system. So you only need to get a basic configuration for basic features (without complicated monitoring, full text search).

Then you install more, configure more if you want something more advanced.