skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, because you might think the feedback is not justified.

That is a clear signal that there is a misalignment between my expectations and company expectations. It is important to clarify the point. And to see how it can be resolved so I can offer to the company what it's expected from me.

> Your manager will tell you that other person is better than you according to some metric and you are very likely to disagree.

Maybe it is because "Sweden". But I have had really interesting discussions with my direct reports about this topic when I was a manager. And it was my job to explain what they could improve and to do it in a way that they will understand. You are right that I didn't always manage at the first attempt. But, usually, I was at fault for not giving clear enough metrics.

That's why transparency can improve a company so much. It forces management to be more data-driven and to have better metrics. When a company doesn't know how to set salaries they need to improve.

> But assuming the feedback is warranted and you are mature enough to take it as a positive criticism that you're going to work on.

Do you hire people knowing that they are not able to react positively to feedback? That's a mistake. A non-blaming feedback culture will help the company and employees to improve drastically their skills and output.

> You will then probably expect to get that raise that evens out your salary with that other person, but what if you never do? Again anguish, resentment, etc...

Of course, I will expect to get the same salary if I improve to the point that I'm seen as someone as good as my colleague. Isn't that fair? Isn't that the correct point where the company pays for what it gets, and I get paid for my productivity? What is the reason to not get a salary accordingly to my seniority, expertise and work output?

> There's really hardly any chance anything positive comes out of this kind of transparency.

If the company wants to underpay people and lie to get away with it. It may be seen bad by the company. But it will still be a good thing, because it will force it to improve.
to me this implies you don't travel or go out much. so what do you do for fun then?
I've considered a no-auth version. My general feeling is that it puts excessive reliance on integrity of the decryption key, but otherwise, yes, that is an option.

Flipped around, if website notifications were encrypted and posts were signed, there'd be little need for website authentication.

Search and history might require initial access to a message but otherwise creaate encrypted indices. Or could be handled fully client-side.
word2vec yields better representations than PMI-SVD. If you want a better explicit PMI matrix factorization, have a look at https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec and the original paper. Explains why SVD performs poorly.

If you are looking for word embedding for production use, checkout fasttext, lexvec, glove, or word2vec. Don't use the approach described in this article.
State laws apply to that state.
It's interesting that students thought their comprehension was better when reading from screens, rather than paper, when in fact the opposite was the case. What might explain that mistaken perception?
But what if the other AlphaGos are blind to some tactic that humans could take advantage of? Not saying this is likely given how the Lee Sedol match and others went but I'm curious how they come up with the rankings.
Some American culture is really weird.
> If you assume technology will be fantastic enough one day to revive your perished brain, what holds back the caution that this same technology cannot be used to subject you to inescapable torture?

This is a sci-fi scenario, not a realistic one. Even so, Alcor has policies in place to prevent it. All five members of the Patient Care Trust Board must be signed up for cryonics, and the majority of them must have a relative or significant other currently cryopreserved.[1]

Also, the dewar flasks must be topped-up every few months. If Alcor succumbs to some disaster, the brains will warm up and be destroyed. There's no scenario where evil future archaeologists unearth brains to revive and torture.

Again, I must stress how ridiculously implausible this scenario is. Torture requires that a future society expend resources to resurrect some random people from the past, then inflict harm on them. There's no way to profit from those actions. It would require a society that intrinsically valued the torture of strangers.

1. https://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/patientcaretrustfund.html
How to Stop Listening to Lies
Ask HN: Exercising and Selling startup equity
I left the startup I used to work for and still in the 90 day exercise window. I exercised 50% of my granted options and still need to exercise the other half. I found a buyer for some of the equity I had already exercised. If I were to start the process of selling the equity; would it jeopardize the fact that I still haven't exercised all of my equity? Can the company somehow not allow me to exercise the rest of it?
At this point I wonder if people will soon be doing ICOs and then skipping the country. Why are people investing in random things at such a ridiculous rates just because they are cryptocurrency based? You invest in things hoping it pays off for you, not handing out free "money". The Mafia must be envious.
See how long you last playing those games. Who in their right mind, other than the desperate among us, would work for a company that would do such a thing?
My understanding is that there is a give and take between meadows and forests that occurs on multi-year cycle. Meadows grow when there is too much water, and trees grow when the water recedes. You can see this in the Yosemite Valley really clearly. Perhaps this is a sign that the freshwater in the ground is going away.
I'm not saying there is nothing of value to be obtained by investigating connections between ML and the brain. That's how I got into ML in the first place, doing theoretical neuro research.

We absolutely should and do look to the brain for inspiration.

I'm taking issue with the rather ham-fisted series of papers that have come out in recent years aggressively pushing the agenda of connections between ML and neuro that just aren't there.

Are you sure that humans have done more net compute on Go than Deepmind just did? The Go game tree is _enormous_, humans are bias. We don't invent strategies from scratch, we use heuristics handed down to us from the pros (who in turn were handed down the heuristics from their mentors).

To me, it's not so interesting or surprising that the human initialized net performed worse. We just built the same biases and heuristics we have into that net.
Well, don't let my depression lead you to the wrong conclusion. I'm am (somewhat) active - I donate to climate causes, it's my number one issue when voting, I drive a hybrid, only buy organic food, minimize eating meat, minimize consumption, grow some of my own food, bike when I can, minimize electricity use, etc. I do recognize that it's not enough and we all need to basically go back pre-industrial lifestyles to really make enough of a change to matter.
Pass the "-matrix pmi" flag to factor the PMI matrix as by default it factorizes PPMI.
Given that most of the chemical processes of neurology are halted by rendering the usual liquid soup of metabolism completely inert, any rememberance of dreaming or sensation is going to occur in the transient periods of going under or coming out of storage.

To borrow from the array of Inception memes, your sense of time in the dream world is distorted, which is why dreams can feel like days-long ordeals even though you’ve probably never had a dream last even 2 hours, let alone 8. So if you do come out of it with trippy dream-like memories or weird emotional feelings as residue from nightmares, what will they amount to? I guess it could be unpleasant, but if you’re going to get on living, you’ll have to figure out a way to get over it and move on.

I mean, whatever baggage you wind up with is going to be stacked next to what amounts to an (almost assuredly unsettling) near death experience, and waking up alone anyway, with (very likely) no friends or loved ones to offer support after you wake back up, so you’ll have that to cope with as well. No one promised that living forever would be easy.
Hmm. Why not aria-hidden=true?
The Death of Real Estate Brokerages?
Remembering my first month at Automattic
I would argue with them to the usefulness of their practice. Like, use Pareto principle. Some coding style is useful and should be agreed upon. Some code review is useful. But beyond that (whatever is beyond for the particular team) is useless.
If they are stubborn and you don`t like it there, move on.
The irony of my non-partisan post getting downvoted...
"it's quite customary to represent hashes in hexadecimal notation (that is, using 0-9 and a-z) - that's what we'll use in this article." -- hexadecimal is 0-9 and a-f
An m4.2xlarge on AWS EC2 provides 8 cores and 32 gig of RAM for 40 cents/hour. That'd be $288/month. You could also get an m4.xlarge with 4 cores and 16 gig for $144/month.

Of course, that doesn't include storage and bandwidth.

I mean, sure. I've got a 5 year old laptop that will outperform the t2.micro I'm pay $8.35/month for. But I don't trust my home internet to be stable or fast enough. Not to mention that my primary usage is an IRC bouncer, so I need it to not be on my home internet connection so some script kiddie doesn't DDoS me after I ban them from a channel because they were spamming racial slurs. Yes, that has actually happened.
I bought a substantial (obscene really) amount of land that had been owned by a paper mill. It hadn't been harvested since the 80s and it's a working forest (TSI, sustainable) now. I know how it's done, have the gear, and can log safely - I just can't do it at the speeds they do it at.

These days, there's little logging left. They still have the festivals with the demonstrations and competitions, though.

The lumber quality wood from my land goes to turning and some specialty mills - some goes down to Belgrade (Hammond). Over in Vienna, I've got a bunch of commercial blueberry fields, about 400 acres.

So, I've tried to fit in and the natives accept me as one of their own. I still call them the Village People, though.

You can tell when they've accepted you. The gossip is no longer about you - and now they tell you gossip about the new people. I moved here after selling my business and built a giant house.

The locals would come sit in my future driveway and talk about me. Sometimes, they'd spend the whole day there. So, I made it a point to hire anyone who asked. That worked wonders.

I paid people to teach me how to hunt, fish, use a chainsaw, process meat, preserve things, grow a garden, etc...

It's been VERY different than what I'd expected when I opted to move here. It's been much better, actually. It's the first place I've ever called home - which might explain my gushing about it.
I had the problem of needing Facebook. I found I was checking it every few minutes, sometimes as often as twice a minute, so I decided that I was going to demonstrate some self-control: I closed my account.

You're absolutely right - after the first few days, I stopped thinking about checking it all the time. After a couple of months, I stopped thinking about it at all. A few years later, I don't even think about it most weeks. Every now and then, I do find myself thinking that I should open another account and that it will be different this time, but deep down I know it won't be.
Doesn't that already happen? And what evidence do you have to suggest that known income would make it worse on average? What about cases where a contractor would presume a client is wealthy and try to rip them off, but income data would show that they are actually not as well off as appearances suggest?

But I haven't really bothered to think through any of that, because my point was about kidnapping, which almost never happens in the US. Fewer than 100 people are kidnapped for ransom in the US every year.
I would love to hear more about this. Do you buy everything in bulk with reusable packaging? Does that require driving out to the farms? Do you end up eating seasonally and locally? What equipment did you have to buy to achieve this?
I finally signed up in 2016 as well. It is The Responsible Backup Plan in the grand scheme of things, assuming you are someone who likes to be alive. Around that time I set down some high level notes on what I think to be important in the process, which can be found here:

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/07/finally-signed-u...

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/05/overfund-the-lif...

"I have put off signing up for cryopreservation for a decade or so. This isn't uncommon; after all, it involves paperwork, adult responsibility, planning ahead, thinking about unpleasant events, and all that. People put off many other things for these and similar reasons. Writing wills, buying houses, getting married, starting companies, and so on. That doleful feeling of some unknown scope of paperwork that will have to be accomplished in the event that you do get your act together and set forth to be a responsible adult is ever a strong deterrent. Still, sooner or later all these tasks have to be carried out, and while no-one enjoys wading through legal documents, it is never as bad as you think it is going to be. If you are unfamiliar with the process of signing up for cryonics organization membership and cryopreservation, let me tell you that it is much less work than buying a house. It is about two and half times the work of getting a life insurance policy, if that helps calibrate things any better."
Not sure how much of a frequent flyer you'd have to be to make a conscious decision to fly less. I'm certainly not there.
According to my recollection of the words of a tour guide in Vancouver, Canada, those big, dark squirrels we see around here were brought to Stanley Park from New York. Then they multiplied and kind of outcompeted the small native squirrels.

Someone's related blog: https://www.miss604.com/2015/03/grey-squirrels-of-stanley-pa...

Quote: So how did this squirrel get here just over 100 years ago? Some reports say that the squirrels were a gift from the Mayor of New York City in 1909 but Jolene from Stanley Park History found that in 1909 Vancouver Park Boar Chair, Charles Tisdall, wrote to various American cities in search of purchasing “grey squirrels” for Stanley Park.
It is a bit similar. The issue with Pascal's Wager is that you do not know a priori if praying for a good afterlife makes the good afterlife more or less likely. For example maybe you pray to Jesus and then Allah disapproves of your idolatry. You just can't know, because it's impossible to reason about supernatural stuff.

With cryonics, though, you can be pretty sure that you are not going to be more dead. There is a small probability you will be revived in a dystopian world and regret it. You can never know for sure, but you can at least reason about it and think about the probabilities given what you know about human nature and history and so on.
Removing optional tags is recommended here: https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html
This is the fallacy of Bulverism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism):

"You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly." - C.S. Lewis

In this case, the real issue (how likely cryonics patients are to be revived) is replaced with the alleged motives of the debater ("fear of death", although I'd argue that almost everyone is afraid of death; most people would feel fear if a gun was pointed at them).
Agreed. If we announce that A* search is superhuman in finding best routes, most technorati would't bat an eye. Technically it is probably accurate to say that the results here show that neural networks can find good heuristics for MCTS search through unsupervised training in the game of Go. According to DeepMind authors:

"These search probabilities
usually select much stronger moves than the raw move probabilities of the neural network; MCTS may therefore be viewed as a powerful policy improvement operator. Self-play with search – using the improved MCTS-based policy to select each move, then using the game winner as a sample of the value – may be viewed as a powerful policy evaluation operator. The main idea of our reinforcement learning algorithm is to use these search operators repeatedly in a policy iteration procedure ..."

The fact that this reinforcement training is unsupervised from the very beginning is quite exciting and may lead to better heuristics for other kinds of combinatorial optimization problems.
Maybe just move on, not everywhere will be a perfect fit and hopefully your next job won't undervalue you as much as your current one. Good luck!
Pascal's Wager posits an infinitely large reward, meaning that even a tiny (but finite) chance of the proposition being true still has an infinite expected value.

Cryonics has a large (but still finite) reward. If you think the chances of cryonics are low enough, then it's not worth pursuing.
A security measure for some is a privacy breech for others.
I haven't tried it either but I'm pretty sure there is no legality issues outside of the US, probably dubious legality inside the States but I wouldn't want to go up against their lawyers to prove it..
Human race will survive. When extinction level event will be certain then 20-30 underground mini cities will be created and biggest minds will create solution for humans to survive there for 100+ years. Of course only privileged will be chosen to live there. 7 billions of people will die but human race will survive.
I'm not entirely sure. I believe it has to do with the DRM implementation. While Widewine is the DRM in Chrome and Firefox, Edge uses something different[1].

I've seen people talk about Chrome being able to handle 1080p in ChromeOS. So there seems to be more than just Netflix's choice involved here. Although I bet Microsoft being proactive helped. Definitely unclear.

Also I don't see any reason why Netflix wouldn't want to support 1080p in all the major browsers. The only downside might be excess bandwidth, but with the Open Connect Appliance being a thing, I doubt it is a big factor.

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/07/13/get-b...
>>Take gut microbiome research. Hardly any of it is reproducible.

Totally agree, and even one level up is unreproducible, or done in ways that are psuedoscientific - nutrition and effects of diet on humans. So many "ubiome"-like places doing blood testing and other diet-related "science" based on complete nonsense.
Serious question: could it be possible, even in theory, to translate a neural network to a high level programing language? So we can see what it's doing?
You're now making fun of people dying. That's pretty horrible. Isn't it the same as laughing at handicapped people trying to get on the bus too? They should do more training before venturing out into the real world. Isn't that the same as making fun of alcoholics and drug addicts who kill themselves with their habits? Suicide and drug overdose deaths are a joke and the people who die deserve it because they didn't bother to learn useful employable skills and ended up feeling worthless? Just because someone isn't good at evaluating risk doesn't mean they deserve ridicule for suffering all kinds of loss from their pride to their car, to their life.

Edit: I got derailed from my point. Not all tourists are what your stereotype says. Just like not all women drivers cause traffic jams and not all blacks are criminals. This is the prejudice you're showing that I think is equivalent to racism or sexism. Imagine replacing "tourist" with "black" in your thoughts to see how extreme it is.
It seems clear that easy money (anyone can get student loans) is the primary driver of rising tuition costs (driving out less well off families) not reduced government funding. http://images.mic.com/gcnmd1o6fihnkyh0kgimslfoombvuel882tmho...
https://www.google.com/search?q=rising+education+costs&sourc...:
> Perhaps this is a sign that the freshwater in the ground is going away.

Now look what Nestle/other food giants, but also slaughterhouses and animal farms, do: they use groundwater with private wells, and they extract more water than can be replenished... boom.
If he changes his opinion, which I understand to be models of the brain in this case, and each iteration improves the model, then that is perfectly fine. It would be bad if someone did not change their view in case of inconsistent evidence.
NASA Finds High-Tech Material Could Help Hypersonic Planes Fly Faster Than Ever
Fully observable and we still have no idea what the hell it's doing.

Makes neuroscience seem kinda bleak doesn't it?

There has been a lot of great work lately building up a theory of how these things work, but it is very much still in the early stage. Jascha Sohl-Dickstein in particular has been doing some great work on this.

We don't even have answers to the most basic questions.

For instance (pedagogically), how the hell is it possible to train these things at all? They have ridiculously non-convex loss landscapes and we optimize in the dumbest conceivable way, first-order stochastic gradient descent. This should not work. But it does, all too often.

Not a great example because there are easy hand wavy arguments as to why it should work, but as far as proofs go...

The hand wavy argument goes as follows:
- we're in like a 10000 dimensional space, for the stationary point we're at to be a true local minima that means each one of those 10000 dimensions goes uphill in either direction. It's overwhelming likely that there's at least one way out
- there are many many different ways to set the params of the net for each function. Permutation is a simple example.

We really have no idea how these things work.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you...
> between 2x and 5x some sort of revenue or profit measure

Sorry, but which is it? 2X to 5X revenue and 2X to 5X profit are wildly different numbers.
I can't help but notice there's no "Security" section. Perhaps by the time you've got the HTML rendering it's too late, but SRI tags, CSP headers and whatnot all deserve some mention.

https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist/issues/2...
smart - no one else is
I have some idea how it MIGHT work, but it would be a very boring solution involving 'learning' Stockfish's parameters and HOPING to find improvements to something like integrating time management and search/pruning into it.

I wouldn't bet on it though. SMP is notoriously hard to work with alpha-beta search and there are a lot of clever tricks (which is probably still not perfect). Maybe with ASICs, you could make it stronger, but then it wouldn't be as fair a comparison.
The thing is it shouldn't be that way in the first place isn't it? Take the golang spec, for example.
They can't really verify, because many have large non-salary compensation structures, comprising somewhere from 10% to 1000% (or even much more) of their base salary.

Repeat after me: "Well, taking into account my current schedule for divestiture and estimated market positions I would need X to match my total compensation package."
Uhh pesticides. Duh!
Front end or Back end?
I am going into crispr to make pesticide immune versions of all the bugs we currently have. Effect change where you can.
Yeah, that wasn't aimed at you. More a general observation that one of the biggest problems with climate change is how we think about it. I'll bet there are a lot of people who have more or less given up. I've talked to some people who are not really deniers but rather people who don't want to know, and find it easiest to not think about it at all.