skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders being backed.

Not really. YC used to invest that amount 10 years ago for 6-7%. Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, etc. were definitely not planned for "very low exits."

These days people get into YC with pretty elaborate stuff. I think that an underrated founder with just an idea or an mvp with little or no traction, wouldn't get into YC today (think Airbnb, Reddit, etc.).

Pioneer is building a model to invest in deals earlier in the pipeline. It will probably give them outsized returns in the future.
I bought a lamp for a rear projection tv a couple years ago. It burned out after a month. Amazon let me return it, but charged a restocking fee. That would've been fine, but I haven't been able to review the product for over a year now.

Fuck amazon - newegg is cheaper anyway.
It's kind of well known that anki has some seriously bad defaults for long term studying. Not to plug myself but I've written about this at length. [0]

There are a few big issues, but the easiest one to fix is the reset interval.

When you forget a word that you're reviewing (that is, when you hit "Again"), anki resets the interval to 0%, as if it were a totally new card.

This is bad for 2 reasons. 1) A lapse is not the same as learning a completely new word. When you review a lapsed card you're just refreshing that connection that you've already made. So it's wasteful to completely reset the interval unless you've really totally forgotten the word.

2) The interval reset can be huge (going from 7 months to 1 day) so it makes it tempting to just hit "Hard" instead. I know I've done that.

The fix here is to set a more reasonable reset value like 40-60%. I use 45%.

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The other big issue is the algorithm works differently than you would expect. I discuss this in more detail in my post, but essentially anki gives each card a modifier value. Starting at 250%. Every time you hit Again/Hard/Easy, it -- permanently -- modifies this card. This is quite unintuitive! When people grade a card, they're really grading their own memory / ability to recall. Not how hard the card itself is.

Why is this bad? Because if you hit "Hard" a lot, then you're seriously capping the interval growth rate for a word. In other words you'll see it way more often than you need to. Most people don't hit "hard", -then- "easy" once they learn it. A lot of people I know hit "hard" to be on the safe side instead of "good", purely out of habit. This picture explains why a low modifier is bad. [1]

The way I fix this is by using 2 plugins: the first makes grading buttons not modify a card's modifier, and the second one resets ALL cards to 250%. Low-Key anki goes over this in detail. [2]

However! This fix assumes a relatively homogeneous deck in terms of card difficulty. I.e. words for a language. If you're studying, say, algorithms or something where the difficulty may be heterogeneous, then you may want anki's default behavior.

[0]: https://andrewzah.com/posts/better-anki-usage-guide-2019/

[1]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/andrewzah.com/posts/017/ease-exampl...

[2]: https://massimmersionapproach.com/table-of-contents/anki/low...
No, it's the truth, and if anything it's an understatement.
I like to squeeze amazon links to https://amazon.com/dp/B0085NTQJK - removing the SEO inlining of the article name

Removing those pesky get-parameters aint enough to keep a BOM link list in line
What happens whenyou get run over by a drunk driver? You don't get to choose when that happens, and there's little you can do to prevent it.
Recent interview with Ajit Pai covers some of his thoughts on net neutrality. I thought it was was worth a listen/read

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/ajit-pai/

As for the article, I don't think it matters all that much except maybe possible slight embarassment?
I would guess that in 99.9% of purchases even over $500, both sides of the transaction are happy. Requiring the buyer to go to the store adds a significant transaction cost to the buyer, and is likely unnecessary.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371486.
Nah, the parent poster is right.

No matter how desperately you may want to think of yourself as a steely-eyed badass who fearlessly speaks hard realities, you aren’t.
GoodReads Data Pipeline
An end-to-end data pipeline capturing source data from GoodReads API using API calls. ETL jobs are written in Spark to transform the data and loads them into Data Warehouse on Redshift. The pipeline is managed using Airflow and scheduled to run every 10 minutes. At a minimum configuration of 3 node EMR cluster and a 2 node Redshift Cluster, the pipeline can handle around 2TB of data every day.

https://github.com/san089/goodreads_etl_pipeline
It’s sad how often it’s STEM people specifically who equate ”I know a lot about my field” to ”I know a lot about unrelated fields as well”.
The W3C doesn't even try to drive features after one browser has implemented them and other browsers are considering them - that's the job of WHATWG.
> Of the remainder it's about .25% that "finish" the course in any meaningful way

Some users don't pay for courses to "finish" them, but to check key lessons and refer to them when needed. Personally I've paid for a few MOOCs just to routinely watch/listen some parts, skip a bunch of lessons, and listen others passively.
Holy crap. I am in the process of "fighting" with insurance over meds we paid out of pocket even though they were supposed to cover it.. long story. We thought we hit a wall and we contacted one of the enforcement agencies. All of a sudden, we get an individual refund form and a place to mail it to. The amount was not astronomical ($1.5k), but not something I can just ignore.

And that happens all over the country. Not everyone has my time to call, write and complain. Those are the moments I am ready to change the system. It is not really working for me. It is merely acceptable to a few.
huh, works now again for me too.

Apparently some other people had it too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/f7ipga/account_fd_...

Oh well
> Discord is a private company. I know it has been pointed out repeatedly, but there is no slippery slope here because discord is not obligated to host any content it deems bad for its business. This isn't inhuman, nobody is entitled to use anyone else's private platform.

This seems like kind of a red herring, because it doesn't address the question of what behavior is reasonable. You're throwing out a generic talking point that would make essentially any behavior "reasonable" if we actually accepted it as a justification. This is like getting caught cheating by your spouse and trying to justify it with "It's a free country!" It doesn't matter, because your legal obligations are not the point.

> Precedent matters when it comes to what you host because it does put a significant burden on discord to distinguish what content is malicious and what isn't once they allow malware to be distributed on their service. If the platform becomes infested with people spreading malware for games users or other game developers will avoid it, harming discord's business.

This is not saying Discord's treatment of OP was reasonable, it's just speculating that Discord are unreasonable because it's cheaper to be that way. I agree that's probably true. And I'm saying I think we should carefully consider whether we want to deal with companies that have that particular set of priorities. Maybe the answer is yes for you, but a lot of people and businesses have been burned by similarly inhuman customer service from (for example) Google, so I think it is at least worth recognizing unreasonable behavior.
>Discord is a private company. I know it has been pointed out repeatedly, but there is no slippery slope here because discord is not obligated to host any content it deems bad for its business.

You're right. And this is another reason why Discord should not be used.
This is one benefit of Linux distro package managementany people forget - apps can't just update themeselves (possibly after their updater being compromised) but go via package maintainers and are built from source on trusted distro infrastructure.
We've changed the title to that of the article, as the site guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Submitted title was "Is ReasonML good by itself or the underlying OCaml the source of awesomeness?"
Gmail.com uses HTTPS. Already encrypted. /s
Almost. The correct condition would be "Used - Like New" [0]

The reason why this matters is because "New" items are grouped in a separate tab/link on the product detail page.

Frankly speaking, selling anything other than sealed products in perfect conditions as "New" opens you up to misery.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
> Buyers also generally have to buy somewhere, especially for necessities.

Much of what gets sold online is discretionary purchases, not necessities. Like cameras. And necessities are cheap and readily available down the road - why wait for toothpaste to ship online when you can buy a tube on your way home from work?

> You don't have to just resell to profit. Just buy stuff you want anyways then complain.

Well you really do, if your goal is to acquire currency. Having a garage full of stolen items is a liability, not profit.

> The current system works because there are many buyers and few sellers.

It works because buyers are willing (and able) to spend money. It's the only ingredient necessary for a market. Demand will always create supply one way or another.

> Most people are honest.

There is little evidence of this outside of Japan. Drop $50 in a carpark and see how many people return it to the store.

> Skewing in favor of the buyer makes it so the few sellers aren't overrun by fraudsters.

I am not sure what this means. Skewing in favor of buyers creates conditions where there are buyers in the first place, allowing for the market to exist. I suspect the reason sellers aren't swamped by fraudsters is as I said in a different comment - profiting from fraud as a buyer is difficult, dangerous, and requires a lot of effort and work. Most buyers just want their items. ALL sellers want to make money, and a fair percentage are happy to ship sub-quality garbage for over-inflated prices (a kind of fraud in itself?).
It's not unheard of for a leader to tell a joke
There is also "co-insurance", which can be in the range of 20 to 50 percent of the billed amount, depending on one's plan. It should go without saying that 20 to 50 percent of the bill on almost any substantive medical problem can be a financial extinction-level event for many American families.
It was never a problem when companies started outsourcing to developing countries in droves...
I wrote this comment before reading the excellent comment 'wahern wrote, so I'm getting rid of my redundant point about pharma and admin as a percentage of overall spending.

Rather, I'd like to point out something that I haven't seen discussed. Maybe someone here can knock it down.

Health care spending increases drastically and nonlinearly after age 55. Medicare's admin overhead is in part a consequence of the cohort of patients it serves: they receive more medical services than everyone else, and so more of their medical spending goes to services relative to administrative costs.

Conversely, younger patients receive relatively few medical services, and the services they receive are much less expensive. Compared to that lower amount, fixed administrative costs are a higher percentage of their medical spending. Some admin costs scale directly with the costs of services rendered, but others don't.

As a result, it seems pretty clear that Medicare's admin overhead ratio would necessarily be higher if it covered everyone, and that any result taken by extrapolating current administrative overhead to the whole population would be dubious.
I got ripped off on eBay where the fraudster kept my gas RC car and got the refund. It was only $300, but I haven’t sold anything on the internet that I wouldn’t be uncomfortable giving away since.
There are a few meta-analysis about snus cancer risk. I think generally the opinion [1] is that while lower than other smoke-cured tobaccos, there still exists a non-zero risk for oropharyngeal cancer risk and statistically-valid increase in pancreatic and esophageal cancer risk compared to non-tobacco users.
[1](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...)
Would try this...
Free training: Join the system and make 7-figure income online
Review: Simulations in Swith 5
Sorry but how does this relate to my comment?
I wonder if seller insurance is viable. Pay $50 for an item, company does a background check on the seller and maybe does escrow.
The problem is, that only fixes IRC for you, not the other 99.9% of users who you are presumably there to communicate with.

Slack/Discord/etc. fix the problem for everyone.

Trying to community-build on IRC just seems like an exercise in masochism. I think most projects and their users deserve better than that, and it's hard to do worse than IRC.
A few startups are realizing it is a rigged, unfair game and are trying to balance things a bit. They are offering stock purchase and exercise windows valid for several years, instead of just months or even days. Unfortunately it is still not a widespread practice. I have yet to see a company equalizing stock priorities of employees vs VCs.
One more reason to not refine then burn it!
Thanks man! The hardest part is getting the word out.
Thanks for the amazing work, I thought about this a while back when I saw WINE Hangover for Android but this is even better (in some ways, at least). Sadly, the iPadOS/iOS 13.3.1 issue is a headache and the certain jailbreak tools which usually get around IPA signing aren't working either.

Whilst most people are saying it's a bug on Apple's side I'm worried it's more than that. The removal of signed iPadOS/iOS 13.3 from their servers, along with the returned ability of flashing static lib'ed packages after all being blocked for a while seems more "on purpose" from Apple rather than "by accident". We gotta just wait and see, I guess.
Friction is very subjective. For many, joining a channel on freenode is a matter of seconds, whereas registering to a new Slack workspace is like accessing a news article behind a paywall — you won't do it unless you absolutely have to.
In that case, the drunk driver/his insurance would pay for the hospital fees, no? That is, in the more optimistic outcome where I actually survive.
There's been at least some effort in Congress to reign in the overuse of binding arbitration [1]. It only covers employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights disputes, so probably would not help in a dispute between an Amazon seller and Amazon. Still, it at least shows some in government realize forced arbitration agreements are getting out of hand.

That passed the House, but almost certainly will die in the Senate considering that in the House it only had 2 Republicans vote for it and 183 against it (14 not voting). Democrats were 223 for, 2 against, 9 not voting.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1423
Isn't every Democrat supportive of universal healthcare? (Which at the minimum is just ACA + technical fixes on it)

There are differences through whether it should be single-payer or not.
Russia Blamed for Cyberattack on Georgia
Some of the possibilities are: an agenda; a "personal perspective"; an unconscious bias.
If the risk is low then the rewards will be low as well. I think the problem that VCs face in seed is the deluge of pitches. In A rounds, things have settled down.
Yeah, could be allowed. I did a fast search and there were records of apps such as SuperRetro16 being kicked out. But I don't know if it's a policy that is poorly enforced, or the removals were for some other reason.
Thank you. I did not know that
https://sneak.berlin/s/2020/20200218.discord/tracking.png

Remembered me the Win10 installer settings :)
But... she does have repercussions? She has chronic back pain and deteriorating health...

Pain pills are either
A) not going to be strong enough
B) harshly addictive. Probably opioids.
Sounds reasonable and it could be fairly automated too. You can already take amazon returns to UPS stores, Whole Foods or Kohls and they will box it for you. All they need is a camera system to video the boxing and then associate the shipping label/tracking number with that video.

The boxing video could be made available on the courier's site for any interested party to see (when enabled by the shipper). Sure, it may not capture the quality of an item, but that's a fairly small detail that can be resolved with a return/partial refund and it would at least put an end to the rampant fraud that goes on.
Stories like this are why I've never bought or sold anything on Ebay. They just seem like a genuinely shitty experience and I'd rather shell out extra cash to buy new or meet someone off craigslist as a bank.
How is that different from insurer incentives to deny coverage or to ask crazy copays because insured people can only switch plans once a year and select from a tiny menu of options that their employers have negotiated on their behalf with an oligopolistic industry? And do you honestly prefer the shady debt collectors industry to the current government money collection mechanisms ?!?
This is not a thing and if it ever became a thing it would be challenged in the courts. What is covered is all determined by the CMS and the medical associations. I would imagine some red states would try to do it. But to deny claims for cost control would be akin to the "experimental" treatment BS that insurance companies try to do. Insurers who deny for cost control reasons get hammered in the courts.

In fact medicare/medicaid have an even better mechanism to route out fraud. They can jail the medical provider for doing so.

Your last claim about fees for collecting tolls is unrelated.
> In response that means those employers will lower their demand for labor, which results in either both economy-wide reductions in employment, wages and ultimately investment and GDP.

Unless there's another equilibrium at the new demand which neither you nor I can state that there is or isn't.
The default leech threshold for Anki is 8. (You have to fail recall 8 times after graduating a card from new status). I recommend lowering this to 4.

If you keep on failing to memorize a card, then you should suspend or delete it. I know this sounds crazy, but you end up wasting so much energy on those cards; energy that you could have spent on memorizing characters that you don't struggle with. When you do anki for years this really adds up.

If that character is "important" relative to other characters, you can take it outside of anki and write like 15 sentences with it, etc.

You can filter by suspended (or leeched, I think) cards easily. What I do is set aside time once every ~2 weeks to go through my suspended cards and see if they need to be modified to be simpler, etc.

What really kills you is missing reviews. I did kanji study at 10-15 words/day for a few months, and then missed reviews due to work/life issues. Going back and slogging through that backlog of ~400 reviews was very demotivating.

I recommend changing the defaults of mixing new cards and reviews, to showing reviews first. That way it's easier to focus on knocking out reviews, which only really takes like ~15-30 minutes. Even at 20/cards day.
Yes, IIRC there was a thread talking about this GoodRX thing. When I was uninsured, it brought the price for a month's supply of generic Singulair from ~$60 to ~$9. Very convenient for me, but where does that money come from? Does GoodRX get paid for that data, that I'm a 30-yo man in x-state who needs x-medicine? Very sketchy.
I found the whole thing to read like a set of bullet points. Fragmented, rather repetitive in terms of ideas and with no flow. Hard to slog through, to be honest.

The author seems to have expended great effort on terseness, writing in very short sentences which artificially forced him to start more of them with coordinate conjunctions than feels comfortable to me. It did not make for an easy read and all felt rather too self-conscious. Good writing should focus me on the ideas, not the annoying syntactic structure of the writing.

I didn't get on with it.
Forgo ‘just add water’ hand soap eliminates plastic
I agree that the way a lot of companies structure their equity compensation is terrible. How would you structure equity compensation at a mid-stage startup where a share grant would come with a real, substantial tax hit, without any possibility of liquidity in the near future?

I'm asking because we're just starting to think about how to do this ourselves, and I agree that most equity plans are giving engineers a raw deal. The answer might just be large share grants, at least until the share value makes that unattractive. I'd love to hear other peoples' thoughts on this.

IIRC, much of the reason ISOs work the way they do is because of the way the IRS treats them, and companies that offer much longer exercise windows are having to work around these limitations to do so.
Ask HN: Passed the FB screen but no offer (yet)
I'm in a slightly weird situation that I'd appreciate a more experienced HNer's input on.

I had a phone screen for a FB internship last week. Yesterday the recruiter got back to me and said that I'd done well but that they didn't have room in the track that I'd originally been slotted for (PhD ML engineer) and to give them 1-2 weeks to figure it out.

But the recruiter also said that there were spots open in the Systems and Infrastructure track and that if I were interested in that she could connect me with those teams. In fact I am interested in systems and infra (I said as much during the warm-up with the first interviewer during the screen) so I immediately responded in the affirmative.

Today I spoke with a friend that works at FB and he said the issue is that it's quite late in the semester and so the recruiter is being honest about having trouble finding me a spot.

The reality is I would be absolutely ecstatic to work on anything at FB (systems, ML, mobile, frontend, etc) but I'm not sure if they're considering me for all those slots or only PhD slots. I'm also not sure how to effectivity communicate this to my recruiter (that I'm excited about anything).

Any advice while anxiously waiting out the next 2 weeks would be appreciated.
When I was around 19 and messing around with Visual Basic 5, I made a Sudoku solver. I thought up an algorithm myself, coded it, and it worked. I was very proud of myself. Seeing how succinct this SQL solver is now, I am in awe.
> Well, if it's all above board, they shouldn't be worried about transparency then

That's either extremely naive or disingenuous. It's quite frequent in negotiations that you have to concede parts that might be spinned as collosal political losses even if they are completely inoquous or even in line with the greater good or your political mid to long-term interests. The sovereign debt crisis is an excellent example, as even though it was in no one's best interests to let states go bankrupt, a hand full of member states were forced to navigate populist and extremist political parties and movements who were fundamentally opposed to both the EU, euro, and bailout processes who were spinning this issue to further their personal agenda. It's absurd to even assume that needlessly exposing your nation to this sort of manipulation is in anyone's best interests.
> ...someone at FedEx doesn't really know how to...

Yes, this is true. I think a basic service offering might just record the weight and photo of each item being packaged up.
An ideal retention rate is about 80-90%. 95% means you could be challenging yourself more (if desired).

https://eshapard.github.io/anki/target-an-80-90-percent-succ...
I guess, the answer might be that by the time Windows became popular USSR had been no more.