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Ask HN: How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?
In the last job I have gotten a lot of autonomy. I have been the only full-time engineer in a small team. My task was to create a machine learning model ready for production and to design and start work on the product integrating the said model.

I have felt that the team trusts me to do the job and therefore I decided that my time will be used best by applying myself to the actual development. I neglected meetings that seemed unnecessary and reduced one-to-one communication.

I have set up tools to monitor my progress with the model (like tensorboard and sacred[1]), kept meticulous issue-tracking and a well-maintained repo on Gitlab. I also have been writing short semi-regular reports on the progress of the model (current issues, things to try and test, current metrics and suggestions for the development). It turned out, no one has ever reviewed any of the above and the team relied only on my summaries during short, semi-regular meetings. My ways of communicating turned out to be mostly inaccessible to people without engineering background!

As a result I was accused of slacking off and was deemed not worthy of any equity in the newly formed company [2]. I believe that my biggest mistake [3] was lack of proper communication of my progress and complexity I was dealing with. I was also unable to convey why some things take more time than expected during modelling or software development (like data processing, writing unit tests, etc.). Hence, my questions: How to effectively communicate the progress to non-engineer team members? How do I set reasonable expectations when the team expects development time to be closer to a hackathon project than a maintainable and certified product? How do you explain the complexity and gotchas of the work that needs to be done?

[1] https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred

[2] I resigned as a result (still working on the project until the end of the year). I am now transitioning to freelancing.

[3] There were other issues on both sides too of course, but not pertinent to my questions.
Sorry but you are mentioning a common historical missconception perpetuated in history because of competition, war and propaganda between the Spanish Empire and England (the sort of conflict and propaganda also evolved in the time, it is a complex topic)

Please check this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_legend_(Spain)

There is a lot of literature on the topic, so I won't discuss further.
That is not how it works. The Spanish Flu hasn't "come back" yet and coronaviruses mutate a lot more slowly. It couldn't really come back anyway, because it's still there, downgraded to regular flu.
What planet are you living on where people aren't making the same arguments about all of those things?
The Roman Herod's theater at Caesarea is also used for shows and is 2000 years old
Any MOOCs on RISC-V?
Sure, but it doesn't matter if you sell to 1, 2, or 5 companies: they've all priced this in to their individual models, which means you can't really get any better with any individual company by, say, giving them an exclusive license to this particular data. But, in aggregate, you can do better selling to more companies than any individual model prices in. Which means the Nash equilibrium here is, unfortunately, a race to the bottom, but, it remains to be seen if we've reached that or not.

Hmmm.
> or even forced to give all of their data, it's entirely voluntary.

Sure you can avoid using Google and other spying companies products, but you kind of then getting yourself excluded from the society that see no problem with that.
If you don't want to give your data you essentially need to stop using internet or put a lot of effort to learn how to avoid your data to be taken away from you.

I agree that it should be straight up illegal to collect data that there is no essential business need for. Company should be allowed to take personal data to process an order, but it should be illegal to run any kind of analytics that involves personal data and even "anonymised" data should not be allowed to be sold or used for advertising or to manipulate customers into sales.
If the iPad was your property but you used an Apple ID associated to an email address you didn't control, and you forgot the password, you're out of luck.

There is precisely one exception: if you have a copy of the original purchase receipt/invoice which shows the serial number, contact Apple Support and request that Activation Lock be disabled.
The RGB you'd typically use when designing or developing something does not really map very well to human biology because it's just an approximation that happens to work well with the technology we currently have.

For example, the dynamic range you can express with standard 24-bit hex RGB colors (e.g. #ff0000) is way smaller than what the human eye is capable of perceiving.

Also, using mathematical models to create palettes typically relies on a lot of assumptions. For example, #ff0000 is not perceived as equally bright as #00ff00 by a human being, yet looking at it represented like this you'd assume this to be the case.

I think it is possible to build a mathematical model that creates pleasing color palettes, it's just that they're often built on approximations that aren't really accurate.
Getting 10$ a month for using Gmail? Sounds like a deal for me. At the moment these companies get my data for free thinking about it
While Lincoln and the Republicans did vanquish slavery and moved things forward greatly for their time, the revolution in someways was lacking. A great example of this was the compromise that ended up weakening the 15th ammendment which gave an out for what would become poll taxes and eventually Jim Crow. The civil rights movement needed to take place 100 years after the civil war, and even since then people are still kicking and screaming to deprive black people of their rights.

If you don't agree with John Brown's radically as the author of the book in question doesn't, one argument for respect of his point of view is that the reform that Lincoln and later Republicans pushed actually didn't quite lead to full equality, and now, 160 years later, we're still grappling with the shortcomings of their incomplete revolution.
How to use SVG icons like a pro in your React apps
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There's a way for odd divisors, since they have a multiplicative inverse mod 2^n.

For example, the inverse of 3 modulo 2^32 is 0xAAAAAAAB.
If you multiply an unsigned number x by 0xAAAAAAAB, the result is less than or equal to 0xFFFFFFFF/3 if and only x is divisible by 3.

Of course this is only possible for non-bignum computations.

But there are other tricks for bignums, for example the number of even set bits in a multiple of three is equal to the number of odd set bits, because 4*n+k = n+k (mod 3) and the property is true for 0 and 3 but not 1 and 2.
Why is anyone not helping me?
How many of these small companies are

a) researching Covid-19 vaccines?

b) will they actually get to produce millions and millions of doses?

Almost every case I know of, it's a huge company or even a state owned one.

Who are we actually arguing for/against? The hypothetical "small pharma"?

Keep in mind that just like for banking, due to the amount of (necessary) regulation, there aren't many small pharma companies out there.
Also note, pre-owned vehicle prices in the US have greatly increased since March.

The company I work for, we can provide the original window sticker for a pre-owned vehicle.

This had been a desired feature for several years.

Now, dealerships no longer want the customer to see that info on a pre-owned vehicles, because it has the list price of the vehicle as new.

The pre-owned price is very close to the new price.
I loved it, but I went there for the ancient Roman aspect and was kind of sad that that has been overlaid with the Roman Catholic stuff.
So familiar. I learned how to solder, how to program real-time things (Arduino, ESP32), MQTT, I built this whole device based on a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino to measure air quality and control an air purifier, programmed this whole thing in Python which I learned because at the time my favorite language didn't have much support on the RPi, wrote my own "drivers" here and there, set up all sorts of docker containers...

Frankly, if I didn't love programming and tinkering, I simply wouldn't have any IoT stuff.
39.99? Hmm. I would have said no if it was just electron. But the native UI is compelling.
Delete instagram and forget about it?

Is this likely to turn into a real-life problem, i.e. if you never heard of this guy again on instagram can he affect your actual real life?

If he can / does harrass you in real life, then why isn't this just a case of harrasment for the police to deal with?
I doubt the family has dealt with Lexus for 30 plus years. Lexus has barely been around for 31 years, with the first model having been released in September of 1989.
So true. When someone gets mad at me online for saying that black people have genetically bad IQs or that it’s ok to run over protestors with my car, that’s the dark hand of the CIA at work.
"...that government of the people, by the people, for the people..."
ABE

..we must not ever forget
My team validates startup ideas using Reddit. Here is how to get started
My team validates startup ideas using Reddit. It has 1.5B visits a month, so it can be fast and accurate.
With this approach, we launched 5 projects, including a "cash cow" Email Verification Add-on and a recently launched micro-saas Silent Inbox.

Here is how I research subreddits and evaluate them for ideas validation.

- When I have an idea to validate I write down at least 5 keywords related to it. Example terms I used last week: “meditation”, “breathwork”, “breathing technique”, “anxiety”, “stress”. Enter one keyword at a time into the search bar and it will give you a list of subreddits where your keyword is mentioned.

- Find at least 5 subreddits with people who discussed your topic. Make a copy of my spreadsheet [1]. And collect information about the number of readers. Pro tip: don't waste your time on subreddits with less than 10K readers.

- Go to Related Subreddits by User Overlap [2]. You need to check every subreddit you found by searching your terms to get more ideas on when your potential audience is hanging out.

- Read posts within each subreddit to see if people might be interested in your project. Add subjective relevance to the spreadsheet, where 10 is for super relevant subreddit.

- Once all numbers are added to the spreadsheet, sort your list of subreddits based on the Score it calculates for you. Congrats, now you are ready to pick the most relevant subreddits, plan content, write a title, research the best time to post, etc.

If you're keen to learn more about the topic, check out our guide https://guide.opryshok.com on validating project ideas using Reddit.

Resources

[1] Reddit Evaluation Spreadsheet by Ryan Luedecke https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IjgpzGBgZF9L9dVKkUrC7tE_AkPErApK_fJazsTNIP4/edit#gid=0

[2] Related Subreddits by User Overlap https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
You'd need a way to disable access to your data that doesn't involve suing big companies that have lots of lawyers. And, there's no way to prevent them from copying it.
Searching for axion dark matter conversion signals around neutron stars
2011:

https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/influenz...

“Even at this stage, it does not appear that narcolepsy following vaccination against pandemic influenza is a general worldwide phenomenon, as no excess of narcolepsy has been reported from several other European states where Pandemrix was used, or from Canada where a pandemic vaccine similar to pandemrix was used. This complicates interpretation of the findings in Finland and Sweden. It seems likely that some as yet unidentified additional factor was operating in Sweden and Finland. The findings from the VAESCO project and further investigations in Finland and Sweden, may help clarify the determinants of any increased risk of narcolepsy, which currently appears to be restricted to the months following vaccination and by age group and country.”

What’s certainly true that for some effects to be observable, millions have to be vaccinated first.

2013:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-narcolepsy-vaccine-pandem...

“In total, the GSK shot was given to more than 30 million people in 47 countries during the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic.”

“Independent teams of scientists have published peer-reviewed studies from Sweden, Finland and Ireland showing the risk of developing narcolepsy after the 2009-2010 immunization campaign was between seven and 13 times higher for children who had Pandemrix than for their unvaccinated peers.”

“Europe’s drugs regulator has ruled Pandemrix should no longer be used in people aged under 20.”
What would you use? In would for me be "in the bowl" :). Which incidentally in my country does not mean it will get wet, another cultural difference ;)
You don't even need altruism. Vaccine researchers want the pandemic to end like everyone else plus they're interested in vaccine research anyway.
Mandatory tech standards enforced by regulation are likely to be crap and out of date, thats the problem. Also, big corps will capture the regulation process and force their version to be standard, and so on. Better to let something emerge from the chaos, probably will in a few years time. In the meantime, no real damage is being done, its not like people are dying due to the lack of an HA standard.
Verify deb package in OpenSSL C++
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1294610/verify-deb-package-in-openssl-c
Their news reporting isn't that bad, but what is bad is the mixing of a large number of editorial pieces that do still wave a neoliberalist flag. I encourage having a look at https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart-2... for a decent appraisal of various sources.
Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
>There should be regulation that forces all vendors to use a public standars

and we'll end up with something like TR-069

no, thanks.
290 of which are “how do we solve the Jewish Problem”
I actually provided a link that to a well-researched article by Wired Magazine. I have also pointed out that the differentiation between the two different apps is well-documented. In that I have given you the two key points that you could easily use in your own Google search.

What have you provided? You have provided exactly nothing to substantiate your "strong" conclusion. It's hard to see how you yourself "got there" based on nothing other than it's just your opinion.
Agreed, once I started unsubscribing from the low-effort default subreddits (pictures, funny etc) and start finding more niche subreddits I enjoyed the Reddit experience a lot more.

There are also some really cool sites out there that provide recommendations on related subreddits such as https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=python
On the (BBC) radio news earlier only the 90% figure was mentioned, not the 70%. This differs from the BBC news website, which started with the 70% figure and mentioned the 90% afterwards.
Headlines shouldn't be manipulated to make life easier for politicians...

Also, the issue will not be which vaccine is chosen, but above a certain percentage of effectiveness who can even supply enough of their vaccine to meet demand?
It's a dotted capital letter I ("eye"), which is a dead giveaway for Turkish.
I had my own geotracker running pre-pandemic and it is very nice. When you run this long enough you get very nice heatmaps out of it. (Can't share mine for obvious privacy reasons)
They are something very personal, almost worthy putting on the wall ;)
> Whatsapp can do all of that right now.

No it can't, this is about sending end to end encrypted messages via the phone network and not the internet. Phone networks have much better coverage than internet providers. Sending E2E encrypted messages via internet is already possible on Google services.

Edit: Or Google might have shut those services down. Anyway, this isn't about a chat app but making e2e the new standard for SMS.
2021 Email Predictions
Call for an Alternate Internet
> Summed up, I'm currently saving just over 11% on all the groceries + ~7% on fuel cost by sharing that information with 5 companies.

I don't think this is the exchange you are making, though.

The money you save here is no different from couponing: it's a way for retailers to price differentiate and charge the other customers more.

You are being charged a fairer price (still profitable for the retailer), for actively paying attention to what's cheaper; that'll be unrelated to the price or value of your data.
Related story, about dolphins doing a similar trick... and gaming the system:

> Kelly has taken this task one step further. When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on. This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly has a sense of the future and delays gratification. She has realised that a big piece of paper gets the same reward as a small piece and so delivers only small pieces to keep the extra food coming. She has, in effect, trained the humans.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.sci...
I honestly don't see why the Pages example would be a big improvement over Word.

The labelled sections for the broad categories of formatting are nice, I guess, but I'm not sure they're a good use of screen space, especially given the individual formatting options are, just like Word 95, represented only by icons and unlabelled drop-down boxes. In either UI you have to hover over buttons if you're not sure what they're mean, and it's telling that the iconography is essentially unchanged from the 1990's. Except for one quite important aspect: Word 95's icons use colour to help the eye read them and distinguish them from one another. I know what the Pages icons mean but it's harder to quickly find the right icon when the only difference between the icons is shape.

By the way, if you really want that more spaced-out and verbose vertical list of formatting options, Word has it too, at least in 97 (haven't used 95). It's available as a dialog box and actually offers more formatting options than Pages does.

Moreover, the Word 95 UI's compactness is valuable. You can quickly find all the formatting options you'll ever need without clicking around in menus. Most of the screen space is occupied not by UI text and padding but by commonly-used commands and useful information about the document. Since the icons are laid out close together and horizontally rather than vertically, it's also easier for my eyes to quickly scan them than in Pages.

It's not nostalgia speaking when I say that I'd much prefer to use Word 95 on a daily basis than Pages.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/astrazeneca-shares-slide-aft...

What about this news?
Me? No I don't have that much money :)

I'd love for my tax dollars to go to help people be better off financially because that is good for society/country/economy. I'd love for my tax dollars to go toward the IRS as they are super understaffed. I'd love for my tax dollars to go toward subsidizing college and getting costs lower. I'd love for my tax dollars to go toward helping people who are unemployed.

Do you get mad that you pay into car insurance and never crash?

Gov = insurance, just because you don't use every program isn't a bad thing. If your kid needs it one day it will be for them.

I just don't get this super selfish thing. I want a stronger culture/society/economy/country.
"I start my day full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities which life has to offer. The momement I open a newspaper I am immediately dissillusioned and wrecked" Patrick Kavanagh ~1960s.
True. What is also true is if you play fair while others don't, you won't be able to play for long. So, it's also unfair to continue enabling foul play. Free trade can only exist in presence of certain strongly enforced rules and they are not easy to enforce across borders.

But that's a different discussion. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about those who aren't able to think rationally through these things because they have been exposed to targeted techniques by adversaries. They're triggered into an emotional response every time they encounter other ways of thinking than they have been programmed to.

Let us think as PR firms for a second. There is a lot of nuances in greater truths which can be tuned to make anything sound reasonable. We can design experiments a certain way, we can frame questions a certain way, highlight certain things and present it to the journalists... who will happily publish our well thought our well reasoned ideas, backed by stats and surveys and facts and experiments. Our biggest problem is the rest of the truth. When people realize that, our messages will be of less value. Other PR firms with other interests who benefit from the other parts of the truth and people can make reasoned decisions as different realities are presented to them by different interests. We'll have to constantly do better and present our side.

That's how the PR industry has been functioning for the last 100 years or so. I think that's all fair.

But what if there was a way to prevent people from even navigating to the other parts of the truth that we, as a PR firm, don't want them to?

There is and it is widely used today. Once the cat is out of the bag, unfortunately, everyone has to play like that... and that is what has been happening. There's a reason why calm well-reasoned ideological discourses are less of a thing now. Everything evokes strong emotions and rational discussions barely happen.
> Airline companies are showing you higher prices if they believe you can afford it, from the information they're getting about you (like your user agent).

Is there a way to game this? i.e., given a specific user agent, can I convince airlines I'm poor and get a deal on tickets?
What do you think people use Homebrew for? brew list gives me mailhog, mysql, postgresql, newer python, newer ruby, macvim, node, redis, ... these aren't IN the "UNIX provided in the macOS box".
Yeah, I deleted my Instagram. If he's getting paid just for having to talk to me, I think he could do some nasty things to me. I don't want police to involve. Maybe bother the guy to stop harrassing people online? Like give him the taste of his own medicine.
"...word of mouth..."
That would be great but the problem is that I may be wrong... but I'll never hear why or be able to have reasonable discussion with anyone because your brainwashing prevents you from remaining calm and explaining.
When you boot your OS like that, it will actually have a warmer and more authentic quality when you're using it.
No, once you've logged in with MySQL, changing the password doesn't close the connection.

For rotating application passwords we use the same technique but we update the usernames, i.e. app_1@'%' becomes app_2@'%', and then rotates back to app_1@'%' to prevent issues with unsynced config files.
What's the point when the Android keyboard is essentially a glorified keylogger?
So long and thanks for all the nothing
Lucky you.

I was just exaggerating a bit with the sentence for making a joke, but I'm sure this is not my most productive year.