skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I'm (currently!) approaching this is by implementing the decision engine in 2 steps separated by an evaluation period. I refer to these to the stakeholders as "user approves" and "user reviews".

Essentially, I first implement the engine with the output being an automated list of 1-click actions (typically a set of links on an email, but could easily be a dashboard button or anything else), so the system default is "detect, but don't do". After an evaluation period of the system actions, we move onto the second part, in which the system performs the actions and produces a log of activity, plus a list of 1-click UNDO actions to the user.

The idea is that a) the system earns trust from the stakeholders due to their direct involvement, b) the system can enjoy some supervised learning from someone other than the dev team and c) worst case, if it never earns enough trust, I've still saved a stakeholder dozens of hours of work sifting through dashboards as opposed to taking a look at a pre-filtered list. A few systems have turned out well enough that they never move from Phase1 while still being considered a massive win.
Ask HN: Do you guys even read the linked articles?
I recently noticed that I rarely actually read the linked articles just coming to HN for the discussion in the comments.

Asking around a lot of my colleagues do the same.

What does that tell us about HN? About attention spans?
I don't know for the staff in the restaurant and entertainment position, but usually, the sailors are recruited from very poor country and paid very low wages. Only the captain and some officer are paid a decent salary.
Ask HN: Do you experience chronic brain fog which leads to procrastinating?
I'm turning 30 in December and realised there are a bunch of things that plague my day to day life and wondering if anyone has been through similar and how they fixed it.

I often experience brain fog throughout the day and only seem to work well late at night. I procrastinate a lot! like to a point where it affects my life in a number of ways. I work in software and leave projects to last minute and usually end up doing a half baked job just before the given deadline/date. I have my own side projects but usually never finishing any of them. I seem to go through cycles of being extremely motivated and then nothing at all.

When I sit down to do an easy task, I usually just sit down and stare at the screen and then find something else to do.

It's not that I don't enjoy my job (because I do) as well as the industry I work in and I would say for the most part I'm a 'driven' person. I don't entirely think it's to do with work either.

Any ideas on what could help?
Independent mechanic has close to zero problem (except for brands copying Apple like Tesla) going to Oreilly /AutoZone /Advance /one of Euro distributors and ordering brand new OEM original part.

Example https://www.znmperformance.com/bmw-electric-water-pump-vdo-1... you get exact brand new part as mounted in the factory. Funnily enough I first found that pump when replying to someone on one of previous Right to Repair threads after OP claimed dealer charged him $1.2K for water pump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27823860

Third party Apple repairman cant do that. 'Apple certified repair center' is a fancy name for a remailer - the program actually prohibits you from doing any repair beyond replacing battery and screen, and those are supplied to you _after mailing in original ones_ and at close to _fully working second hand device_ prices.
Like I said, no different from any other disk.
Version 2.10: Corona-Warn-App ready to inform users about booster vaccinations
The real problem with the Framework laptop is that the ordinary consumer will not assemble their own laptop or upgrade it later. They will just go and buy a $500 cheap laptop with a 15" screen and if it breaks, buy a new generation.
End of Sale and Trustwave Support for ModSecurity Web Application Firewall
When I was over in states I went to Taco Bell 3 times, 3 different once, every single time I regretted it having to spending 'unquality' time in the toilet.

Never again.
I feel like it's harder than shielding and tolerances, given that longer passive cables don't seem to exist despite the very high prices people are paying for active cables.
Can someone please sum up the wider context? What is happening to FB and what lawsuits are in play? Is this a civil case or a criminal case? Can Zuckerberg and co face jail time? Or is this just routine cost-of-business some-state-shaking-down pay-fine-and-carry-on for FB?

From a layman picking up occasional news, it feels like states and countries and even investors often shake down the big tech companies, using court cases to extract money from tech companies for arbitrary perceived transgressions but really the money just goes to some unaffected government to fund other purposes and that these states and investors and things just take it in turns to demand money.
I've worked with a few developers who are great - people who get bored of waiting so just build it themselves one evening whilst everybody's arguing over funding/recruiting the team we thought was needed.

Within a team, I think 'greatness' comes in all manner of different forms, all of which are needed.
The person who holds the whole software model in their head, and can rattle off the precise changes required to implement a new feature.
The person who has an encyclopedic knowledge of all the technologies, and often spotted sat next to another engineer helping them through an issue.
The person who mid-way through implementation spots a flaw or an improvement that can be make to the process and comes back offering options for improvement.
Of course it's great to have the person who comes back after 2 weeks having written more code than the rest put together - but.. well monoculture is always bad. Wouldn't want a team of them.
I’m skeptical anytime someone’s first argument about why to do X is “it’s best practice”. When their second argument is also “it’s best practice” that skepticism deepens significantly.
Coroutine stuff worries me in Kotlin, what happens the minute Project Loom comes out? Even more fracturing of styles?
> I think if you're knowingly providing a service to German users, and profiting from them, you should be accountable to the germany government.

You make it sound like German citizens are cattle that belongs to their government. And most of them didn't even vote for anyone in power!

Besides being wrong, this is also impossible to enforce. If Germany's government deems something posted by a German living in China legal but China's government doesn't, why should Gab waste their resources and try to figure out which law to follow?
Gab simply shouldn't bother with any such complaints as longs the posts are legal in the US.

> This is the minimum standard the US uses when overseas companies provide services to US citizen

But it's wrong, and shouldn't be used. Anyone who's unhappy with their government doing a shitty job protecting their rights should complain to their government.

> Other places take differebt approaches to freedom of speech. They're not wrong, they're just different.

No, they are in fact wrong. Freedom of speech is a natural right so wherever a government violates it it's an instance of human rights violation.

"The Taliban aren't wrong, they're just different!" Just listen to yourself for a second.

Gab should help people exercise that right because it doesn't violate US laws or Gab's principles.
Who are the plaintiffs?
The people playing to win are constraining themselves much more. It's especially apparent in video games. Games like Warframe have hundreds of weapons and then the devs release something like Kuva Bramma that kills everything in around you without even looking at what you shoot vs the melee players running at enemies to stab them. Everyone then carries that weapon and it gets boring really quickly.
Doing elite sanctuary with a Saryn in your group means that everyone else gets to be afk while you level up weapons that you never intend to use.
They could, you know, make it easier for their employees to work on open source… What they really want is open source talent with inbuilt influence over the projects they are strategically interested in or dependent on.
> In a Bayesian sense you can calculate the frequency of an event from one occurrence: if it happened once to a city 3600 years ago, you can use that information to update whatever your prior probability distribution was over these event frequencies.

But your prior probability distribution is either (1) based on a lot of other data, so that the final result is not based on the single data point, or (2) garbage.

> Your untutored intuition

It wasn't either, thanks, and its arrogant as fuck for you to assume this.

> As dredmorbius points out, we actually have a fairly comprehensive dataset of smaller events we can also use

I wasn’t commenting on a claim about what could be estimated based on that wider dataset.

> A thing to keep in mind is how very few cities there were 3600 years ago.

That has no impact on the uncertainty of the estimate from a single data point, only the actual estimate.
So the site is "A community for engineering leaders" and you are pushing the voodoo that pays your salary.

Same for another submission against 10x engineers that is currently on the front page.

10 years ago hackers just had to fight the machine. Now they have to refute propaganda on a daily basis as well.
The author completely underestimates the ability of the human brain to adapt. Brains have changed very little, if at all, during written history yet the way of life, daily habits and attention have changed wholesale multiple times. Brain is in fact too adaptive for history to catch up with it.

> Our concern for privacy has its evolutionary roots in the need to maintain boundaries between the self and others, for safety and security.

Safety distance from conspecifics is not privacy, most animals don't hide from view when having sex etc. In fact being out of view is anxiety-inducing since it means danger - they 're too far from the herd. Humans too, dont live like hermits, but they form tight villages. Privacy had more to do with protecting one's property (which for most of history included his family). The modern idea of privacy as independence-from-others was wholly enabled by technology which allows people to be independent from each other

Sharing is social signaling, it's what we ve done since forever
I'd disagree with that one, with Lightning the pins are in the connector. I've broken my iPhone before trying to get lint out of the charging port and bending the pins by accident.

USB C on the other hand has all the pins cable-side so there isn't anything to worry about ramming whatever you fancy into your phone or laptop since it's just a PCB with pads on rather than anything you can bend.
They definitely took it to extremes. The problem is that it’s a 100-year-old company, that has been making top-shelf optical equipment, costing many thousands of dollars, for that entire time. They have an awesome and undeniable track record.

It was pretty much impossible to get these (highly accomplished and talented) engineers to accept that their way (hardware and some firmware) would not work on software.

It usually ended up with them, labeling my efforts to introduce flexibility as some variant of “lazy, bad-quality engineering.” Hard sell.

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I've used 2FA in the 90s.
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You're definitely right in that children are very different from another. In my experience, however, fear almost always comes from a previous bad experience or it transfers from other people. I've done the "first time at the hairdresser" with both of my children and they still love going there, ten years later. Back then, we took our time looking at all the tools and watching other people's hair being cut. With the permission of the hairdresser, I let them play a bit with the revolving chair. No talk about how it might hurt or anything.

In the story above, the only explanation I can think of is that the boy already had a previous bad experience with a hairdresser. (Didn't look like it but I can't be sure.) Even then, I'm not sure this was the best way to handle it.
> latency costs

Latency is a feature. You tend to get longer, more thoughtful posts on scuttlebutt, because there's less rush.

You also don't get Twitter-storms, because it's not designed to broadcast your every post to millions of people instantly.
>> Simple is better. Stay with Go.

Ive been feeling the same, but as someone who just played with Go/Rust (and never professionally), it's nice to hear that professionals feel the same.
Yes, but (please allow me):

«Part of the fascination with ML is» solving the mystery behind the ability to automatically build functions and behind those functions.

Surely, both in practice and axiologically, understanding and deterministically solving have a great value. Also because of that, the fact that systems exist that can adapt into solutions, but contain a transparency problem ("yes, but why"), contains an immensely fascinating theoretical challenge, in the learning that may come from the attempt to understand the "grown, spawned" (as if a natural phenomenon) system.

The laziness is not necessary: there is a great deal of fascination in unveiling the mysteries in the blackbox.

Then of course, when you have a practical problem to solve (instead of that intellectual challenge and promise), pick your best solution. And surely it is sensible to call it dangerous to rely on something not properly understood, which may hide the potential faults ("yes, we found out it fails here, and it may be that we kind of assumed it "saw" shapes, while really it "sees" textures..."). In professional practice those "active" fascinations (understanding the spawned) may be luxury.
Drawing teaches alot lot of skills.

Like observations, of small details understanding of proportion, concentration/focus. Plus it's a useful skill.

Especially a topic like nature study (drawing living things i.e leaves, plants, insects) and portraits.

Plus everyone who can write can learn to draw. It's also less infested with the "not intelligent enough" myths. unlike maths & programming.
> Religion (or theology) concerns itself with the reason that reality exists.

All religions have a creation myth, but religion cannot be reduced to just the creation myth. That would just be deism which is basically a form of atheism. Religions believe that supernatural forces actually affect the world.
> The EUC program was about PSUs, not device ports

Are we talking about the same thing? You seem to reference this memorandum of understanding [0] promoted by the European Commission (and signed by Apple), whereas i reference further developments such as this vote [1] which was widely advertised in the press at the time.

I am unaware whether that vote was actually turned into a regulation, but i am fully aware that the European Commission is not the entity deciding on regulations in the EU (although it has way too much power to overrun the EU parliament).

> the “standard” at the time (micro-usb) was bad, not using it was a good thing

OK micro-USB was not the best. Still much better than using custom proprietary connectors overall. Just look at how much money/resources was saved by reusing existing cables: do you remember the hot mess we were in in the early 2000s when a phone charger broke, to find a spare compatible one?! Now i can't remember the last time i had to buy a phone charger, because there's an abundance of standard cables. It's a net win for me and my wallet, and a net win for the environment.

Also, not going with a standard you deem bad is fine... if you're working to either improve the standard or replace it with another one. Which Apple never did, as they were happy to have their custom hardware which their fanatic customers would buy no matter the price.

> At this point you’re just outright lying.

I may be misinformed on specifics, but i'm for sure not lying. If you're impying that Apple (or any multinational corporation for that matter) are good faith, you have some research to do on how industrial capitalism operates and its actual consequences on people.

>> According to European regulations, Apple's actions are strictly illegal

> You are, and I want to make it clear that this is an objective affirmation, high as a kite.

OK i'm high as a kite, maybe? Does that make my message wrong on every aspect? Apple has been known to and condemned for breaking many european regulations already [2] [3] [4] [5], often engaging in actions they knew were illegal. I'm not a lawyer so i can't comment on the technical legality of their Lightning connectors, but i can for sure as a european citizen say that they knowingly and willingly violated the spirit of the law to further their profit.

And as a pseudonymous person on a random orange forum, i can say you should take more time to correct facts with actual sources, instead of defending evil corporations while accusing your peers of lying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20130923IP...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/apple-fined-11-billion-in-france-for-p...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/18/apple-has-finished-paying-...

[5] https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-fined-in-italy-for-mis...
100% my thoughts too. US seems to have a lot of hidden costs , plus the value of the $ dropped quite a bit in recent times.
Uhm someone buying the company would make things even worse, based on my personal experience. I would probably resign before it happens.
Anyone who has working in software for any length of time will have come across people who deliver orders of magnitude more high quality work than their peers: high output, high quality -- the 10xer. This post confuses that archetype with the similar-but-different high output, low quality archetype -- AKA the "cowboy", "hero", "prima donna".
This really is cool. I wish there would be an option for more than 4 ports but this is just a minor issue. If there was an option to get HDMI 2.1 rather than 2.0 it would also eliminate need for a separate DisplayPort.
Does facebook use Fedora as base linux distro? What % of their VMs is on Fedora?

Very curious on what's the distro of choice at the large companies are. Debian 11 has recently been released, but otherwise it gets new goodies rather slowly, CentOS is pretty much dead, not sure whether Fedora is a good choice for a fleet of stable servers?
I have a different take on 10x Engineers.

First, this is neither an exact science nor a multiplier (in this case, 10-times). I like to believe I have worked with a few of these "10x Engineers". I'm lucky to be technical enough not to be bullshitted by engineers and OK enough to sell to CTOs.

Here is my understanding.

They are not the ones who would produce XX times over a given period. It is not like normal/average engineers create X in 10 months; then they will do the same 10X in that same ten months or take 1-month to do it.

The pattern I see is that the work of these engineers lasts a very long time and stays relevant for quite a long time. Everyone who works with them is happy because they learn a lot from the actions or are predictable.

For instance, the QA team does not find apparent bugs or rare, most use cases, and the usual flow of actions and results happens.

I believe the 10X comes at a much later stage, over time, when the work is a rock-solid framework and foundation that everyone else can pick it up and work upon it.

I know I'm not very concrete, and I have to work harder to describe them in better ways. For now, it is more of a feeling I have after working with them. My only role was to understand them (not the technology) and shield them or cushion them from the BS-es that flow around anything that happens in a project/company.

We used to nod and agree on these lines -- So, what are our BS-es that we need to tell the management/client to cross this hurdle. But remember, we still need to make that BS happen.

Let me extrapolate the last part. So, I will huddle up the CxO of top Companies over a room, with concierge services waiting around to serve snacks, water, etc., but they won't be allowed to leave for a long time. Their phones are out of reach. When the other CxOs or executives are doing it, everyone else follows. I will throw around words like empathy; the design is subjective, iterative design, human framework, and all the jazz that pops up in my head. "The customer has to be able to find the shortest, simplest route to checkout."

Then I will meet up with the team, explain what I promised, and we will, kinda, laugh and wink. However, we will now convert those "Design is Subjective" to Objective Deliverable Goals and Binary answers -- YES or NO -- does this work or not - when that checkout happens, what steps, fallbacks, errors, and everything.

Companies eventually save a lot of money, as there aren't multiple iterations or griding other engineers 10-times.
The pizza was an artisanal one with sour-dough base and freshly made before it was deep fried. Also he had the good Irn Bru with the sugar still in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_pizza

More seriously, though, in terms of produce - sea food, beef etc, I would think Scotland is world class.
And the antithesis: ’team culture’ can be deadly to hero engineers, time to retire the kool-aid.

And the synthesis: the right team culture allows a diversity of engineers, including ‘hero engineers’, to flourish and effectively contribute together; time to adapt your culture to your team.
Thanks for the response.I am happy for you
>However, I am not rich. I am able to pay back dept from years of trying and life a enjoyable life, which is all I ever targetted for.
That's my target too
What would be an interesting role for you? There must be some companies in Sydney using Rust/Golang or similar if Python ETL isn't what you like doing.
No, I'm not making that assumption, and it serves my purposes fine, thanks for your concern.