skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They want to decrypt data because they want to protect people from threats."

That's "in it for the power".

Power doesn't look the same from the inside. Basically nobody (except college-age Mark Zuckerburg) goes around saying "I'm an evil Machiavellian genius that's going to fuck over the world for my personal benefit." Instead, the feeling of having power, from the inside, is the feeling of being able to make decisions for other people for their own good. It's the ability to deal with people as abstractions who should want things, whether they actually do or not. People can't be trusted to invest their own money, so we need regulations so that only the wealthy can invest. People don't know what they're searching for, so we need to correct their queries for them. People want lower prices, so we'll give it to them by turning the screws on our suppliers. People would collapse into chaos without law and order, so we enforce it.

Sometimes the powerful are even right in their views - after all, very often that's how they got to be in power in the first place. But that doesn't stop them from being resented, because the resentment stems from the fact that they are making decisions for other people that those other people neither consent to nor really want. Someone who is actually "not in it for the power" is someone who says "I trust you to live your own life how you want, as long as it doesn't prevent me from living how I want."
About 1/2 of states have minimum wages above the federal level.

So yes state level changes get a lot of attention, but there's also lots of people impacted by the federal level.
Ask HN: Markdown to HTML
What is the proper way to 'transpile' Markdown to HTML?

I know there are static site generators out there, this has already been done, etc. I'm curious about the best way to do it, and if you can, pointing me to an example.

Thank you so much!
Regardless of if you like twitter or their practices they are a real website and platform.
'dang is an HN mod: one of his tasks is to call people out for breaking the rules.
In general, yes, you're reading the timings right, but there's a couple of factors to consider.

First, the JIT compiler has often done most of its work during the first in-process iteration, so the plots are not generally following a "one in-process iteration is slow, then the JIT kicks in from in-process iteration 2 onwards" model. Put another way, the JIT compiler is often making even the first in-process iteration run pretty fast.

Second, I would suggest that the often small timing differences are more worrying than they may first appear. In a semi-mature compiler, optimisations are frequently in the range of a 0.5-1% improvement. So if your measurements are only accurate to (say) 2%, most of your attempted optimisations will be misclassified (bad optimisations will sometimes be measured as good; good optimisations will sometimes be measured as bad). Furthermore, when a VM recompiles things, it generally performs several optimisations at once. Thus, if the overall performance gets worse (even if by a small bit), it may suggest that several optimisations performed badly at the same time.
Good post and good advice as usual.

One small nitpick if I may... Your interview questions aren't stellar. Better interview questions are behavioral driven IMO, e.g.:

> In our business we sometimes need do [activity]; can you tell me about a time when you [did activity]?

And then probe deeper, as they answer, on the hows, whys, and their decision process.
I highly recommend checking out useronboard.com to see lots of examples of good and bad onboarding experiences.
I wasn't saying that therefore they don't have mental problems, I was saying that due to this, therefore they do. For reference, I am going through something similar that to an outsider they would see something that looked like a wonderfully fortuitous event, but my personal experience of it pushed me into a deep depression.
While I get what you are saying, I mostly disagree. You have to differentiate between if the problem exists and whether the solution is any good. When computing became really mainstream we were standing on the shoulder of giants. A lot things had trickled down from things like research and were really good for the time. But they also lacked in a lot of things we care about today like encryption, automation, design, cross-platform and security. Today these things aren't coming out of research, nor necessarily large companies, but some random person who can see the problem. It would be a lot better if something like authentication was included in HTTP, but that isn't happening for various reasons, so it is going to be a job for a framework. That isn't necessarily a good solution, but it a solution to a problem that exists.

It really seems like things like PARC was an anomaly. Companies eventually figured that it was just better to "be part of the problem" and make a lot of money like in many other industries.
Looks like academic institutional repositories and figshare are doing the heavy lifting here. It's still neat to see Google aggregate everything, but it's not that different from what they do with other services relying on these sources already, and is largely dependent upon how rich these upstream sources are in the first place.
Yes, this roadmap. It was not followed. All certificates were blacklisted in April, irrelevant of their date.
“I asked this person to do work for me. Deadline passed, no response!”
I've poisoned my profile. Chopped the friends list by 75%, quit using them for Single Sign On, will automatically halt video playback the second an AD hits, Report a significant percentage of ADs I see in the timeline as 'offensive to me'.

If they can abuse my profile, I can significantly lower it's value to them.
Ah, sounds like I'm mistaken then.
Sorting is categorizing, just with an order imposed on the categories.

If the categories have a natural order, then people will exploit that when they sort.

Suppose you had to put some cards with names on them into bins labeled by first letter. You might go through the cards one by one and stick each in the appropriate bin. It would help you if the bins are in alphabetic order, rather than scrambled.

Sorting into categories involves a search to find the category for an item; the search benefits from order.
Interesting post with some really useful insights.

My comment isn't about the linked article per se, but I noticed recently (having made several first marketing hires myself) that it's really important to:

1) Have a very good 'head of marketing level' friend help you make your hiring decision

2)Be loose with titles - if you call the new hire your CMO/HoM and then realise later that they aren't up to that job, it's hard to hire above them without causing problems (leading a team is a very different skillset to setting up the first marketing channels, and not everyone who is good at the latter transitions well to the former).

Lastly, a tip for marketers looking to transition into working at a startup with a smallish marketing team (2-5 marketing hires) --> If they are advertising for a 'growth hacker' (with quite a generic skill set), then run for the hills and don't apply. Nine times out of ten, they realised too late that their CMO doesn't have the experience/skill to get the job done but, because they don't want to hire above them, they look for a 'growth hacker' to be CMO in responsibility but not pay or title (or decision making capacity).
There's a really good video here, seperating what "data science" means to different companies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-c7E5PK0Y

TLDR

- some smaller -mid-sized companies call datascience are actually referring to software engineering / data engineering

- Smaller companies with datascience might be doing software engineering as well, if no data pipelines / collection datasets available (they are using the term wrong here)

- most companies calling for AI/deep learning don't actually meet the requirements for it.

- You don't need a data scientist until you have SWE's / data engineers

- Machine learning is more narrow smaller defined scoped problems / dataset, for things like text classification and analysis. Things like identifying what number is drawn out on a piece of paper using MNIST, etc.

basically, data-science could mean a lot of things and is pretty ambiguous. Its the new software-engineer vs web-developer terminology.
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Can you post the original roadmap that they didn’t follow? I can’t find a roadmap that doesn’t list April 2018 / Chrome 66 as the time when Symantec certificates issued prior to June 2016 will become distrusted.

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-dist...
I think this is the core point. Surely drove me away from Facebook
Commoditization in the US is already a done deal through offshoring and H1B visa abuse. Lots of good advice is dispensed here on HN when these topics come up on how people have successfully dodged the trend. one path I don't see mentioned much around here (for good reasons) is going into sales. Good sales people who also know the technical side and can present that technical side without "going geek" are extremely rare and recession-proof, but the initial sales ramp up learning curve when you're cold-calling out of prospect lists is brutal on the ego if you've never done that sort of activity.
You know you can get the cloud implementation for free, right?
I have not ever changed my relationship with Facebook. I never even started because it was obvious that a proprietary centralized platform would have perverse incentives for censorship and spying. It's nice that other people are finally waking up to it, but unfortunately their motivation seems to be primarily driven by partisan politics rather than the root problem.
>what you are losing is the long tail of smaller independent films that may be more thought provoking or diverse.

>they will keep the Transformers and Marvel movies and cut the smaller ones.

Most of the bigger franchises have already become "thought provoking" and "diverse" propaganda
> a significant share

I don't know what is 'a significant share' when we are talking about power users. Not to say a significant share of power users disabled telemetry completely so we can't say anything about their share using this feature.
Mass aviation could not have happened without the turbine. The big propliners of the 50s were notorious for having engines fail in flight and had insufficient power reserves to do anything but struggle to the crash site, even with the tiny payloads they carried.

64 years ago today a KLM Constellation crashed at Shannon in Ireland, it was carrying 56 people. That's miniscule and was only sustainable with fares that the 1%ers of the era could afford. A Norwegian 737Max on a thin Atlantic route today carries 186 and that is considered borderline small.

Incidentally the Constellation did have a turboprop variant but Lockheed and GE had a disagreement and it went ahead with pistons instead as the Starliner. Few people even remember that aircraft now because of the 707.
It's a "tweetstorm".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/tweeting-up-a-...
Oligopolies are also how we get business driving fundamental R&D. The tradeoff isn't as clear cut as Econ 201 makes it, because in additional to the above point you also have a difference between oligopolies and monopolistic competition.
Because it's wrong. The very post GP linked explicitly says that Symantec certs issued before June 1, 2016 would stop functioning in Chrome 66.
It's not isolationism. It's pure authoritarianism. I don't care about local shows. If it's good, it gains traction and wins out in the TV market. If it's bad, it dies off. If local shows cannot compete, then let them die and never come back.
TLDR: via aristocracy (a good version of it), more or less. IOW, the hard work of generations prior, with "compounded interest" of the hard work of each generation since.

This is definitely worth reading. This short and simple article has lots of lessons.
With hard drives, the main factors are how random (in terms or random access) the workload is, read/write distribution, IO size, and queue depth.

Some assorted facts:

Rotational latency -- The most common hard drive models are 7200 RPM. That is 120 rotations per second, or 1 rotation per 8.33 milliseconds. So, all things being equal, the average rotational latency will be half of that (best case: 0, worse case: 8.33 ms).

Seek time -- The most common hard drive models have 1 head on an actuator (though multi-actuator models are being developed). The actuator has to physical move the head across the surface of the platters so that it's over the bits you want. The worst case seek time is around 8ms on a typical hard drive, for an average of 4ms. The less random your workload is, that is, the smaller subset of the disk you are touching, the smaller your seek time will be.

IO size -- the amount of data you can read in a single hard drive rotation actually depends on where on the platter it is. If it's on the outer diameter of the drive, it might be e.g. 2MB, but on the inside diameter, only 1MB. For the reason you can actually get significantly higher throughput when reading from the outside diameter (typically the lower LBAs). Once you start doing even larger IOs, you're talking about waiting for multiple rotations for the IO to complete, which equals more time.

Read/Write distribution -- Hard drives have buffers on them to absorb writes, and it is asynchronously flushed in a very efficient manner (either when the hard drive is not doing anything, or is on the way to do another IO and happens to pass over the right part of the disk).

Queue depth -- Hard drives allow you to enqueue multiple concurrent IOs (most commonly from different threads/processes). SATA allows for a maximum of 32 concurrent IOs, whereas NVMe goes all the way up to 65K. Usually with an HDD though, you'll be on SATA. The number of concurrent IOs is referred to as the queue depth. You can improve your average latency by increasing queue depth, at the cost of peak latency. The reason for this is that hard drives will re-order queued IOs to reduce rotational latency and seek time. For example, imagine you issue 4 concurrent reads to LBAs 0, 10, 2, 5. The drive will likely reorder this to 0, 2, 5, 10 so that it doesn't have to spend as much time seeking. This will reduce the average latency, but the at particularly high queue depths, a particularly unlucky IO might get deprioritized for 100+ ms. If you care a lot about peak latency, bound your queue depth to 4 or so.
I would argue that a majority of people who go to school for computer science actually want to learn computer programming. I would also argue that neither are really needed for the average high school student and computer science isn't really even needed for the average professional programmer. I would fully support giving kids the option to study either as an elective, but they are simply not needed to be a valuable member of society.

If you are really adamant about high school kids learning programming, I might suggest some type of combination statistics and python/R class. Society suffers a lot more from the general populace's ignorance about statistics than computer science, programming, trigonometry, calculus, etc.
" I actually admire the extent to which Mazda have managed to keep the Miata small."

To me the new model has lost all of its appeal. It's way too mainstream. The only interesting thing left is the rear wheel drive.
Valid point. Hope others take note, if they'll be interviewing marketers in the near future.
It's pretty metal to bleed metal
I have to wonder if any Gujarati non-Patel Muslims turned up, would they be getting the same handshake loans?
> The biggest challenge here, to me, isn't writing the book or figuring out what tools to use, but it's marketing. Email lists, FB ads, etc. are really what drive the success or failure of your book.

I've looked into creating a mailing list with MailChimp and/or its competitors, since I think it'd work great for my target niche. The thing that stopped me is that you need to provide your real name and location. Though I understand the reasoning, I'm publishing under a pseudonymous identity and do not wish to tie my real identity to it. Bummer.
Costco needs a lot less labor for their volume. They stock by forklift (which is why selection is limited) and customers pick and pack.

We have a serious unemployment problem that will only get worse with automation. Rather than tying survival to work, I'd rather see UBI and workers who won't take abuse because they're only working part-time for beer money.
> I wasn't saying that therefore they don't have mental problems, I was saying that due to this, therefore they do.

I don't understand what you're saying -- what does the "this" refer to?

I'm also a bit unclear on where your coming from, because my comment about calling someone normal is referring to someone else's statement, not yours.
As do American companies, even after being given subsidies to build out to those companies.

It's even weirder when some of them are executing massive stock buy backs when complaining about the lack of profitability.
1. Most of the simplifications are regular.

2. You only need to know several thousands.

3. Chinese uses no cojugation (I guess you meant something else). All languages has homophones

4. That's good. That's why you only need several thousand words.

5. I'm not sure what you mean.

6. It simply doesn't convey tense most of the time.

Those tens of thousands is what you get if you count the most obscure characters you can find, that nobody really uses.
Thanks! this looks great!
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There are a few things in this diagram that always drive me a little crazy. Why is it that 1,000ns ≈ 1μs while 1,000,000ns = 1ms (almost equals vs. regular equals). It kinda makes sense to use almost equals for some of the real values, but they do it for pure values that are just there for conversions... but not with all of them, only with some.

All this being said, this is actually a very useful and well done diagram. But, imo, it would be even better if it used equal signs in a consistent way.
I, although not in US, a year ago deleted the app because I was wasting too much time on Facebook feed, & also used its web client maybe only 2-3 times since then.
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Be ready for another bad surprise like 2016. Leading in polls doesn't mean winning an election. Democrats should have learned that by now.
Do you think its possible that the fb socializing was fun when it started but after few years we all realize that its just not the right way to socialize. You can only post so many updates and likes have no meaning anymore.
Ever try to find a service manual for a Tesla?

They want to control everything, but are too hard up to stock parts.
The article is mostly about influence and the importance to surround yourself with people you want to learn from.

When you start rebeling, it might be a signal that it is time to find a new environment to strive in.
I didn't read it in English, but I read it's bad. Basically if it's translated from Chinese, you can almost bet it's bad.
Are you sure? Paypal.com's Symantec-issued certificate still works in Chrome, at least on my PC: https://www.paypal.com/
> Don't have the bugzilla handy

Here you are: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
> 1) Have a very good 'head of marketing level' friend help you make your hiring decision.

Absolutely. A friend, or a consultant, or see if any of your investors (if you have them) have a marketer-in-residence.

Regarding titles, "Head of Marketing" is a safe one, in my opinion, because it isn't attached to a specific seniority (and pay scale) the way "CMO" or "VP" are. Can also go with "Marketing Lead." As for "growth hacker," it's time we all forgot about that term, and I'm glad to say I haven't seen it in a while.
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Sorry, you're absolutely correct - I had misinterpreted the dev board layout screenshots as the final phone layout screenshots.

That'll teach me to post after I should be asleep!
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> I also think substanceless praise is mostly useless in this forum (not in life)

What is different about "life" that makes substanceless praise useful?
Also Qatar is probably a bit of an outlier in that 88% of the population are foreign workers [0,1]. Maybe the 70% obese stat includes only Qatari nationals while the resting heart rate includes everyone.

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

[1] http://gulfmigration.eu/media/pubs/exno/GLMM_EN_2017_03.pdf
> Wages are as low as employers can get away with

Monopsony: a market structure in which a few buyers substantially control the market as the major purchasers of goods and services offered by many would-be sellers.
Mind if I ask what you were reading, or if you have any recommendations for Egyptian/Greek/Persian history?
One of my conditions to go with a cell provider is whether I can bring my own phone. I've found BLU phones to be highly serviceable, and works great with an MVNO (I use one on T-mobile's network). I am not associated with BLU, just a satisfied customer. The sub $200 price point is nice and the hardware tradeoff hasn't been too bad. I do worry about their phone-home issues though.
When is a vulnerability not a vulnerability?
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Although I could easily google it, I am surely not the only one who has no idea what a SCIF is, and would have appreciated it to be broken out. Otherwise I have no idea what your talking about.
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Of course governments must keep secrets. These are things like order of battle details for the military; location and other details for nuclear weapons; names and addresses of intelligence officers, informants or defectors; algorithms for decryption of foreign ciphers; and so on. However, in western democracies the secrecy is usually time limited. For example in the United Kingdom we have the 30-year rule[0] which provides for public release of confidential government documents after 30 years (and they are moving to 20 years now) which is a good compromise between transparency and the need for operational secrecy and security.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-year_rule
Is there any junior/entry level position available for software engineer / back-end work? I'm based in Boston.
Its pretty slow for me on macOS, at least compared to Safari.
I don't think your interpretation of the requirements is correct. From upthread:

> The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%)
I was a technical lead for a project involving a) governments and b) lots of income from taxpayers, and I noticed this warning about Symantec certs a while ago from a Qualys scan I ran on the third-party payment website. I told my manager and our client about this several times before being laid off, and I would bet they never did anything about it. I'm wondering how this is affecting them.
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