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It has virtually no adoption. Every modern secure messenger application sends encrypts more messages, and between more pairs of people, than OpenPGP has in its entire lifetime.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
You just described a space with 4 competitors fighting for the same market. How could it be anything other than cutthroat? GPUs are not the kind of space where it’s easy for new companies to enter. It very much was a winner takes all market.
> "America does not have enough people with those skills."

Seriously, I feel the US has a big education problem, with part of it being cultural I think. Seems being educated, knowledgeable, having expertise, learning about science and technology, medicine and law, just isn't valued anymore, in fact it's almost being denigrated and shamed.

What I see instead is people pushing for anti-intellectualism and valuing the "college dropouts".

There's also just the quality and access to education seems it's getting worse and worse.

I don't know, but it frustrates me that the truth is the US doesn't have the know how that its companies require anymore, and has to either outsource the work or import workers who do from elsewhere.
It was developed by DeepMind Technologies which was later acquired by Google.
Oh the Messes We Will Make
Number of blogposts about Python is a counter-argument.
I’m in exactly this situation. Wife and I talk daily about whether we should roll the dice and move to a less inexpensive rural or vacation town and just hope my employer decides to continue WFH. So far we are too chicken to pull the trigger but we have the down payment all ready to spend if I ever grow a pair.

Work has been pretty cagey about what post-pandemic is going to look like. Nobody is outright saying we’re 100% coming back to office or we’re definitely going optional WFH forever. It’s this uncertain “wait and see” that keeps us from pulling the trigger on Tahoe or Redding or somewhere else way out there and less expensive.

If they ever make a clear decision: “WFH is optional for all employees” we put our house for sale that day.
It is funny. But it is also counterproductive. The Spite Software License theoretically makes your code useful only to people who don't care about licenses. But if the source code is published, it's already useful to those people. For those who make the effort to be responsible and respect licenses, the source code is useless. So Spite is probably a very good name for this.

edit: clarity
Temporal order is reversed, significantly
No not reversed. This is public information.
The shuttle never had funding halted multiple times.

Also, ITER is a plasma physics experiment. It is being made to learn about plasma behavior. It isn’t going to fail or somehow not produce useful results before DT or high Q campaigns. A fusion reactor does not fall out of the sky. Was the V2 a failure because all it did was eat up a bunch of money and blow up a bunch of expensive equipment? No. The knowledge costs money. Tangible things are laughably low value by comparison.
google docs as an application of distributed data structures is IMO pretty innovative.

I'm not a fan of google but they've done a handful of things since the turn of the millennium.
Why do we persist in this old fashioned notion that Nation States are the axis on which “innovation” turns? The brainpower, resources, and motivation for innovating increasingly lie with huge multinational tech companies, not nation states. And they largely don’t care where you live - if you’re smart they want to hire you (unlike nation states with their Byzantine immigration policies)
> Why walk 10 feet to the persons office when I can just message them on slack or teams?

Privacy. Human interaction element. If all your interaction is online at your work - good for you. It isn't for my work environment.

Some of my coworkers have taken to giving me their phone number so that we can talk outside Slack because they worry that Slack is being watched now. Some of my coworkers and I used to go on 1:1 walks around the office area to get a breath of fresh air but also to have private discussions. We can't do that the same way anymore. I talked to one on the phone recently but it's not the same - you can't see every bit of their emotion as it is conveyed. Video doesn't do this justice either - how often are people going to show you a nervous fidget they're doing off screen that indicates they're under a lot of stress?

It depends on the type of place you're at. If you're at a great place where everything is just a rocket ship, everyone is in love with their work, and everyone's boss is just a stellar human being who really has high regard for their subordinates - then whatever. But - that's not been the case at any company I've ever worked at. So, :shrug:
> A huge social experiment on homeworking has been done (and ongoing) and results are in.

No they really aren't. It will be several years until we really understand the effect of remote work on areas like talent management, retention, idea generation, trust building, etc.
Not only was nothing actually predicted, the actual evidence for this user's claims is "missing in all the archives."
Sure, but he's clearly being evasive. He could simply have said: "I didn't type it; I marked it as high importance."
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I am building an open recipe database, with many more features. I would like to receive your favorite recipes so I can include them in the data set and work out my initial architecture.
Thank you both. I was looking for the right combination of flags and realized that the date(1) man page is far too dense for simple tasks like this.

$ date -r 1600000000
Sun Sep 13 05:26:40 PDT 2020
I sold pre-IPO equity to a private investor via Sharespost years ago
I think building project around such obscure Google API is too much of risk. It's can be discontinued literally any moment.
There's a lot of "follow your heart", "live your dreams" stuff going on around there.

I say work a job that pays, and that you can tolerate, then do what you enjoy in your free time.
Yet, they keep finding ways to shoot.
Glad I got out.
If you have the chance, ask her what a better vision of the use of funding would be. Keep in mind that the physics goals are to test high neutron flux divertors, tokamak scaling laws, and burning plasma regime stability.
> By what measure would C be losing ground?

When we start seeing Rust or similar being used instead of C would be a good metric and / or major OS development.
Ask HN: How to sell cloud storage for my app?
I have a simple video editing tool that runs in the browser that I’m trying to monetize.
We have around 10K MAU and it is currently ad supported. But I am simply not making enough money to support the product sustainably.

One idea is to let subscribers save their videos and assets in the cloud. Seems to be a common strategy for such tools. How may one implement this? Should I just put their files in S3 and call it a day?
Looks like growing a beard and/or getting fat (sorry, American-sized) are the keys to defeating their tech!
Is that something you know to be true, or something you heard from the companies?

Remember, there's a history of just this kind of stunt with these particular actors. So, personally, I'm very wary of taking their statements at face value!
The SR-71 Blackbird with Pilot Walter Watson
The fact is it’s extremely valued, in the economy[1]. And that value - the resentment thereof - is why many without the education purposely elect buffoonish leaders that choose to be proud of ignorance

1 - 61% of US population above 25 has “some college” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_th...
I work in financial services advising corporations on financial transactions.
I dunno, I'm sympathetic to interview questions being weirdly hard cause of the stress, but that question would be something I could solve in less than 60 seconds in several languages. I think it's fair to expect people to ace it without difficulty.
> It has virtually no adoption.

The sheer volume of gpg-signed apt/rpm/tar packages downloaded and verified everyday cast doubt on your claim.

I bet the number of packages downloaded for CI alone would invalidate this claim.
Not constexpr, this is solved by constant generics (the famous RFC 2000) with the array bound as a constant “generic” parameter/value.

I’ve been pushing for this feature for many years and have been playing with it since it first landed in nightly. It works quite well.
Exactly - development began in 2014, it was acquired in 2014, games against Sodol were March 2016. (I'm somewhat cheating here, so it's unfair, but I gotta tell you it's a real headscratcher having a stranger explain this to me while they're not checking wikipedia)
Great point thanks for articulating.
How is TV any different? Look at the X-Files, yes it was fiction, but I am sure there are many people that believe there are aliens.
If PGP is actually a bad standard from the crypto point of view I can only wonder why people downvote this and insist on supporting garbage and even rewriting it in Rust. But I'm not educated in these matters, so: what's exactly the problem with PGP/Seqouia and why age/rage are better? Can all PGP usecases be covered by age?
Something important to know about Einstein: he was a patent clerk. He didn’t have much in the way of original revolutionary ideas. He read what other physicists had submitted patents for and combined the work. Without a doubt he did good work and all of mankind greatly benefited from it, but it goes a bit too far to claim all of the revolutionary ideas that came out of him were original.

The most important work, relativity, should be credited to Lorentz and Poincaré.
Yeah, it turns out the link I posted is from one of the people behind the discovery/application of the glitch, so it really seems to be the logical next step if you know what you're doing.

And agreed on speedrunners! It's not something I could ever do myself, but it's one of my favorite aspects of gaming.
From this article https://www.imore.com/mac-moving-apple-silicon-not-arm

"First, ARM has two different kinds of licenses. One is for chipset designs. You pay your fee, you take your Cortex cores or whatever, you get them fabbed, and you've got your CPUs.

The other is an ISA license. With that, you get no chip design. None. All you get is the instruction set architecture. You have to roll the actual design yourself.

And that's what Apple's been doing. Making their own custom designs that use the ARM instruction set. For years."
Being a giant blob of byzantine implementation details and layers of accrued crust doesn't take away from PGP being a standard. Take a look at BMP or Postscript/PDF or even Email and tell me they're not the same.

Parent's point still stands: PGP is a standard (with widespread adoption, mind you) whereas Age is not. Whether it is a good standard or not depends on how you're using it.
What of it?

> Those functions are completely non-standard and should be avoided in portable programs.
Why are software contractors never discussed, outside of HN?
so if you read the license file can you not license any of your stuff under the spite license
Would anybody have bought ARM if SoftBank didn't back in 2017?
I wonder if Nvidia had bought it at some point anyway.
> There's also just the quality and access to education seems it's getting worse and worse.

I don't know about access in other countries, but the quality of education is dropping like a stone pretty much in every developed country right now. (And it's not a recent trend, it's been years in the making)
Even C#, actually!
It's because people being educated has become 'being elite'. Even in our own profession, I find it difficult to communicate with smart people who lack foundational knowledge, falter, ask for help and then ask me how I knew the right answer.

I've had more than person tell me that there's no way this was taught at a university (threading, OS knowledge)
That's not a US problem. It's a western problem.
Sorry but the pointed out problem is both way more commoin and way way more of an issue. Interviewers talk about "I just want to see how someone thinks" but the implicit biases and the overuse of problems leads to unconscious expectation setting and rigidity in the interviewers. In fact, I explicitly test for this by giving valid answers using e.g., techniques that I don't think the interviewer is familiar with precisely to see how open minded the interviewers actually are. Their response is amazingly revealing about the interviewer and the organization behind them.
I like your description of the 3 things you want to evaluate. It is pretty similar to what I try to evaluate.

The first two are part of a quiz we give candidates, it has a couple basic questions on it that simply require them to logically think through a problem they likely haven't seen before and provide feedback. I don't even care if the answers are correct, but they should be able to explain their thought process and reasoning clearly in a couple followup questions. Bonus points to candidates that ask for feedback on their answer.

For the last point, during the interview I get the candidate to describe a project at a recent workplace, once they have given the description, I'll ask questions to see if they evaluate and learn from their previous work.

I am constantly shocked at how many candidates I interview that fail one or more parts of this spectacularly (especially senior level candidates), to the point where I question whether evaluating candidates these ways is unfair, but also knowing that if someone doesn't do this they likely are going to fail when given a problem without an obvious answer.
In many ways they are right.

It’s much easier to make money in trades or similar things these days than in most bachelor degree fields.
Really, you "checked local walmarts" to inventory all their televisions? That's the biggest bunch of horse shit I've ever read, even on HN.

According to the government, only 7% of recipients used any part of their stimulus money to buy household items.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/receipt-and-use-of-sti...
That's what Microsoft did from some version on in their build tools, all the HANDLE's etc used to just be typedef void , now they're a dummy struct each (HANDLE__ ). Seems to be a good solution.
> I remember checking local Walmarts in the weeks that followed and I noticed all the TVs were gone

I mean, if I had an extra 1.2k (btw, I didn't qualify), I might spend it on something fancy.
It also has a housing affordability problem that is getting rapidly worse.

This is almost certainly caused by an overly restrictive zoning regime that restricts the supply of housing and thus raises the price. The city likely bans all missing middle housing: https://missingmiddlehousing.com/
Ex-Google China boss, Kay Fu Lee in AI Powers explained how China made their innovative environmental based on better wilder clones that are just focused on making billions, starting locally now globally aka TikTok
Nobody loves oracle either. They still buy

It is just not the developers either, even the bean counters hate them. There is always constant chatter they will replace nothing actually happens.

Developer happiness is not how most of enterprise sales happens. Most of the big cloud vendors today only offer Nvidia GPUs . Unless AMD GPUs can become so much better that nvidia is left behind nobody is going to change.

Cost of change is enormous in large organizations . This why intel is and will still make money even though they are behind in tech in almost all parameters.

That is actually when they are behind , AMD has nothing on the horizon to actually beat nvidia.

I don't buy nvidia GPUs because I like it, I buy them because the total cost of ownership of investing in a stack everyone uses is cheaper. Hiring is easier , cloud and library support is great, lesser bugs that is already not been seen and handled before.

The only reason it will make financial sense is if either Nvidia is so expensive that it is worth exploring alternatives or AMD is offering something radically different that the effort in going a different path can generate a lot of biz value. Neither is applicable today or next few years
Bigger numbers don't help much either, rating systems out of 10 tend towards anything under an 8 or maybe a 7 being average.
Thiel on google not innovating
https://youtu.be/2Q26XIKtwXQ
C is considered strictly typed but that’s only when compared to the likes of JS, Python, and co. What you’re taking about is incredibly important and using it in other truly strongly typed languages has opened my eyes to just how much compile time safety a language can really provide, practically free of cost.
> I say work a job that pays, and that you can tolerate, then do what you enjoy in your free time.

That's not what kids want to hear these days. They want life to be easy, and a big government ready to issue a wide safety net for them if they make bad choices in life. Perpetual childhood.
The problem starts with culture. In high school, people want to be athletes and pop singers or idk actors. Social skills are over valued. Also the way science is taught in the US discourages exploration and encourages "draw indide the circle". Not to method how hostile academia is.
I've heard about that! Was more thinking about what they did while there was still a Perforce server on the backend
Heh. This was a brilliant comment. The others who have responded to your comment have unconsciously proven the truth of what you're suggesting.

They are 'well-actually'-ing your question, which proves that they don't have don't have an instinctive 'of course it is wrong that police are being killed' reaction, which now eliminates credibility with the group they're hoping to influence.

I think MLK would have said "of course it's not alright that police are getting killed." He would have followed up with a salient point about police brutality, of course.
You’d need to be an accredited investor for one. Which does seem silly from a high level point of view, there are infinitely riskier investments that you don’t need accreditation for.
I don't know if you've watched The Dawn Wall; it reminds me of speedrun grinding IRL.
> The knowledge costs money. Tangible things are laughably low value by comparison.

I imagine Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters saying this to the Columbia dean as their lab is being disassembled and they are being fired.
I am not sure what he is talking about. I work on AI/Machine Learning and I can't think of any major paper that came out of China.
Does everyone in the living space leave for the day? At my place someone is always home most of everyday anyway.
Given all of the vagaries in the hiring process, do you believe that e.g., algo approaches are actually fair in the way that you intend?
Out of curiosity, how did your employer convince people to accept the increased risk of covid19 transmission that comes from working in the office?
Consumerism is the foundation of the American economy and due to the way the economy is currently structured it helps the world when Americans consumer more. Let’s not make value judgements about consumer spending.

However, I do agree that the US should be spending more on infrastructure. A LOT more. Arguably, spending less on infrastructure is what’s caused the loss of a lot of blue collar jobs...
I don't care to delve deep into this, but were all four people in contact with each other during the event and/or before recording what they saw? As that alone is enough to get them to see the same thing.
> People are "free" to speed, or to drive drunk, or to otherwise endanger others "where there's cars on the road". Looks like these "own choices" aren't a terribly good fit to many of the problems posed by cars.

Taking my quote out of context? It's pretty clear I meant that they are free to decide to have a car if that is best for them. Nowhere did I encourage speeding.
Its 2,000 now

And of course people typically then list their shares since they have all the same headaches of reporting, but also get the benefits of liquidity when listed
And then just like so many other Google initiatives, they got bored abandoned it and in some cases left damaged roads in their wake.

https://wpln.org/post/google-fiber-disruptions-have-some-say...

https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/louisville-to-fix-google-...

In the meantime AT&T has been rolling out gigabit up/down for the past 5 years. I got AT&T four years ago and the price has been $70/month no extra fees.
The parent's point was that age is 'just a program' and thus not a standard, with no mention of adoption. But PGP is arguably less of a standard than age, by that metric. As to adoption, PGP has very little adoption for actually securing anything (rather than performative use) and for those uses it's trivially replaceable because it's not actually good at them - that's pretty much the motivation behind things like 'age'.
US has two main disadvantages:

1. It's leaning progressive (unlike China, people aren't disenchanted with Marxism)

2. Less smart population on average (with huge burden of the certain minorities who cannot contribute to innovation)
Also an acquisition, FWIW.
The fractal surface area of PGP is why it has continued to enjoy such widespread adoption. People need to secure their messages and other systems are far too ridged or specialized for their needs.

Is PGP/GnuPG's horable to use or develop for? Absolutely. However, unless your friends are willing to step up and build something that's flexible enough to cover all our usecases, PGP will continue to see adoption and projects like this will continue to pop up.
> some choices which are available now should be restricted in the future.

It will be easier to make people make these choices if they look attractive ways to go forward rather than blaming them about using what is available for them to live their lives.
That I can speak (a little) to: They gave it a gigantic RAM-Backed SAN and the best hardware money could buy. Nothing particularly interesting, but there were several perforce servers with 512G of RAM attached to several SANS with terrabytes of RAM storage (In 2012ish when it was replaced). It was only ever explained to me in terms of SWE-Hours, but my understanding is that the hardware budget was enough to fund the several software engineering teams that replaced it, and the licensing was more than the hardware.
so it's purely based on user voting? and there is no human interaction?

that's kind of amazing!
What makes you believe that? Do you believe that the e.g., algo approaches create a strictly rank orderable list of candidates which actually correlates to their on-the-job impact? Also, why do you think such a thing matters more at scale than when a team/company is small?
Great!

DasBetterC's trial-by-fire was when I used it to convert DMD's backend from C to D.

I'm sure you already know this, but the trick to translating is to resist the urge to refactor and fix bugs while you're at it. Convert files one at a time, and after each run the test suite.

Only after it's all converted and passing the test suite can refactoring and bug fixing be considered.
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