skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An email provider would need a "to" code from you when you registered with them. Then with each request to download your mail, they send you a randomly generated number encoded with your "to" code, and you respond by decoding it and sending the number back encrypted with another number they give you.

They don't have to know where the mail is actually going, or what is in it. Just that they are getting a request from a person who owns that mail.

It gets more complicated than that, for the wonderful reason that there are so many more great things you can once you have standard primitives for encryption and cryptography. For instance, instead of a general email address, you can also give unique addresses to people so that only people you want can send you anything, and you can verify who its from.

You can still have a public address just by creating and publicizing an address for that purpose.

Once their is a standard library that developers can take for granted there are so many other things that can be easily done.

Today many of those things are difficult simply because there is no standard library, and everyone rolling their own implementations creates a nightmare. It is the vetting and fixing every single vulnerability from each implementation that is too difficult for most developers, even very good ones. That is one reason why everything is so insecure today.

A first draft of how the encryption works for email would probably one day's white boarding, since the primitives for this kind of thing have been around a long time. And people have done this kind of thing many times before in small contexts.

The actual implementation, to be very fast, extremely vetted (even formally verified) for correctness and after iterating many times of possible use cases and corner cases, would take some time.

There wouldn't need to be a single code base, but the point is to have very few implementations that are extremely well vet. So few implementations creates better security.

That way most applications and users can forget its even there.
That might be true if we had a perfect market, but that does not exist. In particular the board who decides the CEO salary is disproportionately made up from other CEOs and upper management. They have a self interest in keeping CEO salaries high. Moreover many also like to inflate the importance of upper management on company performance (which we see at every management level), which again leads to higher salaries. Finally, often CEO pay is regarded as a status symbol, which essentially completely disconnects it from market considerations
This comes after they tried to use unskilled labor (office personnel) to replace their skilled workers during the strike and about everything that could have gone wrong did.

Looks like strikes work, which is nice to see.
No.

> Honestly index funds and cash from retirement savings is a ponzi scheme as well then

The comment was pretty clear: index funds, and cash.

Defined benefit pension funds are absolutely ponzis and should be outlawed. But this is not what OP said.
It's immigration policy, not qualitative PhD difference.
Tether has been extremely opaque in what assets they hold to ensure the 1:1 USD/Tether peg. It's been observed that at least as one point they definitely didn't have enough USD-equivalent for it, and they've been issuing new Tether at quite a clip since then with flow on effects to the BTC market.

Now if they actually had this financing in place, this would all be fine - but nobody can find a proper accounting of who they're doing business with at the scale they claim to be doing business, beyond the observation that none of the big US players seem to have any business with them - so what assets are actually backing tether?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasgans/2021/05/13/tether-...

Note that the vast majority is "commercial paper": basically short term loans to companies with relatively risky backing. The problem is that's all we seem to know: no one knows from who they've been buying these. It might be large US companies with 50 year histories, or it might be Chinese property developers at risk of bankruptcy (at which point international debtors will be the first to lose their money).
Yeah, maybe. There's a reason different jurisdictions go different ways on this. You could also argue that the true owner could have thwarted the fraud by more careful identity management, and the purchaser (in hiring a solicitor to ensure the bona fides of the seller) has done nothing wrong. And if the true owner was absentee, the fraud might not be uncovered for years, long after the purchaser has moved in and made reliance on ownership.

The bottom line is that there are two innocent victims and one or both are getting screwed. I prefer your rule too, overall, but there are circumstances where one or the other is going to be more unjust in a particular case.
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There is plenty "new food" (and lots of "old food" just not commonly eaten here) that's vegetarian too. But meat is tasty, so fake meat is nice to have - why miss out on that if you like it?
I've managed people, I knew how to do their jobs in addition to my own, or at least enough about their jobs to know what questions to ask about them.

I've often posited that many issues at large companies would be solved if the VP and SVP level folks were down doing the 'grunt' level work from time to time - like your VP of customer care should be on the phones one day a quarter, your VP of manufacturing should work the line once a quarter and so on.

It's pretty easy to say from on high "well, how hard can it be, they don't deserve that much!" when you've never done the work - it's a whole lot harder if you have and do from time to time. The CEO, needs to be on the floor, and needs to understand every aspect of how the company does business, if not that (like for very large companies like GE and Tyco), at a minimum the division president level does.

Being a CEO is more than just sitting in an office making strategic decisions, it's also having enough of a fundamental understanding of how your business works to know when you're being fed bullshit - you only get that by going out there and doing.
i am experienced developer. I do need to keep homefires burning. I am looking at hourly compensation or something along those lines. Let me know.
Good, a bit of competition works out better for the end user. Political systems tend to be a monopoly, and monopolies lend themselves to abusive practices.
>Worldwide | Fully Remote

Had a look at [one](https://boards.greenhouse.io/timescale/jobs/5052733002) of the opportunities, but looks like it's TZ limited:

>Timescale is a all-remote organization; this is a full-time position and can be located anywhere across a wide range of time zones and locations (UTC-8 to UTC+5.5)
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Snapshots also aren't a replacement for backups, as they reside on the same media/device.
You think Bitcoin doesnt not provide some form of entertainement to the milions od crypto enthusiasts ?

Personally i think 50% of the interest of peopne invested in cypto, especially early investoes' is because they are nerds who love the appeal of the techbology.

For them, crypto is as close as art as van gogh.

P.s. thz 50% other is speculation.
How much should I practice to get a twisted brain i.e solve Leetcode hard?
I have exactly this issue with video, moaned about it here a few weeks ago -- and another HN reader explained, very pithily why the trend has occurred: money. It's much easier to monetise a YouTube video than it is an easy, or a blog post. Video impressions get more currency/eyeball even outside of YouTube. Our lack of ability to skim read or rapidly search for information doesn't enter the calculus.
FWIW I went with a pure latex mattress. Nothing super fancy, I think around $700 out the door. I just made sure it was free of specific chemicals that I can’t remember offhand but research said might be important.

No need to buy layers and such I say go full latex.
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That seems really neat! Have you considered just relaunching it under a different name?
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US' GDP per capital is more than 6x than China's GDP per capital. China has a bigger population, and when China's GDP is the same as US, its per capital GDP will still be 1/4 or 1/5 of US. Even it loses the first seat as a country, its people are still better off than others.
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The net will never be safe for kids, so specialized apps are necessary if children have to use iPads (I think the educational value is questionable anyway).

Also be aware that kids will break from the prison their parents set up sooner than they might want.
Thanks! I've seen that article, it was posted at HN 1.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22704116

Turns out I still had it open, half read, in one of my 100+ browser tabs :-)

Nice to hear that you recommend it. (Hmm I wonder if maybe some of the other things you've read were also based on Schmidt & Hunter, 1998?)

I have in mind to do as they recommend (incl work sample tests and structured interviews and work knowledge tests), when/if later on I'll look for people to help me with the software I'm creating.

I wonder b.t.w. if you know about any automatically generated GMA tests?

(Edit: I found some, I can post a link if you want.)

It'd be nice if there were ways to auto generate GMA tests. Then maybe it could be just fine if everyone was allowed to practice as how as they wanted -- if there was an unlimited supply of new questions, because they were auto generated.

Maybe something with generating random 3D shapes and applying rotations.

But then it seems to me it's necessary to measure how well begin good at such things, correlates with being able to learn and get good at software, and scrap any poorly correlated tests.
> Intel are focused on data-parallel C++ for delivering high performance, rightly or wrongly.

They also invest efforts in making it possible to write high performance kernels in Python using an extension to the numba Python compiler:

https://github.com/IntelPython/numba-dppy
> The real question is what happens in the next recession

A massive inflow of capital to crypto, bitcoin in particular.
You don’t even need an industrial PhD. In Denmark at least, a PhD study is a paid position, essentially just a job that runs 3 years and results in handing in a PhD dissertation. It pays less than what you get in the industry, but very decently, so no need to balance multiple jobs, just focus on your research.

The Industrial PhD pays the same here, so that’s mostly a position you would take if you specifically want to collaborate with a company on some research project, not something you do because of income considerations.
You have moved the goal posts. Exercise has a positive effect on health, yes. It does not have an effect on whether you're fat. That is down to food intake. That is what the poster was actually saying.
One dimension of space and one dimension of time, probably
So Facebook messenger is great because it monitors everything you say to anyone for moderation, but it’s bad because it conditions its users about how it monitors everything you say to anyone.
The last point is one I've been employing very successfully lately. I think Toyota speaks of it as "figure out a really good process using humans first, then consider automating."

Doing something manually takes less time than you think if you create a good standard sequence that irons out most of the mechanical waste involved. Once the process starts to provide a lot of value (or no value – which is most commonly the case!) you can decide to automate further (or not at all.)

But also at that point you have to be careful. Automate little steps at a time. Automate the easy, happy path first and quickly bail out to the human operator if something goes wrong, then reconsider if the economics are still in favour of further automation. The last percent of automation are invariably the most expensive, by far.
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Thanks for that insight. While I can't say what mine is, but your ranges mean I'm OK. I see it as a lottery ticket, you need a billion for someone with say 0.1% to be worth a million, and that is assuming no dilutions.
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Thanks for the actual, non-sensationalistic take
There is a difference between 'long' and 'long long'. I believe the latter is always 64 bits on Linux.
Indeed. Perceiving Baseball as the most literary of sports sounds like some form of bias to me...

There is not just "Schachnovelle" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game

There is a plethora of chess related novels:
https://www.chess.com/amp/article/chess-related-novels-amp-s...
That seems... excessive? 60 hours a week / 5 days a week is 12 hours a day. Even working Saturdays, that would give you 10 hours a day 6 days a week. I personally have never met any single PhD student who did that amount of pure research each week for 5 or 6 years. Again, I'm not talking about "lab" type research.
" ... I wanted to do something that keeps my mind active. But it is a matter of whatever you want to do. If you have a dream, follow it. Sometimes that dream may never have been verbalized, it may be buried in the subconscious. It is important not to waste your older days. There is a lot of brainpower in older people and I think it can be of enormous benefit to younger generations. Older people have experience and many times history repeats itself.”

I see this as a way to protect one's health and sanity as one ages. Aging gracefully should be possible.
Industrial PhDs are NOT part-time. They are full time, except instead of having to teach to get money you trade it for small industrial tasks.
> I'm exploring that right now, thx a lot.

No problem, good luck :) Is good to see someone experimenting in this area and asking for advice to stay on track.
> Each person's pay is determined by what the market rate is.

As long as people are effectively forced to work under even the most exploitative conditions, the market rate is going to be depressed by desperation. The labor market without a decent social security net (aka unemployment insurance that actually works and is accessible, or outright UBI) is not a free market by definition!

That is why the COVID relief packages were able to overturn the market - they allowed people to leave their old jobs (if they still existed, that is) and search for new, better employment without the pressure of starving as somewhat around 60-70% of Americans, under normal conditions, would not have saved enough money to cover even a single week of unemployment.
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Having several read-only replicas in every shard to distribute reading load.
it is hard to find people capable of running such a large company

The current CEO is paid $15m, and is currently responsible for the biggest strike in the company's history, an expensive settlement, and a huge number of unhappy customers who complain that they can't mend their tractors themselves to the point where the government has considered passing laws to ensure they can.

Is it really so hard to find someone who'd do a better job than that for less money?
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Having properly cached links to a central repo of generic images would achieve almost the same without the download of many unused images on install
They don’t click when the power is off.
Teach! Or find any other way to enable the next generation. Or maybe work at a passion startup or something, or volunteer, etc. You don’t have to go back into tech.
Any idea what "like the ‘every odd pixel is a line’ texture mapping technique" refers to? I can't seem to find a descrition of it anywhere...
It’s striking to me how labor movements have seem to thrive after global conflicts. In the years that follow war, famine, and plague the power of organized labor grows, and it wanes during sustained periods of relative abundance. It seems like a case of simple supply and demand, ie a smaller workforce can command higher wages. However the effect seems a lot more pronounced than the raw numbers would dictate. For example the US lost 0.3% of its population to WW2.

> During the 15 years from 1947 to 1962, the real
hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory
workers in the private nonfarm economy, adjusted
for overtime (in manufacturing only) and for interin-
dustry employment shifts, increased at an average
rate of 2.5 percent annually; the advance during the
14-year period from 1962 to 1976 averaged only 1.2
percent annually.

The pandemic has taken 0.2% of US population thus far, yet wage growth is nearly 5% in the past 12 months, significantly outpacing inflation.

~50 years of relative peace and prosperity resulted in wage stagnation for workers. The death of organized labor was lamented, and many households struggled to keep pace with rising expenses.

It’s as if there is a threshold of labor availability below which there is a dramatic increase in upward wage pressure. The threat of production not meeting sales demand is a powerful one.
Employers threaten employees with a loss of their livelihood. Employees threaten employers with a loss of business.

The decided upon rate is determined by the outcome of this struggle.

That's how the market rate sausage is made. It's not an impersonal objective arbiter of truth. It's a reflection of relative levels of power and relative levels of desperation.
> I don't agree that it's somehow impossible to get things right and I'm not even sure you really believe that.

That depends what you mean by "things." Obviously, languages created in 2015 might fix mistakes made in 1985, and recognised as mistakes, in, say, 1995. But the things that a language needs to solve over its lifetime are mostly unknown when it's created. How the language handles the problems that are known when it's created is less interesting. If it doesn't do it well, it will never become popular. What's interesting is how it adapts when those problems change with time and new ones appear.
It provides value though. It's a great medium to store value.

Throughout history there have been stores of value which had little intrinsic value except their scarcity and tradeability - rai stones, certain sea shells, (...). Just like Bitcoin.

Gold is just another of those. It has some industrial value, but it's current value FAR surpasses the value that comes from there. Most of gold's current price/market cap comes from being a good store of value.

Now you have Bitcoin which has exactly the same characteristics as every other store of value humanity has ever used, but two more that we never had before:

1- it's immaterial. This can be seen as good or bad. But the fact that it's immaterial means you can trade it with anyone in the world, at lightning fast speed (with layer 2 at least), you don't carry weights if you want to "carry" it with you, and you can split into millions of pieces.

2- it's scarcity is hardcoded. Every single store of value that stopped being one, at some point stopped being scarce. And thus lost it its ability to store value. Caravel sailors used their huge ships to transport the heavy Rai stones much more easily than by the previous method the tribes that used it (by hand through a laborious process) and were able to transport dozens of them at a time. Sea shells either had to be found, and those they used were rare, or in other places they had to be minted in a special way to make them "worthy". Kind of proof of work. Suffice to say, explorers started using nets to get hundreds of them from high depths and immediately they lost their value. Now we can only have 21M BTC and that's it. There's no way around it, for now at least.
1. PhD in the USAs are 3 years too if you count like europeans do (we don't include the masters)
2. Industrial PhDs are not part time PhDs, it's a different thing.
So in a sense the guys behind Tether seem to be pretty conscious and smart about what they do. Would be curious to see that playing out in court so.
Lightroom is closed and comes from Adobe, so it was never on my radar. Being able to modify the software is a must: photos are only part of the problem, so any solution must be open to integration with other sources of data.

It would have been interesting to see how it organizes the UI, but there's no demo version for Linux :P
The lack of any kind of commentary on the second video gives me strong ASMR-but-for-papercraft vibes.

I would watch that even as a grown-up.
Most of the text on corporate pages are same-ish blahblah, we might as well add that to the Firefox Blurb Library :)