skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this overstates the instability of strong leader-based consensus algorithms, or at least over-generalizes Raft's instability to apply to all consensus algorithms with a stronger leader.

In Raft, it's possible for multiple nodes to prevent leader election progress by being overly aggressive when requesting votes. It is also possible for a follower to knock out a perfectly healthy leader by being too quick time out the leader and start a new term.

Both of these limitations stem from the simplicity of Raft's leader election algorithm. To compensate, most Raft implementations I've seen have more conservative follower timeouts that extend the time to detect leader failure and elect a new one.

It's possible for a more optimized algorithm to get sub-second latencies for detecting and re-electing a leader, even in a latent (e.g. geo-distributed) environment. In other words, well within the commit window for the replica set based on network hop latencies.

Also, while the latency for individual writes in single-decree paxos can be closer to strong leader protocols, it is non-trivial to achieve the same level of throughput that is possible in Raft et al when writing to an ordered log, as you cannot start a paxos instance for a new log entry until all prior instances have been resolved. Raft can just add new values in the next append call (or just spam out appends for new messages w/o waiting for the replies for previous ones).

IME, I'd say both single-decree paxos and raft are probably equivalent in terms of understandability, but raft is a better base on which to build a fast high-throughput consensus protocol.
That really makes no sense. Are you suggesting that because the Switch launched nearly featureless, that is POSITIVE? For less than the cost of the Switch you can buy a "shitty watered down PC", that has MUCH greater performance, plays Blu-Ray, Netflix, and whatever else you want. I understand there is hardcore Nintendo fanboyism, but come on.
Perfect for looking for a bounty, right?
I see a potential solution to Los Angeles's homeless population.
Historically the idea of war having rules has had a very unfortunate past. In WW1, Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare in 1915 and torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania (filled with neutral civilians). There's a long list [1] of hospital ships deliberately sunk in WW1.

Then in WW2, aside from even more unrestricted submarine warfare and sinkings of hospital ships [2], we also have the firebombings of Dresden, Tokyo, and every other major axis city; machine-gunning of shipwreck survivors in the water; the atom bombs; the impressment of Koreans into service as "comfort women" for Japanese servicemen; forced labor at both axis & allied prisoner camps; the internment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps; and of course the Holocaust.

Modern-day, there's the My Lai massacre and Obama's attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital [3]. Probably more too, but you don't hear about them.

The author cites that war has rules because rules are written down, but rules are written down for Wall Street as well. They're just not enforced. And similarly, the laws of war are only enforced on the losing side, or on scapegoats that the actual decision-makers make available as a token sacrifice. When it comes to actually conducting a war, belligerents usually follow just one rule: win.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospital_ships_sunk_in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospital_ships_sunk_in...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike
The "carrier" ceases to be just a "carrier" at that point. They're now both a "carrier" and a "filter".

Sometimes I just want unmolested water.
Great work guys at LA Times! That is very transparent.
>lobby the policymakers to create barriers to entry.

That's why Trump imposes lifetime ban on some lobbying, five years for others. The TPP getting shot down was a big win as well, these are regulations we need to stop government corruption. The west is waking up!
Not yet, but limiting by # of confirmations is planned!
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I've interviewed plenty of candidates in the past, and if someone I was interviewing asked me a whiteboard question when I asked 'do you have any questions for me?', I'd be amused, pleasantly surprised, and impressed.

And I'd probably be more likely to want to hire them, too! Asking their interviewer a technical question would show me that the candidate cares about the quality of his or her future co-workers.
Immigration laws seem likely to be enforced, illegal alien labor scabs self-deport in advance, and wages rise. Not hard to understand.
You mean, give them homes on farms? Sure, why not.
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Well, "equity"
Sure, used a few other Ruby platforms, a Python one or two. What makes Rails work so well is Ruby. It's uniquely suited for building the kinds of abstractions you need to deal powerfully with the Web. The only thing it's really missing is a good UI library. I've been using Hyperloop, which puts together Opal and React, but it still needs a lot of time to mature.
Maybe "enlightened self interest" as a governing principle will catch on.
Interesting use of the word "scabs"!
Yeah, Lain jumped out to me as a questionable inclusion in that list as well. It has hikikomori themes, though I wouldn't have thought of it that way before, but no major characters are hikikomori. OTOH Tatami Galaxy makes sense to me, given the analysis paralysis sort of thing going on in that, even if it isn't always directly about hikikomori. Rozen Maiden is really the only straightforward choice there.
The complaints seem sort of vague and whiny. Like not going to sessions because the first one wasn't useful because they somehow "knew" the others wouldn't be useful. Tell us how you knew that, otherwise it just sounds like you had a tantrum.

And if you aren't going to sessions, why should the Accelerator invest further time and energy in you?
Although it's obviously not going to happen, even if it did you couldn't afford buying that same product as a direct result of the increase in cost.
In a sense that's following my point - describing the executable semantics of the legal system, sure. On the other hand, there is no such thing as a purely positive statement, as simply explaining how something works also promulgates it. This is a basic tenet of how the legal system bootstraps its own justification - notice, publication, etc.

We can argue about it or not, but normatively I know that I would indeed like some sort of purely-executable-semantics environment, as the Internet was originally perceived as. Twitster's walled garden likely isn't a workable place to push for this for (being a mass-marketed proprietary service that merely delivers over the Internet). But as I don't see a boundary for where the legal system will ever stop attempting to apply its ambient authority, it is worthwhile to point out that there are alternative philosophies at every one of these occurrences.
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

The status quo is _always_ broken. Change is unceasing. Assumptions that are true today need not remain so in the future. This can happen to any product, business and their culture. Opportunities are everywhere, but we get normalized to reality pretty soon, the status quo fervently resists change, new things by virtue of being new are hard to do and fail often, and so we conveniently avoid spotting them.
You don't have to rely on that https://ofek.github.io/bit/guide/advanced.html#server-integr...
Why give them work with decent wages? Just give people what they need: free stuff!

Seriously, you were just joking, were you?
>Haha wow I can't believe the negativity in these comments.

To be fair, the article's presentation rather invites them. It's basically presented as "Look what these Indian women accomlished for 10X less money than your male-dominated American groups spent." It's put Americans and males on the defensive, so naturally they will defend...
I didn't read Escape to Another World[0] until today, but it has a similar point. Could it be that the West, as has been the case in other areas, is following the same path as Japan as it turns around the demographic transition? Does Japan have the same pseudo-sociopathic self-help movements that grew up in the US in response to people leaving society?

[0] https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-worl...
There has to be more to the story here because the unemployment rate in Stockton is 9.5%. So what's the disconnect between people not working, and employers who are apparently trying to pay more and aren't getting workers?
Does that then imply there hasn't been a "losing side" to which the Wall Street rules apply?
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> Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job

No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA, I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.
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Farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US. There are reasons aside from money that people choose to pursue other careers.
Are you nitpicking the examples as stand-alone, or as part of the greater argument: that war does have ethics?

If you're intending to say that it doesn't, I think you should revisit your conclusion.

Otherwise, these were just examples of war having ethics.
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Your referring to an idea called the Laffer Curve. It's true that the government would bring in essentially $0 revenue with an income tax rate of 0% and it's, well, more or less true for a tax rate of 100% too. And so logically there is a point between those two where revenue is maximized. But in the US at least we're no where near that point. For people payed in proportion to their labor like people working hourly jobs it seems to peak over 50% and for salaried professionals the peak seems to be between 70% and 80%. So if you're talking about lowering the top tax bracket from 90% to 70% you can raise more money. But you can't for any of the sorts of tax rates we have today.
Hi Michael, what are the biggest companies you've missed out on? Do you keep an anti-portfolio like BVP? https://www.bvp.com/portfolio/anti-portfolio
I disagree. It's the cultural reaction of being self-resilient and maintaining face against the structural pressures that capitalism presents in economies that started to stagnate since the early 90s.

The evidence I see to support the observation above is the recent rise of "Wae To Ri" in South Korea since the economy started to stagnate post Asian Financial crisis. It's identical to hikkikomori. I see this in other economically stagnant European countries as well, for example in Spain or Portugal where 1/2 young people are unemployed.
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The main problem is performance, it takes long enough to train a regular deep learning AI, let along a homomorphically encrypted one.
In times of peace, sure. In times of war, it's usually forgotten within 1-2 years of the outbreak of hostilities.
I don't want to pooh-pooh this project too much but you are competing with Google Analytics which is free. Here is how I break it down:

Google Analytics:

* Injects stuff into my page

* Free (at least on my scale)

* Google uses this information for its own purposes

* More features

* Tested and Trusted

centi.in

* Injects stuff into my page

* Indeterminate price

* Probably doesn't sell information

* Less features

I am not really in the target market but you have an uphill battle getting customers.
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Like dkfmn said, it's surprising because most companies just adjust salaries to cost of living and try to get away with paying the least they can.

I applaud your approach and would love to one day work for your company as it sounds like a great place to work since you actually appreciate your human capital.

I also agree on the 2-3 years hopping, it's a great strategy.
In the same way that a casino does. This is really not complicated.
agreed, although some HE algorithms with more limited functionality (such as vector ops), can do a bit better. There has also been some work on GPU enabled HE.
First - I was wrong to mention the "local economy" because I don't actually know. I _meant_ the govt budget.

Second - Despite being willing to admit I don't know, I HAVE heard it, so I'm definitely open to having what I've heard proven/disproven (to the degree we can with so many variables).

As far as I can tell from my quick searches:

* Kansas private-sector job growth post-tax plan is low. (both regionally and nationally)
* The Govt budget has definitely been hit
* Kansas unemployment rate is actually BETTER than the national rate...but it seems like it always has been, for the last 25 years at least. (There's a recent spike since May, but even a skeptic of the Brownback plan such as myself is unwilling to attribute the spike to the tax rate without more data)
* Kansas GDP growth rate is lower than the regional average and has been since the tax plan was enacted (this may be a red herring, couldn't see what it did before the tax plan, nor how the state GDP compares to it's theoretical potential which would impact tax rate)

So: Based on this I can't conclude the Kansas economy has "tanked" as I originally said...but I also don't see anything indicating an improvement due to the plan either. If cutting tax rates leads to more investment and growth, where should we be seeing that?
I wasn't trying to imply the cost wasn't questionable! Part of the 'forgetting' is the imposition of new or extended interpretations of the original intent of such agreements that lose sight of the balance of value one gets.
Maybe? The thing is that the incentives don't really align to make this a real priority of theirs and they've been pretty clear that shipping physical DVDs is not their long-term business model. So long as a lot of people don't start canceling their DVD service because of unavailable disks, they don't have real reason to replenish.

Of course, given that they pretty much put every other rental place out of business, your only choice in a lot of cases is just to buy a disk if you want to watch something that isn't available streaming.
Of course, it's the most basic rule of markets. Currently, they're paying unskilled data entry/retail clerk wages, eventually they'll reach semi-skilled, toil in the fields wages. They started at sit in a chair next to a door reading a book, and once every hour or two when somebody arrives, press a button to open the door wages.

I'm not sure what element of this story is supposed to be negative.
You seem to have wandered off topic at some point. The FBI didn't arrest the ISP. They arrested the sender. What's more end to end than that?
Ok, but that would mean that the price of produce would need to grow nearly just as much. And then nobody would buy it. So at some level of price of labor it's better for the producer to close the shop and take the losses instead of rising wages even more and risking more losses due to crashing demand.
The people picking chardonnay grapes often aren't the target consumers to begin with, but your core point is correct, wage inflation usually leads to price inflation, but it doesn't always follow that therefore the product becomes unaffordable.
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> illegal alien labor scabs self-deport in advance, and wages rise

You know when there was a bug in the codebase so hard to fix and for so many years that developers started building on top of that and considered the bug to be 'not really a bug' but more of a design decision.

And then some new hire comes along and fixes it without a deep understanding of the dependencies and breaks existing functionality. And then the dev budget for 'fixing' everything goes sky high?

Guess what will happen to the price of produce?
The article and the comments are great, but where is that recipe? (seriously)
Great points.
The article indicates a 15-year trend of rising wages, yet we don't see American farmhands flocking to CA, so it seems like a fair headline to me.
>Using her authority gave it enough power to get the team gather up for a call.

This is why I think the slackbots OP wrote were so effective. When you give a bot a name like MeetingBot it's easy to ignore the notifications. However when the bot carries authority of a manager or team member it's harder to ignore.
I think you bring up a good point. The people who need jobs and the people that need to fill jobs live in different places. American mobility is at an all time low for our technological era. How do we get the unemployed Midwesterners into Napa Valley?
I guess when I was working on my SaaS, I was in a similar situation for a few years. I didn't have any social interactions. Just coding and peddling monthly subscriptions for years and years.

Were there underlying issues that drove me to such extremes? I think so.

But I really thought that I could pull it off.
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> No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA

Yes, but if they wanted the jobs, they'd come to CA for them.

> I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.

Most people in California—who are, after all, themsleves outside of Silicon Valley, which is a small piece of the state—are well aware of that.
People would still give to charities I assume. Perhaps more so when they get more money from UBI.

How about establishing a trust in that person's name where they can't touch the money but it will pay for needed services? Someone like that sounds like they would need professional help...
No argument there. The tool itself is fine. If there's a problem with how it's being used then that's on the agencies using it. Palantir isn't doing anything nefarious.
YC has announced in the past that they can't answer this question, because they keep rejections confidential.
We are already 100% remote and have been for the entire life of the company.

Time differences haven't been a big issue - it can be tricky to get everyone on a call when they need to be - but usually a little flexibility by all parties go a long way. Also, you can arbitrage time differences to knock down annoyance from on-call rotations and the like.

We ask employees to have their own "consistent" hours so that the rest of the team knows when they'll be available or not.

We do consider time zones when hiring - for example, we might explicitly hire Asian/Pacific for support scheduling reasons.
> but when I use Mail.app to send an email, I am the one doing the emailing, not the Google SMTP server acting as a mail transfer agent (MTA)

You seem to be confusing the MSA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_submission_agent) and the MTA. If today your MUA (Mail.app) tried to connect to the destination mail host via SMTP directly it would get rejected. Some early MUAs did actually do that, but today almost all email gets relayed via an MSA and one or more MTAs.
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It starts at 15% and then 30% and then 50% and then everything you do ends up in one big pot and you have communism. And your neighbour is happily doing nothing while you slave away, who is stupid then?
inaccurate and pretty stupid actually.
Thanks for the response.

I agree that on the Canuck side we have a lot of untapped potential and people working very hard for very little money.

I figured Garret was homesick :)
Is that really relevant, though? If the cost of having cheap food is that we create an underclass that are willing to put up with low wages out of economic desperation, is that really an acceptable moral compromise?
Hi,
any advice for solo founders, if the startup isn't launched yet, but expected to launch in 1 month?
Thanks.
There are lots of jobs around Torrance in tech.
> Or perhaps farms are just not a place where native-born Americans want to work. The job is seasonal, so laborers have to alternate between long stretches without any income and then months of 60-hour weeks. They work in extreme heat and cold, and spend all day bending over to reach vegetables or climbing up and down ladders to pluck fruit in trees.

Agricultural jobs like these are strictly seasonal, require transportation to the job site, are physically exhausting, have very long days, and have no prospects for advancement.

Now compare that to refusing the offer and instead looking for a low-ranking job in construction, which requires transportation to the job site, is physically exhausting, and has very long days, but has work available year-round and has very real prospects for on-the-job training and career advancement.
I do. I have been working with raspberry Pis to experiment on " plug and play" services. My first use was a box that used webdriver to perform final transactions on your behalf, like Mint, but on your own server.
When it comes to building smarter-than-human AI, "try it and see" is never the right answer.

Disagree emphatically. In fact it's the only way to do it because there is no way to know certainly that a superhuman-AGI will ensure the longevity of humanity. I go so far as to argue that it's not even necessary because there is no long term longevity for humanity anyway.

There is this implicit assumption that humans are, should and will always be the apex entity - and I think that is misguided.

If you instead view superhuman-AGI as our rightful offspring, something that we can't understand and is better than us, then all of the existential dread around it goes away.

Dying elderly often express "comfort" in dying when they see that their offspring are reproducing and are smarter than they were. We should see Superhuman-AGI the same way except towards all of humanity.
> Before the day was through, Solorio would make the same pitch to dozens of men and women, approaching a taco truck, a restaurant and a homeless encampment.

Has he tried Craigslist? Or has his entire hiring strategy involved approaching random people on the street?
Californians are Americans. Central Valley is very different to Silicon Valley. You're the person who connected it to Silicon Valley. There's a whole lot of California outside of and unrelated to Silicon Valley.
When I was younger, I worked at a McDonalds in SoCal. Almost all the employees were white teenagers. The managers were white as well. We didn't make much, just a bit above minimum wage, but we were all mostly high-school students or college students working in the summer to pay tuition.

This went on until around 1984 or so, when it became much harder to hire this demographic. It wasn't as cool to work at fast food, and the area was becoming more affluent.

Fast forward five years, and 99% of the staff was now Hispanic, including several illegal immigrants. The restaurant had to do what it could to make money and stay in biz.

I don't know how high wages would have to be to attract the previous demographic to that type of work. The area is far more affluent than when I was growing up, and house prices start at over $700K and go higher easily.

I do think something is missing though when kids don't learn what it's like to hold a retail type job dealing with the public. You learn hard work, humility, and often an appreciation for higher education.
POW rights are earned by wearing uniforms. Not wearing uniforms means you've passed a moral line that encourages the murder, if not slaughter, of civilians.