skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some states, the government has been paying people over $4000 per month to work for zero hours. That is paying people an infinite amount for time, because there is zero time being offered in exchange.

If I was making that amount and not working, and you said here's $5000 a month for a full time job, I wouldn't take your offer because giving up 40 hours of my life per week is not worth the extra $1000.

How exactly can this be handwaved? It's extremely difficult to compete with that. One market participatant is pushing the price of time to infinity.
For user changes, a solution based on OT/CRDT may be appropriate.

For code, you need merge conflicts. Let me put it like this: Do concurrent edits in google docs always produce a valid and correct paragraph, with no grammatical errors, and that communicates the proper thoughts?
Standards != centralization. Standards apply more to protocols, and centralization applies more to ownership of data.

For instance, there is an enormous benefit to the entire world from using a standard IP/TCP stack. Yet, we don't seem to suffer from a centralized authority making controversial or conflict-of-interest decisions regarding that stack.

So what I was suggesting is that document-editing abide by some global protocol/standard, which would include storage, versioning, and permissions. As far as the choice of user-facing interfaces and implementations of logic around those standards, there need not be just one, or even a few. Everyone can bring something cool to the table and anyone can use whichever flavor they wish.
Sure, producing iron without coal sucks; but there is already enough scrap metal around to power several additional industrial revolutions, and an arc furnace is really simple, especially if already know how electricity works beforehand.

Long term, there are alternative routes that could be taken (capable of processing fresh ore) but using scrap metal just seems easier/more likely to me.
Also today,

Psaki on de-platforming American citizens: "You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others if you providing 'misinformation' out there."

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1416095652162031624

They will define misinformation of course.
>Manipulated media: Media that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.

What about deepfakes and other machine-generated content?
Stream's consensus algorithms are all Raft based, the Go Raft ecosystem is very solid. We did end up forking some of the libraries, but nothing major.
The difference in risk profile from other types of insurance doesn't necessarily mean it's not insurance.
Yeah, I take issue with the idea that carbon offsets alone will magically fix everything.

In Toronto, there was a mandate a few years ago for all houses to disconnect downspouts from the sewer system (so that rainwater is absorbed into the ground of the sprawling suburbs instead of overloading the city plumbing system. They've also been building gigantic water reservoirs by the lake in anticipation of increased pressure in said plumbing systems.

I think at this point, it sounds like the people saying we're already too late are not really being alarmist, and that we are going to need to pay that price in the form of lots of infrastructure projects to deal with things like extreme floods. The scary thing IMHO is Germany clearly invested in such infrastructure[0] and yet here we are.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LseK5gp66u8
Good point that I definitely overlooked. I was assuming the NC was a distinct document.
A check on that is people who can claim unemployment benefits while obtaining under the table jobs. How many from the official unemployment figures are doing so? The inflation-induced construction boom would seem quite amenable to such work.
They've been having fuel shortages since the collapse of the USSR, which were temporarily alleviated at the height of Venezuelan production int he early 2000s. As Venezuelan production slid (due to the ham handed firing of striking workers by Chavez) relations started to thaw with the US in 2015-2016. At that time there was more wiggle room for trade. In 2017 that move was unilaterally reversed by the US, which I agree was bad policy. However Cuba has offshore oil which they've failed to develop, either with the help of Venezuela pre 2015 or with Pemex, Russian, or Chinese investment.

The problem is that even when Cuba was trading with the USSR, Venezuela, Bolivia, China, etc. they never managed to build any local industry, and as such have nothing to trade for oil. None of these trade partnerships were effected by the embargo. If Cuba had any foreign reserves or anything at all to trade they could buy gas from any number of places that are opposed to uS interests.

I agree the embargo sucks, but Cuba was letting crops rot in the field when they had oil. The government just sucks. They could have tried to regularize relations like Vietnam did in 1995 and implement pragmatic reforms, but they have continued to stay the course with ruinous policies in the name of political purity.
The number of times I've specifically selected something because I wanted that exact product and had it substituted when using a service like this... I've lost count.

It's still convenient, so I still do it, but it is not a reliable way of getting __exactly__ what you want.
It doesn't seem like a stretch to me to suggest that the same (heavily documented and confirmed) effects apply to first-time adult users. Certainly alcohol use affects teenagers' brains more than adults, yet still does affect adults. This seems like common sense. Most substances behave this way.

Likewise, the studies all track teenagers over decades, who then became adults. This is the most common usage pattern.
I've seen multiple comments assigning Googles illiberal behavior to Chinese influence or pressure.

This is patently false, Big Tech is beholden to Western dictate. There is currently a coordinated effort by non-partisan forces to push the United States into a war with China. Don't fall for it.
Given the medical industry is more than okay with going Full Evil, I'm happy to see Walmart knocking them down a notch in evil.

If nothing else, this may cause something foreign to the medical industry- Competition.
I didnt hear them mention 60 fps, in fact they said they were unable to see fps numbers anywhere during this "hands on". They did say Control "felt playable". This is how you make Control playable on APU https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/control-graphics-perfor... everything on low and you reach 30fps 720p.
What’s sad to me is that someone who really should be a hero to everyone in Silicon Valley, the journalist who decided to publish Edward Snowden’s stuff, at insane risk to himself, has been warning about censorship forever. (Glen greenwald)

Yet now he’s apparently a right wing trump apologist to most people on the left.

That doesn’t change the truth of what a person who’s put a lot on the table is saying.

Censorship always becomes about power. Once you create the tools, the powerful will take them over. You may think that’s a good thing when your side is in power, but that will NEVER be forever.
Let me rephrase: this is a good thing as long as production is meeting or exceeding demand.

When it becomes clear that there aren't enough hands on deck (or at desks, or in factories) to "keep the lights on" then we can say there's a problem.

Until then, it's good for people to have more financial independence and be able to find a job that doesn't treat them like cattle.

As you mention, this breaks down when you take it to an extreme (eg. 200 mil). But that's not where we are and nor is it where we're headed so I don't see the equivalence.
Author seems to be using https://github.com/ailidani/paxi for actual implementation and proof.

I'm more of a python/rust guy. There have been some attempts to make model checkers in rust: https://github.com/stateright/stateright

The issue is that rust is a very large language and it's hard to get it right.

I have a python implementation of raft over here:

https://github.com/adsharma/raft/tree/master/raft/states

That's small enough to be self contained and perhaps run through a model checker some day and transpiled to many statically typed languages.

The issue with TLA+ proofs such as:

https://github.com/fpaxos/raft.tla

is that it's hard to tell if a particular C++ or Rust implementation conforms to the spec.

So how do we check and transpile?

* https://www.philipzucker.com/Modelling_TLA_in_z3py/
* https://github.com/adsharma/py2many
The assertion that at least one selection algorithm succeeds without presenting that algorithm _is_ the axiom of choice.

By _assuming_ that program terminates, you are yourself taking the axiom of choice.

If it _does_ terminate, then it's not an axiom anymore it's a proof.
Sure, but more importantly this:

«Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008." Wikipedia

That's 49 years, the current "president" is just a continuation of the same dictatorial murderous regime.

As a Venezuelan with a Cuban parent, it pains me to see people blaming the US for the misery in these countries because, these goverments love to blame it on the US, that's a key part of their playbook.
Does it come with Green Card for Ivan?

>it makes the whole business focus more on opsec

and that is bad?
Loops in Lisp Part 3: Iterate (2016)
Seals. Birds.
In the pandemic my elementary aged kids become Google Docs experts. Network effects are real.
+1 to this, I'd have to go out of my way, significantly, to find those items for cheap, while fast food is $3 for a calorie-dense burger and easily accessible.

Of course, there are nearby supermarkets too, but you'll be paying like $10/lb for raw chicken and everything is "organic"
This is entirely different from garden leave (a non-compete period where you remain on payroll but are not working), correct? This seems like a fair version, where if a company thinks their trade secrets are that important (often true in finance), they have to pay you your salary for the period of the non-compete.
Thanks for confirming, will save me some time messing around! Ill stick to getting my soldering iron out and EPPROM dumping/flashing.
Kowtow is not an offensive term, has been used by the Chinese for millennia, and in this context, happens to be about the Chinese.

Quit being offended just for the sake of it.
This isn't capitalism. Having unemployment and employment "compete" is oxymoronic.

If one competitor (the gov) has unlimited capital and requires near-zero expenditure from the recipient, and there's no way for other "competitors" to obtain unlimited capital then it's a rigged game. Hell, it's not even a game because you're comparing apples to oranges.
Does this apply to Google ads?
These defense companies have captured the US Government's congress, congressional budget, & military branches.

It's as simple as that. Military Industrial Complex, Banking, Energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
similar to how we compare with bors, actually! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858794

tl;dr: Our goal is to be the absolute lowest-maintenance option for your team :)
Yes, that would be the appropriate thing to do, for sure. The parent poster rhetorically asked about other responses people might have, so I was just giving a few examples of what a less experienced person might try.
Please tell me which state, as I would like to quit my job and move there.
Visualizing U.S. Household Debt, by Generation
> Doing away with anyone who may possibly commit a crime

That's been tried at various times and places in world history. It doesn't have a good record.
Why were they in it? What does them leaving mean?
Everyone except fascists and fucktards form San Francisco knows the election was straight up stolen.

Youtube even deleted the OFFICIAL Maricopa County hearing yesterday because it totally incriminated the shit out of everyone involved. This is on top of the insanity coming out of Georgia.

The fraudulent election needs to be dealt with otherwise I fear the US will dive into a second civil war and we can't do this right now - not when China is sharing nuclear bombing videos of Japan on twitter and not when they are looking at invading Taiwan in the next few years.

San Francisco - get your shit together - your city is the first city China will bomb.
Many of the components of the abuse page talk about "distribution", but the one about hate speech is simply "Do not engage in hate speech".

The way I read that, they could conceivably boot you just for having a private diary of racist rants. I don't know if they intend it that way; it's also possible that they'd interpret "speech" as meaning "speech where somebody else can hear you".

But if you were looking for more reason to drop your Drive subscription, that might be it.
> Maybe war between two spacefaring civilizations is too "easy". eg something like: throwing asteroids at ~the speed of light is necessarily a cheap thing to do once you're at that level, and everyone just dies.

The Killing Star[0] and Flying to Valhalla by Charles Pellegrino are based around the idea that it's natural for a species to annihilate all other sentient species. The characters define three rules that an alien species may be operating by.

Rule 1. Aliens will believe their survival is more important than our survival.

Rule 2. Wimps don't become top dogs.

Rule 3. Aliens will assume that the first two rules apply to us as well.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheKilling...
This is a bit of a strawman. There are a lot of factors influencing the decision on both sides. That $2500 will leave a gap in your resume, both literally and from an experience perspective. The $3000 on the other hand ignores a ton of externalities: Cost of commuting, childcare, etc. plus the associated hours. In a real sense it could be $2500 a month raising your kids, or $1500 a month in real income after childcare/commuting for 50 hours all in.

A business has a number of levers to pull if they want to suppress wages; outsourcing (nationally and internationally) is usually the primary means. How do you suggest we increase the value of people's time without the Government setting the floor? (not to say the Government is the only way - just 'A' way).
Feels like this should be a post in itself! This is just my opinion so open to any push backs / comments.

IMO the main reasons for source control are:
- having revisions / diffs that can be reviewed by someone else
- while working independently in a distributed fashion
- easy way to rollback to an older revision

I'm not too familiar with CRDTs, will add more comments after reading more about it, but let's take Google docs as example here. What if we were all writing code in Google docs, how would that turn out.

Google docs do a decent job of versioning, so the last point can still be satisfied. I think with a source code styled version of Google docs, one can easily tag versions and do rollbacks. The issue happens when collaborating. Just from my experience working in spreadsheets where > 10 users are actively trying to modify, overwriting each other becomes very common. You can argue that it might make it easy to also fix this, but what about running the code locally?

One would have to still take a snapshot - hope that it actually compiles. From my personal experience, while I'm writing code, it rarely compiles in the first attempt. So then we would really have to work on snapshots where we know it compiles. At that point, you are really creating "commits" and pushing it to the remote. I am not sure if we can really completely avoid conflicts in such model.
Can someone provide a short description of the differences between Paxos and Raft?
This was an outstanding piece of software. I'm stuck on the printing page though -- maybe we crashed it.
This feels like you guys are talking by each other.

You are right. Security folks don't treat leaks lightly. Ever. This is part of how they maintain compliance with the rules.

But I don't think this is what the GP commenter talked about.
You definitely design weapons, and doctrine and systems by assuming that it can leak to the enemy eventually. If your whole battle plan folds like wet tissue-paper just because the enemy got their hands on a single CAD file or manual then it wasn't a really good plan to begin with. Exhaust ports of doom are nice plot devices for movies, but in reality you try to avoid designed-in Achilles heels. And you do this because leaks happen.

Some information get leaked by carelessness, some by disgruntled employees, some are stolen by spies, some are picked up from a wreckage, some are stolen in transit, some are deduced from signal intelligence.

You can design mitigations against all of these. The scary security folks you mentioned are mitigation against the first two really. Their existence and behaviour doesn't have any bearing on what the leadership will expect.
That explains beautifully why I always feel like I've lost my contact lenses when I'm at a concert and the lighting goes all blue.
That kind of poor title always reminds me of a famous (at least where I live) twitter troll account that always answered those questions with "50/50, he does or does not survive", and makes me pass the article.
If that becomes the norm, attitudes towards it will change, because then you won't be perceived by hiring people as at a disadvantage, since everyone will be going through this.

Of course, right now it sounds ridiculous, as the percentage of your current candidates with 1-2 year working gaps is a minority.

The reason I believe this will work is because that's how it works in finance right now. 1.5-2 year long non-competes, you get paid full salary for those periods (minus the annual bonus). And you can make the same point, what are they gonna do in terms of personal projects? Kind of difficult to imagine someone trading hundreds of millions in some specialty equities for a hedge fund and then going back home for 2 years and doing the same kind of a "side project" there. Nothing they can do by themselves at home is comparable to what they could at the job. And yet, this is literally the norm now, and those people don't have any issues interviewing and getting jobs afterwards at competing finance shops.
Who pays the bills is not the problem in healthcare, it's a supply issue.

The various medical cartels have lobbied to artificially decrease the supply of competitors, workers, and companies in the healthcare industry.

Single payer healthcare doesn't magically create more physicians, hospitals, or drug companies.
I think that the title is a massive oversimplification because chromatic aberration by itself is not enough for us to be blind to the color blue. We do have cones that can detect blue for one.

We are however, less sensitive to it so maybe the eye doesn't focus based on that channel(?).
I'm not sure you're right. At night both I and my wife have reported difficulty reading glowing blue signs compared to glowing red/green signs at the same font size, brightness, and distance.

I'm also not sure that the author is correct; the wrong-focal-distance explanation seems rather weak simply because our focal length is adjustable.
Given that the tech industry is built around making those advertising tricks more effective....
Suppose the rapist drags the victim into the bushes. The cops show up, look around and say "we got a report of an attack."

I do in fact believe you are going to talk to the police and tell them where the attacker is. In fact I believe the guy who made the video will too.
This would seem to explain why when you go to the optician, he's got a lot of red/green tests but never blue one as far as I can tell. The critical graph is the one with the blue peak to the left and the red and green near each other on the right.

Also it seems to hint that there's a fourth receptor that humans don't have in the gap region. Tetra-chromatic creatures do exist IIRC.
As rideshare prices skyrocket, Uber and Lyft take a bigger bite of the pie
A lot of gang violence in Chicago is perpetrated by minors as initiation rituals because they get light sentences.
Xiaomi passes Apple to become the #2 smartphone vendor
With $10M in the bank there are surely many countries that would welcome him with open arms.
Nah. Hosting is cheaper than it's ever been at any time in history, the costs only become a concern if you have lots of users in which case you should be generating lots of revenue to pay for the increased hosting costs.
Breaking the Ransomware Cycle: U.S. National Policy Options [pdf]
At what point does an explanation like this turn into "here's an inside look at exactly how their platform outcompetes you in area X"? Where does one draw the line?
To call it "insurance", you need to at least imagine how the accounting and risk management might work if it were like a car/homeowners/term-life insurance policy.

First of all, do the payments alone support the program, or does it need cash infusions from taxes or money supply increases? How much would the premiums be if it was self-supporting?

Second, are those making higher premium payments (when you also account for the money infusions) at proportionally higher risk of payouts? What factors should be considered in the premium payment?
Not sure why the focus is on the 13% and not the needs of the 87% that have far more consequential reasons.
Now it's common sense and whatnot without any scientific study backing it. Mkey. Because most substances behave this way and alcohol and weed has so much in common. Obviously

Dude stop
The UK also considers remaining silent during an interrogation or trial to be an indication of guilt.
They extended it.
So now, a minimum wage drone at Google, or even worse an AI, will be able to shut down my entire account because they perceived my document that I'm sharing as "misinformation"? That's pretty fucking scary.
This is definitely a problem, especially because industries who frequently utilize the paid non-compete (e.g. finance) often have a significant percent of comp from non-salary (bonuses etc).

But you could fix this with craftier legislation instead of banning non-competes, e.g. maybe you have to pay the persons last years total compensation instead of just their salary
>It's because this is turning a platform into an publisher.

The "platform vs. publisher" dichotomy that crops up in these conversations is propaganda. Exercising editorial control over content does not create a distinction between one or the other, or convert one into the other. The distinction doesn't exist as a matter of law, legal right or obligation.

Every web site and service, from tiny phpbb forums to FAANG silos, has always had the right to choose what does and does not appear on their site, and the discretion to "editorialize" as they see fit.

And the internet has never been impartial. Individual sites can be run impartially, but that's a choice made by the site owners - not an obligation or legal duty. Other site owners have every right to run their site under other terms. If you don't like the terms under which a service is offered, you can use another service.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
People are getting $2,500?

My brother is fully disabled and unable to work, and he gets $1,200.
Apple taps Watch and health chief Kevin Lynch for its work on self-driving cars
I agree that refusing to compile is stubborn on their part. But tailoring the build to your system is very valuable, at least as an option. And a big part of the blame lies with the CPU and OS manufacturers that fail to provide good consistent performance measurement options that traverse all the endless layers of abstraction that extend from the transistors to a user space program nowadays
You know, you're right?

I've been so indoctrinated in how non-competes work that I didn't even see that this wasn't obvious. Gah.
It’s $16.55/Hr in my state. About $7 more than minimum wage.
Valve doesn't try to prevent it. But if it's soldered, it won't be easy.