Vervious

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by Vervious 6y ago
We could actually run a generic clock synchronization protocol to synchronize clocks over a partially synchronous network. I guess paxos kind of builds that in, which adds to its complexity. Safety in particular doesn't require any tim
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by Vervious 6y ago
I don't think it hides any complexity, but I guess that's for the reader to decide. Raft on the other hand... I've implemented versions of both paxos and raft, and by golly was the latter more difficult to get right.
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by Vervious 6y ago
Paxos shouldn't be the first protocol you learn -- I think it gives consensus this mistaken reputation for being "difficult to understand". Consensus protocols (and the related problems of state machine replication, permissio
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by Vervious 6y ago
Funding top research institutions are in fact long shot bets. Where else does research get done? Who pays for the buildings, where each one costs hundreds of millions of dollars? Scholarships? Who pays for new tenured positions? Yes, admini
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by Vervious 6y ago
Depends on your definition of impact. Tesla certainly is not improving education outcomes worldwide, nor funding healthcare research; nor is spaceX saving rainforests from being cut down every day, or helping sustain democracy. I guess EVs
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by Vervious 6y ago
Misinformation really does spread like wildfire. Even with the number of naysayers on Hacker News we still seemed to have had a lapse in critical thinking. I've been wanting to get into research on the study of the spread of tweets lik
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Caltrain Teetering on Financial Collapse as SF Supervisors Table Tax Proposal(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
3 points by Vervious 6y ago|0 comments
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by Vervious 6y ago
At least now their reputation has gone up in smoke amongst the hacker news readership.
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by Vervious 6y ago
Uber rolled their own crypto? Do they still? I thought you could always import some C library on iOS or Android (or use bouncycastle, unless that wasn't around then)
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by Vervious 6y ago
> whether teaching it to students of that level is the 'right' thing I strongly doubt that any university or educator is teaching so much theory of computation to any level of computer science student who will not be focused on
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by Vervious 6y ago
Seriously though, doesn't it strike any of you as absolutely hypocritical? We're attacking data collection in public spaces in real life, while defending it in our own domain (virtual life). I know that a lot of tech industry payc
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by Vervious 6y ago
I'm confused why hacker news thinks collecting demographic data is a bad thing, and is all about regulating it... when everyone's personal website has google analytics installed and is doing the exact same thing. Yet we don't
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by Vervious 6y ago
For those interested, there's a whole literature on "verifiable secret sharing", and they generally require some substantial cryptographic heavy lifting and provide computational guarantees https://en.wikipedia.org
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by Vervious 6y ago
Seems like a very idealogical thing to argue without evidence
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by Vervious 6y ago
I remain skeptical that admissions committees can distinguish between great students and good students through their personal statements. (Not that the SAT would have helped there either)
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by Vervious 6y ago
Exponentially slower is flat out false though in this case
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by Vervious 7y ago
Design is rooted in reality in the sense that it must be functional. My argument is that this particular design is wholly un-functional, and that the diamonds that HN is optimizing for - fancy animations, pretty concentric circles - don&#x2
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by Vervious 7y ago
Exactly, and my point it that this particular clock belongs in the 90%, not the 10%.
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by Vervious 7y ago
But it doesn't mean we should upvote every hobbyist project to the top of hacker news - only the useful, interesting, good ones.
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by Vervious 7y ago
From a design point of view, reading this clock is strictly harder than reading: "2020 March 16th, Monday 10:50:48" and also provides no useful extra information, unlike a traditional clock face.
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$50M worth of Tesla equipment sits unused in a Wheatfield warehouse(wgrz.com)
198 points by Vervious 7y ago|176 comments
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by Vervious 7y ago
I think this is one of those instances where the UX makes it better. It forced me to slow down, parse each line one at a time, read line-by-line, image-by-image, and let the gravity sink in. I would have just skimmed it if it were a text ar
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by Vervious 7y ago
A competitive market should improve the quality of planes: no one should buy a Boeing if there is a viable alternative. Allowing the merger reduced competition. We really shouldn't blame deregulation (in the sense of reducing the barri
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by Vervious 7y ago
Fun fact, the percentage of homeless in Seattle is the highest of major American cities, at ~1.68%. For comparison, ~0.90% in SF, and ~1.45% in LA.
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by Vervious 7y ago
1. Democratic institutions globally continue to be tested by rising populism and the spread of misinformation. Nationalism grows, powered by internet propaganda 2. Rising corporate concentration and market power, especially in internet tech
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by Vervious 7y ago
The whole point of technology is to make processes more efficient. This in turn drives down prices and increases productivity. If it takes fewer people and factories to make a more sustainable vehicle, so be it. This is also the force that
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by Vervious 7y ago
Notably, these are all winter courses, taught over the course of three weeks in January. They don't have the formality and institutional support of a semester-long course. Often they are taught by students. MIT has a ton of people work
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by Vervious 7y ago
Money in politics <-> Data in politics Sounds like a new conversation to be had
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by Vervious 7y ago
Disagree. Theory is always interested in building better, simpler protocols, asking questions about lower bounds and possibility. See almost all of fundamental crypto research.
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by Vervious 7y ago
How come this is so low on the front page? It was posted 4 hours ago and has accumulated 607 points...

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