skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clarified above. Some homeless do manage to get ordinary waged work but given the requirements of most employers, it's not surprising that these poorest people don't appear employments statistics (the canard raised by the post I was replying to).

I don't have statistics and I suspect that getting statistics here is very difficult. A homeless person has little interest in answering a survey and certainly no one wants to appear homeless so just about any data source is going to be iffy.
Here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qhVnlV7...
No, that's not accurate. Dale Dougherty claimed publicly on his Twitter feed that Naomi Wu wasn't a real person, but rather multiple people manufacturing a persona. The subtext of the tweet is probably that Wu is a photogenic marketing spokesperson for the brand. It's not a cultural or moral critique. It's a grave, specific, and apparently entirely false one.

We don't need to get wound up into a knot about sexual mores to recognize that nobody should have to defend themselves against false accusations that they're not even a real person.
What's the baseline for a corresponding transaction?

A proof of stake system that consumes virtually no energy and charges negligible fees (if it works)?
It is not believable to me that such a high fraction of Apple's profits are happening in Ireland. Clearly something is being distorted or manipulated to avoid either the U.S. or some other country's tax code.

If this was all so above board and not a loophole or gray area, why do they want to be so secretive about it?
"“For those of you who are not aware Apple are extremely sensitive concerning publicity,” wrote Cameron Adderley, global head of Appleby’s corporate department, in a March 20, 2014 email to other senior partners. “They also expect the work that is being done for them only to be discussed amongst personnel who need to know.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
What people don't like are the bad business practices, like buying up review sites (can anyone spell "conflict of interest"), locking in alcohol distributors to certain brands, etc. They're limiting consumer choice, locking out competitors and potentially misleading consumers.

I'll agree with you, if it tastes good it tastes good. McDonald's also still tastes good to me, but I abhor their business practices so I avoid eating there.

A lot of economists like to cite this model of a "rational agent," but consumers have more dimensions than just price and quality, increasingly they also see ethics as either a part of quality, or an additional dimension, when judging which product they should buy.
Yes, I watched Bram's talk in Berkeley two weeks ago. It indeed runs with much lower power costs. The cost is the power to do a hard-disk seek every long once in a while, rather than to compute sha256 over and over again.

It does incentivize a buildup of physical disk drives. And if it becomes successful, it'll likely spur specialized datacenters and hardware (think specialized tape drives) to try to outcompete in space, so it might end up just as centralized as bitcoin mining.

But the power costs will be much lower.

There also is a proof-of-time component, that does computation, but it is designed to not be parallelizable, which means that throwing additional power at the problem doesn't help you as much. Instead, imagine that each participant must spend a deterministic length of time to compute a solution, and the person closest to the internet backbone wins. But this proof-of-time component is also smaller subsidiary role to the proof-of-space.

So overall, it's a hybrid proof. Bram didn't go into enough detail explaining the actual proof-of-time or space in his talk, so I'm not sure if it all works, but if it does, then you can expect it to use less power.

Proof-of-Stake should use even LESS power, though.
This article about Casper purchasing mattress review sites was making the rounds recently as well. Great read:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
Proof of chia would use disk storage which at idle wouldn’t require processing . So yes because the other way is to use GPUs which would have higher costs for electricity than a disk.
I'm not sure if that's what the great parent meant but think about two sports cars on the race track: on every lap at the end of the straights, the better accelerating car will be going faster and therefore need better brakes to slow down to make the next corner.
I agree with this. I don't think steelmans actually represent their subject's positions; that's sort of the definition of "steelmanning" :p
The only purpose of Aggressive tax planning is the reduction
of tax liabilities. To make a long story short - it is about exploiting and overstrain one system or more systems by outplaying one against the other.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/55877...

How agressive tax planning works:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/56344...

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/r...
Market cap and GDP contribution are different things. The market cap for the USD is very very high, but we don't consider all of those dollars to count as GDP nor would it justify a comparably large power cost.
> but of the ones that come from Cloud based organisations, 80% or more is Hetzner.

Probably because people renting servers from Hetzner, OVH and friends run them once and keep them running without upgrading the OS and software which means they will get pwned (and a pwned hexacore server with 1 or 10Gbit gives you pretty good resources compared to an AWS micro instance)... while AWS disincentivizes you from doing so. In addition AWS tries to enforce security with its heavy reliance on security rules, which adds another layer of security - after all no one can hack your mysqld when it's not exposed to the Internet...
Sure, but restricting voting to the educated is still restricting voting to the elite. It still doesn't seem compatible with limiting the influence of the elites on the government, which 32hkwejr claimed was their goal.
Maybe you read it differently than I did, but the OP didn't cast themselves as some rockstar ninja with FU money who's tired of working with people they feel are beneath them, what I read was they discovered political skill > technical skill, which is certainly true for larger companies, and this fact is not obvious if you lack political skill.

> There are thousands of smart, respected, non-technical people looking to start businesses in their field of domain expertise. Find them. Work with them, as a consultant or co-founder. Charge as much as you can.

Do you have any actionable advice or resources on how to do this? This kind of personal networking is it's own skill that's non-trivial to acquire and train. Without such resources, this comment sounds as heartless as telling a laid-off factory worker to "Stop thinking poor! Pick yourself up by your bootstraps!". With such advice, it could be quite helpful indeed!
I get that, but, as I mention you've still got thousands of other options to choose from
Quality. Professional. Nostalgia. Conservative.
Show HN: Building social reviews for your local business
There's no revelation that geopolitics is complicated, nor is there any abnegation of blame which squarely upon the Communists for their mass murder of Cambodians, of their long war in Vietnam, and resulting totalitarian control and oppression of Vietnamese people for generations.
Men generally seem to take issue with women who own their sexuality, combine that with the general level of misogyny and sexism in the tech industry and the general level of gate keeping that surrounds "nerd" culture and you get this.

Disappointing but not surprising.
If the beer taste great and is inexpensive I don't see how anybody can have a problem with that.
I'll put it to you this way, I was stunned at how much hasn't changed.
kids, lack of decent income to start with.
> What is the value of that? Wouldn't that be effectively privatizing the gains and socializing the cost?

No, it would be having the government provide the infrastructure that we only need one of (fiber to individual homes), while encouraging competition among service providers, rather than stagnation with a single monopoly.
I've got numerous concerns about YC, but I really like HN. There is a certain decorum we must not violate or we risk becoming like the mess that is the rest of much of the web right now. We need to focus on the content of the arguments being made, not trying to determine what tribes the others belongs to.
no problem, btw, the first time I did make test I got this, but after that I was not able to repro it again and make test always worked, pasting here in case you are interested

Creating authnserver_server_1 ... done
TEST_REDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:8701/12 \
TEST_MYSQL_URL=mysql://root@127.0.0.1:8702/authnservertest \
go test ./data/... ./models/... ./tokens/... ./ops/... ./config/... ./lib/... ./api/... ./services/... .
[mysql] 2017/11/08 13:27:23 packets.go:33: unexpected EOF
[mysql] 2017/11/08 13:27:23 packets.go:33: unexpected EOF
[mysql] 2017/11/08 13:27:23 packets.go:33: unexpected EOF
--- FAIL: TestAccountStore (0.01s)
--- FAIL: TestAccountStore/MySQL (0.00s)
Error Trace: account_store_test.go:43
Error:	Received unexpected error driver: bad connection
Connect
github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql.ensureDB
/home/luser/go/external/src/github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql/db.go:71
github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql.TestDB
/home/luser/go/external/src/github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql/db.go:27
github.com/keratin/authn-server/data_test.TestAccountStore.func3
/home/luser/go/external/src/github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/account_store_test.go:42
testing.tRunner
/usr/local/stow/go-1.9.0/go/src/testing/testing.go:746
runtime.goexit
/usr/local/stow/go-1.9.0/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:2337
ensureDB
github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql.TestDB
/home/luser/go/external/src/github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql/db.go:29
github.com/keratin/authn-server/data_test.TestAccountStore.func3
/home/luser/go/external/src/github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/account_store_test.go:42
testing.tRunner
/usr/local/stow/go-1.9.0/go/src/testing/testing.go:746
runtime.goexit
/usr/local/stow/go-1.9.0/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:2337

FAIL
FAIL	github.com/keratin/authn-server/data	0.040s
?	github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mock	[no test files]
?	github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/mysql	[no test files]
ok	github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/redis	0.771s
?	github.com/keratin/authn-server/data/sqlite3	[no test files]
And I'll let you figure out which country is more guilty in manipulating elections.
Why I just bought 90 B2X (Bitcoin SegWit2X futures)
Maybe it's not the 'right' way, but to it seems like there was an attractive alternative (play pickup with the local guys) that could have had a transformative effect on the situation.

Perhaps you're hung up on my using the 'right thing' in my earlier post. Hey, I'm speaking colloquially here as most of us are. I could have rewritten that using formal logic symbols perhaps, but the no one would read it.

The crux of my argument is that there was an opportunity to look beyond who had the 'right' to play on that field at that time.
I think the responsibility should lie with whose ever is making money off it.
It won't be that way much longer if these events are allowed to happen
where are you getting those false numbers from, this is the distribution

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....

Trading on attitude is not the best trading analysis strategy, I'm glad you sold before losing more money
Not to mention it removes the whole, "Ok, you get the 5 this time around, the rest of you have to wait your turn" bullcrap.
> maybe a self-driving car could allow for working during the morning commute, and getting off earlier

That's what I'm hoping for. It's already sort-of possible in the special-case of commuting on a bus like Google/Apple/etc. offer in the Bay Area.

Can we reach the point where working while in transit is as productive as being on site (face-to-face meetings notwithstanding)?
No. He said "any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, without consideration of the possibility for consistent differences in merit between subpopulations."

This doesn't factor in which gender is more represented. Parent could have said the same thing about nursing or elementary school teachers but that doesn't mean they're implying men are better than women.
That was my initial though to. Here’s a good discussion from Sessionable on the subject from independent breweries perspective and their main concerns seem to be around access to taps and consumer awareness when independents get bought out.

https://overcast.fm/+BwaxYul7M
"Nothing secret about it"
This is false. From the NYTimes article
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
“For those of you who are not aware Apple are extremely sensitive concerning publicity,” wrote Cameron Adderley, global head of Appleby’s corporate department, in a March 20, 2014 email to other senior partners. “They also expect the work that is being done for them only to be discussed amongst personnel who need to know.”
How can they possibly identify 47 individuals and what does that even mean in bitcoin context? Would an exchange fund holding millions of people’s coins be considered a single individual?
Some care about where it's made, how it's made, who made it

The beer that "tastes great" and is also "inexpensive" usually cuts corners in one of the above areas
>Even campaign finance laws reflect this. Suppose you're an airline and you write off the costs of a candidate's tickets when he flies around the country campaigning. The value of those tickets must be recognized as a campaign contribution.

Ah, but you don't write off the costs of airplane tickets for the cabin staff, which is what would really fix the analogy here. Grad-students are serving as employees and trainees of their advisors. In industry, you would never, ever ask a trainee to pay twice their wages in "training costs" to their employer. They'd leave, and never look back.

I agree with people in the other thread that we really should find a way to end the legal fiction that PhD students with "tuition waivers" are being charged or paying any tuition at all. They're something between interns and entry-level employees, except of course that charging interns for the internship remains illegal.
Primary author here, should be able to address questions that arise.
So all the parking lots at the train stations in my densely populated country that has proper (mostly electric) public transport system could be easily retrofitted with superchargers.
That’s an interesting thought.
I understand the argument regarding power consumption.

However, if we're going to green wash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing) a cryptocurrency, we need to focus on more than power consumption.

Given that power is getting cheaper and cleaner through solar[1, 2], this is asking people to further accumulate more waste and precious metals in the form of fixed drives. This is not eco-friendly and it's dubious to assert such.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-22/solar-pow...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/for-cheap...
Most of the “urban” growth is in suburbs though. According to the census bureau myself and my two neighbors on a collective 70 acres of land live in an urban area. True urban core growth is mostly in a small number of places and a narrow demographic.
> Passenger rail in the United States probably doesn’t have the same economics as the other places you’re thinking of. I recently drove across part of the country, and it is shocking how much space there is with absolutely nothing there. There is a 100 mile stretch of I-80 without cell service or signs of habitation. If you live in a city, it’s easy to forget that the United States is much, much, bigger than Europe or Japan.

Visit China sometime. Lots of space, lots of high speed rail. The high speed rail is incredibly nice to use, puts airplanes to shame.

What we need is more large metro areas to take trains between. Over here on the west coast, our largest cities are not even what China would consider a tier 2 city.

(To be fair, by Chinese standards, NYC is the only reasonably sized city America has!)
if you are running simple web app not having VPC is not a big issue.
My neighborhood isn’t rich by any means, and I can get gigabit fiber from either Verizon or Comcast. Verizon is about breaking even on FiOS at $110/month per subscriber (including television). That’s affordable for a lot of people. (It’s about as much as my electric bill, and less than my heating bill or car insurance).

It would leave out people near the poverty line. But the government can subsidize those people specifically, or build municipal networks in those areas. Better to do that than to distort the entire market by requiring every telecom provider to basically run a public service arm. That ensures only mega-corps can afford to get into the businsss.

It’s illustrative to look at what Stockholm did. A municipal entity built the dark fiber, but it was not subsidized. Nor was it subject to any build out requirement or mandatory cross subsidies. The entity built out based on demand, targeting businesses first. The resulting service is actually pretty expensive (about $130 for gigabit, plus a fee for building the fiber if necessary). For rural areas, the government simply gave a tax subsidy for rural residents to pay to wire themselves with fiber.

I’ll also note that we don’t build other kinds of utilities this way either! If there isn’t sufficient demand for sewer or water, a water utility simply doesn’t build it. And it charges every house about $20-30,000 to do so, regardless of whether they can afford it.
Segwit is a horrible blocksize increase strategy, the mempool is filled with unconfirmed transactions that 1mb believers call spam
Full control over the Intel backdoor / remote administration engine that's on all their modern CPUs. (It may not be an intentional backdoor, but it's certainly looking as if it's been usable as one by intelligence agencies.)
The problem is that with a competitive mining market, Bitcoin energy use will rise until the cost of mining a block is equal to the reward for that block (i.e. market equilibrium). So if the cost of energy goes down but the price of Bitcoin stays constant, the amount of energy expenditure will be (approximately) equal.

Likewise, if the price of Bitcoin goes up, the amount of energy used will go up accordingly.

The reward amount will decrease over time and mitigate this, but not enough by a long shot IMO.
Some questions come to mind:

When was the final decision made to cancel Segwit2X?

Who was involved in the decision making process?

Who knew about the discussions regarding the decision?

Were the futures being marketed and sold with prior knowledge of the possibility of cancellation?
Yeah, it was a great deep-dive.

The 40 minute link times comes from Link Time Code Generation which can reduce your binary size pretty significantly(along with some code speed-ups)[1], without LTCG linking on the project was about 1 minute.

Usually LTCG is a tool of last resort since the build times are so painful(and at the time was the only step that couldn't be parallelized). We were shipping on X360 with a hard memory limit and couldn't have a binary larger than 20mb if we wanted to hit them. If I recall correctly LTCG gave us back about 5-10mb which was a godsend in those times.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb985904.aspx
> What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.

You're like the farmer whose cow has died and is upset that his neighbor's cow has not died. Direct your annoyance at the government that is oppressing you rather than at other people who are not being oppressed as much.
The beer is still good, until it isn't. As an anecdote: A Lagunitas beer [1] used to be a favorite of mine. At some point I didn't like it anymore, and stopped buying it. I didn't know they got bought by Heineken, and I don't know if the events are related, but it's possible.

[1] Little Sumpin' Sumpin'
I do not think you would be able to get to their MOQ. This is not a consumer device shipped one piece at the time. Your best bet would be to have a credible story about your future needs because you are in the process of developing a self driving car or are part of a university group doing research and asking for a sample. Though at a guess the ones they will make in the near future will all be earmarked for some particular recipient.
The native environment should help ansible users a lot. As far as I know this will unblock quite a few issues that are currently open against ansible.

What it does: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.10/nativetypes/
Do you mean a 2 trillion dollar market cap? That's not the same as GDP.

I mean, Apple is close to a 1 trillion dollar market cap. I'd argue a 1% increase in world power output simply for Apple to store its money and make transactions would be a remarkably poor use of power.
Are you thinking of Threadripper? EPYC has twice as many dies.
The reviewing sites thing is silly.

However, it sure seems like an opportunity for new beer reviewing websites to pop up!
What if you can't taste it because your local grocery store stocks its beer selection based on what beers are the best according to the beer review site owned by ABI? It's not as simple as "just make a different choice", monopolies can exert control over the whole system the consumer lives in, not just the small decisions.
> it seems that a bit of push-back is expected (and potentially warranted).

It is generally useful to use a reversal thought experiment to check for logical consistency.

Would a photogenic young man who wore tight clothes while presenting their hardware projects be told he's not a real person because he had the audacity to own his sexuality? Would that be warranted or expected?
I guess the tricky thing would be measuring what they do the site. If they take it down or delete negative reviews, etc, that would be some questionable behavior. If they use it to gain honest feedback and funnel it into development channels of some kind that could prove interesting. Overall seems like a conflict of interest.

I wonder how much appetite they'd have to buy up the next review site that pops up and catches on. Sort of like review site whak-a-mole. It would be very disconcerting to say the least if a company went out and bought up all new and fledgling review sites of interest to them.
Thanks for the explanation.
Does the proof of storage allow that storage to continue to be used?/does the proof use the space on a disk?

Or is it sort of like mining bitcoin where a gpu is wholly used for mining?
With physical access to a machine’s USB 3 port, someone could insert running code beneith the operating system, and it wouldn’t know.

You could spy on user activity, sniff encryption keys etc
Yes, this was one of the thousands of other options. Emphasis on was. What guarantee do I have that once people move to another platform and start trusting it, they won't purchase that?
>Apple doesn't actually need to make a profit for its accessories, but you do.

Do you have data to support that claim?

Amazon might sell hardware at cost or a loss, but Apple most certainly only sells hardware when two conditions are met:
a) they can make a better device
and
b) they can make money
Thanks for this. I needed some sanity.
It's quite difficult and time-consuming to acquire an alternate passport, absent family ties or similar.

The US has very strong lock-in with regard to taxes, and they don't hesitate to exploit it.
Could this be generalized to a finite Turing machine, using the beads as a type of tape with marks?

Would this be competitive with a register file based design for implementing an ALU.