skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any industry or operations where intermediaries are needed becauses of a lack of trust between first parties can be desintermediated by a distributed trust network:

- Art transactions: registry of origin and property transfers for any object (with authenticated certificate), currently done by lawyers & auction houses (costly, inefficient, painful, near-impossible in some cases)

- International shipping: INCOTERMS, currently handled through various specialized intermediaries (costly, inefficient, painful)

- Registry of operations over the life of a company (creation/address change/acquisitions/foreclosure), currently done by national commerce courts & accredited local newspapers (costly, inefficient, painful)

- Wills: self-authentication of one's will preventing repudiation attempts by third parties, currently done by lawyers and witnesses (costly, inefficient, painful)

- Escrow accounts for service providers (ex freelancers) through multisig wallets (inefficient)
> rational is the fear of any new housing for homeowners in wealthy areas

That's the wrong question. The question is how strongly are irrational fears; more specifically, how strongly are the irrational fears of the minority of activist NIMBYs?

The understand the problem you have to understand how the process works and how its abused. The response to the massive urban projects of the 1960s and 1970s was to increase so-called community involvement. In a city like San Francisco, pulling a permit for even a minor project can result in hearing after hearing. There are people who dedicate all their free time to going to these hearings to raise objections. Objections need to be dealt with individually. If they don't then NIMBYs can go to elected officials to complain that community input procedures aren't being followed, or even go to court to obtain an injunction.

The ins and outs are complex and vary widely by jurisdiction. But the short story is that there's an extremely vocal minority who cause a huge amount of trouble by abusing process. The NIMBY vanguard can assemble larger opposition groups if a project moves too far along as they're adept at FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt). Though most people don't have strong opinions, they're naturally biased toward the status quo and therefore susceptible to extremist NIMBYs' FUD campaigns. They assume that when they see smoke there must be a fire, but in truth the extremist NIMBYs spend their lives blowing smoke. It's just that the only people who usually see it are the city hall employees and elected officials.

Agencies and developers know the drill so the process has gotten stricter and longer in anticipation of the community input phase. But it hasn't helped anything; it's just a symptom and part of the downward spiral of chaos.

Once upon a time poor communities bore the brunt of imposed development. But now there are professional community activists who have the knowhow and wherewithal to push back. Indeed, part of the reason for the more community-involved process was precisely to even the playing field. But just as before when community input was only a matter of holding your representative's feet to the fire, richer neighborhoods are more adept and more capable of using this process. So while poorer communities are better at pushing back, the end result is that there's simply less overall development.
Let's keep our concepts where they belong. Moralizing work and productivity are not only different things, but come from different fields.
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Only so much bare roof area, but to say there is plenty left still would be an understatement.
Doing the top 3-5 should be trivial though. Some just have those oddball tlds (ie, bloc.kcha.in or whatever) and nothing else
But you still have to trust the people doing the inspecting and certifying - or whatever. I'd be less worried about them altering information than them altering or substituting actual product.
In most cases it seems that the existing technologies have been adopted and the people advocating for blockchain-based solutions just aren't aware that it's a solved problem.
The paper outlines two attacks that a hash rate majority can undertake: (1) double-spending; and (2) sabotage (force a decline in exchange rate).

But there is a far more benign and profitable attack: collect all of the block reward. No need to tell anybody, and no need to upset users by double-spending. Business as usual.

In other words, establish a benevolent mining monopoly:

https://bitzuma.com/posts/bitcoins-end-game-the-benevolent-m...

The hash rate majority becomes an effective monopoly by censoring blocks from outside the cartel. The incentive is equal to half the block reward. If done properly and gradually, few users would notice. Nor would many care. Those who did would simply leave.

I suspect there's even a version of this attack in which a cartel makes public threats to censor blocks it disapproves of. This is, after all, what BIP-9 does:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawi...

Using this approach, a cartel may be able to leverage a hash rate below 50% to 100%.

There's some precedent for this with UASF. The hash rate of the group threatening to censor blocks there was quite small (certainly below 50%). Depending on who you talk to, the threat of block censorship by this group was enough to shut down segwit2x.
I do. I drive by one of those solar farms regularly and it’s an eye sore.

IMHO this coal plant in the distance is easier on the eyes: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Getty...
I would hate to see how bad they are at whatever comes second.
Why even leave a comment?
Sounds like a further argument for per-panel microinverters
Wait sched 1? I can buy it at the vape shop nextdoor in detroit.
>if the law regulates interstate commerce and the targeted intrastate transactions would affect the interstate commerce subject to regulation

Right, but the issue is that's so laughably wide that it's meaningless. Esp as the internet has made things easier, you can be certain it's legally arguable to "prove" that even a small time seller of some good is measurably impacting big company X.
But organizing “payment” in the form of a cryptocurrency is no different than just depositing money in their bank account.

In some cases it would be: payment that evades government detection, payment that allows network participation to be anonymous, etc.

The trust issue would not be part of it in these cases, from a business perspective.

I guess I mean that predicating some network-effect-needing business on blockchain, for these reasons, still just seems like hype. Unless the business is fundamentally about anonymously being compensated in some way, then other existing financial institutions solve the problem (with just as much trust in 99.99999% of scenarios) in a far simpler way.
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The act of them doing that alone shows that they either dont get it or that complexity within the organization has brought productivity to a hault. I'd assume it's the second one.
> Trust isn't really a feature of blockchains, nor is it a byproduct (or "software primitive") of blockchains. Bitcoin was designed to avoid a need for trust, so it really just steps around the issue of trust in a distributed ledger.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. BTC wasn't designed to avoid the need for trust. It was designed to incentivize the network to act in a way such that you can trust it. That's how it provides trust.
A lot of people don’t even have 3-4 month expense savings in case they lose their jobs. Knowing a recession is coming at some point in next 4 years would help them.
Web Spiders have been around since ‘94 and the spider terminology for mapping networks is even older so they’d likely get it.
Seems like a strange name given none of Musk’s companies have failed?
I know anarchism isn't the same as libertarianism, but in that vein, there is a legendary post from the ancap subreddit about one naïve American's confusion hanging out with Greek anarchists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/3ucp8y/...
Please please, if you have a partner installing these things in your home, have them show you:

1) How they installed it
2) Where the product's support is, and how to contact them
3) How to uninstall/remove/destroy it (also useful if the robot overlords take over the world)
I agree, there could at least be a round table joint Q&A discussion at the end to clear up any conflicting reports etc.
That's incorrect. In your original comment you referred to "a positive net result", which the utilitarian will always prefer by definition. Perhaps you are confusing utility with efficiency?
I think he's trying to describe the complexity of it, so a fairer way to characterize it might be some scripts in Python or Ruby.

But then once you added enough features that that became unmanageable, you'd write it in a proper systems language like Go, and oh, right, now you're writing Docker.
The variance provided by an enormous pile of state and an algorithm which uses that state means it's a bit more unpredictable than most other systems, where you're used to seeing lines, curves and almost always monotonic series.
I'm in such disbelief. I mean, I totally believe this happens, I'm just shocked that adults.... with jobs... that can afford to go to conferences... act like this. Worse, what does one really expect when DMing someone with "I yanked it to your conference video"? Is there ANY expectation that someone's going to say, "awesome anonymous person on the internet, perhaps we should start a relationship!" I've been lucky enough for the past 10 years to work in places where women are NEVER talked about by a bunch of bros.
It's exactly the kind of thing I want to share with non-technical decision makers (as a practitioner).
It's not about if we want it. If it's more efficient, it's bound to replace the decentralized one.
Also, 2015. (But important.)
It's an ugly bloated piece of shit that doesn't properly use screen real estate.
Obama eventually did plug the hole...

It wasn't that big of an issue until after the recession (i.e., during his second term), so it simply wasn't on his radar while he dealt with more pressing issues.

Moreover, civil forfeiture is allowed under federal law under very broad terms. It took quite a bit of time after it became an issue to draft a policy that would allow it to continue but end the excesses. Obama couldn't simply stop enforcing the law because the GOP and various state/local law enforcement agencies were prepared to sue in court to keep the gravy train going, and such a lawsuit would have kept the practice fully legal until long after his second term ended.

Indeed, Congress could have ended civil forfeiture immediately but simply eliminating the law allowing for it. But GOP members of Congress blocked every such attempt.
Of which there are not many. More common is the regular restaurant, where no server is making six figures.
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He prefers people who fill out their profiles, and like reading..... that's a bit of a jump to sociopath.

There are some bizarre and horrible things people do on dating sites. If you have had bad experiences, that's not ok. But don't prejudge this person without really understanding the effect his code is having.
Out of control real estate prices are a problem across most of the usa, although particularly accute in SF.
The sad thing about the Walmart usecase is all they really mean is hashing. Just hashing.

That’s it.
Why was the comment by GabeWeiss_ made "dead"? It's not an entirely unreasonable thing to say, in the context of domestic abuse.
As of 2018, after seeing how terrible “engineer-types” can be at engineering management, the MBAs are starting to look better to me.
I think that the point is that "economist says" should be the beginning of a debate, not the end - it's a data point, but not conclusive evidence in favor of or against whatever's being referenced in most situations
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Nice link!. I should add that exist a correlation between objects and lambda calculus for functional programming. So, they are different perspectives of the same idea. And you have to take care of both perspectives.
Very strange HN comment page, almost every top comment seems to get downvoted...
Yes, this seems like an important aspect of safety and trust in the home. Each partner and family member should know how the devices around them work and can be used.
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You know how the CDC was banned from advocating gun control in 1996 because of the junk studies the Clinton admin pushed for in 1992 as justification for their upcoming gun control legislation? It came out of Harvard and Princeton. Almost all discredited, full data never released, one of the main "researches" still employed at Harvard.

Bloomberg just gave Johns Hopkins and Yale money to "study" gun control (with outcomes predetermined). And a few years ago gave Harvard $350 MILLION to push the same agenda.

You can take that garbage they push and eat it up, they're paying good money for exactly that.

I wonder what the Joyce Foundation gives to Cornell every year?
> The appeal seems more like a cultural evaluation to see if they can go to another team or not.

Except this article suggests that those the interviewee spoke with who won the appeal were kept in their current position with the current manager.
I don't have an agenda here, nor did I learn about these facts from the link above. You are simply spreading misinformation.
NB: Light discussion a few days back, and multiple submissions, but well-worth considering.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382829

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Thermostats%2C%20Locks%20and%2...
Good luck! I met my wife on that site.
This time around, everyone keeps excerpting this sentence. I guess what people are making of this sentence is, "but I haven't bothered [to reimplement this functionality, even though it would be useful, since then I'd have to maintain it, and I haven't yet needed it]". If that's what the sentence meant, then that would certainly be a good argument that Docker is useful: it provides the missing pieces that no-one else has bothered to implement yet.

Unfortunately that's not what I meant when I wrote the sentence, and I think a more accurate reading is transparently obvious if you actually quote the sentence with context. The very next sentence describes my preferred way to get this functionality that Docker provides. The real reading of the sentence is "but I haven't bothered [to reimplement this functionality, because it would be useless to do so when there are perfectly good existing ways to get this functionality]".

Quoting people out of context is a great way to get punchy soundbites, but not a good way to reach mutual understanding.

I'll excerpt the entire section below:

> Now, it's true that Docker uses layering to be efficient in terms of disk space and time to build new containers. It defaults to using AUFS to do this.7 I think you could reimplement it easily yourself with a small shell script and some calls to mount; but I haven't bothered.

> Personally, I just use man 8 btrfs-subvolume. btrfs is a copy on write filesystem which can instantly make space-efficient copies of filesystem trees in "subvolumes", which the user sees as just regular directories.

> You can build a stock Ubuntu filesystem tree into a subvolume with btrfs subvolume create /srv/trees/ubuntu && debootstrap trusty /srv/trees/ubuntu/. Then, when you want to build a new container with specific software, you just copy that subvolume and perform your modifications on the copy; that is, btrfs subvolume snapshot /srv/trees/debian /srv/containers/webapp and work on /srv/containers/webapp. If you want to copy those modifications, you just take another snapshot.

> This is arguably better, because there's no need to maintain a lot of state about the mount layerings and set them up again on reboot. Your container filesystem just sits there in a volume waiting for you to start it.

> Naturally, if you don't like btrfs for some reason, you're perfectly able to use zfs, OverlayFS, AUFS, or whatever; no need to have a "storage driver" implemented just to do some simple copy-on-write or layering operations.
If 50%-200% becomes The New Normal and what was be a $8 sandwich becomes a $30 meal (taxes, tip, Healthy SF)... then I'm afraid I'm just not going to eat out at all.

That'll help a struggling service industry worker make ends meet, right?

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Realistically, odds are our hypothetical service industry worker isn't paying a market rate for a studio in the Mission. It's much more likely they're rooming with others in some fashion, and their monthly rent is at most half of $3600. And likely doing the traditional thing and under-reporting cash tip income by a non-trivial margin.
Might it be because I only have 1 karma since I've been a lurker for a bit before posting?
People have no choice but to accept the economic conditions they face.

My whole point is that as I said, people don’t just accept, they riot and revolt. I agree with minimum wage laws, but not because of some hyper-extreme scenario in which San Franciscans are working and living like Brazilians in favelas. Frankly we shouldn’t need to resort to that kind of hyperbole to make the case for a living wage.

If you want to see what happens, even in traditionally poor places when people face a “fight or die impoverished” scenario, see Egypt, Tunisia, Libya. People were willing to face tanks and bombs with their bare hands because the alternative was to starve. I think you underestimate the potential belligerence of the average American if faced with a similar scenario.

The larger issue though is that riot, abject poverty, and revolt aren’t actually the foundation of a minimum wage. Fairness, and Econ 101 are, and there’s no need to get so far out there as to divert the debate away from present conditions to extreme hypotheticals.
The eight amendment is selectively incorporated and the excessive fines clause is not incorporated.

Interesting - what does "incorporation" mean in this context?
At the margin, people would begin moving to different states.

The current system has some pros (which you enumerate), but also some massive cons in the form of high exit costs, since you're exiting the entire federal apparatus rather than the government of a single state.
> One point that's not been addressed in your other replies is that Docker images should be a lot smaller than a "real" server so there should be fewer issues to patch.

Could you quantify this?

It's possible to strip down a "real" server much farther than even what distros' "minimal" packages specify, which is why I wonder just how much smaller "a lot smaller" really is.

I commented on a short sub-thread [1] discussing dependency bloat/radii of distros. One commentor quantified it in bytes, though perhaps a more meaningful number in this context would be number of packages.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17345982
What are you saying the mistake is?
I can see it now...

Investors will mistake the loud pop caused by the bursting crypto bubble for gunshots. They'll jump for cover, becoming scared of tech, but as they do they'll then mistake another loud sound, this time a kaboom, of the AI hype cycle exploding. With it will go chatbots, self-driving cars and voice-powered assistants.

Then there's a rupture and a glow then a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon. People are unsure of what happened. Was that Facebook? Amazon?

Either way, this will tear a hole through the spacetime fabric of tech itself thus causing a black hole of fear; Google and Apple will hold on for dear life as everything around them gets sucked in.

At first a few Bird scooters fly past into the black hole of fear, Uber/Lyft sail by and explode in mid-air as they're sucked in, Zenefits instantly is ripped apart and evaporates creating a sort of Aurora Borealis surrounding the massive hole.

Somehow the blackhole of fear eventually closes and everything in midair tumbles back to sanity. Google/Apple regain their footing and observe the destruction around them.

The only thing left will be a few broken Lime scooters, a robotic arm that makes burgers and shitload of defense contracts.
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Especially, the ton you don't need to know is the endless configuration headaches associated with running a VM, communicating with the VM, mucking about with the filesystem, etc. I've been computering for 20 years, I've seen my share of OS's, but if I want to use a new one, it's back to square one as I'm poking around for manpages and other bullshit. I don't feel smarter after learning yet another deranged mind's conventions.
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How is this being solved by a block-chain?

You still need to trust all the people in the production line (Farmer, Juicer, Seller and not to mention that transportation guys) that brought the bottle of juice to market to actually record things correctly into the used block-chain.

The trust required in the data entry "Link/Step" basically results in the use of a block-chain to be pointless, as trust is already a requirement in this particular chain of custody.

This is also why the block-chain only really works in Digital Only assets, as you link the asset it self in the block-chain itself.
If it was pure natural latex it would be not much different than a natural rubber tree dying in a forest. I'm sure they add some synthetic stuff to it though.
Ah such classic outsourced third-world contractor output. They are told what to do (by some PM who has no idea) and they do it. If they ever say "uh this doesn't make sense" they are cheaply replaced. I've seen some of this nonsense (though not IBM related):

strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src));
dst[strlen(dst)] = '\0';
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It would seem prudent for devices that include WAN remote management features to include some kind of prominent 'manual/local mode' switch to silently disable remote management where practical, for cases where victims might face retribution for disabling it, or simply if an account has been compromised.
And then everyone suffers through even more intrusions on their workflow because Johnny Newbie doesn't care
I develop small to medium size Windows applications. It's much easier for me to simply put all the DLLs I need in the installer. Just copy everything into the installation directory. Since Windows looks in the immediate directory first, that eliminates most potential conflicts. There are some things you might install onto the system like C++ redistributables, but even recently I have just started copying those DLLs into the installation directory too. Most people like this because the application directory is fully standalone and can be copied around from PC to PC.
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Or we could work to make sure that traffic is always encrypted. Solving the ISP knowing who your packets are going to is more difficult, but no longer having clear data passing back and forth should have been a solved problem by now.