skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've thought about this a bit.

Assume there are a fixed number of transactions per block (N), but a greater number of potential transactions that people would like to do. Also assume that there is a maximum percentage (of transaction amount) that people will be willing to pay as a fee (F).

Then I think the transaction fee should tend to F * average amount of Nth largest potential transaction in a block window.

The cost of mining a block ought to tend to just less than the average block payout (reward + fees). When the reward disappears, this will happen as miners shut down due to not being able to make a profit and the mining difficulty decreases.

Only the most efficient miners will survive. I think this means a few big miners, rather than many small miners, as big miners are almost certainly more efficient.
Lidars are highly directional and have low duty cycles so even when large numbers are present the amount of interference is small. So you do have to model a certain amount of noise in your lidar returns but you have to do that anyways due to things like sun reflecting off of shiny surfaces. Noisy sensors have been a fact in autonomous robots for as long as there have been autonomous robots and there are a variety of standard techniques for coping.
Thanks for the answer. In most of the EU your healthcare costs are mostly covered by the State and, if you become unable to work, you usually get some kind of disability pensions. But I understand that, without this kind of "insurance", there is a lot more stress even in jobs where you don't have big responsibilities.
Do we have a week of cryptocurrencies on HN?
Wappalyzer usually has good results.

https://wappalyzer.com
react-router is one of the worst evolved software proects I've seen which keeps destroying it's knowledge base with every release with almost everything indexable on the web out of date with the latest version. It's also not as intuitive to use as vue-router (which just worked OOB) and it's root page handling behaves differently to the Routers in Angular, Aurelia and Vue.

It feels like you're incurring tech debt by depending on React Router but unfortunately since it's the defacto standard there's very few other viable options.

By contrast Vue feels like they care about their ecosystem and existing Customer code bases and will publish nice migration guides when they make breaking changes showing how old functionality can be migrated to their new APIs.
The school spending numbers are PPP adjusted. So we're asking Oklahoma teachers to have the same standard of living as Italy teachers. (Actually, Oklahoma teachers do better, because the PPP adjustment is to the US average, and Oklahoma cost of living is a lot lower than the US average.)
Technically, assembly is not required for measuring stack: just use regular C address of any local variable/function argument (minus an address of some local variable in main) to have some approximation of stack usage.
The magic is US Patent 4,484,419. Known in the industry as the "Telnaes" patent after it's inventor.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4448419A

This invention is where slots migrated from physical reels to virtual ones. A reel could now have thousands of "stops" compared to 10 or 20 on the older machines. The physical reels were now driven by stepper motors to show the landing position of that virtual reel. Having virtual reels with many more stops also meant the jackpots could be a lot higher than the typical 1-in-20^3 possibility of a physical reel group.

After some time, it was realized that the careful design of these virtual reels is where the slot designer can create many many "oh-so-close" combinations of the physical symbols without making the player land any closer to the jackpot than normal. And that semi-positive reinforcement draws the player in to play more.
My apologies. I'm not a native speaker and switched the words as I spoke. You are right:

> [You] must be evaluated by +80% of your GUESTS."

> If your GUESTS leave a mess behind, AirBnB evaluates if they should cover it for the shake of their public image.
Absolutely. Look at google for instance and all the things they've stopped supporting.

I find the argument also quite disturbing because this will add to the already existing monopolies of these "large companies".
Yes this is political.

It's mind-boggling to me how much of modern republican politics is "I've got mine. Fuck if I'll pay for yours." Directly paired with "No-one cares about us we been forgotten about and left behind. Someone look out for us."

There is an entire American party based on looking out for the overlooked. Maybe vote for them??
Departments usually are in the same building. I think 12 may be some of the studios as well
What plugins are these?
That sounds truthy but I doubt it. Teachers and administrators are all college educated. The military in contrast creates tons of non-college degree jobs. And a lot of the spending on defense contractors goes to skilled blue collar factory jobs. (Defense contractors, contrary to popular belief, have pretty small profit margins, and skilled labor is a huge fraction of their costs.)
Angela Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on America
The beautiful Mahodand Lake in KPK reminds visitors of paradise
Probably, if time to shop for & prepare food and cost of having access to a kitchen are included. Or if comparing something like McDonalds value menu with other dining out options.

But cooking food at home is cheap as hell compared to paying for prepared food if only looking at the cost of the food or ingredients.
#oncallselfie as done in 2006
>> Herodotus described a group of cave-dwelling Ethiopians. “Their speech is like no other in the world: it is like the squeaking of bats,” he wrote. We can’t know for sure which communities he was describing, but Meyer says that several whistled languages can still be heard in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley.

In Herodotus' writings, like in many other ancient sources, the name "Aethiopian" (and not Ethiopian) was used for people from Sub-Saharan Africa:

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

If people in Ethiopia have a whistled language it has probably nothing to do with the "bat-like squeaks" mentioned in the article.
Yes. In vim:

set mouse=a
Whenever I need nano I'm on a machine where installing stuff is cumbersome, so installing npm on top of it would be overkill. Better learn to use vim (I'm personally an emacs person, but with vim keybindings) and use it when needed.
"especially compared to the the Philippines"
Oh boy, this is my topic. My wife is a kindergarten teacher at the same Oklahoma City area 99% poverty school that I went to when I was a kid. She had (school ended this week) 27 kids in her class, most of which require special attention due to poverty or poor home situations. She's at the point where if she gets any more kids, her class will be standing room only. She's already given up her desk to sit several kids. There are two other teachers in her grade, each with as many kids. They share an aid that they got when they lost their 4th teacher last year, they are losing the aid this upcoming year.

I don't think this is entirely a "red state" thing. It seems most of the non-elderly Republicans I know really do want to fund schools, at least more than they are now. Though, it does seems that a large number of politicians want to force private schooling, of which there are few in OKC and none that I know that are secular, or homeschooling amidst the budget crisis.

There's also the issue of brain drain, with many teachers opting to move to Texas or quit the field entirely. This year's Oklahoma Teacher of The Year is moving to Texas next year to teach, for example.

I can answer any questions about this situation to the best of my ability or ask my wife, who is more knowledgeable than me about it and I will try my best to keep my personal politics out of it.
In fact, education could provide more jobs since it's expenses are mostly modestly provide workers whereas a large portion of defense spending goes to materials, highly paid specialists and contractor profits.

Of course, we would also need to cull the large mass of education pseudo-specialists who would want to suck up those Federal dollars. But if we could somehow move spending from defense to education, we might also be able to remove the parasitic consultant-layer on top of this field.
Can you drag text?
If you enable it in .vimrc:

set mouse=a
> In my opinion education has one of the highest returns available to a govt. And a pittance of the cost compared to other high return options.

Studies repeatedly show that spending is uncorrlated with student outcomes: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/04/25/468157856/can-more....
> [...] I have a hard time squaring your point with the fact that the poorest children in the US are the most obese. How can they be calorie deficient and obese at the same time?

There's much more to weight than calories.

"Vegetable oils" are extracted from seeds, usually with the assistance of the petroleum distillate hexane. The polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) portion of these oils is very unstable, so the producers use steam to remove the rancid odor from their "food-grade" product.

The PUFA's in vegetable oil are cluster bomblets that destroy people's health. IMHO, vegetable oil should only be used as biodiesel.

http://swindledandpimped.org/obesity-epidemic/
it seems the bias issues exist both in SV and the emerging world
I dunno. I wouldn’t call React lightweight.
Same here. That is, until I find out that only vi's there and not full-on vim. While vi is smaller and even more ubiquitous, it pains me that it lacks visual mode.
Both Vim and Emacs have had mouse support built in for decades.
Why haven't any states taken this up and provides free lunch to students in their state?
Energy price's are highly volatile because you cannot control the supply in a timely fashion nor store energy for later usage (in amounts that matters anyway), i.e it would be a worse currency.

Scarcity is a good attribute for a currency. Plus having a currency that mirror an asset (gold, energy) is actually a bad idea economically speaking because then the currency cannot be used in time of crisis to soften economic downturns. Which is what was used during the 2007 crisis. People do not realize how much worse the 2007 crisis would have been without the measures taken by the Federal Reserve.

IMO, the attractiveness of bitcoin is about being a secure decentralized payment system everything else is fluff. Such a system takes some energy to work what a surprise...

Do you guys think that all the financial institutions combined use less energy than bitcoin ?
Bitcoin is probably using a lot less energy...
For what it's worth, 'Chowdr' was tweeting about their launch in 2015: https://twitter.com/chowdrApp/status/677252382124670977
This is with every bottle you drink? So basically once I figure out the amount, I should put that much in every time I get a fresh glass?
Anthropology: Now I lay me down to sleep
True, but it's about more than jobs. Imagine the US government was spending $50 billion building 'bridges to nowhere'. Would you support this scheme because it employs thousands of US workers?

Currently the US spends $598 billion per year on the military. To me, the US would be better off spending $548 billion on its military and and extra $50 billion on education. There would be fewer soldiers and more teachers, so in the short term it might not have an effect on total number of jobs. But the 'return on investment' of that extra education spending would be far more valuable than the loss of military power that the US would be giving up.

Cutting the defence budget to boost education might actually mean a stronger military in the longer term if it leads to higher GDP and more engineers to build military robots and drones.
I cannot upvote this enough. I made this mistake when I applied for schools for undergrad, applying only to Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, and Columbia - Columbia was meant to be my backup school as I had a family friend who was a professor in the physics department (who also was a Caltech alum) who wrote a positive letter of recommendation for me (my declared intended major was physics).

Turned out my being overly humble in not listing the plethora of awards I received combined with colleges losing significant money from the Enron scandal resulted in me being waitlisted or rejected from all the schools I originally applied to. My case spread like wildfire in the NYC tristate area as one of the high profile rejections that happen every year or so.

In my case, it turned out that my force of character, will, and intelligence carved out an extremely good career so far without having the kind of connections that people from schools like Harvard and Stanford might have - is that a risk you would like to take though?
> As such, I struggle to find the reason React is so popular.

Uhm, React websites run great in Chrome on a MacBook Pro. You seem to think that most web developers care about users on slow connections.
See it this way: you lose $jobs in the defense industry sector, but create $jobs in the education sector. Which investment will bring a better ROI?
I am very skeptical of these types of stories about tech companies. The outrage is generally misplaced.

People see one bad incident and think that there is an issue with the entire company.

The fact is that there will always be bad incidents at any company with > 2000 people.

It isn't reasonable to be outraged at one incident.

It is reasonable to be outraged if the incidents occur more frequently at a particular company or in tech than at other companies or fields.

I believe that these types of incidents occur far less in tech than in other fields (with the exception of tiny, scrappy start ups). Reporters just don't bother reporting the issues in other fields.

There is also the issue that almost every one of these 'outrage' articles are deceptive and written by a journalists who have no context about working in tech.
A non-Muslim would tell you with extreme certainty that that is simply not true!!! lol
Honest question: why not integrate ubuntu OS so you've got the whole User stack directly ?
This is exactly why we have our country divided into states. Each one may experiment and/or fail without affecting the others, and the rest can learn lessons.
Harnessing Serendipity
This was amazing when I first saw it. More so because I was working on an SPH implementation:

http://jsexperiments.herokuapp.com/sph/

source: https://github.com/asadm/SPHjs
Simple viruses will just email themselves to all your contacts and steal your banking password, no special privileges are required for that.
You've gone from talking about per pupil spending to teacher salaries. There's a gap there. I don't know this to be true but I suspect that administrative costs, need to build newer schools with fancy athletic facilities skews numbers a bit so that direct comparisons between Italy and Oklahoma are not apt. There is also the fact that Italy has been under austerity measures for some time.

Lastly, I don't think the Italy numbers take into account healt care costs of teachers. America's stupid health care system and its relegation to employers to include health care into salaries is going to really skew numbers.
Virtio drivers should already work. The emulated SATA and E1000 ones also work as they are the same as for QEMU, which works. Audio HDA also works. (a bit better than in Windows if you pick pulseaudio backend)
I'm confused-- in which scope does the descriptor "artificially" operate?

1. The set of all arbitrary regulations which aim to limit supply.

2. The set of all arbitrary regulations which have the consequence of limiting supply.

3. The set of all arbitrary regulations which could conceivably have the consequence of limiting supply at any time in the future.

4. The set of all regulations which aim to limit supply.

5. The set of all regulations which have the consequence of limiting supply.

6. The set of all regulations which could conceivably have the consequence of limiting supply at any time in the future.

7. The set of all regulations.

If it's #1 and only ever #1, I'm with you.
What is the use of multiple cursors? Something that does not boil down to copy-paste programming.

UPDATE: From the answers below, I see that the point is the immediate visual feedback it gives.
So Javelin is written in Java, not in Kotlin.
I don't mean to sound unfair
but isn't it that saying "a Java/Kotlin blah blah" just a kind of marketing trick ?
If I get Kotlin right every Java solution is also Kotlin compatible.
Reminds me of Michael Rooker's character from Guardians of the Galaxy, with his whistle-controlled arrow.

I'd love to hear an example of how this might work with English. It's hard to imagine ex nihilo.
Yup. Attribution's king in adtech.
The way Techcrunch frames it the FCC's position is patently absurd: AT&T is then a restaurant because you use it to call for pizza delivery.

And to extend their logic: by routing the call via SS7, just as much as BGP, you aren't making an "endpoint to endpoint" connection but letting the network decide.

What is wrong with these people?
Something like this one? http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/ Except the above one is
not an open source software?
[citation needed].

- I am very skeptical that even a cinema camera can exceed the dynamic range of the human eye in one exposure. It is probably more important that features never saturate or go black when the image is properly exposed than that exposures are possible in a wider range of conditions. Also, cinema cameras are as big as toaster ovens and cost kilodollars.

- You're saying the peak angular resolution of a camera with a near 180 degree field of view exceeds the angular res of clear human foveal vision?

- Dark sensitivity: Yes, you can detect more a lot more light if you make the aperture 200x the size of a pupil. Could a space-efficient camera compete?

- Fairly saying there is higher fps AND less blur in a camera means you have to show me a camera the size of a human eye, with the dynamic range of a human eye, with the resolution of a human eye, and the low light sensitivity of a human eye that can produce more than about 60 fps. You can certainly have more fps, but often at the cost of size or resolution or light sensitivity. You can certainly have less blur, but then that means you need a bigger aperture to let more light in so you can crank your shutter down. Are you saying a small camera can beat the eye on all counts?

So yes, if we stud a car with RED weapon 8ks, we'll probably exceed human perception. Can the same be done cheaply and hidden in the body of a car with current technology?
Cool tech demos like this one can have unforeseen uses:
On an episode of the podcast Reply All [1], a "trip sitter" would use this site to help calm people down who were on bad trips, and it was pretty effective.

[1] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma...
> A Voronoi diagram is just a different way to show a Delaunay triangulation isn't it?

Yes, Voronoi and Delaunay are duals of eachother, so you can flip between them. Edges of one turn to vertices of the other and vice versa.
I sometimes enjoy writing and other times I dread it, but I always enjoy having written.
Having an order of precedence provides predictable behaviour and, perhaps more importantly, is simpler to implement than forcing disambiguation.

But probably it's just that they added the checks in that order and put no further thought into it.
Find and replace on steroids, meaning the flexibility of moving the cursors around in all instances of a find and making edits near the beginnings and ends of lines, for example.
I will attest to this. One of the most talented drivers I used to race with had a glass eye from a childhood incident. Also met a delivery driver with one blind eye.

The problem is mostly software. And it is far from solved right now. But it will be. My money is still on driver augmentation.
The thing is, in Scala you can do really crazy and complicated stuff (see Shapeless, Cats, etc) that in other languages (with exceptions, of course) would be extremely hard or downright impossible.

In Scala, it is just hard, but doable, but implies code being hard to read because what you are doing _is_ hard. This does not detract from doing as much as you can to make it readable, but sometimes it is impossible, or at least impossible to someone not used to it.

I'm not good enough with Scala to understand some of it (yet, I hope) but this is something that is bugging me lately. Some things (in general, I'm not talking just about programming here) are hard. No matter how much sugar-coating, some stuff is hard to understand, complex and not everyone can get to the bottom of it. It just happens in some programming languages, happens in most of mathematics, physics and computer science.
It is also political in intent and result.
That's still BI.

There's a foundational difference between a world wherein everyone is considered equal for the basic human resources and those who earn more are effectively told that because they do they're an outgroup to that basic net.

Giving the Bill Gates $12k each is a drop in the bucket and absolutely shouldn't be trimmed away in the name of optimization. Those who believe in UBI as I do maintain a hard-line on this.
While I agree that React (with ReactDOM) is heavier than it probably should be, a production build is around 140k minified, 45k min+gzipped.

I personally find React applications to be fairly easy to navigate compared to other JS projects, but my use of it has primarily been porting applications from Angular, Knockout or Asp.net Webforms to React.. and I find it a lot easier to work with than those personally. Haven't tried Vue though.
Thank you. It seems I didn't stumble upon the issue because in WebGL I didn't even have to enable the extension to have float color framebuffers in most platforms. Instead I tried to create a framebuffer to check if it's supported.
There are some good points in there, but it doesn't help his case that he writes some of the Go examples in an unnecessarily contrived way. The first snippet can be rewritten as:

import (
"io"
"log"
"os"
)

func main() {
var (
r io.Reader
err error
)

if len(os.Args) > 1 {
r, err = os.Open(os.Args[1])
} else {
r = os.Stdin
}

if err == nil {
err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, r)
}
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}

EDIT: One more quip:

> I’ve always thought that the developers at Google are hand picked from the brightest and best on Earth. Surely they can handle something a little more complicated?

The point of Go is to ask if they really really have to. In my experience, there is much value to be found when colleagues can jump into your code for a drive-by contribution and start being productive on the first day.
That's because WPF like winforms used native windows controls under the hood. Calls would be marshaled via pinvoke.
I think the more important goal than being completely autonomous is killing and maiming as few people as possible. Cars depend on a lot of immobile "base stations" like gas and charging stations, traffic lights, drive through fast food restaurants, and the roads themselves. Until cars can refine their own petroleum or generate their own electricity, replicate their own fast food, and pave their own roads [1], they're never going to be purely autonomous.

My question is how much do a bunch of cars an intersection all using LIDAR at the same time interfere with each other? Would it make sense for them to wirelessly share their models, and share an even better model made possible by high resolution LIDAR placed on poles like street lights? Then approaching cars could see around corners, and know about otherwise invisible oncoming traffic.

I'm not suggesting that every intersection and long stretch of road through the desert should be festooned with LIDAR base stations. But how about starting with every busy intersection on Market street, for example?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hG7-AQfbjE
I would have thought that was a well known fact. It's brought up virtually every time lead toxicity comes up...