skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how it works.

If costs go up, mining activity drops. Miners can not increase transaction fees. All they can do is accept the fee they're offered or not.

If they're mining blocks at all, they want to accept the maximum fee that is offered. If they say "you guys aren't paying enough, I'm going to stop mining", then other miners will just get the fees that people are offering instead, and when the difficulty adjusts downwards, the miners that stopped mining might start mining again.
> Wasn't this the driving force behind the hum and spoke model?

No, the range of small jets (which were constrained by relatively unreliable, inefficient engines) was. Small jets can safely go further today than they could before. Boeing saw this. To be fair, Airbus also saw this. Political factors, similar to those behind NASA’s Space Shuttle debacle, constrained them to making a giant ass plane.
It's actually been six years of no fatalities.
Not an economist, but it may b/c point-to-point can be made cheap enough (vis-a-vis Ryan Air, EasyJet, etc) that customers will choose that service over hub-and-spoke any time their itinerary allows it.
Both. Glasses are much healthier for your eyes than contacts. Computer usage = less blinking = less moisture = more harmful with contacts.
The difference is that European prison is typically more corrective than penitentiary, whereas US is more penitentiary than corrective (to the degree where US prison is effectively crime college). Edit: so, the differences that you pointed out are a consequence of the differing prison systems goals.
Listened to the American Airlines CEO talk about the hub and spoke a couple months ago and they seem pretty committed to it. He was saying that if there was an obvious market for a direct flight, they would break the hub and spoke, but otherwise, it was there to say.
It made me think of that as well. I saw a demo on a local open source event (T-DOSE in Eindhoven, Netherlands) a few years ago and thought it was a horrible mistake. I still can't believe why they thought this was a good idea, other than a good tech demo (like playing Doom on an oscilloscope or something -- abusing something completely but it technically works).
This whole thread is full of young, SV libertarians who haven't really thought out what healthcare involves. Lawyers don't have an upfront, all inclusive price for divorce, they charge by the hour. I'm pretty sure software developers charge by the hour, at least for the interesting work. Sure, I'll build you a Wordpress blog for $3k. Would you gaurantee you could build a clinic website that supports major insurance and Medicaid and Medicare billing for a fixed rate? Not knowing the physician's speciality or state of practice?

C'mon. Orthopods might be able to replace knees on a fixed budget, but I'm thinking neurosurgeons and trauma surgeons would have a heckuva time. What about a dermatologist? Mole, sure? What if it's melanoma? What if you have mycosis fungoides? It'll take 5 years just to confidently diagnose.
Quantum Connections and the Modular Quantum Computer [pdf]
Both the A380 and 787 have higher internal cabin pressures (equivalent of 6000ft). All other planes operate at lower pressure. Anything above 6000ft leads to altitude sickness for those who live at ~0ft.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/hobica/2017/...
The PGP signature is a pretty bad idea if this goes criminal, and since they've already reported the vulnerability via less than anonymous means they can be tracked.

The correct way to handle it is to contact the relevant CERT team in your country usually on a national or state level.

And if it's regulated industry or information (PII is) you can also contact the relevant regulator.

Publishing a functional exploit that can be used to gain access to PII on an open mailing list isn't just illegal it's also unethical.

This advice is quite indicative of anyone who never handled disclosures from either side of the aisle.

You need to understand there could be good reasons why you might not get a reply to a reported vulnerability, including the fact that the legal team and or the authorities put a gag on it. You don't know what language was used in the initial report and what information they've accessed. In many jurisdictions especially in the EU you are actually required to report the incident even if it's under a "bug bounty" program to the authorities if regulated information has been exposed. They may allow you to handle it through your BB program (but they also remind you that you'll be liable for any mishaps in the handling of the incident) they may elect to tell you to stop all contact and hand it over, your own legal department might say they don't like the language used or some other things raised a red flag like "I've downloaded your entire DB as a PoC"....

I really don't understand why people on HN elect to give such poor advice on a subject that while unlikely but can go south really bad on a whim.
By accident... but it’s pretty unusual because I’m a fairly inactive nerd. First was the ankle which I broke in torsion while skiing in a freak accident, the next year I decided not to ski and had to amuse myself somehow so I picked skating and that’s how I broke the wrist... two ribs when tossed in a ditch by a hunter that noticed we were in the unwitting line of fire of another hunter (I was just there to photograph the hunting dogs), another two ribs accidentally throwing myself out of a first-floor window while putting up Christmas decorations...
Coke was n/a - period. At least, in Ukraine. We were super confused when they begen selling it shortly before USSR dissolution.
Done is dead – welcome to outcome-driven development – SD Times
NASA team first to demonstrate x-ray navigation in space
This is generally my goal with Emacs customization. I'm basically just using APIs (Spotify, Outlook Exchange Server, myFittnessPal, Reddit, HN) in a common Emacs interface. The downside, of course, is that it's a lot of work to develop and maintain.
Heh. I have tried to call to see the cost. I see a retina specialist twice a year. I recently changed to a high deductible plan with an HSA. I called to see what the cost of my appointment would be. They could not or would not tell me. Incall three separate times, talking to different people and different departments. I went in and continued asking the front desk. "It depends on the services you end up getting." Ok, sure, but for a standard appointment, what then? "I can't say." Listen lady, I'm looking for a ball park. $50? $100? $1000? $5000? "Oh, I can't imagine it will be that much." Which one? "We will have to just bill you after." So absolutely frustrating. It ended up being like $150. Without price transparency like a public menu, we won't get better.
AI and machine learning conferences: The top 14 for 2018
Paypal's Wences Casares Imagines a World Where Bitcoin Becomes Standard of Value
Hell why go that far. I work in Pennsylvania and we're not typically making much more (if any more) than $20-30/hr and we'd love a number larger than that.
I think it's the same reaction that police or lawyers have with watching crime procedurals, or why software engineers get disgusted by how "hackers" are portrayed in most popular media.

However, I think this sort of simplified shorthand, with a bit of innocent embellishment (the whole mystery aspect of how nature does it) keeps people interested.

It could be something that gets someone interested in discovering more. I think any simplification could be viewed as misleading, but I think these sorts of articles really do more to educate than if they were to only be clicking celebrity gossip or worthless listicles.
I do not think naive search would give rise to the sort of reasoning that I posit in my initial post, even as a post-facto rationalization rather than as part of actually solving the problem.
You can't just substitute things and expect them to keep the same market. This is because DEMAND is part of a market force. The demand for pot is substantially higher than the demand for other drugs (like cocaine, heroine, etc), guns, coyotes, etc.

If a commodity can no longer be (near) monopolized into their share of the market, then demand does not magically grow for other commodities. Sure, they can pivot strategies (which costs significant amounts of money) and adapt new commodities and services to match market demands, but this does not mean that they have the same profits.

If they truly are already profit maximizing (to the best of their abilities), then they are already are servicing the markets with the highest demands. Which then if you remove their ability to service their market with the highest demand, you also remove the profit of that market. To generate their current revenue (with loss of the pot market) they would need to generate more demand in their other markets (advertising), find a new market with large enough demand (innovation), or service a lot of niche markets.

tldr:

- Demand exists for commodities.

- Different commodities have different demands.

- Shifting suppliers of a market does not generate new demand in different markets for the original supplier.
CU Researchers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Burping – Twice
Reality is they don't know. They know how much it will cost them...sort of. They have a log of how much they charge for each procedure, and then individual insurance providers will pay a percentage of that. Some of which the hospital will pass on you. Even then, it is up to insurance company to figure out how much they will pay.

"Adam Ruins Everything" had a really good segment on this.
This is kind of starting to happen with 60Ghz radios becoming more available. I think the problem with 'ultra-directional' radio antennas is that they're actually pretty difficult to build and even when they can be built they're very large. But with 60Ghz there is a lot of oxygen absorption, meaning that the signal dies off really quickly in all directions meaning that it won't interfere as much with other nearby installations. The equipment is just barely coming on to the market, though.
I cannot imagine how complex a parser for C must look like.
> So a miner will never reduce the cost to include a transaction into their block, even when they aren't getting enough to fill up the block?

Sure, if you want to twist the wording like that, they "lower the fee" to the point where they can fill the blocks. But they're not really "lowering their fees". They don't even have a concept of the fee level they're "charging". They can either accept the fees that are available or not.

If they are mining at all then they want to accept the best fees that are available. There is literally no rationale for them to be mining non-full blocks when fee-paying transactions are available to put in the blocks. It's not like it costs more to mine a larger block. The cost to mine a block is fixed, so you may as well get as much fees as you can find.
From the web site:

"Expenses or fees resulting from complications subsequent to the completion of the surgery and discharge from the facility are also not included." https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing-disclaimer/

Complications e.g. infection can run up expenses almost without limit. And you're likely to be in no condition to get up and take your business elsewhere.
> Really, never heard of. I guess iDEAL and PayPal just went out of business. Good luck competing with iDEAL, btw.

https://www.mollie.com/nl/

They do the iDeal, Sofort, Creditcards, Bitcoin And so on, for some of the largest ecommerce platforms in the netherlands, as well as the majority of the small ecommerce shops. They are a PSP, which is very much a middleman, which is why you may not have heard of them.

Albert Heyn, Deliveroo, Douwe Egberts are just a few of the larger Dutch brands that use Mollie.

Note that not evey merchant using mollie will have Bitcoin enabled, I'm not sure if e.g. ah.nl has the bitcoin option enabled, but I haven't checked them either.

I'm leavin this discussion here. You come across as someone who has some axe to grind with Bitcoin. Which makes you appear angry, frustrated and shifty. There are places where you can spend your bitcoin. In Amsterdam. A lot. I've spent mine in some. There are places where you can spent your Bitcoin in my hometown, I've spent them there. I've seen stickers on doors, in both Amsterdam and Arnhem (And Barcelona, Berlin, Antwerp, Ghent). My wife and I were selling her stuff on several markets in Amsterdam (and festivals such as Lowlands), my wife has a "bitcoin accepted here" sign. You may not have seen it, but it was there. I know, because I was there. And you know what? People buy stuff with bitcoin from her. Very few, true, but they do.

But as soon as I point this out, it suddenly does not count as places to spend your bitcoin in the physical world because you haven't seen them yourselves, or because you decide that the volume processed there is too low. I'm out.
Probably, you’re putting an extra layer of protection (the browser sandbox) between the attack vector and your system.
A lot of people value "not having to make a layover" more than you think.
I think it makes perfect sense to require some base level of expertise or equipment to climb some of these mountains. I spent the summer working in Alaska. The stories I heard of people trying to climb Denali without any experience, or proper equipment, costing the local rescue squad a lot of money to come out and rescue then when they got into trouble, were everywhere. happen.
His case relies on random assumptions.
Pick strong consistency whenever possible
You forgot the A350, which is also mentioned in the article.
A New Clue to the 1545 Cocolitzli Epidemic in Mexico
Only in that alternative reality where "preventing municipal fibre networks" is the sort of regulation that the Republican Party wants to de-regulate.

In reality, it's among the only regulation they like. Plus preventing Tesla from selling directly to consumers, and making government just small enough to fit in your bedroom.
So the $70 a month plan seems interesting. I spend maybe an hour on and off doing laundry a week. Add in time to start and stop whatever I’m doing so let’s say 1.5. So that’s 6 hours a month. That’s a touch less than $12 an hour. My time according to work is more valuable than that.

I can see it being worth it for people who make a decent income and spend that time doing something else. It’s pretty much the same as any service for things that need to be done regularly. As your time becomes more valuable, it makes sense to delegate those tasks off.
Turning off your phone leaves a hole in the data, but that hole can say a lot. The start and end times and locations are known, and can be correlated with other events to suggest why the hole exists and what might have happened during that gap. That sort of circumstantial evidence was a part of the recent Laura Babcock murder case.
2017 also saw no commercial flight related fatalities worldwide, in large part due to the NTSB (and it's non-US equivalents) process of getting the root cause of each crash and putting in place systems or procedures to eliminate that particular failure domain.
>Passengers are cost AND travel-time/hassle sensitive.

Especially among business travelers. Many business travelers may still shop on price up to a point but they'll tend to do so given that the flights have the same number of stops.
One year old Pony.ai raises $112M Series A to build autonomous car future
It would be silly for a doctors office to accept only suitcases full of $100 bills, not only would that be highly impractical for both parties, it would make them a prime target for robbery so they'd have to invest a ton in physical security.

"Cash only" means "not insurance claims" in this context - usually when you go to the doctor you give them your insurance information and your expected copay the doctor (actually their admin staff) then submits a claim to your insurance company for payment. If the company doesn't pay, or pays less than expected, they will bill you.

Large "cash" transactions aren't a problem.

Multi thousands of dollars+ "cash" transactions are done all the time (such as a down payment on a house), you go to the bank and get a cashier's check. There's no reason you couldn't take out cash instead of getting a cashier's check, but it wouldn't be secure or practical. And your payee may have an issue with accepting physical cash from a risk perspective.
The American Hospital Association tracks uncompensated care (bad debt and forgiven bills):

https://www.aha.org/system/files/2018-01/2017-uncompensated-...

It's around $40 billion per year in recent years (for all US hospitals). With hospital spending around $1 trillion, it's 4 or 5% across the industry. There are of course individual hospitals that face higher costs.
Beware: I'm not a Lawyer.

Well, if you're in the EU then GDPR [1] will be enforceable from 25 May 2018, so it is my noob understanding that the vendor you're dealing with will, sooner or later, be the subject of regular periodic data protection audits and will be forced to have a Data Protection Officer. Not sure if necessary, but you may contact ENISA [2] to be advised on how to proceed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_Ne...
Much much less than a C++ parser.
In the same way as a national bank trying to inspire confidence in the economy they know they have to make what they say credible. So it has to be part of acting in a longer term that shows consistency with the words. But probably slow disarmament would be more likely to succeed.
I haven't checked the rest, but my fibre in France (provide d by Free.fr) is worth 30 euros/months with no subscription required (as in I can cancel anytime for 0 fee).
> If unforeseen complications arose during or after the procedure, the Surgery Center would cover those costs

Doesnt this expose the facility to additional risk? Overall healthy patients and those with sufficient insurance coverage do not have a reason to visit this place, while those without insurance coverage (who I assume are likely to be less healthy and hence have more complications) are more likely to visit the place.

If instead they accepted insurance, and charged people based on complications, they would have a more average risk profile while being able to maintain higher profits, and keeping a USP of transparent charges (which would apply to non insurance patients w/o complications)
The article said in 2017, probably a typo on the poster's side. The article is about Trump trying to take credit for this (as he always does), when it is actually the 6th straight year without fatalities. Politically speaking, we are living in dark times even if aviation is super safe.
This sort of anecdata always crops up on airline threads. Flight experience can vary pretty wildly by airline, even on the same type of plane, since the interior layout and amenities are up to the airline, and not the plane manufacturer.

The best long haul experience I've had in recent years was on a Singapore Airlines A380. The worst one in the same timeframe was on a British Airways A380. Both times economy class.

I've been on a 787 on a few different carriers and they've all been pretty nice.
The biggest bit I miss from messing with proxies in the past has been "stop, hold, upgrade" game that web-servers could play with proxies.

This means that you can have your proxy "hold requests" for a few seconds while your system restarts in the background & slowly let off the requests out to the backend in "one more request per second" scale up.

This sort of stuff would work great with a proxy that actually understands something a kubernetes scheduler & know when a node is failing/restarting etc.
Here's a page on the distribution of prime numbers.

http://primes.utm.edu/howmany.html

I tried to estimate how many prime numbers there were below this number, and Wolfram Alpha timed out, though I got the density estimated, I think.[1] If I remember my logarithm math, around one in 50 million numbers at this magnitude is prime, but that's still gigantic! The count of prime numbers smaller than this prime number is also around 23 million digits long.

[1] http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28log+2%29+*+77%2C232%2C...
And a natural machine learning algorithm.
Figuratively dispose (i.e., reinstall the OS).
Here's a relevant video from Wendover productions explaining why Boeing 787 is doing better than A380.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M
The problem really isn't the doctors but the structure of insurance and how people treat health care and health insurance similarly. The worst part is that high costs aren't directly the fault of insurance companies but of government having driven the need for insurance. Health care used to be all cash, and people carried catastrophic health insurance policies only. We are moving back towards that. This isn't stating my preference, one way or the other, just the historical facts.

On the back end, there is the cost of lawsuits that also drives up prices systemically.

And, finally, not everyone pays their bills to their insurance companies. Everyone else has to pay those costs.

In these ways, insurance will always be an every increasing spiral of cost, eventually.
You are underselling how long 30 years is. In my honest opinion, you just can't punish someone for that long because the person you have after 20 years isn't going to be the same person who committed the crime. Sure the crime deserves worse; but I don't believe we can deliver on that, and holding someone is very expensive.

I'm still under 30, so I am literally forced to imagine what it is like. 30 years is currently outside the scope of my experience. It is beyond my gut conception of forever.

Once I get old enough to have a practical idea of what 30 years is (say, 40), a 30 years sentence might as well be a life sentence as it would easily consume the remainder of my productive life.
Isn't A350 the competitor to Dreamliner? I think A380 was aimed at replacing B747, which it did. Also I feel (no data) that hub and spoke is alive and well. It's just that it is using more efficient, lower capacity flights (B787, A350) which are easier to fill up and maintain.
> Who wants to guess requested this backdoor be added?

It could actually have been added by malicious hackers.. Wikipedia entry[0] reads like Nortel didn't really care about having had their systems completely breached for a decade, nor did they disclose that to any (prospective) buyers of the company.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel#Hackers_had_free_access...
I think the poster was getting at the fact that pot users dwarf meth users in quantity, for example.

I think the OP got it right -- even if there was no heroin crisis in the US, the cartels would turn to some other money-making proposition.

The only way to quash them is to strengthen the Mexican state, whether it be this one or a new structure.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, do you also recruit for software engineering positions?
You have to admit that it was a gamble though.
I’m not arguing against privacy, or for this kind of abusive tech used in the system. I’m just saying that this particular story doesn’t make for a great exemplar, anymore than the guy who was nailed because of his smart water meter. There are plenty of examples of surveillance abuse and slapdash prosecution without having to rely on this.
For Android

Enable Developer Options:

Settings > About Phone > Build Number (Tap 7-8x)

Enable Grayscale:

Developer Options > Simulate Color Space > Monochromacy
When I hire a software developer or a lawyer I get an upfront price list. Would you hire a lawyer that either would not give you any price or told you "it costs between 2000 and 60000 depending on your insurance and some other factors we won't tell you"?
New KillDisk variant targets Win machines in financial organizations in LATAM
yuzu is a fork of the Citra 3DS [1] emulator, maintained by the same people [2].

[1] https://citra-emu.org/
[2] https://yuzu-emu.org/