skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The six-blocks-in-a-row problem seems less of an impedence to me - because the "legitimate" blocks are still available to the malicious actor.

Therefore, if our malicious miner identifies that they have had poor luck and begun to fall behind the "legitimate" chain by a block or two they can start the make-a-longer-competing-chain process over again from the legitimate head with -as far as I can see- no downsides except for some lost time/resources; the main risk to them isn't really there until they commit by initiating their double-spend, something they would almost surely not do until they're confident they've acquired their own, longer competitor to the "legitimate" chain.
Hey Peter,

I read through both links and thought about this reply quite a bit.

To address the Mental Illness resource: I think that is a very outdated perspective. It doesn't account for advancements of technology (1961-now) for measuring efficacy. It invalidates my experience and denies what has worked well for me and rightfully empowered my autonomy.

If you are insinuating that I am crazy with your Einstein quote then I ask that you reconsider your perspective to be more tolerant and understand that people with mental disorders are not 'crazy'.

I agree, the criteria for hiring is variable. I refuse programming assignments now unless they have a measurable metric for success and exchange value (offer is there but contingent on assignment or something else of agreeable value).

I read The Guerrilla Guide, I agree and disagree with parts of it.

"Most of the time in the interview, though, should be spent letting the candidate prove that they can write code."

I disagree with this. If I get paid in services sold (value for value) to local businesses by having only two conversations then why not expect value for value in a hiring process? They want to have proof in an environment set up by them that I can measurably create code so what is something of equal value I get in return? Access of my personal IP for something of equal value.

For credibility I have years of open source contributions and projects that demonstrates my passion for code, written and phone referrals, videos of speaking, and testimonials from past clients.
If I'm reading it correctly you need 600k to have a 50/50 chance at double spending. So say you acquire 500k in bitcoin and you spend $600k to have your chance to double spend the 500k. Assuming your $600k in mining actually gets you $600k in bitcoins mined the expected result is.

50% chance spend 1.1 million get 1.1 million back minus substantial overhead. Say 10% overhead although I have no idea what the actual overhead would be. So negative 100k.

50% chance spend 1.1 million + 100k overhead get 1.6 million back. Net gain of 400k

So average gain of 200k assuming you can find a market to move that much bitcoin that quickly and always assuming your creativity isn't rewarded with jail time.

People with substantial resources can find way to make money that are repeatable and don't involve finding new and exciting ways to go to jail.
The most popular VR games require significantly more physical activity than traditional video games (https://vrscout.com/news/man-loses-138-pounds-beat-saber/), so if VR does take off it could be a solution for sendentary hours, not a cause.
So basically their investment in ARM has cross-over advantage to RISC-V (and likewise?)?
Should be.

Obamacare was supposed to "bend the cost curve", too. I haven't seen recent hard data, but my impression is that it didn't work as advertised.

Note well: I have no opinion on whether this idea will in fact work. I'm merely pointing out that one should not take politicians' claims on such matters at face value.
Except that every company involved in the healthcare industry in America (drug companies, insurance companies, hospitals, etc.) make hundreds of billions (or trillions) in profit each and every year.

The reason for the high prices is because healthcare in the US is an extremely, extremely lucrative for-profit industry.
So, the fact that these people live in the underworld and generally get mistreated by their employers and paid illegally low wages is a feature to you? Interesting.
That may say more about a place's immigration policies rather than their healthcare policies.
It is correct to say that the market cap of a company is not the amount you can buy the company for. Most of the owners of shares in any company aren't ready to sell for the market price. That is the salient parallel being drawn.
If the attacker has 50+% of mining power for the entire duration then yes it wouldn’t work as the longer things stretch out the further ahead the attacker gets (statistically).

However it the attacker has less than 50% they can still wage an attack. With 10% of mining power I’ve got a 1% chance of mining consecutive blocks. It dwindles quickly even for larger percentages and a large number of confirms makes that angle impractical.
We probably never get to hear about clean companies because they aren't doing anything "news worthy" (e.g. destroying the world).

If I were searching, I'd fantasize about working at Cognitect, though I'm not qualified. Their biggest scandal seems to be daring to sell a proprietary database.
> XR, XS, X max... Which iPhone has a notch?

All of them.

> Which one has a home button still?

None of them.

> So whats the difference

<>S is the refresh, same as it's been for years. Max is the physically larger size, what used to be called the "Plus".

> These are questions I've heard over the holidays from friends and family, questions that were unthinkable when Jobs ran Apple.

I mean, Max/Plus is annoying, but I think Jobs was alive when iPhones refreshed with an S so this seems like a silly statement.
Github's core offering is not small private repos with max 3 contributors.
Cut Medicine in Half (2007)
I think it’s hard to compare these numbers across countries. For example, a richer country could choose to spend more on stuff that ultimately makes little difference in outcomes. For example, fewer people per hospital room or better hospital food or shorter wait times for a non threatening disease.
Without the accounting fraud, they're not far off the US pharma market as a whole...

Teva is doing the same nonsense with generics, Turing did with their toxoplasmosis drug, Mallinckrodt bought Ofirmev then jacked up the price by several hundred percent, Allergan & Pfizer were trying to merge solely to tax advantage of Ireland's (and the US's) dumb IP/tax laws, GSK, Abbott, and J&J have all paid billion dollar settlements for their fraudulent marketing practices. Look at the PBMs that are suddenly worth billions of dollars purely by being middlemen between Pharma and Insurance companies.

There is so much obnoxious 'financialization' and tax optimization to justify share prices.
If it actually is single a real single payer system, then maybe this is fine, but it’s just as likely that the mandate gets established, but the single payer part fails to materialize.
because health care is a human right.
Mylan gross profit in Q1-Q3 2018 was $2.3 billion, and R&D expenses were $600 million [0].

If I'm reading this right (and I may well not be), there is a lot of money not accounted for by R&D expenses.

[0]: Nov 6, 2018. Mylan, NV. Quarterly Fillings. Accessed from http://investor.mylan.com/static-files/2909eb6c-4430-452e-94... via http://investor.mylan.com/financial-information/sec-filings
Again, I have no idea what you think we disagree about. Your reply, like most of the replies, is premised on the idea that yes you can hear the difference in some cases.
Under-parenting is definitely a thing.
R&D only comes to about $500 per capita per year. That doesn’t amount to a significant fraction of Americans’ inflated costs.
Replanting all the forests in the world that have been cut down will only replace all the firsts in the world. Eventually we run out of room for new forests.

The major battle in combating AGW is the quantity of carbon we have dug up from the ground and released into the environment.
It would be compassionate of these illegal immigrants to improve their own countries instead of using resources in the next country.

Another way to resolve the cost might be to fine companies that hire illegal immigrants or to send bills / decrease funding (although I don't think CA sends any funding overseas) to countries that have illegal immigrants here.
It would be easier to simy redefine 4g than to convince the world at large that 4g isn't indicative of network speeds.
And AFTER considering all those other factors, you may need to see a $10B exit to get your $1M.
If they got paid a living wage to do it with reasonable hours? A huge number. Would that mean food would get more expensive? Yes. Is that a bad thing? No.
I think there are. Teachers (pretty much as a whole) and public defenders seem to fit here.

I know multiple photographers whose passion is landscapes/nature and only grudgingly supplement that income with weddings/portraits.
"In Europe, drug prices are set by governments, not by pharmaceutical companies the way they are in the U.S. On average, the difference between the price of one drug in the U.S. and the same drug in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. was 50 percent, an analysis by the consulting firm McKinsey has found.

“U.S. consumers are in fact subsidizing other countries’ public health systems, at least with respect to drug pricing,” Jacob Sherkow, an associate professor at New York Law School, said."

https://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe...
See also: https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/sandb...

(disclaimer: self-promotion)
if so, why should any patient pay the bill to the hospital?
You're saying that our phone chargers have the equivalent of EIGHT of the fastest computers in the world in 1976? Wow.
As a shell emulator: https://redditshell.com/
No they don't. Pizza steel thing is quite heavy (~15lbs).
> 1 out of 5 tracks I tried where I could tell the difference at a statistically significant rate.

Hate to sound like a broken record, but what are you arguing with me about?
If only there were laws against such behavior.
Healthcare starts with emotional care, then moving on to the physical level.
I'm not sure this holds up to scrutiny. Why don't other rich countries (e.g. Canada, which lets you pay for your own healthcare if you want) have this problem?
50 free checks at 5 min intervals. Hmm.
OP said "market price for their labor", not minimum wage. If there is no one willing to do the labor for minimum wage, then minimum wage is not the market price for that labor. When you can't afford to pay necessary labor costs for a product, the answer isn't to go to the black market.
The alternatives are sending them home - or - giving them citizenship.

Suppose you do the later - whoops (!) - as soon as the workers are citizens, and employers have to pay full benefits, and worry about unions ... then they'll dump such new citizens and hire actual illegal workers!

Point being: the price of that cheap labour is a function of their illegal status more than anything.

It's a false dynamic.

Just enforce basic laws. Americans will do many of those jobs for higher wages, the jobs that can't support higher wages will leave for Mexico and help them out down there, even in that scenario, surpluses come back to the US as well.

The real 'long term' answer is just to enforce basic citizenship and employment laws.

The answer on healthcare is much more complicated, but probably has more to do with regulating prices etc. than it does expanding medicare/medicaid, which is actually very inefficient compared to other nations, because prices are so high.

Single payer, as someone below mentioned, gives the gov the power to negotiate better deals, but you don't necessarily need single payer for that.

I'm generally against any kind of real socialization because it always ends up a mess, but in healthcare it seems it's going to be needed to stop the '100 aspirin' problem, among others.

More medicare just means more '$100 aspirin' unless it's combined with some other, heavier kind of action.

I hope it works out.
> Paying a few billion dollars to a big pharma company is not going to make them invest more in research. They will instead pay the money out as dividends.

This is a misconception. No investor wants their money back. Investors want a promise of MORE money back in the future. If investors wanted their money back immediately, they wouldn't have bought stock in the first place!

The vast majority of investors prefer (ex: Tesla) a company to spend all their money asap on infrastructure, research, development, etc. etc.

Dividends are a last resort, only to be used if a company doesn't know what to do with its cash. Once a company starts paying dividends, it means that it has run out of ideas for how to invest into the future.

Besides: its more tax efficient to grow the stock price rather than to pay the profits back in cash.

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Even a big company will want to at least appear that it is growing even bigger, through R&D funds and what-not. If you start to give out a lot of dividends, investors will probably take it as a bad sign and flee.
If someone says that premature optimization isn't a thing, I don't think it is condescending to point out that it is by posting original source material. :-)
Thank God for those illegal immigrants. Without them we would all have starved I guess.
Doom/Quake were developed on a NeXT machine much faster and more capable than the targeted IBM PCs.

You don't need to develop on a $200 notebook to care about performance.
Maybe something like this?

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/24/business/la-fi-bbb-2...

https://money.cnn.com/2013/10/10/news/nonprofit-ceo-pay/

https://www.charitywatch.org/top-charity-salaries

Some people abuse the position (like management) they are in and get get paid way too much money for the position.
I wonder if there's a decent correlation between the Vonnegut diagram of a movie's protagonist and the movie's box office. I'd guess that flat and monotonic downward curves are at a disadvantage, an upsloped ending an advantage. But you might be able to find interesting things about the number and intervals of minima and maxima, etc. It'd be interesting to look at the magnitude of the peaks and troughs too, but how would you calibrate the x axis across movies or between scenes?

If it works you could be as successful in Hollywood as Raffles, the barefoot executive.
As a recent XS buyer (upgrade from iPhone 7) my strategy is just going to be waiting 2 or more upgrade cycles before buying again. I still value the ecosystem and trust Apple with my data more than anyone else, especially in the case of iMessage.

I don't think I'll miss anything serious from skipping upgrade cycles. I'm not much of a camera user and Face ID is meh to me so From iPhone 6 to XS I've barely seen any improvements I care about other than water resistance which was a 6 -> 7 upgrade.
Seattle area’s topsy-turvy home market ends 2018 with Eastside prices falling
Otoh, many petroleum exporting country will become worthless because their land is incapable for other users...
> They simply can't handle the vacuum that opens up in their lives without the micromanagement.

Maybe that has something to do with the drift of young adults to the left. They need some other authority to manage their lives.
There was one young man at a WWDC, who had his head buried in his phone while on the escalator. He reached the end of the escalator and just stopped where he was. All of us behind him on the escalator were yelling at him not to stop. I don't know how no one got hurt or killed, but we all somehow got around him. As I passed him, he seemed to not have noticed anything at all.

Not remotely comparable...Totally incomparable.

Note the above quote: "Prolonged stretches of being unable to see the real world, invoking feels of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty." Haven't we seen quite a few articles recently about how social media tends to produce feelings like that? They are very different things, but there are certain similarities.
You don't need it to be a "well-researched psychological concept" if you've personally experienced it, but that does absolutely nothing to convince me, and further, you should carefully weigh your own anecdotal experience versus others' experiences. Maybe the reporting in your particular case was just really, really bad? How would you know? Maybe 99.9% of journalism is completely accurate and you just happened to fit into the 0.1%... if you can't definitively disprove what I'm saying, then I don't think you should be so confident in your conclusion.

As for "it would find any traction if it didn't ring true with a lot of people." A lot of people throughout history have believed a lot of unscientific things. I don't believe we've reached a point of enlightenment where we no longer do that. Science not infrequently finds the truth is not what we expected, not what our intuition would lead us to believe.
"never get paid" means: by the care recipient. obviously someone pays ... it's spread across all who do pay their bills.

and you should pay your bill because the hospital will sue you for it. it's only when the debt is finally uncollectible that it gets absorbed.
Seattle builds lots of new housing units; prices moderate or fall: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-build....

SF builds very few new housing units; prices remain steady or go up.
Fixed the title, thanks.
Its the most popular option but its far from a monopoly. Last job I applied for asked for my github account and I sent them a gitlab link. They hired me and internally they use bitbucket.
I think one's opinion on this depends on what you believe Ethereum Classic to be. I think of it as a testnet variant. So $5,000 per hour to mess with a test framework... that actually seems pretty robust to me.
I’ve thought about this quite a bit. California min wage is $11/hour. Let’s say that the market rate for legal worker labor that’s going to work the fields is double that, that still seems like it’d be affordable.

It’s not like labor is 100% of the cost of produce. There’s seed, fertilizer, packaging, transport. I’d be surprised if labor was even 25% of the wholesale cost. Yes it’d be more expensive but I don’t think it’d be prohibitively so.
Yes, there's so much confusion about AR vs VR

Imagine wearing an "AR" HMD, a nice HMD with an LCD occlusion layer so it can render black. A black dinosaur is perched on your bookshelf. Great AR. Now you turn around. Half your room is gone, replaced by the rolling hills of a Cretaceous lowland. Great VR. But your laptop seems unchanged, sitting on a Cretaceous rock shelf where your desk was, next to a tree stump where your chair was. Great...err, hmm. You turn halfway back. On your left is hills; on your right is a wall and a bookshelf with a dinosaur. Are you doing VR or AR? Both? Half and half? One eye each?

Sigh. We so need to disrupt the technology society uses for thoughtful analysis and its dissemination.

Or say I'm wearing my VR HMD. But it's showing only my laptop's desktop. Is that still VR? My custom environment has a spatial geometry, and a response to head motion, that is variously aphysical. I joke that VR is in its user-onboarding skeuomorphic UI phase, and I'm much more interested in expert UIs for XR... without the "R". Resemblance to reality as UI design smell. Is that still Virtual and/or Augmented Reality? There's a camera ducktaped to the front of my HMD, providing a video passthrough background. So is that AR? What if I cut side windows in the headset blinders so I can use the real world for balance (old laptop with integrated graphics). Is that AR yet?

Unfortunately, VR HMDs still have the unblurry resolution of a 1980's VGA monitor, so I take off the HMD and look at my laptop screen. Is that AR? No? But I'm wearing anaglyph or LCD shutter glasses, and I'm headtracking, so there's fixed-in-realspace 3D content. Is that AR? But what if my desk has several displays, all doing synced high-resolution (but gappy) 3D, across much of my field of view. Is that AR yet?

The XR+ design space seems quite broad and rich, but much underappreciated.
Your post that I replied to said that no governments wanted free energy, now you are shifting the goal post to some sort of further made up hypothetical world where big governments have free energy and small governments don't.
While I agree with you’re sentiment, wouldn’t the article be titled “Americans use more healthcare” if this was a driving force of high cost?
It does appear to be the case that the US funds most pharma R&D due to Americans overpaying relative to the rest of the word. In some cases (China, India) this is due to weak IP protection, but in other cases (Canada, UK, Europe) it's more to do with our governments having a stronger negotiating position and setting hard limits on what they'll spend for a given benefit to patients.

Some characterise this as freeloading, but looking at the NHS for example, they set relatively clear limits for how much they will pay per quality-adjusted life year that a drug provides. If a drug costs more than this limit, financially more people will lose out if our healthcare system purchases this drug over something else (more doctors, hospital beds, etc.).

Does this make us immoral for "freeloading", because we prefer putting our limited money into cost effective treatments?

Also, is it not worth looking at why pharma R&D costs so much? The pharma industry seems to run at a very healthy profit margin compared to most other industries. Maybe the lack of market pressure is allowing the pharma industry to remain fatty? Obviously there's a fear that cutting US pharma revenue would hurt global medical R&D, but I don't see this as being a foregone conclusion. It could just as possibly be market failure and regulatory capture keeping pharma R&D expensive.
These studies serve no purpose. Everybody knows this.

The usual debate follows: yes but US funds research - yes but doctors, insurance and pharmaceutical companies get paid a lot more than anywhere else - yes but that’s the market, I want to pay more to have a top notch doctor / insurance - blah blah blah.
You can look at developed countries that do provide healthcare to individuals, who across the board have lower murder rates and violent crime than the US.

It's easy to answer your question, just look outside your own borders.
Show HN: Qamel, QML binding for Go
I'm generally pretty skeptical of these sorts of arguments. People gave similar arguments about why Facebook wouldn't turn against its users or Amazon would always have some of the lowest prices you could find.

Among other things, a private repo is a file system with full history. Anything that can be used as a file system will likely get abused.

More generally, this kind of argument basically says "this company will likely ignore this revenue stream forever", which doesn't sound very likely in the long run.

This might also be an attack on GitLab, which I believe has had unlimited free private repos for a while.
With regards to teachers or photographers, that's not a fair comparison in my opinion: in those cases, low wages are mostly dictated by high supply vs low demand, so from an economic point of view it "makes sense". That's much different than software engineering or medicine, where there is a scarcity of supply (and the only reason why software salaries are in the 6 figures).

In other words, teachers are not willingly giving up a portion of the compensation that they could otherwise be making doing the same job somewhere else. In software instead, that happens ("Oh, you work on FOO v2.0, I'll happily take 40% less than what I could otherwise be making doing this job in another company").

I don't know about public defenders, you might have a point there.
Gitlab is vastly better in so many different ways that this doesn't even come close to making me want to switch back.