skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The taxation example you cite is key. That the way history tells the story is that money was invented by state actors to finance military power. This endeavor has the side effect of creating a market economy. So states create markets, which implies markets require states. And the military power is as much turned inward than outward: you end up with police protection over the transaction coming ultimately from state actors.

Over time cryptocurrencies will adopt all these features of government regulation and police protection over the transactions if it is to become ubiquitous. So, just another analog of any other money system we already have.
And yet more social than many people's use of Twitter.
You still think BTC will have value in 5 years with everyone abandoning at as a payment method?

Also why do you believe in XLM and XRB? Just curious. They do have a very low price per coin so perhaps they'd appreciate?
Interestingly, there is some push-back against treating H. pylori too aggressively. While it is linked to stomach cancer, there is also some evidence that losing H. pylori is linked with increases in other diseases like type-2 diabetes (but then again, increased rates of type-2 diabetes are linked to losing pretty much any kind of stomach/gut flora). The microbiome is a delicate thing...
I have been able to do it by acquiring a Windows 10 install CD, booting from it, and doing an upgrade.
> Someone will develop algorithms to identify those fakes.

One twist: don't adversarial generative networks already work by including a "fake detector" and beating it? This cat-mouse game might last, like, all of a week.
Could you elaborate? I dont understand what you are talking about
I really enjoy commenting on Show HN posts here but I can hardly think of a time where I would have responded with something as simple as an up or down arrow with one of these short responses.

Since this is mostly a UI improvement attempt, I guess you're basically just competing with https://news.ycombinator.com/show?

My biggest issue with this approach is it seems like a "poll" of arrows isn't really going to give enough useful feedback to be meaningful. If I've taken the time to actually review a Show HN, I'm not going to skimp out on the feedback phase by using a 1-click option. I'll probably have 3-5 paragraphs to write out.

Psychologically, it seems a bit rude to leave just a down arrow on someone's best effort project without explaining it. An up arrow alone seems fine. Of course, HN already has these built in.

If you want quick-hit feedback, can you also include a textbox for typing a quick note in addition to the short reasons already there?

A popup bar alerting about cookie usage is extremely off-putting to me and was almost enough to get me to just close out of the site before doing a review. If there is anything you can do to stop using so many cookies that you need to warn users of them....

The entire list isn't that long, can you get a deeper backlog? The /show page lists them chronologically which seems pretty nice to me since then a DevelopmentKitchen user can always pick up where they left off. You're currently sorting them some other way and it doesn't quite make sense? If I'm going to use JUST this site to monitor Show HNs, I'll want to know which ones I've seen and which I haven't.

Good luck!
H&M and Tetra Pak moved back to Sweden in the 90-ties after promises from the then current social democratic leader Ingvar Carlsson that they would never be introduced again.

Source, Swedish

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My understanding is that Go's ffi overhead[1] makes game development impractical at a certain level, due to the amount of opengl calls you have to make. Is this still the case?

[1] https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead/blob/master/README.md
This sounds like a perfectly natural description of the estimated date range to me. Is there some significantly more efficient way of phrasing it that I'm overlooking? (Without resorting to scientific ± notation, at least?)
> Twitter is experiencing something of a resurgence these days, with user numbers growing since Trump.

Any references for this? Growth looks pretty moribund[1], especially since bot-users may represent most growth and could even be masking dropping human-user MAUs.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274564/monthly-active-tw...
> Being on Twitter felt like being in a nonconsensual BDSM relationship with the apocalypse. So, I left.

She followed shitty people.

Fellas I recommend the opposite: Quit Facebook and Instagram and start using Twitter.

I used to not use twitter until I started listening to more audiobooks and podcasts from economists. I realized that, living in semi-rural New Hampshire and several years out of college, its been a long time since I was able to surround myself with lots of really intelligent people.

I hopped on twitter and unfollowed nigh EVERYONE. All the joke tweeters, all the depressives, all the political whiners, and started following several people I thought were really smart. Then I followed several more who posted things I disagreed with, for good measure. I spent 2017 liberally following and unfollowing people until I liked the mix.

Then I did the opposite of this lady: I largely stopped using Facebook and Instagram, and only really look at Twitter.

Since the 280 char change, its loads better than other social networks. Interesting discussions, the ability to interact with far-away intellectuals. New avenues of curiosity and gratification and inspiration. Too many memes or political sobbing? Unfollow!

Facebook (which I loved 6 years ago) has devolved into a mess of acquaintances who share articles without actually reading them and posting idiotic memes and other low-effort content. Instagram is nice for seeing what my friends are actually doing with their lives, but the ego-ness of it can get to you.

Twitter is the only social network that still offers a lot of intellectual gratification, and even more so since the 280 char change, and I am super grateful for that.
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A cool, possible solution would be to have every participant in the video to digitally sign the final file to verify that they're actually in the video, consensually. That way, if anyone finds a deep fake video, it would be easy to dispute it since it doesn't have the person's signature.

Of course, this would be exceedingly difficult in practice, since you'd need the signing to be opt-out instead of opt-in for it to be truly effective.
Yeah, no. A pragmatic libertarian would reach for regulations only when no other option exists. I would say a lot of human reach for regulations as the first option.
Multiple filters in series, ideally varying manufacturers?
Conceptual problem questions that test my knowledge of data structure and algorithm _application_ rather than detailed implementation. Do I know how computers work? Can I apply Big-O conceptually in this problem space? Can I discuss how this problem changes when n goes from 1Kb to 1Tb?
There's an awful lot of strange stuff in history. If you like this you'll enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion... (1841)

It even has a section on memes, entitled "Popular follies of great cities".
Why is the Jones Act popular with democrats?
I'd dispute that HN counts as social media in the classic sense
I almost consider it clickbait. The writer even states that there's no other option than Amazon in these regions, and obviously the lack of other employers offering more simply means that the real problem is lack of demand for the types of work that the people in these communities can demand a living wage for.
Yes, consent to the use of force douchebags
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Time to bring out the big guns and heavy fines (like the GDPR fines), but it will never happen with the current crop of corrupt politicians.

All in the name of profit.
> It can be transmitted by reading about it too.

uh oh.
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Die Hard is next on my list.
Don't you need electricity first?
Ask HN: RFC – Ubuntu Minimal Images
In last year's "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?", we noticed a common request for a "lighter, smaller, more minimal" Ubuntu image.

To date, we've shaved the Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and thousands of files -- currently sitting at 30MB compressed. We have 2.5 months left in the 18.04 LTS cycle. Can the HackerNews crowd help us find any more savings?

Feedback welcome in the HN comments below, or the Google Forms survey here:

- https://ubu.one/imgSurvey

More detailed post at:

- http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2018/02/rfc-ubuntu-1804-lts-minimal-images.html

On behalf of the Ubuntu team,
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Yes, and while not-asleep idle it's using a lot less battery than it would be if all of its cores were pegged. That's what CPU throttling and adaptive power use are for, especially on phones.
:slow-clap: Luckily not possible now (and hasn't been for quite some time).
A someone who is broadly sympathetic to the idea of labor ownership of the means of production, could I trouble you to explain what's so obvious about the stupidity of this plan?

Taxes on corporate profits are generally seen as reasonable in the abstract, and they're common all over the world. I could see setting an unusually high tax rate being problematic, but that doesn't appear to be what happened.

And it doesn't appear that the state was seizing anything. They were buying up shares off the public market. This doesn't seem more objectionable than any other hostile takeover. If a business owner wants to maintain control of their company then it's trivially easy for them to do so. All they have to do is not explicitly sell it, which is what an IPO is after all.

And I'm having trouble seeing where the creeping socialism concerns come in. The end goal, according to the wikipedia page, was that the companies would be owned and operated by their own labor unions, which isn't an uncommon or inherently controversial corporate governance model. The state appears to have merely been facilitating the transfer.

With perfect hindsight we can of course see that it didn't work out, but I doubt I would have been able to predict that in advance with any confidence. Would this have been fine if the state used a different taxing model? Would it have been okay if the labor unions managed to do it of their own initiative? Is it that broadening ownership of a corporation is inherently objectionable for some reason?

What am I missing?
maybe the ones who got rich off ICOs could build the thing they said they were gonna build
I probably agree with the author of this piece on many things, but this article felt a whole lot like the shouting that drove me off Twitter about the same time she left.

I was never the target of right-wing trolls, but I did see many people in my Twitter-sphere tweet non-stop about it with such vitriol that I’m not sure I was getting less aggregate exposure.

I think the problem is that Twitter is a platform for evolutionary selection of slogan-based-dialog. I kind of imagine two armies standing across a battlefield from one another carefully deciding which volley of pithy digs to throw at one another.

This article feels like a rehash of all that—generating, like Twitter, more heat than light.
> So I understand AV1 is great for streaming content when you have a lot of encoder computing resources.

> What about other video codec application areas?

Having lots of compute means you can run the algorithm in a software encoder on general-purpose hardware. This is slow/expensive, but it means you can deploy the encoder relatively quickly - say, weeks - to start getting benefits of saved bandwidth.

If you need to do encoding in a low-latency/real-time or low-power environment, basically you need to use hardware accelerated encoding/decoding. That means waiting years (sometimes decades, depending on the industry -- say, broadcast TV) to deploy the new codec. First the bitstream has to be frozen, then the hardware folks need to develop a hardware implementation, and then enough users need to buy devices with a new enough GPU or chip.
The article hit the nail on the head: "crypto colonialism".

I mean, say what you will about these newly-found billionaires, but one thing is for sure: they aren't helping anyone except themselves. They get a bunch of money dumped into their lap from thin air (literally), and the first thing they do is go to a place that was just leveled by natural disaster and with a shattered economy, and buy up cheap land for their own personal playground.

I mean. Wow. Tone deaf doesn't begin to describe it.
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Absolutely apply. I've been trying to find people with Django/React exp and am hiring at all levels (despite it saying intermediate).
It doesn't sound that obviously stupid to me. It's the stock purchase plan part of a 401k, where instead of the employee/employer-match coming before taxes, it comes from taxes. Either way it's tax incented, the difference is partly semantics. Giving those shares to trade unions instead of individuals makes it more like the classic pension system than the 401k, but the concepts are similar enough that it's quite possible to see the Swedish approach here as almost a direct forerunner to the 401k.
XOR should be an English word
And if the CPU supports frequency scaling, which pretty much any CPU made in the last decade does, considerably less power will be used in that "80% idle" state.
My neighbor maintained a bird feeder which brought in tons of different species. He moved and we're back to sparrows / pigeons / redwing blackbirds (summer) and the occasional crow .

Ironically the birds I was most enjoyed watching at the "bird feeder" were the red wing hawks that would sometimes come in for a meal
If you need to support IE 10, 11, or Edge then Grid is broken. Microsoft's browsers follow an older spec than Chrome/Safari/Firefox. Microsoft are going to fix Grid in Edge 17, but no release date yet.

Unfortunately this is my life right now. When Chrome and Firefox dropped support for NPAPI a lot of enterprise customers intentionally moved their users back to IE 11. The loss of NPAPI has ironically increased IE 11's market-share, talk about unintended consequences...

I understand why they didn't but part of me wishes Microsoft had enabled NPAPI in Edge just so we'd at least get modern web standards even if NPAPI is bad and insecure. Instead IE 11's life is now another five years at minimal or until the last Java Applet, ActiveX control, or Flash page disappears.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid
I'm assuming nation state alphabet agency 'security services' have been using this tech for decades, and now it has become mainstream....
Product managers produce less quality than self organized teams because even a good listener will not be able to coordinate all the small things that go into a great product where every domain specialist can contribute there sense of quality.

This inefficient centralization however is necessary in higher complexity orgs because otherwise the higher level has nothing to control, no levers to push and pull. (they can't track down and keep in touch with EVERY individual)

The downside of self organization is lack of focus outside a certain scale. The free market is a quintessential example of higher level emergent quality resulting from individual self organizing self centered interaction. It produces "goodness" but not in a mission directed way.

The JavaScript ecosystem is another example. And like all ecosystems (as opposed to just "systems") it can be messy and confusing despite what it does.

Efforts to tame these types of wildness often fail. Efforts to scale without becoming this type of wildness also often fail. As orgs grow, the focus on controllability requires more and more gatekeepers to maintain eventually choking actual output.
I'm having no issue with everything in that page disabled.
And there's a browser demo too :)

https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
Reminder that Puerto Rico's electricity is still not fixed: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/a-third-of-puer...
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I can unlock the phone as I take it out of my pocket. It's unlocked before I even look at it. I have not used Face ID.
I feel like journalists are just trying every way possible to create an anti-tech sentiment. Crazy how fast things can change from all hail the tech titans to oh these tech companies are creating a dystopia. Theres way too much noise in every aspect of information these days to help society focus on the problems that actually matter.
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One of my friends found a whole carton of chocolate eggs while dumpster diving at college, and spent his break living off of the eggs.
You could certainly use Clojure in the JVM like Scala/Java.

Or Kotlin for both front/back with transpilation to JS.
Ask HN: Open source developers, how do you find time for contributions?
Hi HNers,

I see lots of places require github profile when applying to job, if you don't have one, just -1 point. They are asking for demonstrable skills or work. If you are just an average developer, who get things done, then again -1 probably.

If your products are open source, then it is okay to show your contributions, but if you mostly work in closed source environments, how do you find time to contribute or create open source?

I have family and children, it is very difficult to work again after work, because family definitely needs your care.

UPD: Why I am writing this? Even though I have full time job now, we are struggling to be cash flow positive, which might require to find another job in coming months. I applied for around 30+ jobs, but mostly no answer or rejection without giving any feedback or reason for rejection. But young devs with some past github contributions are doing just fine (I wish them luck of course :) no offense here, just giving info ).
Not only that, the claim made about censorship is questionable as well. There are large number of claims made being made of over censorship.

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-has-gone-from-bastion...
Cryptographic timestamps are a thing
I wonder if this could be used to write C64 tapes?
eBay has no stake in PayPal, that was the whole purpose of splitting it out. Shareholders of eBay before the split were given PYPL shares on a 1:1 basis.
Then stop eating in such places. Stop eating chicken that comes from such places. Consumer pressure always helps.
Thanks. I read MacKay's book many years ago. Its accounts are not always historically accurate or well-documented, but it's a great read -- particularly its descriptions of Tulip Mania, the South Sea Bubble, and the Mississippi Bubble.

That said, I still can't quite fathom how or why a crowd of human beings will suddenly burst into dance, and do it until their bodies collapse from exhaustion.
I guess Norway can fund more of its social benefits through oil money?
Yes, intensively competitive companies like Amazon sometimes press workers hard. Without endorsing nor assigning blame to the company (which faces pressures from globalization and shareholders), there are many potential approaches to the problems:

1. Amazon could build a brand around treating workers better (UPS has at times had this reputation) and thus differentiate themselves and justify the cost of better pay and benefits.

2. Government regulations could require a certain standard of job creation or insurance coverage. These could be coupled with incentive programs.

3. Workers can organize. (i.e. into unions)

4. Consumers can vote with their dollars.

5. Investors can vote with their dollars.

There are many more variations on these themes.

If these kinds of solutions don't work, workers tend to get squeezed. Due to the complexities of our economic and political systems, in practice, certain companies end up treating human resources (people) as expendable assets to exploit. Sometimes they do so for a long time. That is why other power centers (government, labor organization, consumer activism, investor activism) are necessary to achieve broader goals.
There is a middle ground between "barely subsistence wages" and "high-paying, middle class wages" that Amazon could meet, and still be profitable.
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> I couldn't unlock it anymore while pinching it out of my pocket

I don't have that problem. Maybe if I wore skinny jeans. Unlock from pocket is the way I usually do it.