skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends who you ask

I don't play as much video games as much anymore but I had 5000 loyal followers that would take my word as the gospel.
I had some offers on a dozen gaming networks, the biggest one was TGN. I would categorize twitch followers based on age demographic, since this is most of the behavioral trends I noticed

Young millenials have nothing to better to do sometimes and really enjoy having that "virtual friend" / "virtual older sibling" mentality when it comes to video games. It fills a void they have and its easily accessible, all they need is their phone and internet. No need to schedule things with your buddies who might not be in the mood to game. Example, pewdiepie's viewers are on the younger demographic end

General agnostic age categories - I would divide into four areas regardless of age.

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- One (like me) who still likes gaming and wants to keep up with some games mostly out of curiosity / bc I don't have time, so I watch gameplay videos mostly on youtube. I skip ahead sometimes and only watch videos here and there, sometimes at 2x speed.

- Two, people who have nothing better to do and enjoy watching streamers as a form of entertainment. Sometimes I would fit in this category as well, I watch a few fortnite players (nickeh30) who just have a great personality and are able to pull complex movements that only maybe 0.1% of players could do.

- Third, people looking to get better at the game by watching streamers. I sometimes fit in above category

- Fourth, we also have the esports area. This is your diehard sports-level fandom and I used to be a huge fan of DoTA partially because I played it for 10+ years and played with some of the top players competing today. It was nostalgia for me if anything, much like people who loved soccer growing up watched the world cup

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So there you go, that's how I categorize gamers on twitch. You also have kappa trolls among other things and also softcore porn tailored towards parental controlled networks for kids nearing puberty but that's a totally different story. Then you also have programming streams, we get a largely mostly older / smarter tech audience for that.

Twitch does have an API as well if you want to do data analytics on it
Will Bitcoin Save Us from Google?
Is the set of claimants gender-biased? Asking for a friend.
Sure, lets all push for that "supernice" community vibe that avoids any and all controversy by giving numerical means to point out and grounds to get rid of those members raising tough and controversial discourse.

Push it into the fucking ground! Get rid of people like me, like every other platform does to provide a "high quality site for all members"! Curbstomp the undesireables for the sake of the greater community (even though it's actually to avoid political fallout and protect the shareholders than the community).

It doesn't matter everyone has their proverbial nuts cut off if it happens to foster an "inclusive" community. This is TOTALLY not like China's social credit system, right guys?! PROTECT SOCIETY FROM THE UNDESIREBLE! COMMUNITY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL! COMMUNITY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL!!

Fuck you if you think this is anything but a garbage idea that fosters virtue-signaling and appropriates the status quo. I'd rather be banned from this place and have a shit social-credit score than be part of the system.

Watch me get compared to the alt-right, my comment deleted and perma-banned from HN for being "rude" -- which completely misses the entire point of this post. It's really easy to rationalize removing someone if he's "undesirable". Sure the alt-right thinks LGBTs are "undesireable", but they always fail to point out the exact same hypocritcal behavior by people like the guy who made this system: the establishment of an undesireable class, and the (beginning of) rationalization to remove them.

Food for thought: Homosexuals, jews and communists all were "undesired" in their time and place. Identity politics is a dangerously slippery slope and modern America -- the entire west is full of it.

Wake the fuck up, quit that shit.
PS: Fuck you you fucking fucks, give me the worst fucking score you can give me. Come on! Do it! I'd rather you'd be busy purging me than the others! Can't argue with crazy!
Agreed. His ideas are often completely incoherent and occasionally devolve into a mixture of pseudoscience and philosophical babble. He is also difficult to argue against because he is essentially the statistics equivalent of a nihilist.

I’m not sure why there are so many people who take him seriously.
The Principia is sort of a proof that 1 + 1 = 2, but it's not that simple, we could be perfectly rigorous without it. Principia Mathematica is more of an investigation into the logical basis of mathematics that "useful" proof.
Serious question: I've heard that Bezos's approach with building out commercial units is to break down each part of the vertical into separate commercially-viable components. Idea being if AWS doesn't make sense for 3rd parties to use then it may not be economical to use it internally.

Now the question part: would Amazon ever secretly run Amazon.com in a multi-cloud setup, balancing between AWS, GCE, Azure, etc?
This definitely looks interesting for using with S3/Lambda, but it's not up-to-date to the latest thumbor version[0], and not sure if it's most cost-effective at larger scales.

In any case, my main point was that there are plenty of great options for resizing/manipulating images on-the-fly rather than pre-processing :) how you choose to deploy it is secondary.

[0] it's providing thumbor 6.4.2, and the latest is 6.5.1 (I'm pretty sure it's possible to upgrade though)
The cynic in me is screaming that this site is simply a lawyer referral intake front. There are a number of websites that try to brand themselves as public service tool but it's basically attorney advertising except more clever.

That's their monetization. They don't have to sell advertising because the submissions are worth real money alone. I do a fair amount of work in the legal space and these deceptive tactics are really disappointing to see. I'd name some of the top offenders of this but I rather not give them anymore traffic and signals for google. If you're funded by lawyers or are a lawyer yourself please just say you are without the fog of a non-profit community driven platform.

If that's not the case with these sites (no way to really know what sort of handshake deals were made but I'd be surprised) I wish you the best of luck.
Does anyone know of a good open source text-based journaling system that lets you easily inline images/audio/video/etc, with render-to-html functionality? My goal is to document what's going on in my life, and that's not really possible with only text. This is where Evernote really shines in my opinion. I've been missing that functionality ever since I got off Evernote. Been wanting to create a basic system for myself for a while now.
https://github.com/DarthSim/imgproxy/ imgproxy I've not seen mentioned, it is probably the fastest image processing I've used yet. It uses libvips, https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/HOWTO----Image-shrin... which not only handles resizing & other basic img needs but optimizes on top of being very light weight on memory & CPU cycles compared to most other implementations.
It's almost as though some governments have been determined through economic and military strength to be more significant and powerful than others perhaps?

Whataboutism doesn't change the facts at hand, do they? A hostile foreign state orchestrated an intelligence operation to elect a specific person to further their own geopolitical goals. Every single person in this country should be alarmed by this.
Your synonymous use of "educated" with "neoliberal" is notable. Those who ignore the views of the workers because they are not articulated in language they find acceptable do so at their own historical peril.
I'm taking a wild guess here: The ads look like they were intended to drive traffic to pages, which would be the real 'meat' of the campaign. The ads themselves aren't very interesting.

Also, the image data is missing. A lot of these are non-sequiturs without the picture.
All of the pointer issues you mentioned have already been solved in C++ by unique_ptr.
Thanks, yes I'd love to see some sort of formal support for pure text-based browsing, beyond things like "Reader Mode" that only make articles more accessible not UIs.
Bitcoin won't do jack. It's unsustainable for any remotely common use purely due to energy consumption, the network using more electricity in a given period than some first-world countries while handling a small fraction of the transactions a network like Visa handles.
The (hypothetical) day when AWS & Amazon.com goes down on Prime Day and Amazon stock tanks 50%.
Burned a lot of trust? How is this a violation of trust? If a company can’t meet their GDPR obligations under this law, EU citizens have successfully voiced through legislation that they don’t want these businesses operating in the EU. You can’t have your tea and drink it too. This is a consequence.
Missiles have improved so much that being able to turn a little harder is of marginal benefit. Even if you remove the human pilot, the airframe is still subject to load limits.

£2bn is just for initial design work and won't go very far. The full design will be much more expensive.
>reflecting some amount of disillusionment

Disillusionment through propaganda and well-timed leaks of stolen documents by a foreign, hostile power.
It flies just fine if they're asleep at the wheel -- which they most definitely are.
Robots that paint have gotten pretty impressive
In Short: Lidl’s legal team messed that one up.

In defense of ... well actually I don’t know whom I defending here, but what is undereported by German media in this case is “Scheinselbständigkeit”. The remainder of the story then fits the common narrative that developers share about SAP (look, enterprise software in action) and consultants (all overpaid underperformers).

“Scheinselbständigkeit” is a legal term, translatable as “fake entrepreneurialism” and a common problem for German IT freelancers and contractors because it basically states, that you aren’t a freelancer if you serve one client exclusively for more than 6 consecutive months. This could result in huge fines for you but more likely your client as you become retroactively an employee of your client which in turn must pay social security for the years you served him.

It is still a vague term though and in result causes a giant legal grey area, which in turn results in each sector copying what its dominant company’s legal team declared.

For Lidl this means that in the middle of this project, they just happened to fire all of the freelancers.

You can imagine the impact: the most capable and experienced developers had to be replaced with inexperienced freshmen or stuff had to be outsourced to agencies staffed with inexperienced freshmen.
So many kids these days want to be Twitch streamers. I think it's the gamer version of wanting to grow up to be a NFL/NBA/MLB/etc. player.
Completely agree. Bezos is great. This is not so much an attack on Bezos as it is an attack on a system that let's 30 single individuals amass more wealth than the bottom 3 billion.
I still use shell scripts for moving assets around and build sass, I use webpack for the TypeScript/dependency managment (via yarn).

I looked at doing it with webpack but frankly 2 lines of bash that'll work the same in a decade vs haha no wasn't a hard choice.
Just tried to do a search, got no results. Google search found me the product page, (which worked).

If you can't even search for products, there's a problem!
Ok, fair points. The estimated cost of replacing the trident nuclear deterrent is somewhere north of £25bn so I guess £2bn is "cheap" anyway.

I take your point about uncertainty of AI, particularly in light of growing concerns that self driving cars are a lot further off than predicted.

But in regard to betting on drones being risky, surely betting on old fashioned manned planes is riskier?
Ahhhh I see. Actually this is something I've really been curious about myself - whether the better strategy overall for a keeper returning the ball into open play (from goal kick or from hand) is to just boot it as far up-field as possible or passing it short to one of the defence or midfielders sitting deep.

Interestingly something like this is a tactic used in Rugby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbti6mLvSJs). I used to play a lot of football when I was younger and at our level (waaaay down the scottish league pyramid) against tired, hungover or generally weak opposition, keeping them under pressure by dominating the territorial game but sacrificing possession was criminally underrated. Usually if you could keep hammering them for 60 minutes and had the legs to step up a gear in the last 30 or so you could grab a valuable goal or two :-)
As someone that worked at Amazon a long time ago—back when AWS was just getting started—can confirm (historically). Publicly there were a myriad of AWS services; internally all we could use was S3 (for many years), if we were lucky. AWS being born of Amazon's "spare capacity" is an urban legend.

Nowadays, I hear it's quite different, and much of AWS is more rapidly dogfooded.
I use `brew cask` to install firefox, and browsh adamantly refuses to use ~/Applications/Firefox.app.

Not complaining, just reporting.

Once it was up and running, I guess my terminal styling is conflicting with the renderer: https://i.imgur.com/5JJuLYe.png

EDIT: Ah, it works great in iTerm. Thanks for the cool browser.
Remember when everyone was talking about how an amoral AI paperclip optimizer could destroy the planet? We have those, they're called corporations and they optimize dollars.
Rising Seas Could Cause Problems for Internet Infrastructure
> Now the question part: would Amazon ever secretly run Amazon.com in a multi-cloud setup, balancing between AWS, GCE, Azure, etc?

I'm not sure how secretive it would be. AWS 'bids' on Amazon.com's business and Amazon.com is under no obligation to use AWS as it's cloud service provider.
It's just terrible UX. The images show if you hover over the camera icon (assuming something else isn't broken for you). E.g. the car example is a picture of the General Lee (or something similar with the Confederate flag on top of it).

The south rising again is a giant confederate flag. Etc.
I think you’re missing the entire, huge segment of young non-student non-professionals.
To be fair, the cops are fatter, too.

On a more serious note, a population is only peacefully policed at the enjoyment of the people. The critical mass of insurrection beyond which a population can no longer be policed is low. In my lifetime I have seen riots in LA, Baltimore, and Ferguson, to name just three. And those were of minority populations. If the entitled "obese" hegemonic population were part of the insurrection, it might be more difficult to put them down.
Meh, China will.
Nearly all histories of the Great Depression are agenda driven, rather than an honest attempt at fact finding.

Most paint it as a failure of capitalism, the rest as a direct result of government manipulation of the banking system, trade disruption caused by Smoot-Hawley, and huge tax increases.
Totally agree with the page weight and that we're missing something.
Increasing page weight when we're also increasing connection speeds is only bad when the first one increases more rapidly, and I believe that we're under that situation.

Would love to connect to chat about this and for sure I'll read the follow-up article.

Thanks for the feedback too!
After reading Ryan Holiday's "Trust Me I'm Lying" and knowing how well AWS usually handles surges of traffic, I am not so sure that this isn't a marketing stunt that gets them an amazing amount of press. Cynical?
Credit Card Interest Should Have a 1-Year Limit
TIL I am very bad
«They are not wildly profitable (if at all).»

Often repeated, but wrong. Their financials might show almost no net income (just $3B) but that's just because they choose to reinvest every dollar of gross profits into themselves to grow.

Just look at their income statement: in 2017 they invested $23B into "R&D". These are profits they could have just taken.

Obviously, reinvesting in themselves has been a fantastic choice. That's how they were able to grow their revenues ~10× over the last 10 years ($20B to $180B)...

As long as reinvesting works so well, you will keep seeing a "meager" net income of $3B yearly.
This is the page everyone seems to be getting

https://i.imgur.com/vpIHDpA.jpg?1
> drone AI that can out-think a human

In my mind they are always remotely controlled, not only because I think it's extremely dangerous to have an algorithm pulling the literal trigger, but also because of what you mentioned.
Honestly, I fucking hate Amazon. I love going to a store, feeling the product and then deciding if I like the look and feel of a product. And Amazon doesn't even carry good stuff anymore. It's all just junk nowadays, and the useful stuff is often overpriced or out of stock. I want somewhere where I can find unique, good quality brands, and brick&mortar will always be best for that.
Sure those are just basic stats and could be improved probably, but they do reflect the reality that Brazil should have won; they got unlucky with an own goal, and they made some key mistakes at critical times, failing to finish great chances.

You're not going to find a statistical approach that will account for the subtleties that led to this outcome. The problem with soccer stats in general is that everything hinges on low-frequency events based on subtle differences of timing and space.

Basketball by comparison is much more stat-rich, and there are a lot of cool advanced analytics, but even still they are full of gaps that are obvious to any expert watching the game. Afterwards maybe you can find the statistical signature of something you saw, but then you risk overfitting again, just the same as soccer.
I didn't click on it exactly because that's what I expected!
Because "troops on the ground" is also an outdated concept, and so are mortars and indirect fire, and tanks, and naval cannons and so on...

There's an old adage: "Wars are not fought in the past."

But really, with nuclear statehood, wars, kind of, aren't fought at all. There's a similar sentiment, that every since nuclear explosions were first realized, war, and technology in general has become a game of filling in the "gradient of destructive power" for everything possible, in between the enormous gulf of differential annihilation that contrasts fissile material and ordinary Victorian era gun powder, and how to deliver it.

Truthfully, though. We do need to continue to explore continued advancements in high performance manned air craft, and the natural place for things like that to happen is within military and law enforcement institutions. They need to be able to respond with a sane ratio of force to smaller actors and upstarts, without being out gunned.

There will always be smugglers, there will always be pirates, there will always be weirdos, even in outer space. There will always be race cars, there will always be speed boats, there will always be thoroughbred race horses, even on the moon.

Countries will spend money on this stuff, and fold it into civilian applications. We'll see better passenger jets, space trucks and lunar excursion modules. We'll be people in the sky, and some people will take that, and do stuff that lands them in jail for it.

The future will not be robots over head, and people in dungeons. Or at least I fucking hope not.
Good example of something that got traction on HN:

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
Upvoted simply for the discussion; I cannot begin to understand how this individual rationalizes his pedophilia in this way, going as far as to quote Braveheart to defend his position. It so closely mirrors Terry Davis' fanaticism that the diatribe reads like parody.

Also, FTA:

> wicked Jewish shit eaters

Either this guy is finally breaking and having a mental episode, or he is "just" a virulent racist. @dang I hope you're monitoring this thread...
There's no silver bullet, but I think you just have to pick a scope of specialization. I'll see if I can analogize it to my day job: I work for an ecommerce platform with built-in search, CMS, and business insights. That doesn't sound like specialization compared to, say, Shopify, but often times the companies that fit well for us are ecommerce companies that find they're spending too much effort being an IT shop, instead of focusing on marketing, merchandising, and branding. You can absolutely have a go at building a homegrown ecommerce platform that suits your needs, but are you thinking about maintaining that effort in-house five years down the road?

My wife's a composer, and between the work the two of us have put in around her music, she's gotten pretty good exposure - a piece of hers went fairly viral in 2009, with peak exposure probably being a couple of segments on the Rachel Maddow Show (and a lot of law blogs leading up to that). I built a custom CMS for showcasing the music she writes, and we take advantage of social media... but we've also seen friends of hers, also composers, short-circuit that by hiring a PR firm, and suddenly they're being reviewed in the New York Times. Throwing that cash around is way more efficient than, say, marrying a web developer and dabbling in media creation alongside maintaining a career in music composition.

On a larger scale, Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails has been through a couple of cycles of this. Started out on an indie label (1988), found it wasn't serving them well, basically struck out on their own to earn enough credibility that a big label bought out the contracts (1991), which worked well until it didn't (2000), went almost entirely in-house (2008), which did okay but didn't scale, and post-2010, works with different people or agencies with different strengths, between selling merch, manufacturing & distribution, tour management, publicity, and so forth.
It seems like what you need is a manned fighter that stays in the air some distance behind a fleet of semi-autonomous drones doing the actual fighting/killing. The pilot acts as an officer, selecting targets and providing general orders, while his or her plane provides the short-range encrypted comms which are hard to intercept or interrupt.
I started reading your comment assuming you were stating a small business that was making a pre-commitment not to "sell out". I was pleasantly surprised to see you were highlighting a company that is "safe" to "sell out" TO.

Even though I hate the fallout that impacts me as a user, I'm generally happy to see financial success come to those that made something cool (if you didn't make promises to the contrary). Committing to NOT selling out tends to just tie the hands (and wallets) of those that are giving me what I want, so that doesn't seem to be a good option. But this is a good option, at least as advertised: Sell out to someone that will try to make sure your customers don't resent the results.

Looking over their list of companies I don't believe I've worked with any of them - does anyone have actual experiences to share?
I meant to say something more like "Given my needs for a text based web browser, it's more likely I'd be running it on a more secure enclave where I'd subject any package I'd install to a great deal of scrutiny".

I think you've answered it elsewhere, in a sibling comment to my first... for those with restricted bandwidth/slower connections this makes more sense than for other use cases where a sysadmin might use it because of security/business restrictions. I appreciate you didn't write the article/choose the wording.
changing the url to smile.amazon.com works
Easy listening: the rise of the audiobook
It isn't solidly profitable, in fact, its solidly unprofitable. They haven't been profitable yet.
Nothingburger presented in a very complicated ui imo