skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only the most dedicated fans engage in that sort of thing.

I think most people use it when they need something low-investment to watch for a bit, pull up a popular stream for whatever game you're interested in and you have something that you can easily step in or out of, switch to a different stream if one gets boring, etc.

Same way some people use reality shows and similar such things.
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Consumer of the content as well. I play some of the games I watched stream. For me it includes insight into how things work and how to play better. Some streamers have good connections to developers and also provide a platform by which they and their audience can discuss a game, mechanics, and such, live, which is much more enjoyable than just posting to a forum.

Finally the more successful streamers are very enjoyable to watch. They engage with their audiences and treat them with respect. Compared to some of the smaller or no audience streamers who don't communicate or are just rude to their audience when they have one.

It is entertainment, it also is background noise for me when I am working.
My "favourite" SAP experience was at the last company I worked at who used it for everything.

One guy who worked for me did a 4 day week - he sometimes took half a day of leave, and when he got to his last half day he could never book it, because the system was adamant he only had 0.49 days of leave remaining.

Not sure if that was bad configuration when it was implemented ... or the product being a bit ropey when something doesn't fit their model perfectly, but it stuck with me and made me forever wary.
Yes, I read the article, I'm asking this person specifically about their experience and perspective.
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This is clever... is the N^2 behavior just due to nCr(n, 2) = n^2/2 - n/2 growing quadratically?
This is one of the reasons I strongly prefer text-based/command-line interfaces: they're always scriptable. In the worst case you'll just generate a bunch of commands that'd take a human forever to execute.
it's called strategy consulting
Some really old ones would have a tank close to the ceiling and a pull chain to flush.

But that means old. Nothing built since end of WW II would have that.
Another option, if your images are simple enough, is to use https://github.com/fogleman/primitive to convert it to SVG. Might not be worth the effort though as the space savings could be too insignificant to matter for the artifacts produced. Neat effect though for small amounts of shapes.
Why I created the Exherbo linux project
I generally agree, as PDF's were designed for (and are best used for) making documents for printing on paper. BUT:
"We cannot get as much information from analytics about how people are using PDFs. We can get data on how many times a PDF has been downloaded from GOV.UK, but we cannot measure views of the file offline."
...that section made me wonder if perhaps I have been missing a possible upside to PDF's.
(I replied but the reply vanished. If it reappears, apologies for the dup.)

Yeah, go has a magic function `func init()` which gets called before main. (You can actually have as many init's as you want, and they all get called.)

Probably evil, though so far it hasn't hurt me in the same way as, e.g., c++ constructors have. Maybe because it's more explicit and thus you're less likely to use it in practice.
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Myself I stream to archive my gameplay. It's just good to look back some moments and some interactions later so if I record it then why not broadcast it too? I guess I fall in the same situation because I only have 1-2 viewers.
> > pulled the kill chord.

> pulled the plug

Kill cords are a thing (on powerboats, particularly) and the original metaphor is fine.

> > For years, Lidl is expanding operations.

> For years, Lidl has expanded operations.

'For years, Lidl has been expanding operations'. Past continuous tense is better if the expansion's still going on.

> > high-turnover countries

> high-volume or high-revenue

High-turnover is completely correct, at least in British English.
Look what I discovered! If you try to think of what can go wrong, it can keep you from making a mistake! My dad just harumphed at me, but he doesn't know what's cool!
Yeah, lots of people "remember" doing things when they were sixteen or seventeen, or maybe even 12 or 13, but the memory gets murkier.
In my experience, it's very easy for people to remember something they did at a given age fondly, and push it for their kids at a earlier age inadvertently.

Memory is a tricky thing. I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't comparing today's 13 year old to your 16 year old self inadvertently.
How toxic is the waste in a zkSNARK trusted setup?
Projects running over-budget

Projects running over-time

Software was very inefficient

Software was of low quality

Software often did not meet requirements

Projects were unmanageable and code difficult to maintain

Software was never delivered

Yeah, that one.
> “the level of integration is unparalleled”

Can you elaborate?
From the article:

Valderrama allegedly said that she organized newsletter swaps, in which authors would promote each other’s books to their respective mailing lists.

Funnily enough, I've seen this same behavior from developers, freelancers, and authors who are "internet famous" on HN and Reddit. I've signed up for quite a few newsletters from these people because they often provide useful information.

But since I signed up for so many, I started noticing that fairly often, they'd recommend each others' products. I realize it's entirely possible that these endorsements are authentic, but after a while, it starts to look like it's an interconnected web of people that met at conferences and agreed to cross-promote each each other on their respective newsletters. And so it ends up feeling like each recommendation isn't really authentic, but is instead more of a quid pro quo in exchange for a reciprocal recommendation.

And it's possible that I'm completely wrong and just imagining all of this. It's just one of my pet peeves, so perhaps I'm exaggerating how prevalent it is. And don't even get me started on developers who have resorted to hokey long-form sales copy to sell their books and services... :)
Question: can cables be woven into a fabric, so that it can simulate cloth?
Virtually all of the consumed memory is from the reference frames, so it depends on how big your video is. AV1 supports up to 8 reference frames, though if you're memory constrained you could use less.

Different encoders produce different outputs, the algorithm isn't specified.
When tackling a problem and coming up with a solution, think first about how would you test that your solution will work. Software Engineering is unfortunately far away from being able to prove the correctness of a solution, but having a good plan of how to demonstrate the robustness is a promising step towards good engineering.

But yes, most of it comes with experience. Software engineering is mostly dealing with complexity. And the realisation that you will never know enough to completely control it.
Urgh, I hate that you can't edit HN comments.

First two were just me making a mistake because I write that in manually.

That last column makes no sense. It was supposed to be the probability that the model gave to the outcome that occurred, but I got the maths wrong.
Ok, which medication?
Because there is x% chance that you might return this ladder and get another one. The ladder ads should go away after the expiration of free return period.
It makes sense if the player is REALLY good at the game, ie. in the top 0.1% globally or similar. It serves as a learning experience. You will learn much faster by watching a good player compared to grinding the game and slowly discovering the same mechanics yourself.

You probably wouldn't watch some random kids stream of them playing football in their backyard.
Now imagine Messi himself doing exactly that and also commenting it live, explaining all his tricks and his reasoning for every move he makes on the field. I bet you would be much more interested.
And here I am realizing the stupidity of my question... (3008 MB is close to 3GB)
This is a similar conversation with the same confusion about checklists versus ToDo lists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15799539
For ToDo lists, Google tasks has everything I need. There is a good app and very simple web interface: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1
Adding a date will make a reminder show in Android notification bar and show in Google calendar.
I have it organized into lists: Today (should be cleared out daily), Queue (pull from this list when bored), Projects (collections of tasks for long-term), and subject-specific lists like Music, Home, etc.
> Worldwide, nonnative speakers of English outnumber natives by a ratio of three to one.

I was vaguely aware of this, but hadn't really thought about the numbers.
WebArchive uses Cocoa binary object serialization and is supported only by Safari.
Sure. The cost of a car and, potentially, the cost of garaging a car in a city definitely merit a harder look at alternatives than other items may. There are definitely city-dwellers who don't drive a lot and, with increased transportation options in a lot of cities, the marginal car-owner increasingly has other options they can consider.

I know a couple in SF who don't own a car that probably wouldn't have been able to do so prior to Uber/Lyft, Zipcar, food delivery, etc. Of course, they also don't really do outdoor trips requiring a lot of gear on a regular basis and their kids are grown up and moved out as well.
Well, you've got exposures on both sides (and you keep the tiny bit in difference between what you buy at and what you sell at, in aggregate.) I'm not sure how gambling bookies work, but I'm assuming it is very simple principles...arent gambling bookies essentially market makers just like Wall Street market makers?
What have I learned from 2+ years of online dating
With a black background and Yellow or off-white text I have less problems. I also have a night text that is orange-ish or brownish if it's really dark where I'm reading.
Instapaper is going independent
It’s not clear to me, either. Here’s my interpretation, based off the abstract:

> These authors report that infection with a different herpes virus, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), leads to a similarly increased risk of later developing SD. Further, when the authors looked at patients treated aggressively with antiherpetic medications at the time, the relative risk of SD was reduced by a factor of 10. It should be stressed that no investigations were made on subjects already suffering from SD, and that those treated were the few rare cases severely affected by HSV. Nonetheless, antiherpetic medication prevented later SD development in 90% of their study group.

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...

And the article:

> The latter study — deemed "most important" by Profs. Itzhaki and Lathe — examined 8,362 people aged 50 and above who received a diagnosis of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection, as well as a control group of 25,086 age-matched healthy people.

Within the HSV1 population, a small amount happened to get aggressive treatment at some point. It’s not clear whether they got treatment at any point in their life, or if they got treatment after the study began (meaning they got treatment at age 50 or later). This minority happened to have much less chance of Alzheimer’s later on in life.

In regards to the timing of the treatment, my guess is that they got treated upon outbreak, since it said that they were severely affected. They would get treatment when they were in the most pain or discomfort.

It sounds like only a small minority of the 8K people in the HSV group got treatment.
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I've heard their directed investments referred to as 'qualitative easing' https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/11/how-chinas-tr....

Unfortunately in the US, like you said, it seems like a lot of the capital has gone into west coast real estate and the stock market. Why wouldn't it? It's a lot easier to make money from rents than to actually build things.

I'm always awed by how much indirect ROI you can get from infrastructure, and I'm always disappointed in how bad the US is at it these days. I like to cite the hoover dam as a wildly successful infrastructure project - I visited it for the first time recently and learned that it was built for ~49M USD (639M USD in today's dollars). The indirect ROI on it is epic. It spawned Las Vegas and allowed other west coast cities to grow all along the southwest, not to mention the money it's made back in hydroelectric power and tourism. It did take a crisis (the great depression) to build it for so cheap though... The recession probably would have been a good time to do this stuff. Unfortunately, we got higher asset prices instead.

As for the GDP, yeah, it's a poor measure of growth. Yay, homes are now twice as expensive and people are relatively poorer, but we've succeeded in meeting our growth target!
Except that the ghost cities in China are of incredibly poor quality and falling apart a mere months after construction. Other than that, good point!
Clearly you haven't observed the trend of corporate consolidation in this country, especially in the financial sector.

What happens when there's only two, and they both deny you? Seems shortsighted to not care about your privacy.
From my understanding and reading, local government does collect taxes, though not much.

Links in Chinese:

1. https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/地方税务局

2. https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/地方税/4480452?fromtitle=地税&fro...
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"Alpinism" sounds like a disease.
The Rust Evangelism Strike Force has nothing on the remnants of the once-mighty civilization from the Lost Continent of Amiga. "Oh, you poor benighted soul, how I pity you. Do you not know that the gods spoke in 68000 assembly? If you've never programmed the Copper via a DMA transfer in response to a raster interrupt, then my friend, you haven't truly begun to live."
A YouTube "view" means that someone played the content for ~30 seconds.
There’s a big difference between that and viewbotting, though.
Whoa. I am a The Office sleeper and had no idea that was a thing. There's something comforting about knowing I'm not the only one.
ERP is probably the slowest moving market in software. Trying to sell ERPs for almost a decade now here is what I learned

1. The first reason for this is compliance. Most large companies are worried about compliance and trust only comes with many years of successful deployments. For a new entrant to be recognized can take upto 10 years and for clients to accept the solution as a solid one.

2. The second reason is complexity. When you consider the scale and complexity of an implementation, most new ERP companies do not understand the effort goes into pre-sales and going through hundreds of pages of RFPs. There are system integrators, consultancies and entire ecosystems locked in to this duo-poly.

But things are changing. We run an open source product (https://erpnext.org) and we have seen people are looking to move away from the SAP-Oracle duopoly. Innovative companies where the CTO has as much as a say as a CIO in such decisions are willing to look outside at Open Source. It is still very early days, but this space looks exciting right now.
I wish you worked for my customers.
GraphQL is pretty different from REST and SOAP.

In practice it is like exposing a very limited interpreter directly to the public internet. Instead of working with resources and limited verbs and hypermedia or SOAP (which is literally just documents) you allow clients to submit what are essentially programs with are then evaluated. In other words its mobile code all over again. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_mobility
Depends on how many phones and computers you've got around.

Plenty of people also pay to outsource it, too.
In an ideal world developers never push something with broken tests to CI. When developers don't run the tests locally it seems like a sign that there are too many bloated integration tests and not enough fast unit tests.
Another approach is to design the site with SVGs as the priority format. Use flat cartoon like graphics in place of JPG photographs, whenever possible.
There’s something more there: a desire for community and interaction.
Because it is cheaper than the cost of figuring out how to do it the other way?
The corrollary of "you need to break the rules (such as view-botting) to get ahead" is that only people who are willing to view-bot "make it", which in turn really reduces the diversity of the content which ends up in the 'mainstream' (or main-stream for twitch, meaning front-page or top X when listing by game).
Amazons 'tactics' are no different than any retailer of consumer goods. You see the deceptive practices applied especially in clothing where items are marketed at inflated prices and then suddenly dropped 50% or more for a 'sale'.
Yes, exactly. Chemical engineers needs to know chemistry, but they need to know more. They need to know "how do we make this stuff, efficiently, at scale, without blowing up the plant." They're not going to get that from the chemistry department.

So, does a software engineer need to know some computer science? Absolutely, but they need to know more than that. They need to know how to efficiently produce working software at scale.

And, to return to my previous post, starting with Haskell could still get you to a software engineering education, as opposed to a computer science education. But it feels to me like the initial direction is aiming at a CS education, not at a software engineering education.
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I really feel like this just happens because they don't have enough people looking over the data recommendations and the actual market economics, or enough communication between both divisions, if those divisions are sufficiently black boxed from one another. The difference may be purchasing one ladder versus purchasing a ladder, returning a ladder, and purchasing another ladder. Or companies, contractors, etc. purchasing in bulk. Obviously if their core recommendation algorithms are sufficiently generalized to all item types, it doesn't matter that it's a ladder. You could be getting side effects from people buying pencils for classrooms in bulk or survivalists stocking up on canned goods. If the recommendation algorithms account for some categorical relation between item types, it still doesn't remove the problem, because different people in the world use different products differently and they can't all be classified and generalized to a collection of people's rule systems. It doesn't even begin to factor in the sorts of 'second order' logic required when new economic systems begin to grow on top of the existing supply-demand relation. You could be getting side effects from competitive buyers on amazon treating amazon products like they are stocks.

It is hard. Dynamical systems.
According to Wikipedia local government collects taxes, including property tax:

https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/地方税
Congratulations, getting interviewed is a big deal. I think it's worth the perspective that you have no idea what the person hiring you is looking for...but the most likely case is that they looked at your CV and thought, this might be the person I am looking for. It's also worth the perspective that the person who wrote the job description did not think the job required a CS degree and the people deciding on candidates didn't think it was critical in this particular case either. That's why you've got the interview.

In terms of agile, a little academic knowledge from googling is just basic interview preparation. Unlike "algorithms and data structures," agile is reasonably bounded and what an interviewer expects someone with zero experience know is not going to vary less...I mean some interviewers consider A* and red-black trees too easy and others too hard because algorithms are math.

Good luck and congratulations again.
I moderate a Twitch channel that has about 800 viewers for any given stream. (1100 paid subscribers or thereabout.) I don't do it every day, but I do find the streamer entertaining and I play the game he streams, so it's a somewhat educational (you can apply what you watch to your own gameplay) way to zone out and not do any thinking. Sometimes you feel like watching, sometimes you feel like playing. Since I started watching Twitch streams, I honestly haven't watched normal TV and couldn't name any current TV programs or movies; Twitch has taken that over. (Why watch instead of play? Rank is at stake and if I'm tired and not going to be making good decisions quickly, I'm just going to throw the game and lose my precious precious SR.)

You are right that the audience skews very young. Most of the viewers are half my age, and act like it... but we do do a pretty good job keeping the discussion intelligent. Most people write off Twitch chat, but if actively curated it can be educational, interesting, and inviting to more than just the "I'm 15 and my parents won't let me watch TV so I'm watching this on my phone" demographic. Most channels stopped trying; we try and we're doing okay.

Some games are easier to watch than others. Overwatch is fine, it's a very action-packed game and there are no boring moments. I play Hearthstone but honestly don't watch any streams because it's just sitting there for 70 seconds waiting for the streamer (or their opponent) to make a decision. I do watch edited videos on YouTube to see how decks I don't play work, however.

The downtime can really be a killer, though. I was watching a popular Hearthstone streamer play over the weekend (I was bored) and she spent most of the time playing that game where you draw something and the AI guesses it while waiting for her opponent to take their turn. Not worth my time.
China has a huge population so Per person China's GDP is much lower even including PPP.

Per capita GDP depends on things like natural resources and corruption levels. So China is likely to lag behind on that measure long term, still they plenty of room for improvement.
> Interesting thought: Do Facebook, Google, etc have "users" and not "customers" for their consumer products?

Advertisers are the customers. Non-advertisers are the product. The goal is not to provide a good service to the product, it's to drive engagement of the product up so customers are happy.
I enjoy watching good/pro Halo/COD players. I'm not at that level myself and don't have too much time to play, so it's cool to learn new tricks from the pros.
I don't know that anyone faithfully watches every broadcast. You host turn it on if you feel like watching
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Plenty (at age 48). But you probably know this, the literal meaning of disillusionment is "being freed from false beliefs or illusions". And that makes life simpler and "truer", so I wish you many more.
You can argue its justified but if its not ad hominem then what is it?
It may well turn out to be taxpayer subsidized too, but with additional financial crisis and bailout steps.