skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is shame, because as many know who have written a syntax highlighter for a language, there seem to be no real science or rules for what gets highlighted and what doesn't; and which do colors do we apply for each? Do operators get highlighted? What about function names? Variables? What about parens? Do we give [ ( and { different colors? Some lisp highlighters give each paren a different color so that it looks like a rainbow. Is this a good idea or a bad one? Do we give + - * / the same colors? Any color at all? The same color as =? It seems like everything is done based on intuition rather than any methodology. I'd be interested to see an article that answers some of the above questions.
Facebook still can’t control the far-right political propaganda monster it built
IMO online MBA from a respected school is a perfect thing for entrepreneurs that need flexibility and can't just take 2-3 years off. It's also awesome for digital nomads that can literally earn degree while lying on a Hawaiian beach or traveling around the world. And if the class is massive like at UIUC (2000 people?), networking effect gets a huge multiplier, globally, comparing to much smaller classes at M7 (and FAANG is quite strongly represented there, like with Georgia Tech's OMS CS). The only problem I see is prestige, so I'll keep an eye on iMBA to see how they wrestle with rankings.
Making money for your friend and losing the money of people that that don’t even knoW you pays off (before the fact, or after).
Try performing a search for "news aggregator" which may provide a list of sites that provide many updated links to over sites, often divided into categories. The better ones allow you to maintain your own list of categories.
> but if a president accidentally lets slip an authentic, uncensored thought it's called a "gaffe" and costs him approval points.

That was true before Trump.
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This early in your career you shouldn't be in the same job for five years unless you're making serious forward progress career-wise. Go work elsewhere. Sounds to me like you're depressed because your job is just not that exciting and you don't feel like you're getting anywhere with it. Go work elsewhere, move around. If nothing else you'll meet new people. More than a few times in my career old friendships turned into new jobs, and this has cumulative effect as time goes on (assuming you do a good job and people like you in general).

But don't just quit your job outright. Find a better job first, then quit your job. You'll look much more "attractive" to a potential employer if you are already employed and successful elsewhere.
I remember interviewing there during the peak hype (late 2015). Crazy environment.

According to Crunchbase they havent raised a round since then. I would guess the main reason we haven't heard much is:

* The ACA employer mandate has been at risk for the past couple of years, which was one of the main drivers of their business model

* They seem to have moved to a more standard SaaS model rather than giving the software away for free and making money on health insurance commissions.

* The CEO turmoil and regulatory issues caused them to keep a low profile.

Overall I think the Series C valuation is at serious risk, but the overall business would be profitable.
> I will wager actual money down on this

And I’d join you! But that is insufficient to dismiss OP’s claim as prima facie invalid. Mental health risks are real. And the chances of getting addicted to nicotine from a couple packs are small enough so as to be, prima facie, comparable to the risks of long-term mental health issues from the use of voice assistants.

We don’t have the data. OP’s claim and implied question are valid.
China is priced in. US was not. US forgets how much of its prosperity is due to economic freedom/liberty. US is quickly becoming just another country.
Take a look at https://kraken.io as well. Emphasis is on consistency of results and likeness to the original.
Mnuchin Warns of ‘Late Summer’ Default If No Debt-Limit Increase
I'd like to see all paywall content banned from HN.
you ever dealt with a big corporate?

that's like asking "why are there software bugs when programmers know how to code!"

of course, there's the other side of that coin, in that of you've got a big enough company and enough of a complex package network, the probability that you'll find packages routed erroneously or in bizarre directions approaches 1.

Given that we do not know the details of the packages, either their contents or supposed reason for rerouting, but we do know that Huawei has made a media story of this (a couple of packages rerouting is nothing to get in the paper about, and they could have kept quiet if they were genuinely concerned), about the only thing we can really take away from this is that is likely part of the public relations/propaganda jostling currently going on between US/China corporates.
This sounds good, but it doesn't really work, at least not in the way you think it will.

There's no way you can imagine yourself in an unknown future. You can not estimate how much you will regret one thing or the other, because you don't know the situation you will be in. All the variables affecting you (economy, health, family situation) are constantly changing. You're not going to picture yourself as a homeless alcoholic who somehow is still really glad he built that app once and would do all it all over again.

The first bad thing that'll probably happen after he quits his job is that his girlfriend will leave him. Not necessarily immediately, but it'll be a strain on the relationship. Even though she will not admit it (perhaps because she isn't even aware of it), she is probably dating him because he is a guy that has a decent job, not some dreamer with a wacky business idea (unless maybe that's how she got to know him). Breakups can be really tough on men, why can negatively affect work and motivation. Not being the guy with the decent job, it will be tougher to find a new partner as well.

The second bad thing that will happen is the realization that "being your own boss" and "working on the stuff that is important to you" versus "showing up" and "collecting a paycheck" always sounds better when you're doing the latter. Doing the former is actually a lot of stressful work and you can not tell how it works on you until you have done it.

Lastly, living with regrets is not such a big deal. Who doesn't live with regrets? Whatever you do, you can rely on your brain coming up with rationalizations on why this-and-that just wasn't meant to be.

Having said all that, with "five years of savings" (more like two years, am I right?), doing a sabbatical just to try it out should be in the cards. There may not be a need to quit the job, many companies offer this. If after six months to a year you aren't on the right track, it probably isn't working out, but you will have learned a lot about yourself.
The sight of a queue on the top of the greatest mountain of the world feels so sad.
This picture from the article basically sums it up: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/05/27/world/26everest2-...

I'm not sure what the appeal of Everest really is anymore now that it's been so developed. I've known people with minimal (as in, hiked up Mount Rainier and some other mountains that are totally achievable for normal people of okay fitness) climbing experience that climbed Everest. I wonder what it'd be if they mandated that people had to climb at least one other or two other 8 thousanders before climbing Everest. It'd probably cut down on the total traffic, while simultaneously generating even more revenue for Nepal as would-be Everest climbers now need to do one or two extra climbs.
The entry requirements aren't just "show me the phone you have", they include "give me your social media details".

Turning up with a burnder phone is a guarantee that you're going to spend hours in an immigration office.
It's better to use a blog to promote your own product. You can make a living with ads, but you will need an order of magnitude increase in traffic, which isn't easy.
Why are people going up there? What is the reward?
Let's say there are 100 kids in a school. You have $2000 dollars and you give fifty of them 3 packs of cigarettes and the other fifty Echo Dots. You follow them fifty years. You predict that the ones with Echo Dots will have worse lives than the ones with the cigarettes?

I just want to make sure I understand your assertion here. It's obvious to me no IRB would allow this study because they'd immediately realize the danger of the cigarettes not because of the Echos that are being presented as this massive risk.
Just seems emblematic of all the ways we’re fucking the planet up.
What it boils down to is that there used to be a lot of status given to Everest climbers, inducing the same type of awe that we gave people who've landed on the moon or who won an Olympic gold medal.

Unfortunately, not all of this reverence for Everest climbers has disappeared (yet) and unlike those other categories climbing this mountain could be commoditized, turning it into a simple money transaction at this point (yes sure, you still have to endure some hardship to climb Everest.)
I'm not suggesting the companies are compliant, the 5 Eyes Alliance probably doesn't want to give up it's cheap and easy access to telecom hardware ie: information dominance. The executives of Cisco back in 2014 lamented how all the Snowden leaks about backdooring their equipment boosted Huawei: https://venturebeat.com/2014/08/13/nsa-spying-tech-companies...

“This week a number of media outlets reported another serious allegation: that the National Security Agency took steps to compromise IT products enroute to customers, including Cisco products. We comply with US laws, like those of many other countries, which limit exports to certain customers and destinations; we ought to be able to count on the government to then not interfere with the lawful delivery of our products in the form in which we have manufactured them."
I’m increasingly of the opinion that people shouldn’t be climbing that mountain. It seems like the height of entitlement and hubris.
All right, name your terms. Are you in San Francisco?

I am going to win this bet. Easiest money I ever made. I just want to see if he'll stick to his guns when he has skin in the game. His claim is so patently ridiculous that he'd be throwing money away by taking the bet.
Can we tell the difference just by estimating production costs? (at least in the case of soda, candy etc). Or is it more complicated than that?
Of course, I understand what an interface is. There's nothing inherently invasive about this kind of interface, except that...

> ...it just happens that most implementations today are...
Packages were probably getting a free "upgrade". The same upgrade that cost Cisco billions in revenue over the past 5 years.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
I remember first seeing Mosaic when I started taking classes at Brown University. The university CS department people had very wisely set it up so that any CS students could not only very easily create their own Web pages from files in their home directory, but also easily do CGI scripts that were publicly accessible. The easy CGI wasn't so great for security, but was fabulous for lowering the barrier to experimenting.

Using that CGI, I wrote several services, mostly in Perl, and one in C. (The C one was so that I could use the GD library to draw some GIF parts of a hypermedia image of the main workstation lab, with faces of people there, which machines were free, etc., since it wasn't doable as well in HTML at the time.)

After seeing it at the university, I also went and and installed Mosaic and a the NCSA or Apache HTTP server at my workplace (where I was in an R&D group), and wrote some demonstrations of it (e.g., doing our engineering documents in it instead of Interleaf/FrameMaker, clickable hypermedia floorplan).

I'd actually already been on the Internet as a kid (gateways, email, Usenet, ftp, etc.), and had already worked with a few offline hypertext systems before I saw the Web (as well as being aware of earlier grand visions), but the Web was obviously going to let us do Internet things we couldn't before, and also accelerate bringing the goodness of the Internet to everyone. (Well, we dropped the ball on some of the goodness, but it still happens, just not as much nor nearly as universally as we'd hoped, and we can still improve that.)
3800X is "gamer priced" :).

I think the 3900x is in a great position to provide the best of both gaming and productivity. Extremely aggressively priced at $500 for the horsepower it seems to give you.

I suspect there is going to be a 16 core 3950x later in the year. Maybe with slightly lower single core frequencies. But maybe 20-25% greater multicore performance.

I bet they are delaying that to keep something up their sleeves when Intel responds. And to not totally cannibalize TR prior to releasing TR3.
The other problem is forced buying of overvalued or dog stocks eg being forced to hold Enron and the UK banks to the bitter end.
In the past, students read the books in the college library, as it was the best way to find information about the topics they studied. Having their own copy was prohibitively expensive for anything more than the textbooks and maybe one or two books of required reading (this may be an experience in countries with free education, when you're borrowing several thousand a semester, another thousand for textbooks is probably less significant, but it was true in Ireland), and the only other source of information was the college's journal archive which was definitely not aimed at beginners.

Nowadays, most students have a library of pirated PDFs, meaning they have the information on hand where they need it and with no need to return it or find it already borrowed in the college library. Most colleges will give you access to online databases of journals, so they aren't a draw either.

The other problem encountered was that of QC. At least in my institution more substantial books were always in short supply, as they'd never have more than 5-6 copies of a single book, so you'd arrive at the computing section and find... "Java 2 for Dummies". Or "Teach yourself C++ in 24 hours". Books that might have been fine to self-learners (when they were not significantly outdated), but nothing that wouldn't be covered in a textbook and nothing more substantial.

Probably this is a disconnect between the people running the library and the lecturers, but the attitude of the library was "Yes, we have software development books. What do you mean 15 years is out of date? The psychology books have been there since the 70s. And our figures show that more students have taken out 'Java 2 for Dummies' than 'Design Patterns' or 'The Pragmatic Programmer', so we don't need more copies."

But those two factors, the greater accessibility of pirated PDFs and blogs (and for some of the slightly more recent students, Stack Overflow), and the lacking quality of what was probably available on the shelves at any given point you chose to look meant that the library was definitely way more useful as a study space than for the contents of the shelves for the other students and myself during my degree.
Truly curious: Which ones?
Percentage of blame. When young, you should be blamed less than when old, assuming you don't help fix the system you are part of (eg. feed the needy, give home to the homeless, plant trees, etc.. fix)
When people sell shares in the ETF they sell shares in the ETF. It is not a mutual fund redemption.
> On the other hand, I watched a colleague leave a stable job to start a project from scratch. He had a good reserve, but he burned through it and the project didn’t make any money. Last I heard, he got a new job.

This, for me, leads directly to the correct answer to OP's question.

Worst case scenario, you get another job. Of course you quit and give it a go. What have you got to lose? Your savings & potential earnings are likely not that much, and you don't have to burn through all of it anyway.

Do it.
status, personal achievement.
I think the fact that it's digital cheapens it. You can use tools to make things exactly pixel perfect, it only takes time.

Obviously there are really talented and creative people doing things digitally that I could probably never do, but to me it's like watching people play a FIFA video game vs watching an actual match.
"You’ll survive and learn a lot."

That's textbook survivorship bias right there.
That picture with that waiting line to the summit, up to 1.000 feet long according to the article, has something weirdly dystopian to it, just like this whole story.

If remote and hostile places like this are already suffering from "overcrowding" due to tourism, then I'm not very optimistic the rest of the planet will fare any better in dealing with the unchecked human population growth and all of its consequences.
Apparently there are only two to three days per year when the weather is favorable enough for ascent. This queue only happens two or three times a year, not everyday. So these crowds happen twice or thrice per year.

The way picture is circulated it’s as if this were a daily occurrence ala Mount Fuji.

That said, this is perfect opportunity to set a limit, have a lottery system and charge an additional non trivial fee for the final summit push.
It doesn't sound fishy at all.

Border patrol routinely check through people's documentation to see if their stated reason for visiting is supported. This person claims to be visiting temporarily, but has sent text saying he is moving to be with this woman and never wants to leave her: this is enough for entry to be denied. This is not an uncommon experience.
What's the reward for going to the moon?
the detritus even more than the line.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D3C1/production/_...
A selfie for the ‘gram, of course. And something to tell the coworkers on Monday.
Not all stock indexes allow such unbalanced types of share classes.
Having all of your descendants born into slavery is definitely a success?
Status? Just look at the picture, you're one in a few hundred.
The readme should probably explain what it actually does.
I managed to get something like a 400% return over 2 years by buying amazon and nvidia right before the crypto bubble took off. Made more than most of my friends who bought bitcoin did (sell gold in a gold rush)
> A very simple and generic example is if you prime someone with a picture of an American flag, they're more likely to vote Republican.

Would be careful with that. AFAIK priming studies generally fail to replicate.
I see just as much far-left propaganda..but everyone just accepts it as fact.
Wouldn't sending and later retrieving millions of S3 objects be expensive?
Bragging rights?
Or load it up with debt and run away before the wheels fall off.
That's a good idea, but wouldn't sending and later retrieving millions of S3 objects be expensive?
> The messages dont work very well with ALB/ELB.

Doesn't work on ALB because its HTTP/2 support is trash, not gRPC's fault here. Works fine with NLB btw.

> Load balancing is done by maintaining multiple connections to all upstreams.

Again, this is a "feature" of HTTP/2. Use linkerd or envoy that support subsetting among other useful things.

Don't blame your misunderstanding of how technology is meant to be used on said technology.
From looking at that ridiculous pic of the people lined up to reach the top of Everest, I gather that it’s much less of a challenge than it used to be.

So what are the people who really want to challenge themselves doing nowadays? (Besides writing JavaScript on the server)

What’s the new Everest?
It's an excuse for long term thinking and out of control for the shareholders.

Ever since every Chinese company with >50 employees requires a representative of the communist party. Every multinational knows that China will screw them over. They just have an excuse now.

Plenty of multinationals that don't want to do business there.

I haven't heard any of them subject truthfully that they hate not able to do business there.
That’s not the picture you show at the dinner party.
This is a very opinionated and I would say personal issue.

I also think most syntax schemes (the highlighter is perfectly fine, let us be technically correct) are very wrong for my own purposes.

This thing is the wrong colour, this looks like a candy party, some colours should be used only for such and such thing, strings should always be this colour, etc.

So, I made my own syntax colour scheme with my own conventions, and it is great.

But I don't try to convince anyone to use my colour scheme. That would be preposterous and intrusive.
Not everybody is going to read that article, so some of the status still remains.
Easy fix:

Raise prices and/or require people to pass a specific fitness requirement (like you have to qualify for Boston or Ironman).

You cut down on lines and reduce the # of people that shouldn't be up there (and endangering other people while they're at it).
It's incumbent on each side to properly present evidence as needed to support their case - if both sides fail to present a piece of evidence then:

1. It isn't actually relevant to the case or for the purpose of rendering judgement on the case.

2. Someone didn't do their job.

I think (2) is sort of the leap of faith required for our legal system, lawyers are required to advocate solely for their charge and empowered to do what is required to earn them an optimal outcome. There are many times this doesn't happen (see overburdened court appointed lawyers) but I think that's a flaw in our current implementation of the system rather than the system itself - it actually all falls together pretty well as a logical solution.
It’s the most well known climbing destination, not just a “remote and hostile” place. It speaks to the end of the normal distribution curve for experiences/social signalling like this.

There’s Everest and there’s the rest.
Yeah, the author conflates power with ambition which is easy to do while in a peaceful, prosperous society where making just enough to live on doesn't necessarily come with serious downsides. It would be better titled "Ambition is Overrated". I think he's right that ambition is for the most part born from a desire for others' approval/admiration and fear of death. And that attitude/realization can be had in most any circumstance.

Regarding the kitchen comments, are those measures very positive and not to be impeached, or are they not that impactful? Or what do you mean by saying both? Also, your first line should read "and its sentiment".
>> reverence for Everest climbers

There is diminished reverence in the climbing community because of the traffic. Everest climbers no longer need many basic climbing skills, from fixing pro to route finding. K2 is the new Everest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains

Pick one. They are all more difficult than Everest these days.
There was also tkwww in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TkWWW
All time totals, by the end of 2017:

Overall, 4,833 different people have summited Everest for a total of 8,306 summits.

While in 2017 itself:

In 2017, there were 648 summits.

Lots of other interesting stats
https://gripped.com/news/mount-everest-numbers-2017-overall/
Don't take this as ageist, but when you have 62 year olds reaching the top of Everest, you know it's not what it used to be.

BTW, everybody seems to have an oxygen face mask, not to mention modern clothing and base camps.
We've discussed switching to Kafka. There are some pros/cons to doing that. With respect to my problem above, our messages _could _conceivably approach 1MB (or even surpass it), so we're really just delaying the inevitable. That said, we're a long, long way from hitting that limit, so it's definitely something we're looking at.

We just recently started gzipping our payloads, which buys us even more time.