skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But pehaps infinity more challenging
I think it would a huge distraction to think about billions while you still are struggling with millions. Focus on that goal first and then see where to go from there.
Well, what did you expect when you launched massive tax cuts to stimulate an economy that was already running at full speed?

Or was it the tarrifs? Maybe the skirmish with Saudi? Pissing off the EU? Making China unstable?

Hell, I give up. It was fun while it lasted, right?
KeyChest.net is great for managing your TLS certificates.

It can use the certificate transparency (CT) logs to detect new certificates for your domain, so once set up you don't have to maintain it. Make sure to enable the weekly report email too.
Ask HN: US-internships for professionals? (Change in life)
Hello HN,

some children dream of being an astronaut or working as a firefighter.

When I was in my early teens, I wanted to become a lawyer in the USA. I have to admit that my inspiration was heavily influenced by the film adaption of John Grisham's novels.

However, things turned out slightly different. I was interested in technology very early and moved on that path. I never left my home town really, because I felt I've had insufficient funds, felt responsibility for my sick mother, and other personal stuff, so anything I did, dragged me back to my home town.

Now I have a life I cannot complain about, really. I've a pretty good job, I'm satisfied with my salary, I have plans to continue my career path.

However, the idea of being in the US is still in my head and pops up from time to time very overwhelmingly.

I am now 31 years old, so I thought, just before starting with family planning with my girlfriend, I'd like to experience some "work and travel" in the US. However, I don't want to do farming etc. I was more thinking about "internships for professionals".

Is there an opportunity to work for a US tech company (startup or big company does not matter), which pays my bills and gives me a few month of experience in the US?

Why? Because I sometimes feel a big regret if I not try. My project should be open-ended. So, if I get a job offer afterwards, I might consider moving to the US; if not, I've made a few months of worthy experience.

Is there such a tech-intern program for professionals? Or what could be a way I can go?

I'm EU citizen, if that matters.

Thanks, HN!

S.
I laughed when my dad gave me a refurb Dyson "dustbuster" style vacuum -- it's easily the most useful new cleaning item ever.

Robots imo are less interesting than novel applications of lithium ion batteries.
Can we try it again except this time without the power of an organization to push awful copyright laws down the throats of every country[1]? It’s like if you consolidate power it becomes easier to corrupt.

1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/effs-letter-eus-copyri...
SUS Z390 motherboards install software and drivers without any user knowledge
One small caveat is if someone is very wealthy, they can spend $0.9Billion buying lottery tickets which increases their odds vs someone that just buys 1
Further: I used to live in Oregon and was given the impression that I might encounter them there (in Oregon).
The dose from aromatherapy ought to be much lower than that from topical or oral exposure. Several studies mention gynecomastia after rubbing lavender oil on the skin or drinking tea:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=20&q=lavender+antia...

but merely smelling it should be a much smaller exposure. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, I just like to read a lot.
So, for me, that would be over two years of mine lawn service which also does some however imperfect weed whacking and some tricky areas that I would have to do on my own. That’s not terrible break even but not great either.
FWIW, in Perl 6, references do not exist at the language level. At the implementation level, you could argue that everything is passed by reference. Perhaps you may find https://opensource.com/article/18/8/containers-perl-6 enlightning.
> Certainly the rest of FAANG have huge financial temptations to misuse their data.

I don't get this. FAANG have every interest in protecting user data as their moat is products users want to keep using, which would not be the case if they started sharing user data widely.
But are they systematic and across potentially thousands of identically-programmed bots, all updated at the same time? The potential for widespread simultaneous errors is colossal.
Ask HN: US-internships for people already working?
Hello HN,
some children dream of being an astronaut or working as a firefighter.

When I was in my early teens, I wanted to become a lawyer in the USA. I have to admit that my inspiration was heavily influenced by the film adaption of John Grisham's novels.

However, things turned out slightly different. I was interested in technology very early and moved on that path. I never left my home town really, because I felt I've had insufficient funds, felt responsibility for my sick mother, and other personal stuff, so anything I did, dragged me back to my home town.

Now I have a life I cannot complain about, really. I've a pretty good job, I'm satisfied with my salary, I have plans to continue my career path.

However, the idea of being in the US is still in my head and pops up from time to time very overwhelmingly.

I am now 31 years old, so I thought, just before starting with family planning with my girlfriend, I'd like to experience some "work and travel" in the US. However, I don't want to do farming etc. I was more thinking about "internships for professionals".

Is there an opportunity to work for a US tech company (startup or big company does not matter), which pays my bills and gives me a few month of experience in the US?

Why? Because I sometimes feel a big regret if I not try. My project should be open-ended. So, if I get a job offer afterwards, I might consider moving to the US; if not, I've made a few months of worthy experience.

Is there such a tech-intern program for professionals? Or what could be a way I can go?

I'm EU citizen, if that matters.

Thanks, HN!

S.
Easier said than done when everyone follows this strategy you're going to have lots of competition.
He was making a joke. AR == Arkansas
Lawns are actually interesting because it wouldn't have to stop at mowing.

Lawncare involves a lot of well-defined tasks on a well-defined surface. A lawnmower bot could also have a hopper to dispense fertilizer and seed. In a more extreme, force-intensive form, it could even dispense topsoil or aerate.

In winter? Salt my driveway and sidewalk (assuming ploughing is out-of-scope for this particular robot).
Get some venture capital and pay each user $10/month so they pay you $8.25. Worked for Uber :)
AMD plummets after Q3 revenue miss, weak fourth quarter guidance
The TL;DR: Fear of islam, fear of it breeding radical muslim terrorists in their lands, fear.

Read the article and form your own views.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18296064
Do you vacuum for 15 minutes every day? If so, it's a waste. A vacuum plugged into the power outlet drawing 10 amps will do a better job of course.

But if you don't do it every day, than having one on schedule every day can still be beneficial. Specially if air quality is your concern.
I've had the same idea - a geometrically increasing 'fee' for road use depending on speed. Kind of like toll roads, but maybe even most roads. If you want to spend the money (and have the money, thus likely the deep pockets to compensate for damage) then go ahead!
This doesn't work for widely usable skills with a mobile workforce. Consider…

Company A hires a worker and invests in training them, then before they can get their value back out of the education the worker changes to a higher paying job at Company B which doesn't have the training expenses to recoup. Our example worker and Company B are both making their best possible rational decisions.

There are solutions to making this work:

• It could be unlawful for the worker to use their skills, paid for by Company A, with another company until they had 'paid off' their training. Effective non-competes based on skills. Not a PR win for Company A. Also, you never want a judge to cite the Emancipation Proclamation to you in court.

• Company A could train a worker and have the worker incur unavoidable debt so that should they switch companies Company A will still be reimbursed for their training costs. This combines student loans with for profit workplace training. The conflicts of interest are huge and the optics are horrible for Company A. Again, you don't want a judge to say "indentured servant" to you in court.

• The worker could independently train themselves in something they feel might be advantageous in the work place, incurring any costs themselves in the hope of recouping that investment. This is the usual method in the US, there are some problems with workers making bad investments and incurring lifelong financial burdens.

• Both Company A and Company B could shoulder the cost of training/educating workers and have access to the resulting workers. This is known as taxation and state sponsored education. Workers still may make bad decisions in their training selections.

This is the paragraph where I espouse the best way to move forward. I've got nothing. I like the fourth one, but when you add in educational institutions with their own interests and some desire to steer the educational funding to studies which are in demand it gets very complicated.
Perhaps there is a genetic or allergy response to lavender. I have allergies and the smell of lavender makes me want to sneeze. :\
FWIW, in Perl 6 there is no real difference between a `map` and a `for` loop: in the case of the `for` loop, the final value of each iteration is simply discarded.
Outside the church, this Guy Sebastian type music doesn't cut the mustard.
Speaking as an Australian - most of us find Hillsong vaguely threatening. It's a Sydney thing really. I sound negative but in reality, good on the church for enjoying their own music.
Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
Yeah, I want to know if the execution is before or after the trial. Part of DO's appeal to me is the simplicity and predictable (low) cost. It would be really great if they published well defined account termination procedures. Do I get a phone call? An email? Do I get to respond before being disconnected? Is there an appeals process?
When I'm talking about invariants, I mean something much more fundamental than a web-request failing. It's not a necessarily invalid state (and I'm not sure ever should be for any well-behaved program). It would be invalid if you've explicitly decided not to handle the scenario, but at least in Rust (and assuming the function properly returns Result<>), you can't forget to not handle it.

Essentially where you'd have asserts() in C. eg Your in-place sort function is meant to maintain a sorted list for all elements traversed so far: you add a panic check to guarantee this. It fails; the invariant is broken, and there's no recovering from such a state (your sort is not sorting! you're going to add a handler for this..?).

A web-request failing is a simple, normal, expected failure (hence the Result<> type). Adding 1+1 and getting 3 is a broken invariant, and there's no coming back from it. Again, you can (probably) catch it in Java since it throws exceptions on anything and everything... but why would you want to? If you take its to its conclusion, you're not trusting any aspect of the language anymore: you'll have to check every bit of code for arbitrary outcomes.

It seems to me similar to javascript allowing you to basically pass in anything to everything and get ...some... output, but its an extremely bug-prone methodology.

panic! is, afaik, intended for those situations where it should bring down the whole application (before you start adding $3 to person A, but subtracting $2 from person B); primarily to catch programmer errors, not execution errors. Errors that can be recovered from are Result<>, and the Result<> type forces you to handle all possible outcomes (which the caller might decide is a panic!). A failed web-request is most certainly a Result<> in this model, not a panic!.
Tesla shares soar on surprise third-quarter profit
Exhaustive and Semi-Exhaustive Procedural Content Generation [pdf]
Any issues with getting stuck on stuff laying around the ground? I have an older model which incredibly stupid at times.
The problem I have with this argument is that salaries don't have to be comparable to be competitive, because cost of living is different across the country. I make a fair amount less working in Ohio then if I moved to California, but I would also pay a lot more to live there.

So, making hiring these employees based on salary only means that places with a higher cost of living will be able to hire these employees for more typical rates, where-as companies in lower cost of living areas will have to pay well above average for the same employee. If actual salary wasn't a requirement, then midwest companies could still be competitive even while offering lower salaries.
Yeah we are in agreement, background in CS doesn't matter for practicing or entry to field, only your work product would be held to some sort of ethical standard.

Maybe this would also undo some of the effects of outsourcing/offshoring US coding practices due to the need for ethical compliance (at the very least in mission critical systems e.g. vehicle software, hospital software, etc)
such an amazing example of how reality and conventional wisdom on the internet are so totally out of sync.
Dogs seem to be a common factor. Personally I’m not too fussy and just let my housekeeper handle things every couple of weeks. But with dogs you really do need to keep up.
California is probably THE focal point of this braininess.

And yet, California has an above average poverty level, below average per-capita education spending and achievement and all-too-frequent state budget problems.

How can this brain-driven economy coexist with this poverty and inequality? It's not the result I would expect. How do we explain this? More important - how do we reduce the poverty and spread the benefits of this brain-driven economy more evenly?
Your opinion is obviously contradicted by the facts. The American education system is a major reason people immigrate here in the first place. Many of the best universities and research centers in the world happen to be in America. You may have some gripe about your kid’s teacher or whatever, but if you feel that a single data point from a parent’s biased perspective is more informative than the facts and statistics, then there’s not much point trying to have a reasonable conversation with you on this topic. You are choosing innumeracy and anecdote over easily accessible data.
Don't forget dandelion eradication! Crabgrass plucking! edging!
You can get the information here. It also refers to floating point calculations.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/talks/2017_Vectorizatio...

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/19/ae...

Also the Vector API development is ongoing and there is a talk at this week's Oracle ONE about the current state.

ART no longer compiles on install since Android 7, that behaviour is specific to Android 5 and 6 versions.

Since 7 it is a multistage runtime with hand written in Assembly interpreter, JIT + PGO, AOT + PGO on idle device. And as of 9, PGO data gets uploaded into the store and shared across devices on installation.
Nice idea! Also, if the books happen to be registered with BookCrossing, they are given a unique ID which you could potentially use for even more social interaction.
>People paid for their Vizio TVs, and that didn't (and largely still doesn't) stop them from "being the product" when Vizio decided to collect and sell viewing data.

Ironically, I was on the team that helped make that possible at Vizio.... Another reason why I am very opposed to this.
I.e. Nobody would admit to wanting an camera+phone+email device before the first iPhone was released.
Pretty cool, I did not know Washington was a collector of swords.

I started collecting swords when I had one commissioned in Scotland from a guy that had been making display replicas for the British Museum. (I couldn't afford an original) and since that time have ended with about half a dozen. There is a tremendous amount of depth and variation in what is essentially a piece of steel on a handle.
Microsoft's 'record' quarter driven by big growth in Azure and gaming
Sure, the team is dynamic. Smart agile people expect that changing the team will change the achievable velocity. Clueless "agile" people proceed as if nothing had changed.

But that's not really an agile problem. You can have a waterfall-ish schedule, then the team changes, and management wants to keep the original dates. It's the same problem.
still completely different, at recurse you are free to choose whatever you want to do, whereas 42 has lists of exercises, challenges and exams that you must go through.
https://www.facebook.com/Oculusvr/videos/272240096742532/ - Go to about 1:15.

Maybe not 20, but having a 10 year goal and being able to give direct updates 2 years in isn't bad. :)
Hi, thanks just working to apply the hard work of Schuiling and others. Glad to hear that the pricing makes sense to you as well. I love trees and suggest we plant as many of them as possible, but the problem with using them as a means of carbon sequestration is that you have to protect them for 50+ years from pests, fire etc.

If the trees were to burn, all of that carbon you worked so hard to sequester would be released, so it is not foolproof and decades of sequestration can be rolled back in hours. Whereas once the olivine grains are on the beach, it is going into the seafloor in a pretty much irreversible chemical reaction.

As for the rate of olivine weathering, it is the fastest of any major rock-forming silicate mineral and is further accelerated by the abrasions of rock, and by microbes. The rate of sequestration depends on the size of the particles, and how much is spread per each beach. Many of the calculations affirming the data have been measured from static piles of olivine tailings (pilings of rock that sit as "waste" in mines sites.) Those rates alone are impressive, but we are looking to utilize the beaches to further increase the rate of weathering to at least 20 microns per year. At that rate, a grain of olivine with a diameter of 100 microns will dissolve in around 5 years.

"Our experiments show that olivine grains when kept in motion weather fast because continuous
mutual impacts remove reaction-inhibiting silica from the surface and tiny µm-size slivers are produced allowing a fast chemical reaction. The application of olivine and other
(ultra)mafic minerals like serpentine in high-energy shallow marine environments can
make a significant contribution in the fight against climate change. The counteracting
effect on ocean acidification is immediate."

Here is the basic reaction:

Mg2SiO4 + 4 CO2 + 4 H2O −→ 2 Mg^2+ + 4HCO3^- + H4SiO4

CO2 is consumed, and Mg2+, Fe2+, H4SiO4 and HCO3^- are produced.

This paper has the best calculations and a lab experiment demonstrating the rate. https://climitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Rolling...

This one is good as well and discusses the tailing pilings and importance of microbes alone in possibly accelerating the rate up to 4,000x https://climitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Olivine...
Interestingly, robot lawn mowers are enormously more common in europe than in the US. (They also apparently kill a lot of hedgehogs, which wouldn't be an issue in the states).

I don't know if this is because lawns tend to be smaller in europe or some weird cultural pride thing, but they totally exist and are identically capable to roombas.

Carpet cleaning should also be pretty comparable - there are many sweeping ones - though the robot would necessarily be larger. I suspect the market isn't there
Bring on the electric revolution! Agreed...has there ever been so much hate levied at a company playing a HUGE role in moving technology forward?
I'm still not sold on gRPC vs JSON/REST.

.proto offers me little over a decent development environment around JSON, and it seems to be pretty Google-specific.

I'm also wary of adopting standards that come out of Google.
I'm not sure if they give out a degree, but they have a real program that you must follow, and exams.
I don't know of any openings specifically, but my guess is that if you have a little experience and the desire to work in the US, you could find a company that would hire you pretty easily.
Which countries with decent state-funded universities generally don't have because you've decided that the free market "works" in providing what is basically an essential service for the growth of society.
yup, but if you do that, you are not good.
> I did some of my own benchmarks and Go and D turned out faster than Rust, or at least their maps/associative arrays are faster that Rust's HashMap. Also, I won't use stuff that is not in the stdlib in the benchmarks.

Rust's HashMaps are intentionally slow by default. You could use a different hash function with them if you want different properties. That means writing your own if you don't want a known-good implementation, of course, but this is expected and not really representative of Rust generally, which uses associative arrays pretty infrequently.
A survival guide to Munro bagging in the Scottish highlands
Links to the above articles:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13651501.2013.81...

https://journals.lww.com/psychopharmacology/Citation/2017/02...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2017.0028...

Also, more articles relating to lavender oil preparation and treatment of anxiety:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20512042

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24456909
react-spring 6.0 is out of beta
Where would you suggest the ports be located on a desktop computer whose sides are not thick enough to accommodate any ports?

Perhaps they should be located in the middle of the screen? ;)
I didn't understand this feeling until I owned my own house, but I feel the same now. Mowing the lawn is one of those chores you can lose your mind in and I always feel better when I finish the task.
Great to see DO adding managed db. Looking forward to see cloud functions.
And people wonder why I've argued that, at some point, IT needs to be a certified and regulated profession like lawyers, doctors, engineers, nurses, pilots, accountants, electricians, plumbers, teachers, etc.

Awesome idea. The same governments who are sending RFPs to burtonator's company will then have the ability to decide who is even allowed to work in the industry.
Would you mind to call out the worst parts?
I'm sure your critique is the same with graduates from any school. You need experience to understand not to do that. At least 42 seems to give you more experience than most schools.
Alexa doesn't solve 99.9% of housework. I want a robot to make me meals and clean the house. Checking the temperature and listening to music isn't revolutionary.
The article mentions "fast, cheap and out-of-control" but doesn't point out the excellent documentary by the same name: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/

The 1997 film, directed by master documentarian Errol Morris, covers 4 people: a lion tamer, a topiary gardener, an expert on the naked mole rat, and a then-obscure robot scientist. That robot scientist is Rodney Brooks, founder and former CTO of the Roomba's maker, iRobot.

I haven't seen it in years, but I adored the film. I saw it in the theater and had my mind blown: it was clear Errol Morris thought these very different people had something in common, but he never beats you over the head with it, letting you make up your own mind. I liked it so much I went back the next day and the next, something I've never done with a movie before or since. I'll have to watch it again to see how it looks these days.
Tesla releases Q3 results $6.8B revenue and turns $300M profit
Yes. And then we've created a pay-to-play system. Not good.