skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FT article makes it much more clear:

"But Alphabet decided the opportunity to greatly disrupt to energy sector had begun to dwindle. While Makani at first felt it could provide a competitive advantage by using its technology on land and in shallow water — as well as deep water — advancements in competing technologies meant that was likely no longer the case.

“That’s very sad for Makani,” Mr Teller said. “But it’s really great for the world.”

An EU report published in 2018 concurred with Alphabet’s assessment. “The technology still has a long way to go before it can reach commercialisation,” it read, noting that challenges remained in demonstrating the reliable, autonomous operation that would make the concept viable."

Shell is going to have to decide whether they think the risk/reward calculation is worth investing in the technology and the current staff. This sounds like it's not really different from a VC deciding not to continue with the next round of funding. Perhaps some other VC will be willing to throw in more money. Who knows, maybe the "Vision Fund II" will be willing to put more money in. :-)
It's also possible that the idea is not competitive. The article is not quite clear. If it were the case, then it would be irresponsible to continue to finance what amounts to a rather exotic hobby.
While that's true, a signification fraction of the remaining 10% is software devs cleaning up after the damage done by people who have over-estimated their ability and created a bunch of business solutions in VBA...
> Every time you force-push, GitHub keeps and provides direct links to the old commit, the new commit and the diff between the two commits.

Not in my experience. Here's one of my pull requests:

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/pull/64

The maintainer reviewed some of the changes and I revised my commits as a result. The review is correctly marked as outdated. Clicking on the file name tells me the commit cannot be found.

> We went looking everywhere, but couldn’t find those commits.

> Sometimes commits can disappear after a force-push. Head back to the latest changes here.
You have it backwards. The employees treated management like enemies, and still are. Now everyone else is legally required to as well. What a disaster.
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Any “one click buy” resources where I can simply pay for a device to be shipped and put it on my network to ship data back? I have several locations in the US I could colocate such devices.
The irony here is that most union members in the US are Trump supporters.
Think of the normal meaning of the word. The residue is what's left over after whatever was going to happen has finished happening.

For amino acids, the interesting thing is that they get joined into chains that fold up into proteins (which do all the work). The residues after that happens looks like this:

R O R O
H | || H | || H
----- N - C - C --------- N - C - C ----------- N etc
H H

The lines - and | are chemical bonds. The Oxygens are double bonded. N= Nitrogen, C=Carbon, O=Oxygen. The R is one of 20 different chemical groups called side chains that make each amino acid different.

When the amino acids are isolated (not chained) the double-bonded carbon on the right carries an extra OH group. The whole right-hand carbon is often written COOH. The nitrogen on the left hand side of each amino acid carries an extra H. As part of the process that joins the amino acids together, the OH on the left and the H on the right pair off to form water. This is called condensation, and it happens at every junction between two acids. So if there are n amino acids, there are n-1 junctions and n-1 water molecules that were present (in aggregate) in the constituent amino acids that don't make it into the final protein chain.

Note, though, that one of the methods of chopping up protein chains is adding the water molecules back again, so you should know exactly what you're looking if you want to count masses precisely.

Jeez. Didn't mean to write all that. Hope it helps.
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Your pull request shows exactly what I am talking about. For every force-push it has direct links to the old commit, the new commit and the diff.

Pick the first force push in your PR. It says

> matheusmoreira force-pushed the matheusmoreira:binary-decoding branch from aec04b3 to 87a0b3c on 5 Nov 2019

Click on 'force-pushed'. That's the diff of force-push.

Click on 'aec04b3'. That's the commit before force-push.

Click on '87a0b3c'. That's the new commit in the force-push.
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I'd like to add to this and say that a server being down for 6 hours, that if over the life of its uptime (months? years?) saves uncountable number of hours on computations and complexity, is so worth it.

Heck, even a machine like that being down for a week is usually still worth it.
"the semi-random arrangement of cryptic menus and toolbars we had before." Well, yeah, if some program had a semi-random arrangement of cryptic menus, I guess that was bad. As I remember, Word's' arrangement was quite good and non-cryptic. Now we have instead a semi-random arrangement (afaict) of cryptic icons. (There's a reason the alphabet replaced hieroglyphics.)
Sort of -- the problem I see in the event time / processing time distinction is that it's about instants rather than intervals. There are a number of models and queries that are not reliably expressible with instants alone, unless you reinvent intervals with them.

For example, if I rely on "updated-at" and infer that whatever record has the latest updated-at is the "current" record, then I may create the illusion that there are no gaps in my facts. That may not be so.

A reference system to look at is Crux: https://opencrux.com/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jensenh/the-s...

Word 2007 document area: 1007 x 573 pixels
Word 97 document area: 979 x 573 pixels

Excel 97 document area: 1004 x 581 pixels
Excel 2007 document area: 1008 x 534 pixels
What other charges are there?
How long is SLC flash good for?

Archival quality optical discs are marketed as having a 300+ year lifespan.

I've never viewed SD cards as something appropriate for long-term offline storage, is SLC flash exceptional in this regard?

I was comparing the convenience of optical to tape, which is bulky and annoying, and in my experience quite unreliable.
> Or, more likely, I'm confused by the specialist terminology. Can someone clear up my confusion?

I think you're just reading too much into the problem. The terminology can be a bit daunting and it can be very hard for bioinformatics people to realize just how much specialist terminology we end up using. I mean, we have both computer science and molecular biology jargon that we use every day. It's sometimes hard to recognize just how much assumed knowledge there is in this field.

Unfortunately, bioinformatics is full of edge cases like this.

In this example, if you're talking about the size of a full protein, you need to add the mass of a water (to account for the lack of a bond at the N and C terminus). However, if you're talking about the size of a peptide fragment (a sub-sequence), then you don't need to account for the extra water molecule [0]. And as the explanation says -- peptide identification is the most common use-case for this analysis, so we'll just use that. This is also why the table lists the "residue" weights -- because it's easier to calculate the `sum(residue_weight) + water` as opposed to `sum(amino_acid_weight) - (n-1) * water`.

I think the extra explanation isn't entirely clear, but I wouldn't get hung up on that part or let that bother you too much. The problem really boils down to: calculate a weighted sum of a string using these weights for the letters. That's it... no more, no less.

Congrats on working through the exercise. This is honestly great resource for learning about the field from a coding perspective. As others have mentioned, this is from the people who literally wrote the book about much of the field.

[0] Note: In the protein, you aren't actually adding an intact water molecule itself, but accounting for the extra H at one end, and an extra OH at the other end. Which is the same weight as HOH, or 18.01056 Da.
When I found out Tim Allen has a ham license, I looked up his callsign record. He uses his production company's address.
Except that scientists working on DARPA programs have also produced some technologies that have proven phenomenally useful to civilians such as the internet, computer mice, GPS, Siri, etc.
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Google is not an energy company, but the (supposed claim, ymmv) is that Alphabet is a conglomerate, not just Google.
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> The ruling party here (BJP) doesn't have any real competition

That's true, the left opposition has become a lame duck because they choose to be dynastic sycophants rather than an actual democracy / meritocracy.

> They've banned VPNs. They'll chuck you in prison if you speak against the government or a politician

Yes, but mostly No. The BJP is more petty than the last congress govt. But, my social media is filled with anti-Modi posts posted by public profiles and not a single one of them has faced any repercussions.

Also VPNs are only banned in Kashmir.

You can criticize something you don't like, without using hyperbole. The hyperbole, when not obvious, only makes your point look weaker.

> We can vote for other parties, but there's no way that they'll ever win

The congress has literally been in power here for 60/70 years of independence. If for a second, they can stop acting like the most incompetent political organization in the world and actually put a half-decent leader in power, then they can mount some proper opposition.

Also, the BJP just lost 4 consecutive state elections and Delhi was lost 60-8. The country is hardly falling in line with Modi. The only problem is the Congress has basically imploded into itself.

> Even the media is afraid to speak out against BJP because if they do then they get attacked by physical and virtual mobs.

Just saying. This has always been true with MSM in most parts of the world. TOI was notorious for falling in line with whoever was in power. Many older news channels acted like Propaganda tools for the Congress too. I am not surprised at all, that they have all moved over to BJP now that the hand that feeds them has changed.

I personally love Shekhar Gupta's work on The Print. He is one of the few journalists disliked by both Congress and BJP, and there is no greater honor in India. I have followed him since his time as Editor in chief of the Indian Express. It was always very high quality, unbiased or the type that declared its bias quite clearly. (like his fondness for Vajpayee)

> It's a shame. So much potential.

Agreed.
I see a big Y, a small (scroll?) animation, the rest is WSOD
They might also be outnumbered by the ones who detest the ribbon but stay silent. (That's not me, obviously...)
But as a single mom or dad? I can see doing grad school on my own or maybe with a kid and the support of a partner, but not with a kid and no supporting partner.
I believe OpenSky also doesn't censor their data, although in some areas I've looked at their coverage isn't quite as good as ADS-B Exchange. IIRC OpenSky is also a lot more permissive if you want to use their API
What was so alienating and pointless about it?
Most people have no such precise idea when they talk about "dimensions". Those who do would, when pressed, admit that even if you could be said to travel through or along some other dimension to reach another world, or even an infinity of other worlds, said dimension is not the same as those worlds, just a term for a relationship between them.

Moreover, I don't care about what people think they're saying with their crap terminology. I demand actual accuracy, or at minimum precisely delimited uncertainty, from people taking millions of dollars in government funding to write about aliens. This is not too much to ask. (You do remember the context, right? Evaluating the credibility of a purportedly factual report written under a government contract, not a bar debate about cosmology)
Oh, this will be fun. We somewhat often get Helicopters near my house. Setting up a dongle / tapping the feed will let me build a heads up tracker so I can anticipate them and prep daughter to spot them (because she loves aircraft).
He helped make the Microsoft Surface line. At the time it had some trouble starting out but now Microsoft has a portfolio of Surface products that can actually go head to head with Apple products while Google's hardware strategy just keeps on being more and more confusing and weird.
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Because your issue is better solved by regulations.
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Chrome, because nobody bothers to do cross browser testing :(
I love this part:

> Note: The Standard Library Preview package itself is a product of the Swift Evolution process!
I was at UCLA and I had to rake loans to pay my rent because my PhD stipend wasn’t enough. Still paying those off. The whole system is foobar. I support the strike. It’s been a long time coming.
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>To the users, if you want generics, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE GO? There are plenty of other options nowadays.

But I didn't choose Go and I do want generics.
There are a number of places, ADS-B Exchange sells a preconfigured kit on their website. If the location is one with weak coverage they may even send one to you for free, definitely worth reaching out to them if nothing more then to ask about a bulk discount.
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I just checked my garage. It looks fine. Which one of us is lying?
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"almost EVERY command was available in this way [= via the ribbon]" Surely you're joking, Mr. NotTheDro1ds! Afaict, relatively few of Word's commands are exposed in the ribbon; look for example at the long list of additional commands that can be added to the ribbon (customization). I think, although it would be hard to prove, that more were exposed by the old menus.
What makes a good Software Development Manager?
Still a relevant quote that makes you think about the costs of war, especially when you think about the fact that the person who said it being one of the planners for- and also talked to the soldiers who would participate in- D-Day.
I wonder if Mozilla has enough resources to test on Windows machines, or if it's just bad luck with hardware configuration, or something else entirely. I reported an unrelated bug in Nightly where I couldn't use smartcard authentication and since it only reproed on Windows we had a back and forth exchanging screenshots and logs until the root cause was narrowed down.
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Canada and especially Québec should do this too. Québec has a lottery system for visas. First come first serve. Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers.
The Kickstarter campaign was worse than I thought:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/282505033/always-punch-...

The back cover (near the bottom of the page) clarifies that "Nazi" includes everyone who is alt-right. It describes itself as "satirical," but you can say that about anything blatantly offensive.
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The tech industry has also undoubtedly injected a lot of wealth into the area. Be careful what you wish for.
In a non right-to-work state like NY, it means you have to pay dues to a union that negotiates on your behalf. It can very well end up negotiating for things you don't want, or are even actively against. For instance, a teacher may be in favor of merit-based promotion and compensation while they are obligated to pay dues to a union that pushes for seniority based pay.
This seems in-line with their motive for brexit - “UK first”

It’s not really a surprise....
The Glitch Gallery, an online exhibition of pretty software bugs
Hilarious piece, but I don't think the analogy is a good fit.

The Good Samaritan ("William Wolcott") is asking people to offer homeless folks money in exchange for labor, instead of giving cash handouts without anything in return. In contrast, Hoffman is offering "services" in exchange for equity. Hoffman is not offering founders any money, and since VCs are for-profit, Hoffman is not doing the founders a charitable favor.

It's also a disservice to founders to compare their startups to the homeless ("Ed Schenk"), since most founders are very much willing to put in work to make their businesses successful.
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These are precisely the kinds of projects that we, mankind should be undertaking as penance for the trashing this planet thus far in our existence.

We must learn to live in harmony with nature not destroy it, no matter the cost. Because if we don't, we _will_ pay the ultimate price (extinction).
You know, with the advent of Amazon and other Task Rabbitty to-your-door delivery services, did they really save me any chore here? I can get just about anything delivered to my door stop within 48 hours, why is it trouble for me to get my preferred snacks at all?
I believe they cannot be embedded as easily as GIFs, especially in a publication's CMS or when posting on a social media site.

If you are writing the raw video tag yourself and all the appropriate attributes, it is still not as easy as an image tag.
And I believe OpenIndiana is still using MATE as their default DE, which is... sorta funny actually; the fork/continuation of OpenSolaris running the fork/continuation of GNOME 2.
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That is all.
Fantasy:

> Here’s the plan:

> Have the new code acts as a proxy for the old code. Users use the new system, but it just redirects to the old one.

> Re-implement each behavior to the new codebase, with no change from the end-user perspective. Progressively fade away the old code by making users consume the new behavior. Delete the old, unused code.

Here is the reality:

1. People do the above incompletely; their deletion of the old system slows down and then they move on to another project or organization, leaving a situation in which 7% of the old system still remains.

2. People iterate on the entire above process, ending up with multiple generations of systems, which still have bits of all their predecessors in them.
Sounds like they took a lot of inspiration from Japan, where they have a "Highly Skilled Professionals" visa track with points for similar things, with the limit also being 70.

For Japan, you still need to fulfill the requirements for e.g. normal work visa, but you get perks like preferential handling, shorter timed to permanent residency and getting visa for dependents.

On another note, this is going to suck for "low-skilled" brits who want to move around the EU as I assume EU put some symmetry to this.
Shekhar just had a good video about Ajit Singh Sandhu and the Punjab insurgency.
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You can customize both the ribbon (right-click and select 'Customize the Ribbon), and the Quick Access toolbar (the part above the ribbon).
Agreed. It's really more of a gradient. Regardless, the problem is not where a team lies on the gradient, but where a team lies in relation to the fundamental needs of the problem to be solved.
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It's funny, since the 'first come first serve' idea has been struck down in the US as being inhumane, and has been seen this way for decades by most of the people that work inside the American political system.
I agree with your evaluation of the article, but I'm tired of this "social problems created by tech" narrative. I grew up in the world before the internet. It was NOT better.
You don't even need to personally know CA-17 commuters, just try drive CA-17 during commute hours.

Over last 10-15 years it's become very congested.

And this doesn't even capture the many tech folks who have the luxury of working either 100% remote or commute to the office once a week.
>He claims it's a reflection of "a distant jet" that would have had to be in restricted airspace, and despite the pilots having a visual on the same object, and the Nimitz's passive radar detecting the object and sending the fighters to intercept it at the correct location in the first place.

There was no visual on the object in the FLIR1 video. The video was taken hours after the visual encounter with the tic-tac. The plane that took the video was not vectored to the object in the FLIR1 video. Rather, they were flying south when their radar picked up an object 30-40nm away. They viewed it on FLIR, and saw a blob. At no point did they have a direct visual of it.

As they had been told about the tic-tac encounter from other pilots, who had told them to be on the lookout and to try to record it, they were very susceptible to incorrect interpretation. It is very plausible that they recorded a distant fighter moving in same direction as them and jumped to conclusions.

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I would argue that the "Gimbal" explanation West has is very convincing. In particular, the supposed rotation of the craft is clearly just the camera rotating.
Well, I know which way this is going to go. The pawns who built the structure of this economic game are the ones being cleared; and every chess player knows what happens when you run out of pawns.
No problem with the actual best and brightest as long as they are paid in the 90th percentile of market wages.

edit: based on the downvotes there's a significant number of HN participants who believe that the best either isn't the top 10% or fewer, or the best shouldn't be paid for their skills. Interesting.
Holy crap this is brain dead.
What is discriminatory about taking active measures to ensure that the tech monoculture does not perpetuate itself? If there are programs for women in STEM majors who need extra support, it is because women in STEM majors may have to surmount an obstacle that men do not: namely, that women are not fit for engineering.

This webcomic sums up why so many organizations take active measures to support women in STEM in one panel: https://xkcd.com/385/
You're right. I never realized those messages contained links. They do lead me to the old commits.

I don't understand why the code review can't find the commit though.
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