skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons it seems outlandish to us here is that computer stuff generally requires a mental acuity that is difficult to achieve when you're strung out on drugs/partying. So people like this typically wash out pretty fast.

But I did once work with a "Chief Architect of Data Science" who was only putting in 10 hours a week remotely for what was supposed to be a full time position.

The magic trifecta was that he was well credentialed, somebody's crony, and completely full of shit; so the hedge fund guys employing him didn't know any better.
Heck, one can buy a sport plane[0] for less than the MSRP of a brand new Honda.

[0] http://www.zenithair.com/zodiac/ch650/650-price.html
I completely agree. It's not just retirement-age people either. I've noticed many Bay Area peers in their ~early 30s buy their first home and (understandably) swap camps from "very concerned about housing prices" to "happily watching their massive investment grow."

Is there any realistic path (even a very optimistic one) towards the Japanese model of house-as-depreciating-asset in the US?
Same here as well, but in fairness I've also seen it happen in Chrome too on the same sites.
I don't know if it is default or not, but it may be a setting. If HTML email is disabled or unimplemented, that would also prevent this tracking.
Thanks for posting this! Our team produced the story, and I also developed the story format and scroll-based visuals.

This required more code for gathering/processing than for the presentational aspects, but I enjoyed learning heaps about satellite imaging and fire front/burn scar visualisation in the process of pulling everything together.

I'm happy to answer any questions about it, or point you in the direction of sources/people know far more than I do.
No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says
Effort-Enjoyment Dissonance
Although it out date I was amazed, after using the original dump1090 after work for a few years, that is 'the' antirez, the author of redis that I used during work. :)
HQ Trivia Signals It Might Return
The Algorithm for Precision Medicine [video]
I'm sure developers at Google use it to do that, because that is a problem that Google works on. It is not a problem that Cockroachdb works on, or that Docker works on, or that Hashicorp works on, or that Caddy works on, or that Tailscale works on.
The new UK immigration rules tell employers to suck it up
Here is the Ziyan Blowfish A3 shooting a paint target against a hill with a small caliber automatic weapon. The manufacturer claims autonomous operation without admitting autonomous targeting. Shooting anyone it finds, in other words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDGqc0FrXZg&feature=youtu.be...

According to the US secretary of defense these are being exported from China now.
Project Templating on Steroids
So 1%'ers can use shell companies to get what they want, but ordinary corporations can't use their free speech rights to spend money for the same?
For context, I believe this one came first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZuffHPDAw. Unfortunately, I don't speak Chinese, so I'm not able to judge the speaking appropriately. I'm also not sure if it was fully released.

It seems like the folks that did the Twitter one made it tailored for it, which is interesting...
Interesting you ask this. Essentially there are no animals that are aggressively dangerous in this area.

You might have some problems with snakes if you step on them, but as most Australian venomous snakes, wearing something decent covering your legs and avoiding sticking your hands where they don't belong and you avoid that problem.

There are venomous spiders and scorpions but as others have said, keep you hands out of holes and gaps and put your gear away and you can avoid those.

Wild dogs (not really many dingoes any more) might cause you problems if you leave food around, same with feral pigs.

Other animals like Emu and Kangaroo can cause you problems if you bother them in the same way as a bull or horse could get pissed if you hassle it. Don't crowd the wild life and it tends to ignore you.

Your biggest risk if you are in eucalyptus forest is that some of the species of gum tree like dropping branches at the slightest provocation. Before you pitch a tent, look up and make sure that nothing can drop on you, especially if there is a wind.

Other issues are environmental. It can get really hot or cold with little notice, so make sure you have decent water and clothing suitable the season. Also keep you eyes open for bushfires in the dry season (around Christmas) as they can start and move very quickly.

Australia tends to get a bad rap WRT dangerous animals, but the truth is that considering the number of clueless tourists who visit our remote areas every year we have a very low number of deaths caused by animals. Mostly it's car accidents, drownings and exposure.
>The "customers" that just happen to be the very same shell companies described at trial, engaged in the very same shenannigans with "their" IP addresses? Those customers?

Where are you getting this from? I admittedly have not watched the trial or read through trial transcripts. Are you asserting that the trial produced evidence that the shell companies mentioned were involved in spamming (as opposed to renting out the IP addresses to customers who ultimately used them for spamming?) I haven't seen this allegation in any of the articles I've read about the case. The blog post doesn't identify any customers.

>But anyone with a brain can see that this is a personal story about exactly what was going on, and thus that it's clearly describing related activities. Some of which, again, were clearly illegal.

No need for personal attacks. It's far from clear that anything described in the blog post is illegal. I already went point by point in my initial comment on this. You're making allegations the blog post never made that Micfo was itself involved in spamming. I doubt this, being as it wasn't charged and nobody but commenters in this thread have alleged it.
That's because that's not how low rent housing happens. Low rent housing is the high rent housing of yesteryear.

Trying to preserve San Francisco and Santa Cruz as a quaint tourist towns is to blame for their housing strife.
> “I don’t feel good about that. That sucks,” Chrys Bader-Wechseler reflects when asked about the bullying that went down on the anonymous app Secret he co-founded in 2013. After $35 million raised, 15 million users and a spectacular flame out two years later, the startup was dead. “Since I left Secret I feel alive and aligned with my values and my purpose again.”

I wonder what his values and purpose are.
> Is this really an issue with Java's type system though? If you get an ArrayList<Number> and you assume that it contains only whole numbers, that's on you.

The point is that you have an List<Integer> are you allowed to call a function that takes an List<Number>? The answer is effectively "yes it should be allowed" if its not mutating the List (all Integers can be safely read as Numbers) but no if
the List is mutable (you can't handle the fact that it might insert a non-Integer number into the Integer-only List).
If it's trivial to reach 50 rep by asking questions, how does it prevent unskilled developers from submitting corrections?
> Navy continues to offer a telephone time service (202-762-1401) while NIST does not.

But on this page https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-s... NIST shows a working phone number...
Thanks for the link. I typically link to the original project and leave it to the user to discovery forks that may be better tailored for their use.
Too expensive, guess I'll have to settle for a cheap place in Carmel! /s
JupyterLab... with a model
>If I found out my competitors made sweetheart deals with hardware manufacturers so that their software worked better on their hardware than my software does, I'd be pissed.

As long as they aren't actively sabotaging your software, I don't see why this is a problem. Adobe is clearly the market leader in photo editing. If adobe pays nvidia to improve performance of photoshop, why is that an issue? They aren't paying nvidia to make gimp worse.

Also "sweetheart deal" is a loaded term. What is your definition of sweetheart deal here?
They shouldn't and what I'd like to hear is developers say how much they're willing to be paid than "make the pay competitive".

So let me ask you back: what is the going rate for developers? Is it what everybody else is paying you or FAANG level?
Housing should not be a speculative investment on average. Houses are a durable consumer good.
And even just learning that stupid things come about for reasons, sometimes equally stupid, sometimes for good reasons that aren't what you might assume.
Yes. And now this whole code-of-conduct business would probably have these perfectly reasonable greybeards banned from their own projects. Gone are the good old days of open source.
A closer reading shows that I got tripped up by what "residue" means. But I'm not sure the author of the question got it right either? At the very least, I'm confused by it.

The first paragraph of the expanded question text has: "every pair of adjacent amino acids has lost one molecule of water, meaning that a polypeptide containing n amino acids has had n−1 water molecules removed"

The second paragraph has: "Thus, the mass of a protein is the sum of masses of all its residues plus the mass of a single water molecule."

The fifth paragraph has: "The mass of a protein is the sum of the monoisotopic masses of its amino acid residues plus the mass of a single water molecule"

And the monoisotopic mass table says "Note: the monoisotopic mass of water is considered to be 18.01056 Da."

So I thought that the water molecule was important in the calculation.

However, the last paragraph (which I only now closely read) says it isn't important, with "In the following several problems on applications of mass spectrometry, we avoid the complication of having to distinguish between residues and non-residues by only considering peptides excised from the middle of the protein. This is a relatively safe assumption because in practice, peptide analysis is often performed in tandem mass spectrometry."

Since it didn't mention "water", and instead used the specialist term "residue", I missed the connection earlier.

That said, the text seems to use "residue" inconsistently. There's the definition "a residue is a molecule from which a water molecule has been removed; every amino acid in a protein are residues except the leftmost and the rightmost ones."

but there's also the usage: "the mass of a protein is the sum of masses of all its residues plus the mass of a single water molecule"

Surely that should be "the mass of a protein is the sum of masses of all its residues plus the mass of its leftmost and rightmost amino acids minus the mass of a single water molecule", yes?

So I looked up the definition of "amino acid residue". It appears to be https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00279 "α-Amino-acid residues are therefore structures that lack a hydrogen atom of the amino group (–NH–CHR–COOH), or the hydroxyl moiety of the carboxyl group (NH2–CHR–CO–), or both (–NH–CHR–COO–); all units of a peptide chain are therefore amino-acid residues".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_sequencing#Whole-mass_... also agrees that "residue" includes the two amino acids at the ends, saying "The protein’s whole mass is the sum of the masses of its amino-acid residues plus the mass of a water molecule and adjusted for any post-translational modifications"

Which means ... I don't think the author uses the term "residue" correctly?

Or, more likely, I'm confused by the specialist terminology. Can someone clear up my confusion?
This may be apocryphal, but awhile back I heard there hasn't been a permit granted for an ADU within Santa Cruz City Limits since the '89 earthquake.
Santa Cruz had a healthier tech ecosystem prior to Bubble-1 (2000s) than it has had since. Sure, there are companies and Amazon and Google have a foot hold not to mention the shuttles. But actual companies, there are fewer than there were back then.
It is also interesting to read the first sentence of the article: The 33-year-old single mother and third-year anthropology graduate student

30-year olds should not be starting anthro PhDs in almost any circumstances.

Many grad students and adjuncts have made and are making bad life choices: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/02/25/universities-treat-adjunc...
> it doesn't capture ANGLE GL function usage

It's opensource with MIT license. I wouldn't expect too many issues supporting such use case, given RD's support for normal OS-supplied GLES. I would only expect complications if you'll try capturing both layers at the same time, GLES between your app and angle, and D3D between angle and d3d11.dll.
MIT CS PhD student here. Pretty similar story in Boston/Cambridge. Every grad student spends most of their income on rent. What's worse is that MIT and Harvard own a lot of the land in Cambridge and literally have thousands of students that live outside campus increasing the rent demand. MIT is trying to do something about it by building new grad dorms with their most recent one opening up next year but guess what...the rent is insane ... 2.6K a month for 1 bedroom and this is a student dorm... The justification is that its 'below market rate' but stipends are not at market rate.
No. That’s more like saying we should join a union so we can put rules in place that say employers aren’t allowed to murder us.

It’s already illegal, and people who don’t care about the law won’t care about a union agreement either.

The same court battle and settlement process would result. Or worse, everyone would be forced to strike, and all employees are legally barred from working.
Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring engineering team lead, technical product director
Ask HN: Privacy Focused Ad Network?
I am soon releasing a privacy based search engine (similar in concept to DuckDuckGo, StartPage, etc).

Context based search ads are the obvious path to monetization, but I am having trouble finding an ad network that fits with principles of the site (i.e. no user tracking or storing search queries).

I have looked at Context Cue (https://contextcue.com/), but the ads are embedded with third-party JavaScript and they record users' IP address/user agent, which are both deal breakers.

Is anyone aware of an ad network that prioritizes user privacy. I am also open to any alternative ideas to monetize the site, as long it protects user privacy and also adds value to the user.
Because it results in a parasite effect.
The union uses its power to negotiate a pay rise for its members.
The business then gives the pay rise to all the employees.
Each employee thinks “Well I would have got the benefit if I was a union member or not, so I’ll stop paying my union fees”
To spell this out:

OP appears to be saying that the "channel partners" were the shell companies. Hence why Micfo was responding as the channel partners and why subpoenas went to them.

He also says:

>Our largest customer would submit PTR deletions, additions, and changes to our channel partners, I would log into the channel partner portal, and recieve them then act on them.

It's clear he's not saying that this customer was a channel partner/shell company. I don't know how you could possibly read the post and come off with that impression.
> One potential solution is some feedback loop telling students how many PhDs in anthropology we really need.

Like... a cost associated with the program... and long term potential earnings?
and full of NIMBYs who want to limit development

There is an easy solution: move most land-use regulation to the state level, not the local level. CA's legislature is making some noises in that direction. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-06/sb-50-ch...
Makes me think of Raven's Progressive Matrices
Eh just look it up on the web.
In early December, Spotify launched its annual personalized Wrapped playlist with its users’ most-streamed sounds of 2019. That has become a bit of a tradition and isn’t necessarily anything new, but for 2019, it also gave users a look back at how they used Spotify over the last decade. Because this was quite a large job, Spotify gave us a bit of a look under the covers of how it generated these lists for its ever-growing number of free and paid subscribers.
The "you may not cluster any server instances of the Licensed Work together for one use" in the license is a fairly tricky clause. Under this clause, how would one run a fault-tolerant instance of Materialize?
> This is a government program, mandate even, with easily-downloaded data feeds.

Hang on. The ADS-B requirement is a government program, like car license plates. The data feeds are privately collected, and similar things absolutely exist for cars.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne879z/i-tracked-someone-...

> DRN is a private surveillance system crowdsourced by hundreds of repo men who have installed cameras that passively scan, capture, and upload the license plates of every car they drive by to DRN's database. DRN stretches coast to coast and is available to private individuals and companies focused on tracking and locating people or vehicles.
You can also pick up a flightaware dongle, they have extra hardware inside of them that lets you pick up aircraft a bit further out/with more information. Benefit if you pick up one of those normal sdr kits from nooelec is that it comes with antennas. Easiest way to start is to take one of the antenna and trim it down to 14cm and stick the magnetic base on the roof of a car.
I think this kind of comment (“it doesn’t affect you personally, so why do you care at all?”) suggests a shocking lack of empathy.

Flying also isn’t a prohibitively expensive activity; I know high school teachers who fly small aircraft.
Nuclear’s Bleak Odds in a Green New Deal (2019)
I didn't feel aggressive when I wrote it to you, I'm a very happy VLC user, thanks very much for working on it.

I love the fact that VLC seems to be able to play and use most any media I throw at it.

I love that I can edit the play/toolbar stuff. Awesome.

I like the fact that VLC still has menus instead of trying to mash everything into a single menu "hamburger" ie like the browsers and some others have done. I'm skilled with a mouse and even I find "hamburgers" onerous to use.

I love the fact that VLCs icons are very simple, clean and clear what they do. I really like that they haven't changed much over time.

Most things seem to be where they should be.

I don't really see anything I wish was gone.

If someone that watches a lot of anime (or whatever) or something needs a special button or context menu added somewhere so they can enjoy VLC more, I'm totally fine with that and I'll likely infer the sense of it if it appears.
> Linear algebra is exactly where "dimension" gets its abstract but very limited definition as a property of spaces, best summarized as an axis or direction, rather than a kind of space itself

Yes, but adding an extra dimension to a given space (more correctly stated as asserting that a space of dimension d is embedded in a space of dimension d + 1) vastly expands the "number" of points that are available, so adding a dimension doesn't just give you access to an additional d-space but to a whole continuum of other d-spaces. I think this is what people are referring to when they use the word "dimension" in this kind of context.
LCL does this too. Man those interfaces suck balls
Um, I had a TAship and the tuition waiver during my Master's period at UCSC as well as when I needed to take any required classes post-Masters.
Clickhouse has materilized views and is free.
> Without having a way to reliably reproduce this bug, we are at a loss on how to solve it.

I wish non-technical people understood this.
Great Programming Books Rarely Mentioned in “Great Programming Books” Articles
How I Approach Whiteboard Interviews
I’m not especially familiar with those groups but I would think not. Semantics are subjective but I would tend to assume that there’s a pre-requisite that they already be in power, and yet be pushing for tripling down on those power structures.

Trump’s campaign rhetoric is emblematic of nationalist themes. Anti immigrant. Playing up cultural mythos. Bragging about military capabilities. Blaming foreign nations for most problems. Implying that a return to core values will bring greatness. Lots of fear and anger.

Tends to be very effective for groups of people that used to be powerful but are no longer.
Some funding requires you to work, some doesn’t.
It shouldn't. Suburban sprawl was one of the major "blunders"[0] of domestic policy in the US. There is even less of an argument to be had here. At least rural subsidies can be thought of as the government paying for an overcapacity of food.

[0] scare quotes because it was fairly succesfull in its goal of segragation.
These workers are setting an example for the entire industry. Tech employees deserve job security, strong wages and benefits, and a voice in their companies.
Office perks are tax efficient. They aren’t subject to payroll taxes and are a deductible business expense. Not having any perks at all would be wasteful.
This is definitely true. I'm not a fan of Issues discussion with random people who are not known to be reliable contributors. Talk is cheap, show me the code.
Black rectangle rings true here. I get it pretty reliably on my phone (preview nightly, Android). If I click a GitHub link and FastHub automatically opens (any GitHub link), when I go back on the phone I see a black rectangle for the whole page.

Pixel 3. Hopefully it's a common codepath.
That’s ridiculous, Pakistan has plenty of them
All government funded operations except Minecraft..which is now owned by Microsoft.

Funny..the Original owner of Minecraft never stayed in Sweden with his billion dollars.

My point still stands: you can start a company in Sweden, but will never be able to grow it to sustainable levels unless you incorporate elsewhere (or get purchased).

All examples I've seen so far have only helped prove my point.
In the UK you generally either do a masters or a PhD, but not both. So you’d usually do three years bachelors, three or four years PhD, then done.

> If you want to assert that this process is universally too long, what makes you think that?

If the goal of a PhD is to teach someone to research, introduce them to the community, get them to make their own unique contribution, and have it tested by publishing something good, ready to start doing unsupervised research full time in academia or industry, then they've usually done that by three or so years. What are they doing after that point?

> Are you sure the intervening extra 4 years didn’t help?

You mean because I was more grown up? Maybe, but I also had a wife and house and later a family to worry about - most students can just focus on their research.
When I've set up P25 receivers, it's common to use 2-4 RTL-SDR's to do the bulk of listening. Each rtl-sdr gets set with a different center freq, and the control channel tells when and where to listen.

You can build a P25 listener for less than $100.
We Are Building an SDK for Sandbox VR
I’ve worked in Australian Universities and both the support staff and teaching/research staff where unionised. And sure there are professional with tenure but there are also quite a large number of adjunct professors who are basically being exploited.
Ring Updates Device Security and Privacy–But Ignores Larger Concerns
Deliver Us, Lord, from the Startup Life
This is just a terrible security hole and I really think all stakeholders should reconsider it.

If you give every attacker a 3-15 minute window of opportunity, and you ship tokens to anonymous users, you are playing with fire.
In the US the address you give the FCC when you apply for a ham license does not have to be the address of where you live. It just has to be an address where you receive mail. I used my PO box.