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Saildrone | Multiple Roles | Onsite/Remote (US Only) | SF Bay Area (Alameda) | Full-Time | https://www.saildrone.com/

Saildrone is the world's leading collector of ocean related in situ data via uncrewed vehicle, above and below the sea surface. We work with governments, civic agencies, foundations, universities, and private companies around the globe to drive better information about our oceans and seas - be it sailing drones into the eye of hurricanes to obtain new scientific storm data, mapping out the ocean floor, collecting new CO2 data in hard-to-reach areas, counting biomass to establish fishing quotas, or detecting and stopping illegal fishing and drug trafficking.

Maybe you saw that we hucked a drone into a category 4 hurricane[1] last fall. Or maybe that we recently raised a $100M series C[2]. Or maybe you didn't see any of that, but you're still intrigued by the idea of autonomous, long endurance sailboats that help us better understand our planet.

Whatever the case, we're hiring for a breadth of different positions across our organization. In software, we're hiring for an Engineering Manager along with Machine Learning, DevOps, Hardware Test, Embedded Linux, Platform, C++, and Perception Engineers. Stacks vary from team to team, but we're looking primarily for folks with backgrounds in C++, Python, and/or JavaScript (Node, TypeScript, React). We're remote-friendly for certain positions, though require folks to be onsite for others.

In addition to software engineers, we're also hiring for a bunch of other positions across the company in production/manufacturing, hardware engineering, and more!

You can see a list of open positions on our career page: https://www.saildrone.com/careers

Please apply through our career page; be sure to select "Other" and specify this HN post when asked how you heard about us!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28715110

[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/18/saildrone-catches-a-100m-c...
> Trans kids don't get to say stuff like that on the internet

Lol, trans kids get to say any ridiculous shit they want to. What internet are you on?
If you never been through discovery, it can seem that way, but nothing is straightforward or cheap about responding to a subpoena in a high profile case with a $500B company.

Samsung, Nintendo, and the other parties listed likely will spent $1-2m on these subpoenas. It likely involves thousands and thousands of messages and documents. A lot of back and forth with lawyers ("Each of these 12 employees exported everything with the word 'roadmap' in their email? what about Sandy's personal phone; I see a reference to an SMS elsewhere"), IP council to redact things, and then prep and support for the deposition.

SimulaVR is a tiny startup. It very well could kill them.
The best method is when the rich get water and the poor don't?

What happens when a Native American village that's been around for 800 years can't afford its water supply because a nearby factory prices them out?

(Even better, the US might have promised to uphold that water right under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.)

When rain falls on my land, who do I pay, and how much? What about water from an aquifer?

If I decide to dam all the water from leaving my land, is that okay?

Can Colorado decide to dam divert the entire Colorado River from reaching downstream?
>I remember seeing fish I was used to catching

This didn't happen. The second you splash into that water, they're gone, far enough away from the crash at least that they csn't be spotted by foggy vision in dark green water.
You're right! I was lazy with my words, it's definitely the durability that he's concerned with. The word durable, from the quote, is even emphasized in the original text.
For what it's worth, I went through the same internal debate, and bought a pixel with the Apple adapter since it was highly recommended.

The adapter is awful, my headphones randomly stop working if I move too much, I constantly have to plug it on and off again, etc. Yeah, it's probably because I damaged it, but with the way it dangles off the phone and snags on everything there's no way it wasn't gonna get damaged.
"The UK imports around 50% of its gas from the international market and most homes in England and Wales are heated by mains gas supply. Gas is also used to fuel around a third of the UK's electricity generation, so rising gas prices will usually lead to rising electricity prices.

Norway is typically the UK's largest gas supplier. In 2021, the UK imported £14.5 billion of gas from Norway, which accounted for 77% of all gas imports (Figure 3). Other countries the UK imports gas from include Qatar, the United States and Russia. Almost half of the UK's gas exports in 2021 were to Ireland (47.2%), and the Netherlands was also a large export partner (28.2%)."

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpay...
I installed a backup system (in the greenhouse rather than the house... priorities) to cope with these kinds of problems.

Using a Victron Multiplus 1.6kVA system with 2x 110Ah 12V Gel batteries was remarkably cheap and simple. The whole lot came to just over €1k and took ~1h to set up, mostly setting jumper switches.

It keeps the pellet boiler, circulation pumps, backup gas heaters and control gear going all night when necessary. The automatic switchover from mains (<20ms) is so fast that none of the PLCs, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis or heating equipment notices. Upgrading its capacity simply involves plugging in another 2x batteries (it's a 24v unit) in parallel.

The only thing I wasn't thrilled about was that it doesn't protect against power surges, and a storm fried the boiler logic board AND the gas valve in the backup heater simultaneously in midwinter. (Victron unit was fine though!) Lesson learned.

A similar installation in the house could easily power our (non-electric) central heating system, LED lighting and wifi for plenty long enough to stay civilized, and we're being prepared for 2 hour rolling blackouts here this winter.
I think you answered your own question. Who would agree to be an unpaid volunteer to moderate tweets? Ideologues who wish to further their agenda.
do i smell legalization at a federal level wafting down the hall?
This is dangerous territory for dialog but I'm going to give it a go the best I can. I have no desire to demonize "the other side" but want to point out observations:

The followers of Trump seems like a cult. He was shockingly prescient in his statement about being able to shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose a vote.

Stochastic terrorism is a real thing, and he's not afraid to engage in it (see his comments about Mitch McConnell and his wife, re: death threats). His Big Lie has eroded trust in our electoral process and has emboldened a movement to seize control of the process to subvert democracy in the future.

I could go on and on, but Trump engages in dangerous speech which should not be amplified, let alone celebrated. This is a cherry on top of the right wing movement to demonize the opposition and further ensure the political divide we have today will not heal.

I expect plenty of downvotes and hate for this comment (should it be noticed), but we're in new territory here. Free speech used to comprise public protest, letters to the editor, publishing books, etc. Now we have the digital equivalent of IV drug consumption and the corresponding danger of what that brings.

I do believe in the value of having a marketplace of ideas, but I also believe that markets are well-served by proper regulation.
>1. In the top band there are many more males than females.

Is 5% of boys scoring in the top band, compared to 3% of girls, really "many more males"? (Yes, I know that means that 60% more boys than girls scored in the top band. But the percentages are what matter here.)

EDIT: From a comment:

>Also, in the bottom band, there are many more males than females.

>It seems to be yet another confirmation of the greater male variability hypothesis

I feel foolish for not mentioning this. I think 18% of boys in the bottom band versus 14% of girls is "many more males" only in the sense that the 5% versus 3% figure above is, but taken together, yes, this is more evidence of male scores being the same on average but having a wider distribution.

>or is it considered a fact by now?

It sure wasn't in 2005! (For others' benefit, the commenter is alluding to what happened to Larry Summers as Harvard president. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_b...>)

EDIT 2: The blogger himself addressed it back in 2005! <https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2005/02/summers-lynching.html>
I think his ideas are very needed. Whether he has the stamina to see the project through? That's another question entirely.

What is 'broken' about the web today? And how can web5 fix it?

- the internet used to be fun and playful. When I was a kid, I could just make a website and throw FTP it to some server, and blammoo, my site was online. Nowadays, those fun projects are just Facebook groups that you can only access with a FB account. How cool would it be if you could once again do your own hosting, or better yet, have a P2P hosting styled like BitTorrent [1] (so you seed, but others who viewed your content also seed for a while)?

- For every walled garden or platform you need to create a new account or, worse, use 'login with Google/Apple/Facebook'. How cool would it be to have a system like lnurl-auth that just works on every site that needs a logon? [2] And what if that username or kudos that you've amassed on one site or game could transfer over to another platform or game? One pillar of web5 is 'decentralised identity' and a recent interview on [the Kevin Rooke show](https://www.kevinrooke.com/podcasts/e45-daniel-buchner-on-bu...) gives some insight.

- paywalls and subscription platforms are something else that make the internet less fun. I get it. I am a "content creator" too, and yes, I need to make a living by selling some adverts or a subscription. That is "how the world works". But it doesn't have to be that way! I pay per second for some podcasts that I listen to [3] and I am dreaming of the day when every piece of content that I read/listen/watch is paid for per second without friction.

A detailed article about that Jack is intending to do with web5 can also be found in [this Bitcoin Magazine article](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jack-dorseys-tbd-presen...).

[1] I know the IPFS tried to accomplish this, but I think that project is dead in the water. Maybe Dorsey will breathe new life into a similar system that will get enough traction?

[2] If you want to see the easy (magic) of LNURL-AUTH in action, yoy an log into a website like [Stacker.news](https://stacker.news/) (yes, the name is a had tip to HN). Or make it even more meta and discuss about this topic by posting a comment right here: [https://stacker.news/items/35549](https://stacker.news/items....

[3] There are currently [over 4 million podcasts](https://podcastindex.org/stats) already using the Podcasting 2.0 Value4Value tag that gives a listener the option to pay-per-second while listening.
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Turbine engine parts, I assume?
A sufficiently expressive (and safe) type system is Turing complete, and many languages have that. They don’t all feel ergonomic, but Haskell and Rust are pretty good. If you’re into it, you should check out Idris (lang) and Idris2. Both very cool languages that support dependent types (types that depend on values).
Thanks, this worked for me, too. I wonder why the command used in the article is so different.
Perhaps Europeans also don't realize how much more common smoking is in Europe than in the states?
There are really three. There's the professor's side, the students' side, and the administration's side.
Using sociopathic/immoral characters in situations where they should reflect, but dont (or take the "wrong" stance) is a trope that goes back to Seinfeld. They are not deliberately/exclusively trying to make a value judgement. Usually it's social/political commentary specifically designed to shed light on how awful Americans can be to each other. It's (subjectively) funny because we have encountered milder forms of such people in real life, perhaps.

I agree that we are prude as a culture, just dont see how this is evidenced by the average sitcom. South Park in particular is a very strange example of a "prude" show.
Go look at public policy in denmark to support vestas.
> did you read the comment you wrote above? The one where you said that because they’re young they must be in the wrong? You’re the same tablespoon who wrote this comment, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33112591

You need to work on your reading comprehension. I never said the students were wrong, I said we shouldn't presume they're correct and therefore take their opinion as the whole story.
See also: private equity firms that specialize in finding a business that is currently struggling for one reason or another so they can buy it out and siphon off all of the equity and jump ship before the regular creditors catch up. Lots of safe money to be made by dismantling the work of generations.
Surely you know how ridiculous that comparison is. Second hand smoke kills, second hand food does not. You need to eat to be healthy, you do not need to smoke to be healthy. Not eating in front of children is more likely to give them dietary issues than not.
It's not that hard to see, it is the right word.

Just because the taboo changed does not mean that the Puritan-inside(tm) hardware most Americans have is not there (self-evident on conservatives and very rabid omg-living-in-denial in liberals)

The main point is, in Puritanism, thinking the wrong thing is a sin, so even writing it down is seen as bad. Other cultures can discuss without dirtying their souls/minds/egos.
> Crypto also benefits the rich (like everything), but not as disproportionately as the current legal system.

Are you sure? The WSJ says that 0.01% of all holders control 27% of Bitcoin, vs. the top 1% of households who control about a third of all U.S. wealth.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-one-percent-controls-l...
It weeded me out of pre-med and I never even spoke to the professor. It was like a 500 student class, there was no time. I didn't think it was taught very well. But I also thought it was taught in a normal fashion for the class/topic. It just required much more self-driven appetite for the material and self-study than I had ever experienced and more than I cared to give at the time. I suspect that's the case here as well and the "kids these days" felt the need to protest it instead of roll up their sleeves and do the work, or accept that they don't really have what is required to make it in med school level of rigor and commitment.
Truthfully, why should one be a citizen? It seems like you get all of the benefits of citizenship, plus the benefits of being a non-citizen, by being a non-citizen.

Citizenship comes with only drawbacks these days.
Every voting system has some flaws (see: Arrow's impossibility theorem), and Instant Runoff Voting definitely saw its worst-case scenario rear its ugly head in Alaska: A Condorcet winner existed (Nick Begich), he lost, and voters whose first choice was Plain and second choice was Begich could theoretically, retrospectivally, all changed their first votes from Palin to Begich to have him win rather than Mary Peltola.

It's important that I say retrospectively. This was a house race with national coverage, tons of high-quality polling from pollsters with nothing better to do, and it was still absolutely not clear from that polling that Begich would do better than Palin in round 2, or that Palin was likely to beat Begich in round 1. If I had the opinions of those hypothetically strategic voters, and I were completely strategic, and completely tuned into that polling, I still would have voted honestly. The strategy was only apparent after the fact.

Thinking about "defense in depth" against this scenario, we'd be remiss not to mention Condorcet ranked choice voting methods, which always elect a Condorcet winner, and only resort to (game-able) elimination procedures if there isn't one. Not only would that have resulted in a better outcome in Alaska, it would have made the possibility of strategic voting much, much more remote, both because a strategic scenario would be much less likely, and because that strategic scenario would be much less visible before the election.

With score voting, strategies are always available and almost always obvious: just exaggerate your score differences between the most likely candidates. The fact that strategic dishonesty would have helped in Alaska is a fair criticism of IRV, but the real commonness of strategic scenarios in STAR and score are a more primary feature.
Word of warning: Just like solar inverters, not every home battery system is made to be grid independent. For instance, the Tesla Powerwall does, but the Sessy home battery does not and needs an active AC sinus on the grid.

Even if you do have a home battery system that can generate its own sinusoidal AC wave, you still need an (automatic) transfer switch to disconnect your home from the failed grid, otherwise your home battery might be attempting to power the entire (local) grid which of course doesn't work.
TikTok’s emergence “was just something that was unimaginable,” Snap Inc. SNAP 1.65%▲ Chief Executive Evan Spiegel said last month, as part of an announcement that his company would be slashing jobs. “No startup could afford to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world.”

The report shows a company rapidly increasing its revenues, accumulating a massive war chest of cash and other investments, but with net results weighed down by tens of billions of dollars in unrealized market losses on convertible securities. Largely because of the accounting treatment of those securities, ByteDance’s net loss widened by more than 87% to $84.9 billion in 2021, according to the report.

Despite the rising expenses, ByteDance has managed to increase its cash and cash equivalents, which sat at $42.6 billion at the end of March, up from $34.1 billion at the end of 2021. Its total assets were at $74 billion in March, up from $64.3 billion in December.

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
You take a job that pays substantially less than what you can get in the industry because it either pays more than other industry-adjacent jobs you can get. Or, you take a job that pays substantially less because you are required to teach as part of your post-baccalaureate degree requirements.

Some people teach because they want to. They have a strong desire to instruct and mentor people. To help others get better. Some people teach because they have to.

Primary education has different requirements than secondary (at least in the US). Typically, in primary education, you need a degree in education specifically and to be certified to teach in the state you wish to teach. To teach in secondary education, you need whatever requirements are set forth by the institution. Typically, you'll need a post-baccalaureate degree or be working towards one.

But as far as being "good" at the thing you're teaching. That's not necessarily required.
Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)
Yes - but even then... it's not really true unless your site is completely static resources.

If you're pushing a blog out - Great!

If you're pushing out anything that relies on application state... much less great.

At best, you then end up in a world of trouble dealing with eventually consistent data, sharding/tenanting, CRDTs, "edge" KV stores (that are really just hiding the eventually consistent nature from you) and all sorts of other trade offs.

If I'm directly collaborating with some half way around the globe in a web application - there is literally no magic way to wave a wand and make that latency go away.
Also nuclear reactors and the uranium fuel rod assemblies those required.
I'm not convinced that instant runoff is actually better than FPTP.

Without tactical voting (and good information to support it) the first thing IRV does (along with most variations that in practice get the label "RCV", though of course this doesn't apply to all ranked methods) is to throw out the compromise candidate that everyone likes.

In the current situation, I am concerned that most people will prefer their particular flavor of theocracy to finding ways to get along (which they probably prefer to anyone else's flavor of theocracy). We already struggle with similar dynamics a bit, but it's the devil we know and I really don't want it magnified.
As others have mentioned it depends. For instance the initial trials with pembrolizumab weren't the silver bullet the media makes them out to be today, until they identified what features might common among patients that did see a response, e.g. mismatch repair deficient cancers, because the tumor needs to be spitting out enough of these tumor-specific neoantigens to be targted by the immune system. That generally happens with highly mutated tumors such as those found in mismatch repair deficient tumors. The reason why the immune system was not targeting the tumors like it should have given the neoantigens until you take the drug is because the tumor cells presents the correct receptors that the immune system expects from healthy cells, which prevents the immune response. When you block that receptor as these drugs do, and also have many of these tumor specific neoantigens being expressed, then the immune system is able to target the tumor cells for death and the drug works well.
> issues, scale up difficulties and checkbox security cargo cults.

> You don't want to work for those companies

I can’t defend the likes of Citrix but I’ve been the guy who has to tell an intern on their last day to hand over the flash drive with code we know they copied over the day before. Sometimes avoiding those issues is easier.

Also weird tech stacks are a real issue (but there are lots of developer-native tools for the job).

> It's notably different if you have a cloud VM running linux and you're connecting to it with VScode or something over SSH. That's borderline acceptable. The reality is usually some horrible AWS, Azure or Citrix portalised solution however.

100% agree. VSCode and VM is my only accepted solution now.
Please visit https://stadia.google.com for more information on expected lifetime of the product.
And yet you still remember it 35 years later.'
Paper from a peer reviewed repo, not press releases please
Best Book on Language Learning I've Ever Read: Here's What It Says (2020)
My understanding is this kind of memory manipulation appears in many studies and is fairly uncontroversial. Where this gets problematic is in the natural tendency to extrapolate this to other kinds of memory discussions, particularly around those of childhood trauma.

I found this paper gives a better sense of the terrain from that perspective.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.156.5....

There’s also interesting research being done using brain scans to better understand the dissociative processes that are involved in trauma related memory.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2...

Either way, these kinds of studies can distract from the underlying statistics, which indicate that if someone you know tells you they suspect they were abused as a child, there’s a fairly good probability they’re right. The CDC cites 1 in 4 girls in the United States as being sexually abused, for example.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast...
They said they were using it for side projects. Even if Google is subsidizing the bill, I'm interested to know how much something like this would cost.