skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old way was to culture whatever earth you grabbed. The trouble is, most of it did not grow, although some did.
When they perfected high speed sequencing they could then lyze out all the DNA from all the organisms living there and sequence and catalog them. They then take all the organisms they could grow from the same sample (representational sample), and then deduct all those sequences from the total.
That was when they realized that they had only grown 10-15% of all the various organisms. There are hundreds of growth media, all painstakingly crafted by trial and error to grow particular organisms. Some organisms only grow by parasitism of others, some by eating others, and thus will only grow on a special media to fit this. It can take years to craft a growth medium. To this day we have many organisms that affect mankind that we can not grow in culture.
The amassed sequence data can be analysed to see what sort of proteins they will grow. They can then try to make them - if they can - some need chaperone proteins that lead them into their correct folding pattern. No chaperone protein = no correct fold = wrong activity etc.
It is very hard to 'uncook' the soup that made the amassed sequence data, but you may be able to identify promising proteins and tag those sequences in the living bacteria with a fluorescent dye that is taken up by the organism. Shine the right light on it and that organism will light up and you may be able to isolate it or hopefully, many of it. Repeat again and again gradually tease out these new organisms. With number to play with you can try to make them grow by analyzing their metabolism to see what might feed them and well fed ones will reproduce.
That is because FFI is very rare not because it doesn't kill you
Yes. In two ways.

First, the assumption was that the Earth's rotational period was 86400 seconds. Mechanical clocks had given us no reason to doubt this was so.

By the mid-20th century quartz timers were able to discern that the Earth has longer and shorter days, as numerous factors cause the spin to speed up or slow down. Instead of a single day the second was taken to be one 86400th part of an average day over the whole year.

A few decades later the availability of atomic clocks made this seem silly and we uncoupled the second from the variably spinning Earth. The completely arbitrary seeming atomic clock definition of a second was basically chosen to be indistinguishable from our last guess at the "averaged over a year" second.
Ask HN: What self service BI tools?
My company has two small BI teams, one working in oracle obiee, and one in Qlikview.

They were previously separate team but a recent re-org has brought us together.

We want to consolidate to one technology and are thinking put it all in Qlikview.

One wrinkle is that there is also high demand from business areas to add a "self service" tool to let analysts build and publish their own dashboards.

It seems like we can meet this need by adding Qlik's Sense product.

Then we can do the range of reporting from pixel perfect paper to structured dashboards created by developers where users only have the ability to filter/select data, to fully self-service options where we publish data sets and let users use the qlik sense drag and drop interface to build.

The business teams who want a self service option REALLY prefer tableau. There are a few vocal members with experience working in tableau complaining that qlik sense is not intuitive, not as flexible, etc.

I actually tend to agree on the intuitive point but after the learning curve for qlik sense, I find I prefer it. The "associative model" (full outer join) technique makes sense and adds value for data exploration.

Do we just give in and go tableau for the self service option and stick with qlik view for "pixel perfect" reports and structured dashboards? Force the organization to suck it up and learn qlik sense for self service?

Or something else? It's also an option to abandon qlik entirely for something else. Can tableau do it all? If not, are there common pairings of tableau with more traditional paper report, fixed dashboard bi tools?

Whatever we do it will be on prem not cloud hosted. Will have about 150 users overall. 6 developers who are on the tool full time, 50 business users who want to build their own dashboards, and the rest mainly consumers of reports who might pivot things around a bit with a drag and drop tool, but generally won't build their own things.
`It's basically just ${desktopEnvironment} with a custom skin` can be humorously used for 90% of popular Linux distros but it's not really fair for any of them.
Beyond Meat S-1
You raise some very relevant biases of critics, I wonder how this is accounted for?
> You have to pay money if you want to buy a license for your job. But in the online world, you can get partial rights without investing any money.

This sentence is probably totally wrong, but after reading the article a few times I'm convinced that it is a bad translation. You should get someone to help to make the text more clear.

[Hi from Argentina! From time to time you can enjoy my post with bad translations too :).]
I had a similar perspective as you. I couldn't get past a lot of default design decisions made in many distributions and I didn't want to spend the time tweaking my machine. I installed Pop_OS after seeing the Theano release a couple of weeks ago and basically haven't booted into windows since. As a casual user I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a similar linux experience as I was.
I doubt a better design could have been come up with even if they had a copy of kerbal space program back in the day.
Not sure if you have a specific one in mind but I for one am curious.
Because adding 7/16ths of an inch to 7/8ths of a mile and getting an answer in inches isn't easy for a human. Adding 1cm to 982m and getting an answer in centimeters is dead easy for a human.

THAT'S why human intuition about measurement doesn't mean a damn thing.

Using metric means using the system optimized for humans. Period.
I didn't downvote the person, but I did ask for clarification and got downvoted.

Can you explain your claim 'objectively true'? There are too many non-concrete nouns running around for me to be able to keep track of...
I agree but it seems difficult. I am not really involved in many communities and most don't like to be spammed with links.

My other idea https://www.chronodaq.com is a private marketplace for professional watch dealers, like a stock exchange. It is ultra difficult to speak to that domain as it is a conservative business. I ultimately need to ask people about their business process for sourcing, trading and valuing watches which is somewhat proprietary.

I'm kind of stumped on how to get real validation on that one to be honest. There are proven businesses for diamonds such as polygon.net but I need to talk to people.

Oyster Alerts is easy and has the most engagement now so I think that is going to be my focus and get an MVP out the door.
This is nothing extraordinary, there are many people having a math Bachelor or Master. Also a famous university name on your BA/MA tells nothing about your level. University get their ranking through research publications not through undergrad math test . So what really matters is whereas you choose to dedicate (a part of) your life to Math or not, there is no secret magical course at Cambridge that will enlight you, courses are pretty much the same in all big universities
I think the downvotes are coming from the lack of context accompanying the GP’s bold statements.
Of course, although all to a lesser extent, since they are widely believed to pay less.
While what you say is true, the gp's point is that Windows is already pre-installing crapware. The Start Menu icons were still pre-installed, even if you can remove/uninstall them and even if the apps they represent weren't pre-installed.
Additionally, base 12, would not act like 12 does in base 10, thus if base 12 is your key point of reference, a foot should be 10 in base 12 for inches.....

I honestly cannot make any sense of this part of your argument. The symbols 10 would only look like ten they would still mean a dozen and the properties would remain the same. Furthermore people don’t think in twelves because we are not taught in a dozenal numbering system. And there is no need for twelve fingers it would be a simple thing to create two additional hand symbols to teach children to count to a dozen.

Twelve is a great base. I would prefer it but it isn’t the sort of thing that can be changed.
The full title is "Celebrity suicide on Twitter: Activity, content and network analysis related to the death of Swedish DJ Tim Bergling alias Avicii" which is way too long for HN.
Personally, I don't _want_ a grammar of graphics; I want a grammar of data, where the data happens to have a graphical representation. I don't want to spend ages piecing together a fancy plot; I want to spend just a little time annotating my data to declare what it means, and then no matter how I slice and dice my data it will show up in a meaningful way. That way I can explore it to really understand it, which is the point of HoloViews (http://holoviews.org). But people approach plotting in lots of different ways, and some people actually _do_ want to spend their time making plots, so they are welcome to their ggplot2!
Interrupt/delverengine: Delver game engine and editor
You realize elementary has created the entire Pantheon desktop environment, right? So, "It's just their desktop environment with their stylesheet, their apps, and the AppCenter ecosystem," is basically what you are saying. In which case, yeah, that's exactly what elementary OS is.
So does nursing, but it is heavily female-dominated.
a kilogram of water is also a liter

I have never, in around four decades of living, had an actual need to determine the mass of a given volume of water, or the volume of a given mass of water.

When cooking, I routinely need to split some quantity of an ingredient into thirds or quarters.

Yet I am also constantly told that I'm ignorant and backwards and irrational for preferring a system that optimizes for the latter, rather than for the former. Base 12 is genuinely better for many real-world applications than base 10, those applications are more common in the lives of non-scientists than the applications metric is optimized for, and I doubt you're going to be able to produce a rational argument otherwise.
I've done a little work today on making the site mobile responsive. If anyone has a mobile device and wants to check it out and provide feedback, I would appreciate it greatly!
One reason to avoid imperial units is that people seem to be generally unsure if they're even using them!
I might be wrong, but you're probably more familiar with the US system rather than imperial units (given you said you're american).
Did you know there are 20 fluid ounces in a pint?
God help us when the fraction of gases in the atmosphere can be set by the political process. How often do we get a ruling class that you would trust with that decision? And if we can't trust them consistently on that, it may become our species' resolution of the Fermi paradox.
Like I said, there are a couple of 250k jobs in Germany, they aren’t just part of the statistics of glassdoor et al.

So let’s start with entry level: say 100k at Bay-Faang and 60k at a Berlin startup. Since you’re paid USD, 100k are actually just 88k.

Your cost of living will be a lot higher in say SF than in Berlin so it begs the question: Is 28k more a year worth it? How much of that goes to paying back student debt, housing, healthcare (the big ticket items eventually) and - if you plan on having kids - kindergarten and education?
>>Officials cautioned, however, that the American and Turkish intelligence agencies still do not have direct evidence linking Prince Mohammed to the assassination.
I’ve been running my own nameservers since 1994. It’s one of the simplest services to run. I use BIND.
Its based on Ubuntu, so whatever you can install on Ubuntu should work on Elementary. Only issue I've run into is while adding an apt repo(for docker I think) I needed to point it to bionic instead of juno.
Nice! I built something similar for AWS CodeBuild and ECS where we get channel notifications when builds start/succeed/fail and when ECS tasks start or die. It also shows who made the commit and what it relates to by pulling info from GitHub. I haven’t gone the flashing light route quite yet but I’ve considered it.

Or maybe a loud noise directed at the developer who submitted the commit that caused the build to fail.
For what it's worth, elementary does not create Epiphany; that's the GNOME browser and is largely a GUI wrapper around WebKit, the exact same engine as in Safari.

AppCenter is a way to serve the app developers who were already attempting to target the OS while also enabling both them and elementary to cover (some) costs.
Oh, Weber gas grills. When you said all Weber grills, I thought of and only checked their charcoal grills, the round charcoal grill being their iconic product.
I agree. It's rough around the edges, but I only need to look at it for a few seconds when changing windows, for example. Other than that, it stays out of my way and doesn't tire me with animations which stopped looking cool the by 4th time.

I've tried moving away from the traditional desktop (yes, for the sake of it), but I just can't. And cinnamon seems to suck the least.

(and no amount of polish will move me to mac/win)
As our metric British friends say at the end of a long day: "Ah, I can't wait to get down to the pub and have my hard-earned 568.261 ml!"
Pandas dataframes can autocomplete column names using the dot syntax.
Ironic that California is possibly the worlds worst polluter. Better forest management might go farther than electric cars in reducing pollution. (But also keep the electric cars coming please)
??? You seem like you’re trying to find a fight here for reasons I cannot fathom. All I think of you as an employee of one of these companies is that you’re probably less well compensated than you could be.
1/3 can easily be measured in metric... it's just not a whole number.

Far out I can invent a system that is unique to everything, and I can create my own abominable conversion ratios all I like. It doesn't make the system superior, it makes my system necessarily inferior.

My TV is now 12 Settos in size. My surround system consumes 12 audots of power. My fridge holds 12 cubic fudo of room.

There. Now everything is easily divisible by 12ths.

I won't even go into conversion factors on this insanity.

Metric is objectively the better system to anyone that doesn't have a decades-long familiarity with the stupidity that is the imperial system. That's coming from an american without a college education, by the way. I am the target demographic for the pro-imperial people. I wasn't abducted into any metric-only education system and forced to convert or fail and disappoint my family. I was a disappointment by my own hand, thank you very much.
At $12 per card, are they at least signed?
Hum...

My reading is that R&D facilities couldn't compete with the sheer amount of small improvements that came from the uneducated labor force. Japan grew out empowering the employees to do development, and the entire world copied it. What leaded us on a path where people are making the Uber-for-X apps and some actually getting rich that way.

And that is exactly the opposite of a sarcity of low hanging fruit.
I don’t know if I’m a sheep or a rock star but I do know I enjoy my work and probably get paid more than I could get anywhere else.
For a while, I ran bind. Then for quite a while, I used a modified version of rbldnsd, which is not really meant to be used that way, but it was very good at absorbing abuse and didn't even implement most record types. It just had what I required.

When I eventually needed a proper DNS servers again so that I could have CAA records, I switched to NSD [1]. NSD is stricly authoritative, vs. its counter-part Unbound [2] for recursive. It is a little faster than bind and has not had quite as many CVE's associated with it as bind. That said, bind was there for a long time and they learned along the way. You can find sites that compare the features and benefits of NSD vs. bind.

I have not been used for amplification attacks. That said, people have tried enumerating many things over the years. There are some things you can do both in the DNS config and in iptables to reduce some noise. You would want to look on serverfault [3] for ideas. I set really high TTL records, so DDoS would only affect people that have not used my site in a while.

[1] - NSD: https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/

[2] - Unbound: https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/

[3] - Serverfault: https://serverfault.com/
I've always hear this applied to the B-52 but the F35 may be similarly dispersed.
There are actual benefits to some imperial units when working in small amounts. They can often be subdivided much more easily into amounts that are harder to handle (or at least require going to another order of magnitude to do accurately).

For example, dividing a foot into thirds or fourths is trivial, but for a meter it requires either going two orders of magnitude (25/100ths for a quarter) or simply cannot perfectly represent the amount (1/3).

Now, not all imperial units have sane definitions, and they don't even all follow similar rules (8 fluid oz. to a cup, 16 fluid ozz to a pint, you lose thirds but can still easily do fourths).

In a lot of ways, base 10 is really substandard to base 12, we just used base 10 because it's physically easy and socially ingrained. Who knows, maybe 100 years from now we'll teach in base 12 and have a new system that's base 12, and all the metric die-hards will been seen as backwards yokels that cling to a clearly substandard system because of history and it's what they know? I mean, I really, really doubt it, but it would be better than the metric system as long as most people could easily think in base 12 (which would require a massive social upheaval).
It's very disappointing to learn that after more than 25 years of Linux being launched, there is not a single decent GUI SDK available.

Much more damning is that RedHat whose entire business model was around making an enterprise ready Linux (server and Desktop) could not build a decent GUI toolkit.
I guess you'll never know since it's a package that was paid for. The only way to guarantee a honest description is not to accept any kind of money from whoever you write about.
i wonder if the original offer (aka ownership of gawker) was worth more than the actual settlement, because the founder filed for bankruptcy and presumably he did not get 100M
Which is why Kubernetes/GKE is the public version of Borg.
I guess it's a drawback of the news cycle, but it seems kindof premature to start doing detailed 3D renderings of the 737 cockpit when basically nothing is known except one update to the plane manual. If we just wait a few month, the investigation report will no doubt clarify exactly what the pilots needed to do.
Unbound on macOS
> Yes, the monopoly argument depends on believing that somehow, even though there were these absurdly high profit margins from simply carrying a different good, no grocer other than WF or WO will ever recognize that for eternity,

No, it doesn't, because antitrust monopolies aren't defined exclusively over an infinite future time horizon; while simple economic models often only consider that, all useful economic models and regulations consider shorter-term effects, as well, or exclusively (“In the long run, we’re all dead”, after all.)
I would argue that if you come to a university for science or engineering, you come to do research. whether that is through working in a lab or internships, extracurricular work is the most important factor in getting the high-paying job in your field.

CS may be different, but all the recruiters I have talked to, and all of the people doing actual hiring don't care about the degree, they care about projects, and whether you are going into academia or industry, your undergraduate degree is not nearly enough to land a job.
This is sarcasm right? AWS doc's are okay, but not great. Honestly, their documents are pretty piss poor. They have contradicting statements depending on what tool, they have 100 exceptions for integrating their own toolchain, and the perspective and context is never clear. Sure...their basic stuff is well documented....but it's constantly changing and their system isn't versioned in a way that is easy to upgrade or transition legacy systems.
I'll concede that freezing is very important to a lot of people, but at the same time, I don't think it's particularly onerous to remember that the freezing point is 32 degrees.

As far as boiling and cooking, I would argue that there is no magic number anyways, since boiling point is variable by elevation. At 7500 feet / ~2250 meters, water boils at 198°F.
I found some documentary footage from the era that I think explained this quite well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NrWX-FsXgQ
My impression is that Ikey has been more or less gone for a while, and the recent news was just confirmation that he didn't plan on coming back. I use Solus on my Thinkpad and it's been great for me (I package SBCL and Kakoune for Solus)
Ionic Vue.js specific building blocks on top of ionic/core components
youtube specifically, no, because youtube will do vp9 fine. Other sites though, which use h264 will be a bit problematic. Still, you can install chrome for that crowd, and they'll be fine too. Alternatively, you can enable rpmfusion or other third party repos, which has become a bit easier (almost too easy unfortunately) in recent fedora releases. I'm personally not a big fan of this direction though because it blurs the lines between official good quality software, semi-official software that is mostly fine except for patent trolls, proprietary drivers, and random proprietary software delivered through flatpak/snap etc. Currently, all of these are almost enabled by default, or are just one click away.
> I hope Jeff Barr is reading this.

IAM.
What we need is a revolution in how people think about complex systems.

People nowadays throw ideas around thinking they have a good understanding of how systems operate or should operate, when in fact most are clueless and fail to realize their ignorance.

Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems, and no single person can claim to understand how they work, or the types of laws/rules we should adopt to govern their behavior.

Not all is lost though, as we have slowly started to augment our cognitive power, by means of computation, and in the process have improved our capabilities to analyze and understand these ever evolving systems.

I for one, have began to fight my ignorance by studying more books on complex systems.
Here's a good one I've discovered recently: "Scale" by Geoffrey West.

Also, a useful collection of resources, courtesy of Santa Fe Institute: https://www.complexityexplorer.org/ (HINT: Go to explore -> browse section)

... and bonus, one of the most underrated channels on YouTube, Complexity Labs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCutCcajxhR33k9UR-DdLsAQ