skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if the meritocratic system that we have now in a way is counterproductive. It assumes that only the smartest and best could advance scientific knowledge, so we have a system that tries to filter for them, but obviously, it fails or ends up being a time sync even to those, rendering them less productive.

But maybe this is not what scientific advancement takes. All you might need is randomly choose someone passionate about it, and just give them free reign without condition, no time limits, no stress, to just express their passion.
Lateral DNA transfer is awesome. Check out this visualisation of the molecular apparatus assembled on the surface of a bacterium to inject a chunk of DNA into a neighbouring bacterium.

Type 4 secretion system: ii- Pilus biogenesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihlFqOK5cZM
F1 does a great job of telling a story. the racing itself isn't too exciting, but as a casual spectator it's much more accessible to somebody like me who doesn't really follow it at all but pays attention once in a while. the rivalries are well publicized and the races are obvious. I have no clue what's going on in a rally race, but if i'm over at somebody's place and they've got F1 on the tv, i can probably find something about it to enjoy.
Right - I can see an argument being made between Moto GP over F1 (less emphasis on starting position, far more passing) but not Rally over F1 as it's a different beast. I used to love F1 (partly since it was often well timed for hungover Sundays off work for me when I was at university) so I really get both the fun and the frustrations with Formula 1.
Well this is probably not the Windows you remember. WSL is a thing now if you want your bash shell and powershell is actually a great alternative. Passing structured objects instead of formatted text you have to parse is pretty amazing.

Also it feels like Microsoft is catering to the power user more and more while Apple is dumbing their OS down with every release. In a few more years you may have no choice.

I'm also looking to move off Mac as primary desktop but looking more towards Linux and FreeBSD. But I use Windows, Linux and Mac every day.
F-1 was really interesting years ago. With no traction control or advanced aerodynamics and less regulations on engine power, it was a real arena for drivers.

It was so fierce that Senna decided to hit his rival in the first corner of a race, taking out both, solidifying Senna's championship.

It was exciting too. Since drivers need to take risks with 750+ HP beasts, Senna battling Schumacher, Villneuve battling Coulthard was fun.

Pit-stop tactics was the cherry on top, not the secret sauce. Engines and drive trains were not regulated. After some deaths, non rational gains (Mercedes 7G-tronic was so quick when paired with their engine. It just accelerated uninterrupted so it got banned. Renault's Open Injection engine was so powerful so it got banned a year later) and hey, it's getting too expensive cries (and Ferrari-Gate), it lost its luster for the audience.

Now the war is behind the scenes. Homologated parts, limited testing and simulation (they have yearly CPU instruction limits!) and some good people rule the sport.

It's no longer about the drivers. It's about the car you drive and the people behind it. If you have the season's best engine and Adrian Newey in your car design team, you can just win.

So it feels like the movie "Death Race" if you have a good car, you have advantage and if it doesn't break down, you win. That's it.

I left watching it the day Ferrari admitted that they're basically financed by FIA (by getting 23% more advertisement revenue cut at the end, every year).

Some more points: Standardized ECU just killed a lot of excitement by limiting remote engine tuning. Ferrari's domination slowly eroded excitement for most people. Drivers being immature and getting away with it eroded its prestige for me. I still miss Jaguar's green/gold cars. Boy, they were handsome.

So its golden era is long gone. No wonder Honda is leaving.
A problem with RNA world is that RNA, and even ribose, is not very stable. It's not very plausible that the components of RNA could be present in pure forms that could allow faithful RNA replication, even ignoring energy needed for that.
> There would have to be an awfully good reason to use it, and here there really isn't.

Crypto primitives generally come with very good reasons why we want to use them (and even among them, understandability at least of some aspects of them is highly valued). The GP comment specifically challenges that this trade-off is not the case here. "Should we ban crypto algorithms" is attacking an argument they haven't made.
yes but what reason is there to think they will be rich whites?
There's a lot of vague handwaving like that. But that's really all it is.
If only we had patched creditor law to make these costs first in the charging order when an O&G company is distressed, or instituted responsible reserve/escrow amounts (1%!?) for remediation. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

Oh well, will make quite the book of work for a civil conservation corps.
Could someone point out a good eli5, recent book about this topic? From building blocks and their physics to membrane/rna/dna and so on?

Thank you.
If I understand the American high school system correctly, 3.5 is not a particularly high bar, especially with grade inflation in recent decades. For context, most students admitted to Harvard or Yale have close to a 4.0 weighted GPA. It would be like randomly picking among students who scored >70% on some exam, instead of picking the top x%.

Furthermore, GPA is not very comparable between different high schools.
Curious how you would do the lookup if you have an RNG with probabilities 2/7, 2/7, 3/7 (or the same but with significantly larger denominators).
>The only transformative net effect . . .

You write as if our institutions will always remain healthy and the only uncertainty our future holds is which groups or which individuals will get which share of the "pie" (or "prosperity") produced by our healthy institutions.
It's good that you acknowledge your (or so I assume) skepticism of the concept as such. Pretending that the exceptions which do not relate to political speech are relevant or even interesting is almost in bad faith, however. Free speech is about political speech, and the expression of controversial views. Things which you cannot say which are non-political are curiosities, things for lawyers to get excited about. They are of no concern to those who actually care about freedom of speech and thought as such. But "hate speech", which you offhandedly list among other largely irrelevant forms of expression, should most certainly be covered by any serious definition of free speech. And that is the actual reason for why many find free speech so repulsive — it requires them to accept the expression of political views which are inimical to their own. This is of course not exclusive to that particular form of speech — I think history can provide plenty of similar examples.
Sometimes all it takes is for people like you to make this issue heard by all before it is understand and appreciated. There are many competing issues taking attention.
> I finally managed to establish many new healthy habits: I started eating in a healthier way, I lost 10kg+ ...

Damn, that's the opposite from what I've seen around here.
Paywall and Paywall-less: America's Next Newspaper Crisis
Maybe if the US had proper protections for whistleblowers, they wouldn't need to seek asylum or take such sensitive information with them as insurance.
For crypto maybe, but there's plenty of uses for RNGs with statistical biases.if they have other interesting tradeoffs.

Like, all LFSRs are RNGs with distinct statistical biases.
Why does it seemingly converge to 7?
That syntax is not obvious or predictable, and several people in this commentary made the same assumption. Fix your docs.
Ask HN: Is Consumer Tech more boring than it used to be?
Over the past few years, I've noticed that new tech releases aren't receiving the same level of excitement that tech releases even 5-6 years ago typically generated.

What's behind this phenomenon? Are we satisfied with the way that many tech product lines have matured, and don't need to look forward to new features? Has innovation slowed down?
Here's the real ProPublica link:

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service...
The average programmer, including someone straight out of college, should be able to understand

Absolutely strongly disagree, especially given what's happened to the "average programmer" over time. The only way you can maintain (and improve) skill is by NOT continually pandering to the dumbing-down crowd.

In other words, what someone might call "more readable" can actually be "cruft that gets in the way" to someone else.

Related: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/in...
Introduction to KubernetesExecutor and KubernetesPodOperator
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The Vital Question, by Nick Lane is a pretty good book that takes a thermodynamics first approach to this question.
Ask HN: How to build static website that displays database data
I've been trying to figure out how to build a "static" website that displays data pulled from a database. I know SQL fairly well, but have no experience in web dev. I would think website builders would have basic functionality for this, but maybe it's a much harder problem than I'm thinking.

I would also think this could be done on the server side, so the user should never interact directly with the database. Is web development usually difficult to find answers for? I work in networking so rarely interactive with web dev.

Thank you.
> I don't think lawyers are overpaid considering the supply and demand but given the amount of value that teachers provide to society, it's surprising that teachers are so undervalued

I’m a teacher. I’ve never seen any evidence teachers are undervalued. Teachers don’t get paid more when they leave teaching for other jobs. Difficulties in hiring can be fully explained by having the same pay scale for those teaching subjects in demand in the outside world like Computer Science or Mathematics and those with either less demand or greater supply like Physical Education or English. Paying primary school teachers and secondary school teachers on the same scale is distortionary in the same manner.

Teachers in the government sector get very, very good job security and benefits for doing a hard job but plenty of people do hard jobs for much poorer compensation. And teachers aren’t magic. They come in a very distant third in their effects on student achievement behind student characteristics and family characteristics.

> By almost all objective measures, teachers don’t actually seem to be underpaid in the traditional sense. “Nationwide, the average teacher salary was $60,477 during the 2017–18 school year.” And teachers work around 2 hours less a week than the average profession (“ 40.6 hours during the work week, compared to 42.4 hours for private-sector professionals”). BLS Occupational Information Network studies found that teaching isn’t a particularly stressful job relative to other professions, and teachers typically have pretty solid relative job security. In addition to all of this, teachers don’t make a lot when they leave teaching and education majors have the lowest standardized test scores of any major. Although teachers have extraordinarily high social prestige, it looks like we are paid close to what we are worth on the actual job market.

https://medium.com/@coreykeyser/why-conventional-wisdom-on-e...
The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (2018)
The irony is that the last time they left F1 they sold off their F1 team for next to nothing to management which then won the F1 World driver and constructors championship the next season.

That team was then sold to Mercedes to become their works team which now utterly dominates F1 for the last few seasons.

If only they persevered.
The USSR collapsed because it overspend on pointless projects. Bridges to nowhere or military bases in Afghanistan add nothing for the economy. Just because it's infrastructure doesn't mean it's good.
Covid: 16,000 coronavirus cases missed in daily figures after IT error
Even more crazy is that when they had very their own team they disbanded it ... only for Ross Brawn to lead an MBO, create a "new" team and win both the Constructors Championship and the Drivers Championship THE VERY NEXT SEASON season before it was bought by Mercedes, who went on to do rather well.

Honda were on the cusp of dominating F1 and decided "nahhh". I wonder if it's actually not that good for business - otherwise someone's gotta be kicking themselves.
Bail has been algorithmic for many years, based on previous offenses and seriousness of crime.

The new horror is machine learning algorithms that make decisions based on hidden inappropriate discriminatory factors.
As a parent with toddlers, I've wondered what makes a good school and whether I should move to the county over which has some of the best schools in the state (according to Great schools, mine are 8/9s..so not too bad!).

If every kid in the school is smart and motivated, and their parents can afford tutoring, spend time w/ them etc...naturally the school scores will be higher. The teachers might suck. Would an average student going there become smarter/more motivated by being around peers who are driven? Or would that average student be better off in a school that has average students with lower income, but great teachers?
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This discussion reminds me of a short story, Liking What You See: A Documentary by Ted Chiang (same guy who wrote the plot of the movie Arrival). There might be a pdf floating around on the internet, it's a 20 min read.

Basically, it's about a reversible procedure called "calli" that turns off the neurological response to symmetry, smoothness, and "aesthetic" of a human face. So someone with the procedure can recognize different faces, but they don't feel any better about a pretty face than an ugly one.

The story follows a girl who had calli done as a young child, and then decided to go to college with it turned off. When she's there, there's a push on campus to mandate the procedure, to combat "lookism." The story is written like a documentary film, so it has little snippets of interviews, news articles, etc. about the debate.

The range of emotions we get from looking at other people's faces is intrinsically worth saving. But, people get a huge advantage from being good-looking. It's effectively discrimination to consider people who are good looking more trustworthy, nicer, etc, yet all of us do -- it's hard wired. The world is not really fair to someone with a bad looking face.

These apps aren't calli but they do mediate how we see the world, ourselves, and others to a huge degree. I don't envy any middle school girl who has to navigate this landscape. Anyway, I highly recommend the story, it was such an interesting way of looking at the issue.
It’s also an important vehicle for focused R&D. F-E for example has specific rules in place, that change each year, to stimulate the advancement of specific bits of electric car technology.
Covid recovery will stem from digital business
I can probably. I guess a few prinicpal/staff engineers can too. But doing cross FFI async function invocations and trying to unify runtimes in that fashion is not a thing that people usually do. And it still wouldn't allow you to call QT socket APIs and Netty socket APIs from the same thread.
Yes, with myself usually.
Think you've got problems when your coding error takes down the live site/database?

Well, spare a thought for whoever must have been working on the UK's systems here, since their technical mishap meant the figures have been off for about two months and a whole bunch of people weren't contacted about interacting with someone who tested positive for the system.

That must have been one hell of a miserable day at the office!
meanwhile, morons keep claiming Tesla lives off government subsidies.
> Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

It’s the American way, at this point; another gift from the generation before us.
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With the automobile market transitioning to EV, it is inevitable that F1 will be rebooted as an EV contest. Expect Honda to re-enter then, particularly if MotoGP goes EV first.
And the men in "Men's Health" magazine aren't retouched? Are men not affected (or does Google not care about men)?

https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/

I am skeptical about this. I'm co-owner of a gym and I don't think the people there--men or women--who care a lot about how they look, are depressed or insecure at all when they see Instagram photos. And many of them spend a lot of time building an Instagram brand.
> I’d agree but then there will just be an annual law that blanket renews all the laws that would expire in the upcoming year.

maybe so, but every so often you get a happy accident. the patriot act missed its most recent deadline for renewal and is still not in effect (though not for a particularly good reason).
Yes. Abolish peer review. Bring back editorial review. If it was good enough for Planck and Einstein it’s good enough for everyone.

> For instance, the Annalen der Physik, in which Einstein published his four famous papers in 1905, did not subject those papers to the same review process. The journal had a remarkably high acceptance rate (of about 90-95%). The identifiable editors were making the final decisions about what to publish. It is the storied editor Max Planck who described his editorial philosophy as:

> To shun much more the reproach of having suppressed strange opinions than that of having been too gentle in evaluating them.
Yes, as you rightly point out, the bias doesn't need to be introduced. This is a well known issue with divisions(modulo) in generating random numbers. This is literally why there is an injunction for people not to create their own crypto.

Of course, the meeaning isn't that people aren't to work on crypto but that people shouldn't create RNGs like this thinking they are better than the prior-art, when they actually regress with already solved probems.

This is the exact different between arc4random() and arc4random_uniform().

arc4random_uniform() is recommended over constructions like
arc4random() % upper_bound as it avoids "modulo bias" when
the upper bound is not a power of two.

Unfortunately when I google for ios random number The very first return says

We can use the C function rand() for this:
int i = rand()%10+1;
I get what you are saying, but...What about the evolutionary advantage of another organism that strive for more?
The moment exists competition you are force to struggle to survive.
Usually this is done server-side in something like PHP. It will not be a "static" website, though. The script will generate an HTML page on each access and return it to the user.

Alternatively, if DB data rarely changes, you can generate and save static HTML's on the server and then serve them. But usually if people are accessing database, they work with dynamic data.
Cities don't go bankrupt because they can't afford to fix their roads, they just keep driving on shittier and shittier roads. Bridges and tunnels are the kind of infrastructure where you really notice failure - and big fixes can be funded by the federal government. Seattle has multiple bridges they are hoping to replace but can't even afford to replace the one that's been emergency closed without fed money and a new tax.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/city-of-sea...
Teachers definitely can be biased. My anecdote for this was our teacher instantiated a "hierarchy" of readers in several "colors". This was in 3rd grade. I was one of the poorer kids in class and she placed me in the lowest tier which of course made 3rd grade me pissed off. I knew I was one of the best readers and spellers (if not the best) in the class at the time and I was furious to the point of almost crying when I found out which "color" I was. The only thing I could figure at the time was that I was one of poorest brown kids in the class and she just didn't like me. I promptly worked my way through all the "exercises" until I beat most of the rest of the class to the "end" time-wise, other than the ones who started out in the highest "colors" to begin with. She even accused me of cheating at one point and watched me as I completed one and got a perfect score on it like I had most of the others. Teachers are human just like the rest of us and can show bias for lots of reason based on race, gender, etc.
I apologize, I did not intend that as flames at all.

I'll pay more attention. Thank you.
Despite your lame exit sentence, you have a point. Over here we could learn from that however we have not so far; people refuse to do crap jobs and hire foreigners to do them. Where I live, people from Morocco do all the crap work. Locals rather die than do them.
I think it's indicative on the Left after 6 months telling people it's not about you, it's the other people you kill, this shows they don't truly believe what they have been preaching.

The closer he goes to death the riskier a carrier he is.

Not that wishing death on someone is actually a death threat or anything real, does Twitter think all those Amharic Curses are real as well?
The Whitworth Three Plates Method (2017)
This has happened in the fashion industry where there is size "inflation" as sizes don't correspond to physical measurements.

Size 5 in Brand A is tight so consumers prefer Brand B who has size 5 clothes that fit better.
The pass wasn't after the initial attempt, though. You make it sound like Apple initiated the process, the CEO accepted, and then Apple reneged, with nothing in between. Very misleading for anyone who doesn't read the article and just takes your comment at face value.
Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.
I think you've hit an important point. Factorio is the widely acclaimed game it is, because it balances "work" with tools that don't make it tedious. Little things like shortcuts to "take half from a box", and "copy factory settings", to bigger things like introducing bots just as things get complex to manage on a big scale.

Everything else in the game has been done before, and will be done again. The key is getting the above right to make the game enjoyable.
I couldn’t find any docs on this, got a link by any chance?

Specifically where tokio commits to working with other runtimes.
Sure. Nothing was more pathetic than seeing a tv ad telling me about an electric VW car that I can not buy because it's not ready... This ad was preceded by another ad that was full of electric concept vehicles. None of it exists in reality.
Can you name a single case of it ever happening?