skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the money and equipment were donated.
There's also openSUSE Kubic. https://kubic.opensuse.org
Thanks for the article! Just giving some numbers from my experiences here. Since I released "The Road to learn React" book 1 1/2 years ago, I got various feedback on how long it takes people from knowing only JavaScript ES5, HTML and CSS to being employed as a React developer. I heard numbers around 1 - 2 months for being really proficient with React (and partly its ecosystem), but I have heard about success stories where people managed to get through the book (and its project) over one weekend, having the job interview the coming week, and being employed as React developer then. Personally I think this is only possible because React has a slim API and once you have built a project with plain React, you should be able to get the job done. Then Redux et. al can be learned on top during the job.
Passion needs energy to convert to results
I found my passion researching about spirituality. We spend so much time doing daily worship and related rituals, I decided to dig into the meaningfulness or otherwise of this. That has kept me going for last 4 years or more, bridging the link between Spirituality and Science. I think today most people are missing out by not finding out what the composite goal for life should be, I would love to make them think on those. But at my age of 78, I dont have energy or technological ability to set up a video, audio or similar lecture medium. If I did that I would find a meaning for my life at my stage. That is still my passion and that could keep life exciting.
There is also the point that you don't want to ride a recumbent bike on a road with traffic.
There is reason for skepticism when it comes to WHO: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-w...
I would guess the "sub" was not much wider than the kids. While an adult or kid couldn't get through while wearing a cylinder, a cylinder a little bigger than a kid (or smaller than the torso of a Navy SEAL) might get through.

The problem may have been more that it would be too long to navigate some bends in the caves.

It also occurs to me that, being made of aluminum, the tube would act like a giant heatsink in the cold water, chilling whoever was inside.

But with more time before the rescue, and by consulting with divers familiar with the caves, the problems might have been worked out.

So, yeah, taking the tube to Thailand was kind of pointless, but I guess at least shows that it wasn't just empty tweeting. There was an effort.
I had a similar experience: I could buy a steel water bottle cage for $12, or a nearly identical model made of titanium for a savings of a few dozen grams at the cost of an extra $60 or so.

This seems like an exceptionally silly expense for a device which is designed to carry two pounds of water around!
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> It's called "The Cloud".

And it's shit.

A Google Sheets is not Microsoft Excel. Data stored in some proprietary databases are not files. A browser is (still) not an ergonomic platform for work.

> I can edit code with the tablet (can, but really, no) or any laptop.

Exactly. Yes, but really, no. Same for editing images, or doing actual work with documents and spreadsheets.

The problem of the cloud is that data is held captive by SaaS companies, while all we've got are shiny toys working over web browser. We can't exchange data beyond what SaaS vendors allow. We can't edit data in non-vendor-sanctioned tools. We can't work off-line.

We need something that lets you retain ownership and control of your data, supports powerful software running locally, and generally doesn't treat Internet access as if it was electricity (i.e. assumes it's always available).
Oh, I'm sure that there will be hobbyists who do this. Just like there are people who run Arch on their home PC, or automate their house with Arduinos. The joke about "The Year of the Linux Desktop" is predicting mass consumer adoption. That doesn't seem too likely, unless someone like Apple or Google decides to move their stack over to silicon they can design and control in-house without need for ARM's long term support.
> When was the last time Twitter was buzzing with talk about some Windows program?

To be fair when was the last time it was buzzing about some iOS or MacOS app that wasn't just an Electron app that was also available on Windows.

I remember the times when a Mac/iOS app like Clear or Coda would come out and everyone would be so hyped about it but it seems as far as I can tell those days are long gone. Which is sad as a Mac user but since the app store raced to the bottom it just doesn't seem to be worth the effort for developers to ship 3 highly tuned versions of their software for 3 Apple platforms.

I mean you can look yourself, look at the top ten free/paid on the Mac and iOS app stores, it's grim.
Really? Do you have any more information because I find that incredibly difficult to believe that HHMI is reviewing 16 year olds (on what basis?), waiting two decades for them to go through undergrad, grad school, postdoc(s), and open a lab.
How to Build Your Own Weather Station Using a Raspberry Pi
They were being polite. Narongsak Osatanakorn said it was not practical for the mission.
Muslim Democratic congressional candidate calls Israel ‘apartheid regime’
Group of kids vs group of tourists. Miles of cave vs capsized boat.

Just not "exciting" enough for the general public, ratings, and newspaper sales
> understand that x86 processors consume more power than a comparable ARM chip

More power consumption means more heat to dissipate, means it needs to be larger. Smartphone and x86 are at odds in terms of design. In a world where Apple is doing everything they can to trim off mms, including removing all the ports, I don't know if there's much room for a big fat x86 phone.
Again, I think this comparison is a bit contrived -- an entire industry vs. one product at one company. Google's search engine disappearing is more analogous to a railroad or pipeline subsidiary of an oil company. Life would continue, the railway/pipeline would be rebuilt, and in 10 years everything would be back to normal.

If you want to make an accurate analogy, compare the disappearance of oil to the disappearance of all modern computing. Both would be catastrophic.

Society is complex and has lots of interdependencies.
Best shot right now would be Samsung Dex or equivalent solutions from MS (Continuity) or other vendors (Canonical dropped one).
> All of that because of a fantasy book where people had supper and they happen to be 13 at the table.

Well, this fantasy book led to much more crazy behaviors. Beside this, the same is true for many other fantasy things like money or ethics.
A blame mentality is a dangerous and self-defeating road to travel. It is only a matter of time before the blamer makes a mistake. Punishments are for the discouragement of others. How long before everyone is too paralysed by fear to make any movement at all?

I have recently (within the last few years) heard stories like "I won't help that person because their relatives will sue me if they die".
When you say "file name conventions" at the end there, are you simply thinking of the importance of being consistent in their usage, or is this a reference to something more specific?
On the other hand, where's the excitement around the iPad? Several notable companies don't even make iPad apps, and some just have a scaled up iPhone app. The big draw for the iPad is Kindle, Office (or Office-ish products) and a browser.
It's funny to see these things come around and go around.

~1998, there were quite a few megabytes burnt on discussing Postgres vs. MySql. At the time, MySQL was not ACID compliant, and was (rightly) derided as a database shaped object, but not an actual database. It was faster, provided you didn't need get back the same data you put into it.

MongoDB seems to be in a similar situation. Under the right conditions, it can be ACID compliant. But it's a database shaped object. As a developer, you have to actively manage aspects of your data that should be handled by the database itself.

Every MongoDB project I've touched has run into a schema version issue. Sure, you can put freeform data into Mongo. But when you're querying your database, will a record made yesterday have the same shape as one made six months ago? How do you ensure that? You write model level code to normalize your data at run time, or you write migrations.

Anyhow, to the matter at hand:

With a well behaved ORM you can store certain properties in dedicated columns, and shove everything else into a jsonb blob. This gets the best of both worlds: indexed, relational entities, and effectively schemaless data.

As your needs evolve, you can migrate properties out of the jsonb column and up to the table schema. This can be entirely transparent to your repo/service/controller level code. Now you can apply SQL level constraints to required fields.

This has worked for me on a few different projects.

1) I've never regretted going with Postgres over MongoDB.

2) I can't think of a real application where I'd prefer Mongo. And the cases that get close, I'd probably jump to a stream processing system like Kafka and avoid database semantics entirely.

A fully schemaless database is great, providing that all of your database applications are schemaless, too. Otherwise, you now have to manage that by hand.

I don't begrudge Mongo's existence. It's a worthwhile experiment to move features in and out of the database semantic model. We go through cycles of decomposing and recomposing functionality. This is how we recombine tools to become other tools. But I do not see Mongo as the future of databases.
Ouch. I very narrowly escaped that (but did break my leg :( ). On intermediary 'sports' bikes and mountain there typically is a guard ring mounted on the outer gear ring to mitigate some of that risk. Most road bikes don't have them though.
Which is itself a bad faith evaluation. I'd prefer to be kinder and thus keep the door open for other such "help" in the future. Fundamentally, he didn't do any harm.
By not running crappy applications that can't share sessions if you want to run multiple instances of them? Otherwise, limit it to one instance.
We absolutely do need batteries, though. Energy storage on a large scale -- e.g. Tesla's projects in Australia and Puerto Rico -- is going to be hugely important for an all-renewable electric future. Their cars aren't that important.
You really have to love Wikipedia. It's barely a week old and you already have a page with so many references and detailed information. Thank you, all the anonymous contributors.
Nobody is forcing you to keep your job after you give birth. You know, some women actually decide to take a parental leave (unpaid) from their jobs.
While it may be true, not really the point GP was getting after.

Cost or donation, can we expect the same for every child in need?
Tianeptine is a lot different than kratom though. I know it works really well for some people, but its abuse potential is far higher than kratom. I could never have it around, no matter how well it treats depression, because as a former opiate addict having something cheap and legal that feels pretty much the same as oxycodone (in massive doses compared to its therapeutic dose) is a recipe for disaster.

If only tianeptine could be made available in the correct (12.5mg) doses, prescribed by a doctor, maybe I could use it. But as it stands, buying powder by the gram would lead to my demise.
Or rather, the owner worries about recovering the fee from the last driver. This works fine for dockless car rentals; the only reason I can see that it wouldn't work for bikes is that the margins are too small to actually cover administering such a system.
A Call for Open Science in Giftedness Research
I meant employee in a general sense. Maybe "worker" is better?
People in general are able of amazing deeds under the threat of death.

Unfortunately it's why we are able to wage war. Was watching a documentary on the Vietnam war the other day and one guy was describing how he felt like an automaton that was focusing only on survival, which kept him from going insane, while another guy was describing how he felt no pain from his bullet injuries while trying to stay alive alone in the jungle for 3 days, only feeling pain after he was rescued.

But yeah, this coach is a hero for sure, I'm so glad they made it out.
Eat more oysters! It blows my mind all of the ecological (and gastronomic benefits) of oyster-culture - especially in contrast to a report like this!

Edit: Farmed oysters
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They were 1.5 miles in (2.5km as the story states) not that it's important, just a units crusade. This could have been so much worse if the rains hadn't held off as they did.
To be fair, this is in fact a very common observation among cyclists, with no snark intended. Obviously, mass is mass, it matters not one whit if it's meat or space-age metal.

It's just funny how many wannabee Eddy Merckxs seem immune to that truth, and we who grok it like to snicker when we hear discussions like the one cited.
Woudn't Vue with Sequelize+postgresql solve your usecase ?
What is perhaps notable about this paper is that a link to the preprint was put into the abstract:

>Current practices in study design and data analysis have led to low reproducibility and replicability of findings in fields such as psychology, medicine, biology, and economics. Because gifted education research relies on the same underlying statistical and sociological paradigms, it is likely that it too suffers from these problems. This article discusses the origin of the poor replicability and introduces a set of open science practices that can increase the rigor and trustworthiness of gifted education’s scientific findings: preregistration, open data and open materials, registered reports, and preprints. Readers are directed to Internet resources for facilitating open science. To model these practices, a pre peer-review preprint of this article is available at https://psyarxiv.com/nhuv3/.
> but this falls entirely within the purview of the WHO, and is the sort of thing that is the reason for its very existence.

Oh, like when they declared that bacon was carcinogen? Yeah, that's pretty much part of their core mission.
Story of the year for me. Just goes to show what we can accomplish together.

Hopefully it will go as a +1 in our ledger if the fate of our species is ever decided
With a little more time before the rescue and consultation with divers familiar with the caves, they might have come up with something more effective.

But he did also send 700 or so PowerWall batteries to Puerto Rico for hospitals and whatnot.
The cave had warning signs about entering during certain months due to the rainy season. The team didn't disobey the warnings - they went in the month before signs said not to go in. The rains came early.

It's hard to fault the team/coach, since they heeded the posted warnings. I have a feeling the signs will be changed after this.
Not if they can pull it off. Instead of horrible sales copy, you get people thinking to themselves, "it seems I've been missing out, I really should have known what Surface is".
"Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future."

I hope they make him pick up his litter, too.
Chris from Kinvolk here.

Flatcar Linux is generally available and we are committed to keeping it as a drop-in replacement for Container Linux for the long-term. We were excited about the idea of CoreOS when it was announced in 2013 and think it's a project worthy of sustaining.

Happy to answer questions about it.
would continuing to type or holding the keys after/before entering my password help?
This is really cool! I hadn't heard of you guys before but will definitely be using your service. I can attest to the fact that comparison shopping is a huge time suck in science.

The one exception to the importance of comparison shopping is probably at the very start of a lab. Oftentimes, PIs will negotiate with large suppliers for massive start-up discounts in exchange for buying lots of equipment from a single supplier. (Not relevant to me, but just thought people should know that that is a thing that happens).
Lobsters would just like wash up in big waves on the beach. Prisoners complained about having to eat lobsters too often. It's grim stuff.
Etiquette in open source projects
The PRICE ! Ipad is damn cheap nowadays.

I just bought an ipad 2018 (with pen support) for 329€ [0] new in Paris. VAT included.
I wanted something to show my decks on the go and not having to put "geek mode on" with my laptop.
Im all for diversity, but not at any price.
I would consider that surface for 3/7 - 4/7 of the price of the ipad. More is Microsoft not wanting my business.
I just saw 399 on MS side. Not.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-9-7
Using cellular automata to explain fashion trends (2014)
This can be a decent 10" tablet which is a good thing. Unfortunately, finding a good 10" tablet outside of the Apple product line is not a trivial task. Even expensive 10" Android tablets are full of glitches and bloatware. I wish there was a Google Pixel tablet, but it's not.
Interesting. I thought that Tasmanian devil face tumors were the only directly transmissible cancer
I don't understand the submarine idea, that is an untested device for cave diving, also human breath from a very localized part of their body, so their is no point to pressurize everything, and you keep the flexibility of the body to not have a full metal cylinder around you. If you need to control someone, some anti anxiety pills and a harness are some tested tools for that.
Mozilla wants to make Firefox your iOS password manager
No, in this case. That was my point. Those individual species would have no impact on the overall ecosystem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17495637
After I saw this I went looking and found the Cube i7 Mix Plus. The i7 of course is just marketing, it doesn't run an i7 but what it does have is a Kaby Lake m3, the m3-7Y30 (thus the i7 -- it runs a _7_th gen _I_ntel CPU, after all). Comparing it to the Surface Go CPU, another low wattage Kaby Lake CPU https://ark.intel.com/compare/122697,95449 we can see the Pentium 4415Y has a 60% higher base clock but it doesn't have Turbo Boost while the m3 can boost to 2.6GHz. The m3 also has more cache and AVX2.

Also, the storage is a proper 128GB m.2 SATA SSD. The reviews say the WACOM digitizer is accurate and fast. The screen is the same as the Surface Pro 2. Reviews and reports say the device is durable enough. (Also, some descriptions say it's dual Android-Windows, it's not, it's just W10) Asking around, the only drawback I was able to find is if you get a dud, you need to send it back to China for repairs which can run 80-100 USD.

The price is just 330 USD.
I have some kind of advanced sleep phase condition that puts me from 8PM-6AM. Just as "fall back" is a much bigger pain to adjust on a clock with two buttons during daylight savings than "spring forward", melatonin doesn't seem to do much but trigger headaches and grogginess.

Workwise, I feel alert and energetic during working hours, and can run circles around devs half my age. Socially, it's pretty awkward. Being out 'til midnight doesn't require too much adjustment, but entertaining at home is right out.

Luckily, 8pm-6am is very compatible with remote teams on the east coast and Europe.
I disagree that they compete on trust. A CA is either trusted on not, they have to stick to the rules to stay in the browsers lists - but as see all the time - do the bare minimum to keep in the game.

But as a user of certificates, there is no levels of trust to compare, either the padlock is green or its not.

So I look only at price, and maybe more abstract things like customer service.
Some people love Yegge, some hate him. This post is... well it's a rant. But it kinda answers this question in an interesting way https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
The Fabric8 Maven plugin is awesome. It has some rough edges, but streamlines a ton of things.
With Lockbox and Notes, Mozilla launches first set of mobile experiments
I think the mobile platforms are doing pretty well for themselves. Nintendo has there own little niche with specialized controls. Not sure there has ever been a successful gaming platform built on a mobile device outside of the touch screen approach already being taken.
> ...and neighbors would crowdsource approvals for block-party permits, giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down based on the noise the gathering was expected to produce.

This is hilariously, naively utopian. Systems like this tend to become exclusionary (often based on race), where if you're the "right" kind of people you get permission and if you're not you don't. For examples see existing gated communities and HOAs or the Nextdoor [1] app and its endless reports of "urban youth in hoodies".

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/racial-profiling-i...
Could You Rebuild Civilization?
Library 3.0: A link library for network security enthusiasts
The day that I can just set my phone down in front of some monitors will be the day I am happy. I need Windows to do this and be able to run Visual Code at a minimum, preferably an instance of VC and 2 instances of Visual Studio. Also needs the bandwidth of 5G. 4G is almost there but just not quite enough. We live in rural West Georgia and DSL is the only game in town. Both parents work remotely at least 50% of the time and kids are going through GCA/K12.com because of accelerated school.

I need my only "hands on" compute platform to be a phone.
Canonical has timed its announcement of Minimal Ubuntu (29MB) really well. [0]

[0] https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/09/minimal-ubuntu-released
I use my surface pro 4 still as a daily driver (its outdated compared to these specs). Book annotation is awesome, the ebook store is nice if you like to use the pen to take notes. I use the Linux subsystem all the time (Ubuntu) and i have vscode installed and write node/go/python and lots of arduino/esp8266 code on my surface.

the utility/portability is amazing..

BTW, what do people find interesting/exciting from Apple these days?
I'm cautiously optimistic about Fedora CoreOS, but am worried that it brings with it bloat that wasn't present in Container Linux.
Average world broadband subscriber speeds rise 23% in a year
I know they have science lectures and things for students (annually released as a DVD) but I never heard of high school-selected investigators when I was working for them.
My idea was that the system I dock my smartphone into would add display, input and extra compute via TB
Can you imagine being there for days and days and suddenly a diver pops up?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Or to put it another way: try not to contribute to creating a world you don't want to live in.
I'm not sure about that; higher birth rates are associated with poverty, not wealth.

Also, I feel that these appeals often suggest that we should be OK with letting some unspecified Other die for the cause of environmentalism when we would clearly not accept this for ourselves.
In data retrieval systems, there are typically two ways you find things: searching and browsing.

What you're describing are the facilities that modern IDEs and editors provide to support searching. Those are great, and like you, I use those search facilities to jump directly to a specific point of interest a lot of the time when I'm developing.

However, searching is useful only if you already know what you want to search for. If you're trying to explore the overall structure of a large program, having the files (and the contents within those files) organised systematically still makes browsing easier.
I was surprised to hear that there were long stretches of dry walking between their location in the cave and the cave entrance. In particular there were dry stretches prior to the very nasty tiny hole they all squeezed through. I guess they were panicked and ran further than they needed to just to be extra sure?