skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
update: A tweet from Elon Musk (in response to a BBC article similar to the OP) showing his correspondance with one of the dive team about the subs development. As of a few days ago they were urging Musk to continue with the project because they though it might be needed.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016684366083190785

Also this is interesting:

Jiradette Kerdsri: I agree with @elonmusk , actually my team was asked from Thai authorities to design a capsule similar to his prototype. But our design is still on the paper while he already has a finish field prototype. Really admire your inspiration
https://twitter.com/Jiradett/status/1016690284619599873
does extortion happen regardless? Because the article seems to imply that the miners were mining legally, but where extorted by police anyways
>yes that's the thing you're just a neckbeard who cares shit about others and feels smug about pointing fingers on the internet

Not a hint of irony, huh?

There it is, the crazy Musk fans going full out ad-hominem, just like they did on the BI journalist. Careful OP, these people are nuts.
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It's open source. You can review the code.
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> Who said anything about wealth? That sounds like a red herring to me. In any ecosystem, with any living organism, a population will increase until it reaches the limit of its food supply.

Empricially incorrect with humans, largely because human reproductive behavior isn't purely instinct driven and involves conscious choice based on lifestyle concerns, which is why natural population growth consistently declines with I creasing strength of social support systems. The distributional failures which are the only reason for world hunger despite far more than sufficient production to neat global needs also contributes to population growth by making children and family the social support structure in much of the world.
They already have Linux on Windows now. They are beginning to thin out Windows and put it in different packages for different application uses. That's the point of their new Andromedia OS.
Dumping rendered text, aswith lynx or w3m, is another option.

There's a lot of very bad HTML out there.
"The problem [in India] isn't just a lack of toilets -- it's a lack of toilets that people want to use."

National Geographic's deep-dive on the issue:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/08/toilet-d...
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> Every major registrar already provides mechanisms for hiding this info from the general public should you choose to do so.

I think you missed a "by charging a fee to not do something they have no reason to otherwise do except to force you to pay a fee" in there.

Seems like charging fees for charging fees sake, when can we get rid of that?
> We can comprehend 13 people and the struggle against nature, while the scope of world hunger is far too complex and emotionally incomprehensible to mobilize enough people

These are different disasters. The cave impacted 13 random children. Hunger impacts millions of poor children. One is random, the other more predictable.

There are utilitarian arguments for numbing oneself to tragedy which predictably strikes those without resources while defending those visited by random misfortune. (Note: I am not arguing for this utilitarian calculus. Just describing it.)
It’s in the title, fwiw.
Yes, I believe Moro and Galant reflexes were two of the ones that my son worked on. I think there were two others not on that list.
What do you do that still needs a full Linux VM rather than using WSL?
Mind to point to the paper titles?

Btw, I didn't mean to discredit but merely to get the data.
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No, I wasn't. You can see in my original one that I cited The Guardian's coverage that was original story as well as all the tweets they listed there (praising the rescue work - I'm completely shocked they weren't mentioning the dead rescue workers) which included summaries of the efforts highlighting Elon Musk's activities but not the dead diver's. Since I figured right-wing news agencies would be more likely to include a story about an ex-military agent dying in an attempt to save children, I also read Fox News's front-page article on the completion of the mission. Though the article covered Elon Musk's efforts in substantial depth (including graphics with annotations about where the sub would have the most difficulty), it didn't even mention the one casualty the operation had!

For the record, I didn't see any of this coverage a week ago but have already admitted that it happened and I'm sure it was extremely significant. I'm still surprised that he's not mentioned in every recap article's opening and wasn't praised by, for example, Trump and other celebrities reacting to the event.
On the other hand, Microsoft does their damnedest to remove the user's ability to control updates, keep you from disabling their "no really, just for improving your Windows experience!" telemetry, force-install AppStore apps you didn't ask for, and reset settings back to defaults on feature updates.

They certainly seem like they're ready to lock the platform down at any moment if they decide it suits them. Meanwhile, the experience of using Windows gets crappier and crappier. It's becoming more and more difficult to believe that they aren't intentionally trying to kill off desktop computing.
Is that the official Thai government, or some random person on Twitter? Just wondering.

Have you looked at Tweets directed at him? People ask him for all kinds of things.
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I always struggle with this type of response on UX issues. They always seem to think the 'how' is important, and that the length of time that takes is also important.

It's not.

You don't need to explain how to do it, you don't need to make an argument on time to implement - unless the time to implement is insanely high.

Use the language of business: You are losing prospects by creating work for them. Resolving this will help your sales funnel. Over time this could be worth substantial revenue, and contribute to the ultimate survival of your product. That is worth a lot more than how long it takes to implement or how to do it.
...And it's already made 400M.
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The iPad is my only Apple device. Most of the time I'm writing Windows desktop software in Visual Studio using C++.

I never decided to ignore Windows software at all but maybe you're right and I've inadvertently shielded myself from it. Somehow though, I still am seeing exciting projects in Linux (software defined radio has piqued my interest this week). I also see a lot of news around iOS and macOS stuff but maybe that's just because those platforms have so many high profile fans.

Aside from gamers, Windows feels mature and conservative. I run into a Windows fan about as often as I run into an Oracle fan.

So what's cool and new in the Windows ecosystem? Who are the fun startups focused on Windows?
In the case of C#/.Net, there are more alternatives for document DBs with native Linq-based drivers. For example I've used RavenDB in a couple of web app projects, and it has the extra benefit of being fully transactional and having Lucene indexes built-in (effectively giving you a built-in auto-syncing Elasticsearch/Solr server). For another upcoming (cloud based) project we're planning to use Azure Cosmos DB.
This is painting with such broad strokes. Say I'm a member of San Francisco city council - what am I supposed to do with your accounting here? "Make city less corrupt." Okay... "Remove state income tax" welp.

The OP couldn't give specifics, can you? Because otherwise we could just point to different population sizes and city history and state size as the reason your experience differs.
Not a plug, but here in miami we have a co-working type of shared wet lab space at UMiami [1]. It is open to anyone, they can rent bench space and use all the equipment. Happy to connect anyone to the team that runs it

[1] https://cic.com/miami-lab-pricing/
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I came to the comments to see how this compares with Piwik. Didn’t realize it was also renamed, so thanks!
It's a war zone in the sense of the forces want to turn it into.

Of course, the strong arms of Chinese government stops that from happening.
Do you always run into problems when you change your stack and the ORM of choice then isn't absolutely stable?

I never find a room to use ORM as it's just an unnecessary and ineffective layer.
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Sounds like you are weeding out people who don't know how to use the one tool you are using.

Debugging is about narrowing down the problem until you can isolate it, and ultimately understand the problem to figure out exactly what it is.
Could you add a fake "Class" contact to each of your class/meetings, and then ask Siri "when is my next meeting with Class"? Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue I guess.
The cost of creating artificial exclusivity, enforced by the state against natural human learning/discovering capabilities, is even higher.
I am currently moving all of my infrastructure to OpenShift and I love it - and I chose it after carefully evaluating the alternatives.

It's Kubernetes plus a PaaS platform that takes care of the annoying parts - deploying a cluster (using Ansible), container builds, triggers, deployments, a nice UI... Couldn't be happier.

Red Hat is a major Kubernetes contributor and OpenShift is barely lagging behind upstream k8s. It feels very polished and the documentation - while a bit overwhelming at times - is extremely helpful and extensive. Instead of forking Kubernetes, they only ever add new functionality while simultaneously upstreaming it. For example, the Kubernetes RBAC mechanism was contributed by Red Hat.
What is the story with rkt? Is it deprecated?
Android on phones is great, but on a tablet it's awful. I honestly think iOS isn't that great either on tablet. Microsoft feels too desktop like, even in tablet mode. Hopefully one of them figures it out sooner or later.
A dozen eggs at trader Joe's is a dollar fifty, at California and hyde.
Yeah, I am apparently not qualified to receive anything based on experience. https://www.nspe.org/membership/types-membership

Or if I want to pay them to get a certification no one cares about, I can. https://www.nspe.org/resources/education/exam-review-and-pre...

The system in that regard is broken.
I'm assuming you're talking about Python, which is also "4-5 lines" to use multithreading or multiprocessing. Can you explain what's wrong with GIL languages?

Now that I think about it, it's even less than 4 lines:

from multiprocess.pool import Pool (or ThreadPool)

pool = Pool()

pool.map(scrape, urls)
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I think that's just further evidence that they intend to kill off the desktop. I'm sure they'd much rather have everyone subscribe to web-based cloud services they access from their tablet, phone, or X-Box.
> That was the great opportunity for windows phone. It's still there - the other players still haven't caught up with the powerful windows ecosystem yet.

Can't be done because there's no x86 smartphone chip. Intel, in their infinite brilliance, killed off their smartphone chip project in April of 2016.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/227523-intel-kills-upc...
Microsoft is well aware of that, they went as far as not making first party titles exclusive for the Xbox, and releasing them on W10.

It's a competitive advantage and they won't be giving it up so easily, they know a lot of people would drop Windows in a heartbeat were not for it being "the" PC gaming platform.

Even if Apple decides today to invest heavily in having games as first party citizens in macOS (something that they never showed interest in), they would still need to deal with the 20+ years of backward compatibility and huge existing library that Windows has.
Seems so, but you can actually use Workflow today (without running a beta version of iOS).
OpenShift is Kubernetes. A few years ago, they realized that Kubernetes is the future and rebuilt their product on top of it.
>If your data is used for profit, you and your data is what the company sells to other people. By definition you are the product.

The reason this is naive and oversimplified is that, say, Google, does not sell your data. Your data is their competitive advantage and they have every reason to not sell it. There is no service Google provides where someone can go in and request your data or access it.

Advertisers are generally not buying you, or your data, they are buying access to your attention based on the data a third party has about you, but not the data itself.

Selling your information is a different business model (think insurance, credit reports, LexisNexis and so on) and is usually not what's under discussion when this thought-terminating cliché gets used.
FYI, there was an article about a new patent bill on the front page yesterday, but it dropped off rather fast:
"US Software Patents are back with HR 6264 section 7" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17492196
Shinny new toys syndrome.

A plain JEE container is more than enough for like 99% of use cases.

And starting with Java 9, you can even link everything together VM + fat jar.
I'd be glad to assist, but this sounds way too advanced for us haha.

But thanks anyway for your response!
I agree. I probably should have stressed that more in the initial disclaimer. It is possible (though, again, unlikely) that it might not be as bad as it initially sounds simply due to fewer bad patents being submitted if the submitter knows the patent application would go through such an extensive process. There'd be a lot fewer vague patent applications and a lot fewer applications for stuff that's obvious.

I generally feel that the cost of patents isn't worth the value they've created. Once one factors in the costs of lawsuits over stupid/obvious patents, patent trolls, the cost of patent attorneys, the increased cost of goods due to patents, etc, etc, the value of patents generally shrinks considerably. Being sure only good patents get through could go some way to increasing the value of patents to society, and thus might be worth the extra cost.

Then again, I'd rather patents just be dumped unceremoniously.
It's a good read but it is also worth knowing that Dawson's group was going through changes at the time and PhD experiences are often very unique depending on the circumstances of your advisor, research, and field trends.
How does it matter who the first person to ask for help is?

The later stages were coordinated with the local Thai rescue team. As proven by email exchange Elon published.
As an anecdote, somebody at my workplace has just spent a day tearing their hair out trying to figure out how to get our selenium tests running automatically on a headless machine, because the resolution flat refused to go above 1024x768. Even then, they're slow and heavyweight.

A very fast browser not tied to a graphical display with the bonus of being able to put error screenshots into all of our existing tooling could actually be quite beneficial here, whether the text is character-identical every time or not.
Here in Sweden we have a invasive species called signal crayfish that carries the Crayfish plague. People do eat the signal crayfish and I have only seen encouragement to promote aggressive fishing of it. The voices of concern is against illegal implantation, but those have (to what I have heard) been mostly of a cautionary nature about people who unknowingly spread the invasive type into lakes which so far has been spared.

The European crayfish is seen as more traditional correct so the beside getting devastated from the plague it is also rather heavily fished. Getting people to stop and only go after the invasive one would be a huge win, but as the trend is currently it look like the European crayfish is going to get extinct. A very clear example where a change in what kind of species we buy would have a positive effect rather than a stop.
This, in my opinion, has ruined the value equation of these machines from the beginning. Essentially no one wants or needs one without the keyboard. Just charge an honest price and sell a full set. This isn't an iPad, and there wont be a lot of people who want to use windows without a real keyboard.

It feels like airline convenience fees jacking up your ticket $100
> Nuclear detonations show two characteristic light pulses. This double-pulse phenomenon is evident in the video of the “Harlem event,” a 1.2 megaton test that took place 13,645 feet above the Christmas Island area of the Pacific on June 12, 1962. The first pulse peaks almost immediately as the shockwave first forms (0:09 in the video). The brightness then decreases as the superheated air, which is opaque when heated to above 3,300 degrees Kelvin -- or 5,480.33 degrees Fahrenheit -- shields the light from inside the fireball (0:10 in the video). As the shockwave cools to below 3,300 Kelvin, the air becomes transparent and the hot gasses begin to show through, creating the second pulse (0:21 in the video).

This is so interesting. I've always noticed the iconic double flashing in nuclear detonations but I never knew why it happened.

> Software developed by LLNL computer scientist Jason Bender scans each frame of the films to automate the measurement process. Bender’s software notes the timestamp of both pulses of light, as well as the darkest frame between them. With this data, Spriggs can calculate the test’s yield.

Sounds like a fun project, writing algorithms to parse 50yr old classified films of nuclear detonations.
The bezel is required for the keyboard base to snap to, and for actually using something as a tablet, bezels for the moment are just required. Microsoft is rolling out a new Surface hardware next year that is supposed to be an entirely renewed design, which I suspect will address this. I'm suspecting "smart bezels" (they have a patent as such.)
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Tweet from Elon Musk in response to BBC article:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016684366083190785

It shows correspondance with one of the dive team, urging Musk to continue with the sub.

Other teams from other organisations were also working on similar things: https://twitter.com/Jiradett/status/1016690284619599873
I do my part in promoting captialism, which has done more to pull children out of poverty than any other program or charity in the world. Free market reforms in China and India have done just brain blistering amounts of good in reducing human suffering, from child malnutrition, suicide rates, longevity, and access to healthcare.
iPad is the best computer ever made. Microsoft will never make anything remotely as good.
If you are going to say an 8 year old program is tired, then why mention 3ds Max? It has to be 20 years old by now.
He was sent to a monastery when he was 12 and stayed for 10 years.
I suppose it's not a global headline and discussion point unless Silicon Valley finds a way to market itself and its technical prowess in a Musk. To wit:

"At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan, says the government.

It is the highest death toll caused by rainfall that Japan has seen in more than three decades.

Rescuers are now digging through mud and rubble in a race to find survivors, as dozens are still missing.

About two million people have been evacuated from the region after rivers burst their banks."

(BBC, "Japan floods: 155 killed after torrential rain and landslides", 10 Jul 2018)
It's art and nice to display. People do the same with vinyl records, comics, etc., definitely looks cool to have for collectors and lovers of old tech.
Nice to see another system available for this. The only other I knew of was Piwik (which now I see is Matomo).
I hindsight those would be right things to do.

But again: Maybe the kids went in there and the coach just followed with them. We assume that he was in charge, but we don't know. We don't know if he encouraged them to go in, or whether he tried to talk them out of it or something in between. If he encouraged them to go in, we don't know if he thought they would just enter the opening of the caves.

Some reports say that kids in that area regularly go to the caves. Maybe that's just what you do around there, like kids in America hanging out at a parking lot (which probably kills more kids annually) or kids hanging out at pools (in which way more kids probably drown than in caves). Maybe it's not considered so reckless.

Except as a tourist a couple of times, I have never been to such caves. I wouldn't think rain would be an issue. Like you, I have now read in the media that there were warning signs that said something about flooded caves during monsoon season, and maybe they saw the signs or should have seen the signs. Or maybe people in that area know that local caves flood during monsoon. I don't know. Three weeks ago I certainly wouldn't have thought of flooding as the obvious risk in a cave. I would probably have worried more about falling or slipping or snakes or earthquakes or getting lost.

And even if they did check the weather forecast, would they have known that caves would be flooded? In the last few days, every meteorologist in the world has looked into whether that mountain in Thailand would get rain and experts have tried to guess what it would mean for the flooding in the caves and the ongoing rescue mission. But although it rained it didn't mean that the water raised much. Maybe these people go to the caves regularly while it rains and it's not a problem.

We simply don't know enough to blame the coach.
From what I understand the coach's actions after they became trapped are a significant reason the boys survived until the rescue. He shared a large portion of his food with them and taught them meditation exercises to remain calm and level headed (which probably also conserved their oxygen). Regardless of the circumstances leading to them being trapped, this man should be seen as a hero.
Point 1 is taken care by fat jars and jlink.
ORM are one of those kind of libs where very few ones are great.

Python has lots of them, and only SQLAlchemy can be considered of high quality.

Not that Django's ORM, peewee or eloquent don't get the job done.

But they only cover 80% of the use cases. SQLA gets you to 95%, and you bridge the five remaining percents with raw sql injected in the proper places for those rare projects where the extra is important.

The cost of it is that it's a harder to use ORM, and a more verbose one. Which is why I generally use https://github.com/absent1706/sqlalchemy-mixins to make things easier.

What's more, ORM for languages like c++ or Rust have it extra hard as they are used from a low level tech while SQL is quite high level and easy to manipulate. It's hence attractive to use it directly.

If you use PHP, Ruby or Python, SQL doesn't seem that big of a gain anymore for the simple operations.

Now diesel is quite young, and the rust ecosystem has proven to be moving not only fast, but generally in a sane direction, so I wouldn't count it out just yet.

However, I've yet to find an even acceptable JS ORM. Not only do they fail to provide any decent operation beyond simple ones, but they have such poor introspection capabilities that they can't be used to create an ecosystem around them.

Which is, after all, __the main point of an ORM__. Avoiding to write SQL is definitively NOT the most important feature of an ORM. The critical one is having a common API you can build upon to create form generators, auth systems, data validation units, serializers, automatic UI, etc.

Without this, the case for using an ORM is way weaker.