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Others are making the good general case argument, but I will add one other thing: sometimes there's actually some very positive "side benefits" that you get from having a biodiverse ecosystem around, that you may not initially think about as far as the general conservation case is concerned.

Examples that come to mind immediately include the huge number of medicines that have been derived by isolating compounds derived from plants, an area which we are probably far from done exploring. Another more specific case I can think of, is how one of the most important compounds in molecular biology today (Taq polymerase) came from bacteria found in the Lower Geyser Basin at Yellowstone. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermus_aquaticus)
Because they've used it on another device and it was okay. Sure it has its own warts but it basically works and seems to have better routing.
Yeah, how dare he try to help.
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>and then intended to test for real on live children, when an existing rescue effort underway was working?

It was a good alternative to telling them to hold their breath and dragging them through dark and claustrophobic submerged spaces...

They tested it to make sure it was water-tight and easy to maneuver. Worst case you throw an oxygen tank in it and put a full-face regulator on each kid in the event it would have filled with water (which I'm imagining they did in the water anyway). Much easier to control a panicking child in a tube where he can't get at your hoses or slam his head into a rock.
"Why would they voluntarily help in increasing desktop Linux market share?"

In hopes of attracting developers to Azure rather than AWS
If you are incrementing a field, then by definition you know it exists and is an integer. In that case, what advantage are you gaining by storing it in JSONB? Just factor the integer field out of the JSONB column and into the table schema.
Do you think there's a market for super-efficient commuter bikes? Or is air resistance no longer the limiting factor at commuter-bike speeds and weights?
They'll be bound by the EU "E-commerce" and "Distance Selling Regulations" directives assuming they've been ratified, they're quite old (well over a decade) so I doubt they're not nationally implemented.
What's the practical difference between FaaS and the old style mod_php, mod_perl, mod_python and friends ?
Awesome news. But how long until Hollywood capitalizes on this event and makes a movie? "... Based on a true story, starring insert big name actor here..."
I bet literally being a team helped out. It's not just a random group of people. They all know each other, they know each other's personalities, and there's a natural cohesion to win (i.e. not die!) together.
And Elon Musk once again made a fool out of himself.
I have never regretted it. We dropped Mongo completely about a year after JSONB support was released for Postgres. JSONB indexes perform very well, and can be tuned with different index types (e.g. btree, gin, hash). You get the best of both worlds, i.e. relational models with joins and aggregates, as well as flexible and dynamic document storage. If you want a pure JSON interface to your database, use PostgREST:

https://postgrest.org/en/v5.0/api.html
It is not clear why they switched from GBT to ANNs. I would have thought GBTs would work better on the kind of structured data they are dealing with.
It was a near tragedy, a man died in the process, but someway it is comforting to see everybody concentrated on a problem like this, trying to help fellow people, than waging war etc.
>I'm awaiting for the unavoidable book/movie.

Hollywood producers are already on the ground http://www.newsweek.com/hollywood-producers-head-thai-cave-r...
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I'll just leave it at this: this particular guy's eating habits, whether you're privy to the details of them or not (and I suspect you aren't), were totally not germane to the discussion. The first sentence was legit, and the second was entirely unnecessary.
What is the actual problem? Is it multiple dispatch? I think some languages (Lisp may be one) handle it natively.

Visitor is the only way I know of dealing with it in C++. Once you do it enough, Visitor starts to feel like a pretty natural way to extend a class without modifying the class.
The only part I think was weird was him brainstorming on twitter.

I know there is a huge anti-Musk sentiment lately. Whatever you think of the guy, I think it's commendable that he used what resources he had to attempt to help.

People can blast him all they want for his 'egoism', but sitting behind the keyboard mocking him is even less helpful than what you accuse him of doing.
Can anyone explain how the heck they found the children in the first place?

Seriously, I can't wrap my head around it. The kids were stranded 2.5 miles inside the cave. All anyone knew was that the kids didn't return form their hike. How does that lead to "Hey, let's dive into the cave and maybe we'll find live children"?

I guess they were expecting the worst, but still.
wow at first I thought it said "Against Parents." I think I need glasses....
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I thought the sentiment was fine, in particular sending engineers given that his latest subterranean endeavours. On the one hand there's a whiff of publicity off it, but the initiative is to be commended. I wouldn't go talking up the part he played beyond that though.
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They already are http://www.newsweek.com/hollywood-producers-head-thai-cave-r...
Possibly, especially since they were with a coach. He if kept it up, then it could have helped a lot.
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Getting an invalid certificate error on https://html.brow.sh/

Sounds great, will bookmark for later.
Given that the rescue was a resounding success, I think diving them out turned out to be the best option?
If only NIH agreed.

“You know what we need? More funding for shitty underpowered studies in immunocompromised mice, and less funding for analysis & methods work. Besides, if they’re any good, AmaGooFaceSoft will just steal them anyways.”

Ha ha only serious. You are 1000% correct, and I can only hope that NIH will one day discover the same thing. Instead of destroying working APIs.
I can’t fully articulate why but I love this!
I'm more surprised by the fact that they went that far into the cave in the first place! The coach should be in prison now for putting so many kids in danger and be the cause of a rescue diver death!
> an existing rescue effort underway was working

From what I understand, he got involved while rescuers were still considering their options.
I hope you too got a chuckle from reading their anti-bot counter measures section only to see their form protected by Google’s “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA plugin.
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I still think it's better than posting emotional tweets about the greatness of humankind. Real world activity vs. armchair activism.
They found their shoes in front of the cave.
From what I recall, they used knowledge of the caves coupled with predictions of where they might reasonably have gone to escape the rising flood waters. It wasn't so much a stab in the dark, but it was still a very difficult and dangerous search, in the dark.
Someone asked me if I used Google's Skaffold (save+push to kubernetes), and I giggled and told we mainly use Java and Spring even boot takes more than 10 seconds and building also takes around 10 seconds, so if you do not have .m2 caches, it would take much more time.

Dependency caches and already built components, in all languages (Go, Java, Nodejs) is always a problem for us in Docker in our CI/CD, glad to see such solutions coming up
One of the biggest philosophical questions is whether helping people because you see it benefiting yourself is still a good deed... Ask yourself, does it really matter what his motivations for helping were? At the end of the day he was prepared to help. If someone volunteers at the soup kitchen not because they want to help people but because they need community service hours, are you really going to complain about that or call them a bad person?
They were signing their names on a wall of the cave, which was stated to be a tradition in the news reports that I read. So I think if was more like "why isn't [child] back from [explicit cave] yet?"
We are building a tool [1] that pulls in data from several different external services as part of our data visualization platform. For this use case MongoDB, with its schema-less design, is perfect.

We are however using Postgres for our internal app database where it is easy to manage our schema a priori.

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I don't know what went down but I think he should have asked the people on location what they need. Maybe he did... If he didn't it's just pretty arrogant to spend a little time on a problem you know nothing about and then publicly exclaiming you know a solution.

A good idea now would be to send money to the family of the driver who died. That would be helpful.
The kids were known to explore that cave regularly. Presumably they had followed a consistent path into the cave (or had a destination in mind) but never got that far. Some caves are also fairly linear, but that may not have been the case here.
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That's good news, but I don't see how it's relevant to HN. The FAQ even says it: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
First off I hate these types of analogies as I feel they cloud the issue. You can really think of this as two different semantic domains: the solution domain and the problem domain. You can break them down as (controllers, errors, storage, templates, validators) vs (posts, comments, users), respectively. His layout is pretty consistent with standard Java/Spring/Hibernate project structures. In my experience when you work on a project like this you are working on something in the problem domain like users and when you make a change you have to go hunt down each solution domain component in a separate package. It has always seemed to me that it is better to organize using the problem domain as it clusters functionality that you are likely to work on concurrently.
agreed entirely. labor costs are nearly always discounted in the life sciences from my experience.

there's two origins of this phenomena. the first is that people are accustomed to having graduate students, or worse, being graduate students in the sciences. people abuse their time and treat it as though it is valueless, and that habit persists in them when they become leaders. then, the habit percolates downward to people who were never graduate students. viola, you now have an entire group of people with no conception of opportunity cost or labor costs.

the second origin is that scientists who are managers typically would rather have something "just work" (read: be jerry rigged and not work very well) than have to purchase a solution. this is another holdover from the graduate student days. buying solutions is expensive, and you still need to spend time to set it up and potentially troubleshoot. getting someone to make a one-time solution that is a totally incomprehensible mess is preferable if it is cheaper. besides, the manager scientist doesn't have to deal with the external time cost to their staff.

the sad thing is that all of these people involved are very smart and far-too-hard working. these are great traits to have. but they do not always result in the best solution. working hard is not always worth the economic cost to the group... nor is developing a one-shot ingenious solution. terrifyingly, few lab managers or leaders outside of big pharma seem to understand these problems.
I once worked with a software system where the preferred way of interacting with its admin features was using lynx. It's a great way to provide menu-based software configuration.
This depends on the country.

In France the wording 100% juice mans that that the liquid is directly from pressed fruit. No concentrates, nothing added. The only operation can be filtration and pasteurization.
Haha, I knew I was going to be rick-rolled before running this and yet I ran it anyway.

I didn't know about this utility. Awesome it does sound too. Thanks for pointing it out.
Why wasn't the death of Saman Gunan more widely publicized? I barely heard about it - in the NYT article on this it's a single sentence 2/3rds of the way through the article. I'd have thought that the concept of someone sacrificing themselves for the recovery of 12 children would have been a major story. The Guardian's liveblog (or whatever this is) doesn't mention it in the first couple pages, nor do the responses of any of the world leaders and celebrities quoted mention it. Elon Musk's participation is cute but has gotten way disproportionate response compared to the lack of acknowledgement that I see this guy getting.
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Poor internet. Designed to survive atomic wars. But can it withstand lawyers?
Call me cynical, but I couldn't help but notice Musk seemed to be going about his effort with the maximum amount of tweeting and publicity possible.
when Musk got involved things werent looking as happy as now. the thai navy hero had just died and the 'more people will probably die' sentiment was in the air.
Im glad he did it and I hope this will set an example to other billionaires who has enormous resources available for them to help out people in need instead of sipping decades old whiskey on the golf course, like literally every other billionaire did except Musk
There's something absolutely British about this 1 min segment of the showcase demo: https://youtu.be/zqAoBD62gvo?t=235
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This was front page news in Ireland.
I don’t know if it’s hubris or ignorance but this announcement proceeds as if customers know and care what a ‘Surface’ is.

That’s a false assumption, and results in horrible sales copy.
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I don't do frontend but they all sound fairly easy to me, although 9 is odd (I'm assuming you want people to compute timeouts? To prove they're decent at arithmetic? In which order should the balls animate, row-first or column-first?).

10 is filtering out people who have anxiety about doing things in an interview that they don't yet know how to do -- if your work environment doesn't require learning something brand new while a manager looks over your shoulder, you may be better off having it as a homework assignment.

11 is fine but the people who froze on 9 and 10 because they didn't understand 9, don't like math, had their brain freeze up on them at the "I don't know what async.js is!!!" step, or something else don't get to it.

In addition, while I would be able to do this in an hour, the fact that there are 11 points may be pre-emptively stressing some people (some people get anxious at long lists of tasks, time-limited, that don't entirely fit in their working memory), and things like reading through documentation can take a bunch more time if someone is more thorough or less efficient at searching (prefers tutorials to documentation, has trouble googling "async.js" because of e.g. blog posts on ajax hogging up their search results page), if someone's eyes are tired (at this point they have been coding at least half an hour), and so on.

My suggestions would be, present the questions 1 by 1 not 11 at once, verbally in addition to having the current question in writing. At the looking up docs steps, have the link to the docs ready, or otherwise give a heads-up to the interviewees before the interview ("you may want to read up on async.js as preparation"). Otherwise, give the same exercise as homework.

After questions 1-8, if the candidate is satisfactory, say "great job! I only have a few more questions", thank them for their patience, generally validate their good answers. Make them feel like you're asking for their help vs. just evaluating them.
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false. even in extremely well-funded academic labs, journal access can be sparse. i have heard the line "i could only read the abstract for free, but..." from PIs more than a handful of times.
LSD saved my life. Brought me out of a horrible depression that lasted from my teen years through my twenties, and I will always be thankful for that.

However, I disagree that everyone should try it. I've personally seen people who were predisposed to psychosis get really messed up from taking psychedelics. These things are extremely useful and powerful tools, but they should be used as a last resort.

Maybe it is in MOST peoples interest, possibly. But certainly not everyone's interest, because there are very real consequences to taking these drugs.
The BBC gave him plenty of coverage.

The man's death probably isn't a big focus of the Guardian's live coverage because it happened a while ago. There may have been an article just about him, I don't recall.
Apparantely they were forced to retreat deep within the cave due to the rising water from the rains which arrived early.
They'd already rescued multiple children before Musk even got there, no sense changing what is working. They didn't seem to mind him leaving it behind for future rescues though. shrugs
> Call me cynical

Okay, you are cynical.

But in all seriousness given the domain knowledge that Musk has at his disposal he was perfectly entitled to get involved.

Tweeting his thoughts is pretty much how he rolls ...
This article explains it: https://www.mamamia.com.au/how-did-the-thai-boys-get-stuck-i...

One of their class mates knew they'd gone to the cave, apparently as an initiation to the team, writing their names in the wall. Their bags were found outside the entrance

They only went into the entrance of the cave but sudden monsoon rains blocked it and forced them further in as the water rose, all the way to 2.5km in to an elevated section
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The closest alternative would probably have been to immobilise the children by strapping them to a spinal board stretcher, and putting a full face SCUBA mask on them [and it seems that the other alternative of letting them swim/walk themselves actually worked].

I don't really understand how the more claustrophobic "submarine" capsule would be an improvement on this.
> What culture needs to curb is capitalism.

I think this is even more specific: culture needs to curb advertising monetization. Google, FB, youtube, et al generally suck because they are rapidly evolving toward convergence with tabloid publishers.
I was always under the impression that banana republic simply meant that economy was a one business type deal and generally controlled by state plutocrats and oligarchs. So I did a quick look up on Wikipedia[0], perhaps the phrase has different connotations in our local dialects of English but Wiki didn’t make any mention of presumed democracy.

Further I’d argue that the ascension of MBS to the de facto head of state qualifies as evidence of instability. Also the very nature of a banana republic’s economy make the government unstable because people generally only grab their torches and pitchforks when they go from having food to not having food. If your economy stands on one leg then you’re one disruption away from not having an economy and therefore not having food.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic?wprov=sfti1
I wonder how many on HN are thinking more about Elon Musk's now-not-needed rescue plan than the delight those mothers of those boys must be feeling!

There is also a tragedy going on in Japan right now with a lot of people actually with us no more. But a few million people with flooded homes is a 'statistic' whereas a few boys in a cave is a 'tragedy' to paraphrase Stalin.

I think that there is a time for offering assistance in a big public way, there is also the 'George Michael' approach. He was willing to help many desperate people that happened to get into the news, however he helped out anonymously or in a way where it was clear that publicity was not sought. When he passed away a lot of people then learned how many people he had extended his hand of friendship to.
It was all over Reddit when it happened (which is where I heard about it).
i think this is cool. i could learn new languages all day. however I've seen people argue on HN that writing language is a waste of time. why should we embark on such an exercise?
It was something that happened last week, and was very widely publicized then. I remember reading it on the front page of every newspaper site I visited.
Agreed. The man is a master of public relations.
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> What I dream of is single computing unit (read: cpu + ram + storage + etc.) with the ability to attach to different UIs.

It's called "The Cloud".

On my lap I have a Linux laptop, a couple Google Sheets open, an open Word document (in a browser window) which I was reading a moment ago from my Android tablet. The spreadsheet is also open on the big screen machine upstairs, from where I was videoconferencing before that, and on my wife's laptop (she's working from the kitchen). A couple terminal windows are connected to different servers, one upstairs (actually, a VM running on it), one a beefy GCE instance with lots of number crunching power and the Mac upstairs (the big screen machine), updating ports. If I want to leave the house without a backpack, I can take the tiny Acer "Cloudbook" and summon pretty much all that's on this laptop from there through a VPN and a bastion host.

I can get to my e-mail from anywhere. Same for my documents (Google and Office 365). I can edit code with the tablet (can, but really, no) or any laptop. Where the computing takes place is largely irrelevant - it's taking place in multiple machines, on multiple networks. My phone is just one point where I can get to my stuff.
If the volunteer was telling other people constantly in all kinds of situations that he was helping the poor, many people would turn the other way, somewhat embarrassed.
Nope but I would imagine in a consulting context one can miss out on the whole and now let's switch to PostgreSQL to address all the Mongo issues revenue stream