skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, both cars and pedestrians seem to think we don't belong on the road or the sidewalk.

Anyway the great thing is that I seem to make some drivers angry just by being on a bike.
I both appreciate the pointer and the suggestion. Thank you.

The suggestion was sadly too long by 6. I’ve gone with “Congress asks if developing slightly fewer medicines is OK if it lowers prices”.
The 8 Bit guy builds a new computer around it.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommanderX16/
Right, so growth in its current state is a wealth vacuum distributing wealth from high impact places to low impact places. I don’t see how that works as an argument for MORE growth.
Not necessarily (if most of those 40 came from 1 source, and it's a traffic source that can be expanded upon). Wonder if that was the case here?
"The statement that this @usairforce X-37 flight deployed small satellites is alarming, since the US has not reported those deployments in its UN Registration Convention submissions. This would be the first time that either the USA or Russia has blatantly flouted the Convention."

I'm also alarmed by this. I wouldn't want Star Wars (neither Lucas's nor Reagan's) to become our future.
Temporary nationalization is a thing. Nationalize the monopoly firm, spin off the portions that are not inherently monopolistic and can be entrusted to the private sector, and run the rest - the "platform" part, where barriers to entry are inherently high and there's thus a lot of monopoly risk - as a public utility. You basically lose out on some potential for vertical integration, but the flip side is that the enterprise neatly escapes the fate of being "forever entombed by public unions, pork, and politicians where they'd go on like rotten zombies forever".
After a record-breaking 780 days circling the Earth, the U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B unmanned space plane dropped out of orbit...

-- FTA
Just moved to a smaller city in FL to take a new job. Sadly while there's some walkability around where I live it slowly degrades into unwalkable where the office is. So I'll just continue to shell out several hundred a month to Uber commute
Hiring devs is like a game of Minesweeper
Finding all the intricacies and gotchya's of a new framework does not happen in a couple of weeks. Also, a total workflow change is not adapted to in a couple of weeks.
> Let's talk reality here: a large portion of the US can't afford a 400$ expense without going into debt (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-...)

That is not true

From TFA they would have to sell something(assets), and probably adjust their spending in the next paycheck

The myth that abled bodied human beings in 2019 America are unable to come up with $400 is ridiculous
Do you mean Swift? I didn't think Typescript had something like this yet.
Go Serverless in Kubernetes with Knative
Disturbing True Roommate Horror Stories (Vol.15)
Ah, fair enough, I didn't think of that.

It's still a moot point however. There is no meaningful human evolution anymore in terms of adaptation to anything in nature. Human biological fitness these days, outside hunter gather societies I suppose, is about beauty or intelligence and not a whole lot else.
It does not do random damage, you get a segmentation fault in most systems.

In really small embedded you should not be allocating anything meaningful in the stack anyway.
This is why Tor and onionland is a lawless wild west. All so that journalists can report and trade documents, and so that repressive regimes can't easily censor access to news and information. This is the cost of encryption: you get all sorts of scoundrels in the mix in the name of privacy and security for the masses. Some might say this cost is too high: that scoundrels are running rampant and won't stop their criminal actions. But without this we get a broken backdoored Internet where no such privacy/security exists and could actually cause more damage to society since spying would be rampant.
The United States Is Suffering from the Innovator's Dilemma
The major issue with this isn’t growth, it’s landlords and medical care having irrationally high prices based around a return on a good that should have no profit. Fuck growth.
Why is this being posted? This "issue" has existed for a long, long time, and it is not specific to any single browser.
As CTO, did you have direct reports? If so, you were a people manager and:

> "it's the people managers making strategic technical decisions"

...was true in your case.

In my experience (over 2 decades now, wow I can’t believe it) the people making the broad, strategic decisions and influencing outside of their orgs all happen to also have direct reports and usually those reports are people managers too. They have titles like “director” and “VP” and “CTO”. How many of those people have you seen who are individual contributors?
Heart️ for Tcl.

Tcl wasn't my first language, but it's near and dear to my heart. It's a little oddball for sure.

I can't decide whether it's Python trying to be Bash, or Bash trying to be Python. But it's surprisingly expressive.

Everything is strange about the syntax - from "everything is a string" to "expr" to the weird variable-assignment syntax.

It's also really tiny, and has a great async event-loop framework. It has built-in support for sockets and non-blocking I/O. It has a GUI toolkit that's pretty useful for making quick-and-dirty tools. It's incredibly easy to use interactively with a REPL. And it's still the scripting language of choice for the FPGA industry, which is where I got my start as a software engineer.

The Tcl community is small and stable. And the language just keeps soldiering onwards, in a gradual way. It feels like it's been stable and fully-realized for the last 20 years. No breaking API changes, no syntax changes. It just keeps on keeping on, providing automation to tools that need it. Tcl has outlived a bunch of newer languages, and I hope it sticks around for another 20 years.
> Think the ternary operator, but worse.

How the hell is it worse? It lets me write things like

toolbar.visibility = userSettings.showToolbar ?? defaultSettings.showToolbar

someOption = localPreference ?? onlinePreference ?? defaultPreference

which is a lot better for the coder and a reader than any other alternative I can currently think of.
The conceptually same thing will also work on bourne shell. But as in the Windows case only as a script stored in file, the original with inline function definition is self-contained oneliner.
>> lock in

> certainly of Azure and GCP.

Google's Kubernetes strategy means that this is currently not quite true of Google. Google must have decided that they were better off getting a large share of a smaller pie by creating an open sourcing Kubernetes. This seems quite likely to me: if Kubernetes "wins" then the profit margins will shrink due to competition but Google will be in a good position to become the premier Kubernetes hosting provider. And if Kubernetes wins, it'll be much harder for Google to lock in customers. For now and the foreseeable future both our and Google's incentives are aligned vis-a-vis open source Kubernetes. If K8S wins divergence will probably happen, but until then we'll enjoy the benefits.
The Symbian documentation team was tiny, perhaps 20 people at most. At an offsite we would pretty much fit round two tables at most. As always you get what you pay for.

Even so the Symbian team did some pretty cool things such as creating open source documentation standards for C++ and the tools to support that.

Source: I was there.
Shuttle had the capability to land unmanned from the beginning.

It just happened that it flew real missions with astronauts on board, so it wasn't used.
And that process doesn't seem to be workout out too well, based on all the posts I see here.
Lots of theories about what that vehicle does... the one I like the best is that it intercepts "enemy" satellites and reprograms them. Of course, what comes around goes around and it would only be a matter of time before the Chinese do that to us if that's actually one of this vehicle's missions. A more likely scenario is that it is doing maintenance on and/or bringing home some of our own stuff -- as well as being an observation platform in its own right.
On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival
Sourcetree 4.0 Released
I always thought that until I played with the transformer models recently. They are becoming truely creative.
/bin/true on a v7 UNIX system. A zero byte file with the execute bit set.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

There's a much better solution than what this blog describes. We've just released a new package called Redux Starter Kit [0], which is meant to provide opinionated defaults and simplify writing common Redux code patterns. It's already written in TypeScript, and works great in TS apps.

In particular, the `createSlice` function [1] allows you to provide reducer functions that use "mutative" update logic (thanks to using the Immer library [2] internally), and auto-generates action types and action creators based on the provided reducers. Really, there's no reason to write an action creator or action type by hand ever again. `createSlice` also makes it really easy to organize your Redux logic using the single-file-per-feature "ducks" pattern [3]

The "Advanced Tutorial" page [4] shows how to use RSK with TypeScript, and with our new React-Redux hooks.

Going forward, Redux Starter Kit is our recommended way to use Redux.

[0] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/

[1] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/api/createSlice

[2] https://immerjs.github.io/immer/docs/introduction

[3] https://github.com/erikras/ducks-modular-redux

[4] https://redux-starter-kit.js.org/tutorials/advanced-tutorial
No one other than SoftBank believes it is even worth $8Bn. After it goes bankrupt someone might buy it in a fire sale. Probably next year.

It’s not clear why the Graun is so upset however. Not a penny of public nor pension fund money was burnt in this. Just the Saudis and a few other billionaires.
This page, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui, makes no mention of it being in beta.
The screenshots immediately reminded me of the original computer version of Harpoon when it was updated for Windows 95. I still find that game's interface to be one of the easiest ways to manage a complex amount of information.

Incidentally, these screenshots aren't too far off what actual console UIs look like for complex military systems. I think CDE is more common than Win32, though.
I was wondering why the funny name, and

> The name "Elvis operator" refers to the fact that when its common notation, ?:, is viewed sideways, it resembles an emoticon of Elvis Presley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_operator
All cyclists are people, mate.
Yes, I agree with you; sorry if that wasn't clear - absolutely don't think they'd gain much from shrinking it further. Anyone who cares about shrinking it down further would probably gain even more by licensing the core and embedding it together with other functionality anyway.
> Nope, it does not. The fact that he revealed a dud is what matters.

That's simply wrong. This has been discussed countless times on this forum. The most effective way to proceed is for you to spend 5 minutes writing the simulation that you think will prove you right. When I was on the other side of this, that experience is what convinced me.

> The notion of him maybe revealing a car is senseless anyway because you would just then pick the car or the game would be over.

That's not a very strong objection - game shows are weird sometimes and could often apparently be easily improved.

But more importantly, it's an objection to the wrong thing. My point was that the presented "find the herds" problem differed from the game show. "That would have been a bullshit game show" is just confused.
Great work. Excellent post. Did you get any enterprise customers? The site is very well made and high quality, but to be honest I'm a little surprised that people were willing to pay for this. I too I'm a 'solo-preneur' but I struggle with validating my ideas. How polished was your UI/UX when you launched on producthunt?
And your point of view is also privileged by that standard. For people who can't afford the drugs for their conditions, reducing the price is "of extreme interest to them".

I'm not saying that your position is wrong--medical innovation is really important. I'm saying you're being reductionist. There are really hard questions here, and accusing others of privilege does nothing to make this discussion more productive.
I always assumed death panels were a tongue in cheek reference to what health insurance companies already do.
TCL had an amazing architecture for someone who was working in C. In C, you'd (1) create an instance of a TCL interpreter, (2) register your C functions with the TCL interpreter, and then (3) load scripts into the TCL interpreter. You'd do all your fast stuff in your C code, and just use the TCL for stitching together the high-level logic.
65C816 and also Motorola 6809 could set any page as 0 page (called direct page).
Google in Talks to Acquire Fitbit
NO! This inevitably will end up as slightly fewer medicines with no reduction in price.
You cannot be asked to take the responsibility of an impossible task such as telling truths from lies. It's a responsibility that even the government doesn't want. What about "congresswoman, you pass a bill to institute the Ministry of Truth, and I'll scrupulously follow their indications".
> First, not a dig at Woz, but he's 69 and average male US life expectancy is 78.7

You need to add about 6 years, because he's 69. As you get older, your life expectancy goes up. For an average US male at 69, they can expect 15.09 more years.
I see a lot of people talking about the privatization of firefighting and the future. In this case there is a big difference between the two types of firefighting that is being talked about.

1. The first type of firefighting is your traditional city structure firefighting departments. These are the ones we see most of the time in the movies(Backdraft, Ladder 49). These are government funded by local and municipal taxes. They traditionally provided structure and medical services to a city. While the firefighting portion of these departments has stayed public the medical(ambulance) services have been heavily privatized for years. Due to the large migration we have seen of people wanting to live closer to nature, wildland Urban Interface firefighting has become a service that these traditional structure departments have stepped up to provide as they have expanded their boundaries to provide services to the ever increasing number of homes that have been built outside of the traditional city landscape.

2. Wildland firefighting has traditionally been paid for and managed by the Federal Government. Last I saw around 40% of wildland firefighting resources are privately owned. This includes fire engines, water tankers, showers, food caterers, hand crews(20 man crews that dig fire line in an attempt to contain the fire), tree fallers(loggers who are brought in to fall dangerous trees), air tankers, and helicopters. This particular part of firefighting has been privatized for 20+ years and the Federal government shows no signs of changing this trend anytime soon.

There is also a lot of talk of people leaving the structural "public" fire departments to go private. In my experience the trend is actually the opposite. Private firefighters are generally significantly underpaid compared to their government counterparts. When I was working for the Federal government 15 years ago, I was making a base wage of $15-$20 an hour, if I went out on a fire I got $2 an hour hazard pay for the entire day. If I went over 40 hours in a week I then was paid time and a half and anything over 80 was double time and a half. If I got sent out on a fire for a 14-21 day tour I would work 16 hour days for 14-21 days straight and just be raking in the money. My private crew counterparts were making somewhere between $7-$12 dollars an hour and were only getting time and a half over 40 hours.

Source: Spent 10 years as a volunteer structure and wildland firefighter.
Found a copy:
https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7/bin/true
Automating Job Search with JavaScript (NextJS, Cheerio, Zeit Now)
Apple's version of Pascal had a lot of non-standard extensions. If you squinted, it was essentially C.
Even just getting up close to another country's spy satellites would have value. The US keeps even the look of their current series of spy satellites classified; they're believed to be a lot like Hubble.
I'm pretty sure this hasn't been true for 20 years. Tcl 8.0 introduced a form of byte compilation. [1] While the comments might slow down the compilation a bit, I doubt they have any impact at runtime these days.

1] https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.0.html#What's%20New%20in...
This has not been true since the introduction of the bytecode compiler in Tcl 8.4 (well over ten years ago now).

Tcl 8.4+ will byte code compile the proc's, and part of that is removing the comments from the code execution path. So comments only get 'seen' once (at byte code compilation time, upon first use of a proc) and then have no effect on execution performance from that point forward.
One of my earlier jobs was porting Travelocity.com from TCL to Java - the TCL programmers loved the old site and absolutely hated the "new" one. I don't think I've ever managed to make more enemies in my professional life than I did in those couple of years.
Um, hmmm, that is exactly the opposite of my experience writing console games. Console game dev is fun because you can push the machine to the limit and know every technique you use will work across all devices since they are all the same (or close enough). PC/Mobile dev is hell compared to that. I worked at a company that did mostly console, shipped one PC game, vowed never again as the support costs were several orders of magnitude higher than console.
As usual, you have to scroll down to the negative voted comments to get the brutal truth. Ignore the happy-talk, this comment is right on the money.

If you’re in your 40s or 50s and not in a role where you’re “influencing decisions outside your own team” you’ll soon be in for a shock next (or next next) job interview.
Training doesn't happen in a vacuum. Intricacies and gotchas should be known and hopefully documented by the existing team which can help ramp a new developer up quickly
I stand corrected – updating the parent accordingly as well. Thank you! (Comment about documenting stuff you're recommending people use, even experimentally, stands though.)
Early career setbacks are also likely to set you up for much lower lifetime earnings. Like it or not, how much more you will earn in your next job depends on how much you were making in your previous one. So does how much more you will earn after you get promoted (which happens more often early on). In negotiation this is called "anchoring". So it _really_, _really_ pays, quite literally, to find, get, and hold the highest paying job available right out of school.

How much you make is a powerful signaling mechanism that (if you have a modicum of skill to back it up) utterly dominates everything else, and has a compounding effect over the rest of your career. You will be able to afford to not care about money as much 10-20 years in when you're all set, but initially it's very important that you get the highest paying job you can.
> Unmanned, yes. It looks like it would be a pretty miserable two years of your life if it were!

Nothing a Kerbal couldn't handle.
It's basically a 90-year-old pun involving splitting the word "bracket" into "bra" and "ket".
Your DNA is read during the life of the cell for maintaining cell function, e.g, creating proteins.
Myself, I think it shot down the Cara Delevigne selfie satellite
I am always shocked, that instead of writing the authors of a website to change it, they write to authors of a browser to prevent it.

I think each website provides you a content under a certain conditions, and the browser is not here to let you "steal" every content while absolutely ignoring the conditions.
Didn't realize they had the Python/PyPy thing going on. Thanks for the info!
Time to get a new fitness band; it's only a matter of time before Google turns the service off.
Yeah, I've been on a team like that, and I can only recommend either (1) leaving for a functioning team, or (2) fix your team. And I don't know how to do (2).

I'm talking about how the development team as a whole should relate to other parts of the business.
Scrabble is a really wonderful competitive game that has very little to do with language. As a competitive game it has the novelty of randomization combined with an incredible skill depth and ability to sort competitors accurately.

What sucks is that this doesn't match expectations for a word game at all. If you're playing for light wordplay, or for competitive wordplay, your goals don't align with the game's scoring system at all. This can be OK if you're playing with another person with the same values as you, but it sucks to whatever degree there's a mismatch. This means it can still be great for at-home play but it can also be quite unexpectedly poor.
One proposal I once read: Copyrights are renewable with a nominal fee. Say $1 per entry. Feels like a renewable lease. I'd like someone try this, or model it, and report back.

It just now occurred to me that maybe trademark might be a better form of (long term IP) protection for stuff like Mickey Mouse.

I'm okay with Disney owning Mickey Mouse (and so forth) forever. I'm not okay with the toxic side effects of them hacking legal protections to serve their own narrow use cases.
That depends. For example my company we are trying to move all of our infrastructure to kubernetes, and we are trying to hire a very senior IC who can lead it.
They told me that they wouldn't pay for a service to securely provide passwords to heirs without the legal issues addressed first. There's a difference between "my client intended to include this bit of secret information to their heir and what the heir chooses to do with it is their responsibility" and "I'm going to encourage my client to work with me to sign up and pay for this service in order to entrust their passwords to future heirs" in terms of good old fashioned CYA [Cover Your Rear].

Which is a big part of why it needs to be a political lobby or working group: lawyers don't think anything about the ad hoc cases ("give this password to my heirs") because it is isn't their responsibility at that point other than storage and it isn't distinct from the rest of wills/trust documents. Then there is the problem that it isn't yet common enough for them to abstract it into a "class" and/or yet think to ask every client of theirs for passwords for continuity of digital estates/digital asset planning. As soon as they do start to consider the repercussions of the latter is when they do start to get antsy about their responsibilities (is it legal for every service, the answer to which is currently "no" [the discussion above], and then increasingly complicated follow ups such as can you "split an account among multiple heirs" and "what's the retail value if it needs to be auctioned" and so on and so forth). Lawyers at that point want the comfort of laws to back them up in any such responsibilities, at which time it looks necessary to start a political lobby to build digital assets rights into laws.
I still think react and angular are a step back
Casually announcing that your secret space plane has deployed even more secret mini-sats in unknown orbits is a pretty weird thing to do and it makes me wonder why they announced it.
I don't know about reprogramming satellites but its possible it just grabs them and forces them to fall out of orbit. That's easier and quite effective.

Or it's just a moveable spy satellite that can hover over whatever it needs to.

Funny you mention the Chinese doing that to us. I just finished Snowden's book and he mentioned how he only learned what the NSA was doing after having to research what the Chinese were doing. Turns out, same thing!