jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh right, this is the place where you make a crazy claim and back it up by a Wikipedia link instead of an argument! ;)

What I meant is that, no, I don't think that GA is a substantial improvement of notation, even though a vocal minority might have made you believe otherwise. One piece of evidence is that physicists would have happily picked up the notation otherwise (and no, this is not an appeal to authority ;). Also, I am not sure what you mean by "in the works", since it is quite old of a concept.
No, not really, no one would contest that Mac and Windows are the two most popular OSes.

Edit: still a fine joke, but not funny for the ambiguity.
What's the problem with strtoul? Just make sure to pass 10 as the third parameter, not 0.
If a single filter is used, the fan might fail. Using additional filters decreases the load on the fan, because there are more ways for the air to come in, so the torque required for a certain CFM value (which stays fixed for a certain fan speed) is lower.
Nice, would be good to have user profiles with list of creations and ability to clone like codepen.io does.
It's a good deal for the whole world except for Saudi Arabia's regime, Israeli's hardliners, American Hawks and Iranian hardliners.

For stability of the region, commerce, peace and moderate forces in all parties, it was a good deal.

It wouldn't have resolved all the issues the world has with Iran, but the idea of having a "deal" in place that resolves all issues is childish.

Eg can the US have a "deal" with Saudi in place to resolve all the regional and human rights issues with them? Of course not. But those who argue against the JCPOA claim the US could've had a "deal" with Iran that resolved all issues.

It would've been used to rebuild some trust between both nations and help resolving other issues in long term.
Hello HN

We're two high school juniors in Oregon, working on building basic FMCW radar hardware mainly for fun and to explore fancy electrical engineering topics.

We made this video which explains the concept and techniques at a basic level, along with our current progress. We're submitting this to a local science fair.

The design files are on our Github[1], and we plan to post more stuff to our (currently WIP and super bare bones) website in the future[2].

[1] https://github.com/criterionsignalworks
[2] https://csw.cx/
I thought the URL was funny, “/sites/startswithabang” and peered in.

There is one author, and here’s his site: https://www.startswithabang.com/

So is Forbes more or less a blog distribution platform now, like Medium or Substack?
Well, the executives, and the cult mentality within those companies, will tell the developers that they don't deserve more, and that they couldn't find better if they tried to leave, and that they are also easily replaceable. It is toxic manipulation. It would be fine, in some sense, if it were just supply and demand, but having seen the emotional breakdowns of a number of my friends, it is definitely more than that.
Have insurers determined if touchscreens result in more accidents? And have premiums accounted for this?

I was told decades ago that insurance companies analyze vehicle make, models, and colors for accidents, and adjust the premiums (heard red cars were often at fault and white cars were often hit because they were missed by other drivers while merging lanes, not sure if that data is still true in 2021). Surely they also include these features into their analysis
Gnome/Wayland on Fedora works pretty well last time I used it. I eventually had to switch back for a few reasons (mouse over the network had no replacement) but that was almost a year ago I'd bet it was even smoother now.
In Firefox, you can read NY Times if you hit reader view as soon as the icon appears.

That works for many paywalled sites.
I was so worried opening this link, but really made me happy to see such a great support system and preparation - without that applying can feel like you vs the world. Congrats!
Doesn't matter whether employers can require the vaccine if employees are at-will.
I had to evaluate the big 3 for a company I worked at a few years ago. We were a G-Suite shop, so GCP was already in the running, but folks were also interested in the Office 365 option (We still used AD for local auth and had file servers etc, so not fully Chromebook style G-Suite), so I decided to start with Azure as it was the one I had the least experience with.

Long story short, on my first day I couldn't get the console to log me out, even after explicitly logging out, etc. I thought I was going crazy or just doing something wrong, but I absolutely could not get Azure to log me out. I had to create a support ticket and it turned into an incident. It was honestly all a bit ridiculous. I wasn't going to veto Azure purely on that, though it obviously was not going in Azure's favor, I did have to explain my experience and it was effectively banned based on that experience, because we were a small/medium business subject to HIPAA and more senior folks didn't like the idea of us going bankrupt due to HIPAA violations from our data getting exfiltrated.

It ended up being a pretty straight forward choice between GCP and AWS. GCP was already easy for us, because of G-Suite, but also our primary product encapsulated a TensorFlow CV ML model and TPU training was very appealing from both a cost and speed perspective.
Or when people would tell you their ICANN domain?
I just started using an XPS 13 as my work equipment and it's... Okay?

The trackpad is okay but nothing spectacular, feels worse than a MacBook, the keyboard is okay but slightly mushy.

Small bezels and generally alright design, but that's about it.

I wouldn't prefer it to any random well specced laptop.
A price comparison site lists my configuration as costing 1700 euro which is a stupid amount of money if you ask me.
My wife's old Zenbook feels about as premium and certainly held up great after 4-5 years.
> Everybody knows they do though.

That's literally what I said.
When I decided to learn Lisp a few years ago, I realized that I had to learn Emacs (something I'd wanted to do for a while anyways). I ended up messing around with Emacs for a few months, and never did learn Lisp.

And that perfectly sums up, for me, the problem with Emacs. It's a great editor, and it's loads of fun to mess around with it and learn it. But at the end of the day, when I actually want to get stuff done, it tends to get in the way more than it helps, so I always end up going for another editor.
This might be true, but coming up with solutions to customer needs is a very small part of making software. Most of the day is filled with programming, i.e. translating your vision into actual software.
I laughed when it occurred to me that, since their parser only accepts variables named after a character from a play, Shakespeare programs are limited by having a finite number of variables and storage, but laughed even harder when reading their solution to this problem, stacks.

Each variable is a stack that can push and pop, with no error handling:

"Trying to pop when the stack is empty is a sure sign that the author has not yet perfected her storytelling skills, and will severly disappoint the runtime system."

Fantastic. All the user-friendliness of assembly indeed.
Why would you want to be famous?

I could think of little more inconvenient than complete strangers thinking that they know / understand me in some way or identify with my life or work. This could be emblematic of my general misanthropy but I'm perfectly happy to be the guy behind the curtain.

I'll take the money and maybe the power, chasing fame is the milieu of the inherently insecure. Coding is one of the most empowering things a modern human can do; not waiting around for other people to make something for you, but to get the making done yourself.
I was trying out racket yesterday and I couldn't figure out how to get the previous line in DrRacket. I tried all sorts of combinations and finally pursuing documentation came up with Esc-P shortcut. You can argue that this feature was first implemented in scheme before arrow keys were there but looking at it now it is different than everything else.

For me switching from Windows to OS X was easier (just use Command instead of Ctrl) than switching from "a generic editor" to emacs/vim. The point here is not that learning emacs is hard but that there are now a significant number of developers who expect standard shortcuts from the programs they use.
The last major Mac announcement...the air two and a half years ago. Snow Leopard was thrown off the back off a truck in the middle of the night - right between the 3GS and the rock and roll event (aka the smokescreen).

The Mac jumped the shark the day Bootcamp was released.
Metered usage would be fine as long as the price weren't usurious. $5/GB with tethering? Sure, meter my usage. But AT&T is charging $20 for literally nothing all — they don't provide anything extra for the tethering option — and that's on top of already high prices ($1/15MB with DataPlus). Metering should not be an excuse for gouging.
Which you would do if you thought the current ones weren't doing a very good job, no?
Please link to something about how AT&T got money from the government.
What kills me is that when the ATT spokesman mentions the subscriber percentages in the NYT article (quote and link below), he says "smartphone" and not "iphone".

They have a lot of smartphones (http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phones/p...) to average the usage numbers over and push the percentages up. I wonder what the iphone percentages are.

"He said 65 percent of the company’s smartphone customers tend to use less than 200 megabytes a month, and 98 percent averaged less than 2 gigabytes."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/technology/03phone.html?sc...
The telemarketing robots that are scripted well enough to continually deny that they're robots are somehow the scariest/most impressive for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRDMy7O62o
wait so if somebody disagrees with you, even on principle, it's evidence of astroturfing?
I just read the latest edition, what really struck me is how many of the giants of the industry were really just in the right place at the right time.
Besides, how many North Koreans would ever see this movie, anyway?

The number is not zero. According to a PBS Frontline documentary, there are smugglers that bring video players, USB thumb drives, and DVDs with movies into North Korea.
Last month, Brian Krebs thought there was a good case for North Korea: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/the-case-for-n-koreas-rol...

I haven't followed the story, and I don't know if that's still current. I just thought it was interesting to see such a big name bucking the current.
> In that space Ruby/Python are competing, but there's still plenty of sysadmins who use Perl since it works.

I don't know how it looks now, but if you login into the likes of HP-UX, Aix, Solaris and so on, usually only Perl is available.

This is what made me learn Perl, back when I was mostly into Python (.com days).
Hey, you're welcome :-).

Also I got rid of everything fried, deep-fried or coated with grease/oil/butter out of my regular diet. It helped me a lot. Might wanna consider it, but then obviously this is not medical advise. And for one thing I realize Asthma also tends to behave differently on case-to-case basis.

So have a good health and life ahead!
It's pretty coincidental that I read the headlines on the front-page and noticed 4 of the top 10 articles are Why this or Why that instead of How:

* Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation (marco.org)

* Joel Spolsky on Why Lunch is So Important at Work (joelonsoftware.com)

* Why we need an Open Wireless movement (eff.org)

* Silk: why we use Haskell (typlab.com)

So I searched for "why" in my browser and found this article just down the page. Hows add to my technical skill set, whys help me make better judgments in the future. I personally prefer the "how" more than "why" because everyone can have a different reason for why. Why marco prefers not to make Instapaper free or why Fog Creek devs prefer DVCS certainly help me decide if I want to go down that part or not. But in the end, how interests the hacker in me more.
Oh, and it's worth mentioning--I fully expect Apple to remove the optical bay entirely in their 2012 design refresh. Mayyyybe they'll keep a second bay as a stock option, but I doubt it!
As far as I know that's not true. WPA2/AES should be secure from local sniffing, and I'm not aware of any exploits that have broken that.
lots of errors only, oh and blackscreen on FF4 4.0.1 win7
Sounds great to me. A whole new platform that will need management tools, testing, productivity apps all redesigned. It's like a whole new IT world to spend money and time on.

People think IT policy making is like this:
Secret IT meeting... "Take away all hardware that's remotely useful, because we don't want to do any more work!"... or alternatively "keep the equipment old and buggy to justify our existence!" /twirls mustache

When IT policy making is really like this:

IT: "Hey management it would be fun to try out some new cloud/tablet/virtualization/SaaS etc..."

Management: "Is the cost greater than $0?"

IT: "Well yes for setup, but we could save-"

Management: "Denied"

And after managment reads this article it's:

Management: "Hey IT support tablets now!"

IT: "Can we drop support for Laptops?"

Management: "No! Of course not!"

IT: "Can we hire someone to help now that we'll have three devices for every mobile user? (phone, laptop, tablet)"

Management: "Nope! Just work more unpaid overtime."

IT: "It will cost some money to build backup/recovery capabilities into these devices."

Management: "No budget changes, we're in a spending freeze."

IT: "Then you won't be able to read employee email that they send/receive on their iPad then."

Management: "NO IPADS ALLOWED!!!!"
I thought this was going to be due to some expression coming into popularity, but I notice the same phenomenon with almost every bigram starting with "love" that I try,

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=love+makes&ye...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=love+with&yea...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=love+me&year_...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=love+you&year...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=you+love&year...

etc.

If anything, though, I feel like this may be due to a changing in the makeup of the corpus in recent years. Many queries with common words seem to exhibit the same spike after around 2000 (try "hate", "fly", "ten", "blue", etc.) perhaps the size of the average vocabulary is smaller in the newer corpus documents, in which case the overall proportion of common words would be expected to increase.

For older content, they focus on what's available in libraries so perhaps old content that's survived in libraries typically has a richer vocabulary.

Or maybe we just love more.
Most of the reasons you mentioned are exactly why the "free lunch" perk at a former job began to show me there really is no such thing as "no free lunch".

I think Joel has the right idea if you want to inspire a cult-like work environment which is probably very good for getting things done, but I worry that these type of things also cause a group think, as you notice people start sharing the same opinions about everything because of peer pressure.
Nothing on a mac :(
And that the current crop of plugged-in youngins are the only ones that can do it. An interesting role reversal from when PG first started writing his essays - that young people needed to apprentice at larger boring companies first and that older folks made for more experienced entrepreneurs.

In the end, no one else can tell you when you're ready to make the leap. As a 30-something, one thing I've gained solace from is that I'm not the only one that had the entrepreneurial lightbulb go on after my 20's, like Jessica writes here:

"I spent 13 years in corporate America, mostly because I didn't understand what my other options were. I was hypnotized by the security of an established, respected company."

http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2008/07/why-i-do-yc.htm...
Oh well: "Everyone who uses Facebook is on some level a Facebook partner."

Even taking into account some level of exaggeration, this is laughable. Facebook advertisers might be Facebook partners. The Facebook-user relationship cannot be further from partnership, it is the relation between a farmer and their livestock.
Two Tell HNs in two days about Shopify with some weak cases. I smell some stock shorting strategy here.
> dams get filled with sediment and lose capacity over time

I'm struggling to believe this. Can you name one dam on Earth that has lost over 10% capacity due to sediment?
I completely agree. I'm a big city person myself. I like having access to culture, art, music festivals, restaurants, social events, economic opportunities, etc.

However, it can wear on you a lot. I would absolutely love to own an off-the-grid second home. That's very appealing to me.

But to live like a hermit out in the middle of nowhere full-time seems crazy to me in the long-term.
there are stories of many empty office buildings fully powered with the lights on throughout the whole thing. Its possible if they were on a more price sensitive system those commercial property owners would have opted to shut off more of the power.
In a part of Europe I’m familiar with many families still have (often inherited) family cottages in the country that, in modern times, serve as summer houses.

Many still have hand dug wells and septic tanks. Composting outside toilets are not unknown and were normal within living memory.

Modern families often bring bottled water for drinking and brushing teeth. No matter that bottled water is expensive, it is massively cheaper than investing in a bored well etc.

So I have no idea about “code” and other aspects of the US system or WA in particular, but i would put the cost on working water and waste at about $100 if you are the kind of person cut out for living off grid remote self sufficient and don’t mind grabbing a spade while the rest of us hang out online :)
They literally did that already when they came up with QUIC (before it was public).

They had private implementations only supported by Google webservers and Chrome.
Joda's Instant corresponds to `std::time::SystemTime` in Rust. It was never intentional (source: I designed Chrono and it existed before `std::time`), but currently Chrono fills the calendar date and time while the standard library fills the monotonic and wall-clock timestamps.

To be honest, I think JSR-310 is not correct in every regard and its implementation of every ISO 8601 format is a mistake. I even started out Chrono without referring to JSR-310 (because I have designed other date and time libraries in the past). But it is much better than, say, Python datetime to which is being compared.
A 'hash-tag' is a feature of internet apps like Twitter where you put a '#' in front of some topic name to relate your content with similar content. It's named after the character which is known as a 'hash' among other things.

Or are you saying 'hash-tag' is the name because although it's a mistake it's used so much now it's considered language?

Language isn't one big blob, even though among many people it could now be considered an alternative pronunciation, and eventually it could be adopted even in places where people would otherwise know better, right now among people in tech and certainly on this site 'hash-tag' to mean the character is incorrect and confusing.
Depends on the team size, on a one or two man team, theyre going to be fullstack
Don't forget to count the number of steps! Reaching the top of a small hill might take 2 steps, and algorithms like simulated annealing (unlike actual annealing) keep track of the entropy change.
If enough of those tiny little shell companies get wrung out to bankruptcy, there won't be any left to act as fronts for this kind of unethical, and illegal, behavior. And, if they are acting on behalf of other companies, that would likely come out in the court proceedings...which could allow taking the suit up the chain to the actual parties who instigated it. One would hope, anyway, though IP law in the US behaves in deeply irrational ways sometimes.
It's only January and my ISP merger prediction for 2015 is almost true => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8823319
Thiel would agree. A niche that other people ignore or say "can't be done." Can always widen it later.
"Problem is that Windows 95, 98 and ME post-dated Windows NT 3.5. They are newer, not older. Are they saying that Windows NT 3.5 in 1994 had a newer version of Notepad (with Unicode support)..."

Windows 95, 98 and ME did come out after NT 3.5, but they might indeed have had an older version of Notepad, since these versions of Windows were descendants of the Windows 3.1 codebase, not NT. XP was the first consumer-oriented version of Windows that was based on the NT kernel, and Notepad would have been re-written for NT to support Unicode.

"What successive versions?"

The successors to the NT 3.5 codebase were NT 4.0, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0), Windows XP (NT 5.1, 5.2), Vista (NT 6.0), etc.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases
My thoughts exactly. This seems like a much cheaper way to have an always-on app.
That's not true. Most of my friends and aquaintences are software engineers or masters+ in some other STEM field. (Or are students of a similar caliber). The people you know aren't a good random sample. The top 1% tend to have more friends who are also top 1%.
That doesn't change the actual log file, however - it's only visual whilst in the screen buffer
Since there was a bit of interest when someone posted a link to the in-progress version, I thought I'd note that the book is now officially released. Also on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Data-Visualization-JavaScript-Stephen-...) and [Barnes & Noble](http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-visualization-with-java...) if those are your preferences
Well, if they can beat the prices I pay for baking soda and vinegar at the grocery store, I'm in.
It's not always just a screen logging thing. You can automate manual non-computer stuff as well.

For example I had a client who had a manual process where a clerk entered info from physical cancelled checks into a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was then fed into their accounting system for balancing.

I wrote some Python code that would take a PDF of scanned check images, run the file through Google vision to OCR it, then pull the check info from the scanned data and put it into the spreadsheet. The accuracy is pretty good and any errors are put into a comment column of the spreadsheet where the user can review it.

This code runs in a Windows server and becomes a UIPath bot in the system. So the user who is not very technically inclined merely has to log into the system, upload a scanned PDF and will receive the scanned results after the batch runs.
What is your definition of free will?

> unfolding of those deterministic processes

Doesn't sound free to me. Is a computer running a program exercising its free will?
This answer to this is actually known and is a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Here's a youtube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAxzr6ihu8

Of course, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is a mathematical description of observed behaviour so one could rightly argue that it doesn't really explain anything - it merely describes things.
The Comma AI founder has explicitly stated that their endgame was the insurance business. I'm not sure if he has since changed his stance on this.

It makes sense, though, in a super surveillance-capitalism way. Offer a close-to-cost self-driving product and use the data to estimate the risk of everyone on the road (both the users of your product, but really anyone your product has eyes on).

The comma AI founder has said it's remarkably easy in the data to identify good and bad drivers, and that there is a strong bimodal distribution.