skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do but it is typically smaller or even a LiFe battery which is nearly as light as lithium but has most of the high crank and 12v nominal application power needs, with larger charge windows and equal or higher discharge cycles.
I think the main reason is that it uses the pentatonic scale - there are only 5 notes in it (repeating every octave), and these notes generally sound good together. On a piano, this would be all of the black keys.

It's a common starting scale for beginners learning to improvise, particularly on the guitar.
> A pound is roughly a fist sized rock

I've seen quite some fists and they all varied in size. This seems like a really bad idea to use as a reference.
Last month, i lived temporarily in a house with roommates I knew very well (my brother and a good friend) and we were all working from home. Water cooler moments, breaks, taking care of food and cooking, taking care of the garden...

Everything was just better than any workplace environment I've been in, and way better than the 'startup house' i lived in when i thought we had good ideas and that my colleagues were my friends and nice to live with.
And air conditioners. Even on mainland Europe they are mostly advertised in BTUs.
Simon Peyton Jones is working on Verse.

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573
Why does that only apply to the big three? Why doesn’t my religion, which states that I can only eat kosher ice cream on Thursdays deserve respect? And before you question my religious sincerity, am I allowed to question anyone else’s sincerity also? Am I allowed to question how you are interpreting your religious doctrine? Am I allowed to criticize how closely you are or are not following your religion? If not, then I would say that the respect must go both ways, as otherwise we get to an extremely slippery slope extremely fast.
I had a few disc cameras in the 80s. My mother bought them for me because they were cheap and easy to use.

It was a great concept in theory, but as the articles states the picture quality was terrible. Every picture I took was a little bit blurry with over exposed colours and that was after taking them to a processor who had the right equipment. I also tried various different brands and qualities of film, all with the same result.

I have about 80 disc negatives in a cupboard somewhere. I wanted to scan them to JPG, but I couldn't find a DIY scanner that accepts the format without having to cut the frames from the disc and put them in to a 35mm slide mount. There are a few companies that have the means to scan them, but they are pricey - I was quoted €30.00 to scan one disc.

I feel that if Kodak had waited a few years and did a bit more work to increase the formats resolution it might have been more of a success. The small size of disc cameras were their biggest selling point, but that counted for nothing when the image quality was so poor.
Drunken Insta influencers are there
When I was in Israel on a business trip, I ate there in a buffet serving kosher food, because it was all kosher for simplicity. Was I wrong doing that? Should I seek a "foreigners" restaurant only in such situation?
Such bells are worse than useless when the pedestrian is a small child. A three-year-old moves into the traveling bicycle's path on the sidewalk when it looks at the source of the curious sound.
Also look at the time line! The dude started three 4-year masters courses (c.s., theo.math., theo.phys.) in a one-year stagger, so during 2001-2004 he was doing all three in parallel. The man seems to be quite the beast, even if he was probably able to reuse quite a bit of that math!
Once I received spam in the form of a giant group text. People started responding with "STOP", attempting to opt out without understanding the situation. Trying to be helpful I sent a message like, "hey, please don't, you're sending this to dozens of people & it won't do anything."

Immediately someone from the list started trying to call me, and sending me threats me to report me for spamming. I think everyone else got the message though, and the replies stopped shortly after.
A kilowatt hour is 1000 joules per second over 3600 seconds, the amount of power a 1kW heater uses in 1 hour. Its as metric as the hectare
My working hours are 12 PM to 8 PM.
We had a manager have us do calls with an overseas vendor at 6 AM in the mornings. One time is fine, these things happen, but then it became a weekly thing and it started grating on me to basically be at work from 6 AM to 8PM, but then that same manager said "we should do sprint planning at 9 PM today" after being on a 6 AM call. Then he broke out the "we should all pitch in and take ownership" talk and I was done.
And how many of those kilometers were in areas so remote that it's impossible to build a fast charger there?
Nearly all letters I get are in C5 envelopes, i.e. A4 folded in half. But Denmark is so electronic that "nearly all" is about one a month.

Folding in thirds isn't worth the bother when I post things so infrequently.

Choosing a large British supermarket, they have C4, C5 and C6 sizes, plus DL (A4 in thirds) which are cheapest: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=envelopes
You may have skimmed over this bit in the article then:

"the international A-size system now starts with A0 paper, with sides in the correct 2‾√ ratio, but with exactly 1m2 of area, or as near as you can get with whole millimetre side lengths (1189mm 841mm, to be precise). Then folding or cutting it a few times until it is conveniently desk/folder sized gets you to A4, hence the ‘4’ bit in the name."
It means you now have to worry about key management or else lose access to all your old mail, it possibly complicates logging in on new devices or via webmail, partially breaks server-side (spam) filtering, breaks server-side full-text search… so there are some definitive trade-offs there to be made.
It is very interesting that "reply all" is a forbidden action with email. Other mediums have the possibility, sometimes by default, to let messages and replies be visible by everyone not just in the conversation but in the whole world and it's working fine.

Why is it forbidden with emails ? The functionality is useful. It is forbidden not because it is useless, but because the UX of emails make every single new message the most important thing to read and process. It is there in the Inbox, it is at the top, you can't ignore it.

Other UX make this more manageable. Usenet is used to frequent back-and-forths, so it arranges them inside their respective threads. Zulip lets you focus on the topics you're interested in and come back to a specific thread when you want.

I keep thinking we don't have a problem with email, we have a problem with UX.
Which also makes it quite nice to know how much a sheet of paper weighs. At 80 g/m² you'll get 5 g (80 / 2⁴) for A4. Handy for quickly determining how much postage to put on an envelope based on how many pages you put inside it.
It's a great change of perspective, beautifully put. Very motivating.
luckily for them private jets are explicitly exempt from climate change carbon taxes
Not sure what you mean by "plus pints and stone", when they're just normal imperial measures?
> We’re talking about Europe, not sub-Saharan Africa.

Well, it's not like Europe is homogenous in this regard.

France specifically has a history of taking care of such matters.

I'd say the rich getting away with what they're doing is more likely in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cooling accounts for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions [pdf]
I can't see what's wrong with it. It's essentially the only sensible way in which the rich are clearly different from the middle class these days. If we remove this, what will be left of being rich?
I wonder how many of these people using private jets attend Davos, make commitments to net zero, invest using ESG as a reference point, sea front housing etc.

I'll take it seriously when they do.
The Price of Synthetix (SNX) coin was swinging from $4.43 resistance2 to $3.77 resistance1 after touching support levels of $3.09 and $2.59.

SNX has reversed from the support level of $2.59 and currently the market is going sideways and is expected to be bullish over the coming weeks.

We can conclude that the price is bullish for long-term holders since the 200-MA is higher than the 100-MA.

Since SNX cannot break the current support level soon, our long-term Synthetix (SNX) price prediction is bullish for 2022. We can expect SNX to reach $10 in 2022.
Yup, "you're stupid because you're poor, yadda yadda". While an (economical) immigrant to developed EU countries when one starts their life from the scratch from opening bank account and applying for an apartment, it's being deeply engraved into one's consciousness. I bet OP is posting revolutionary comments, then wouldn't bat an eye to crush a coworker into burnout or depression, while the executive board folks are on Balearic, Canaries, or Costa del Sol.
>They will start

They already have. US Billionaires are bankrolling white supremacists (https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/05/24/right-wing-families-...), Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kolomoisky started their own PMCs to get their oil (while fighting against Russia, sure, but it's still a PMC at the whim of a single man), Thiel and a whole bunch of SV rich kids are building post-apocalyptic shelters with their own, private security forces.

Anyone downvoting you is a fool. Billionaires are ready for war.
Many/most items that were designed many years ago in imperial - tyres etc - are still described in imperial units.

But here in Finland (a completely metric country) things like televisions are still marketed/sold as 44" etc where the cm value could very easily be used.
Looking at https://lwn.net/Articles/893346/, I'd definitely describe mjg59 as unreasonably bashing unsafe languages (like some Rust users), though he says at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31251199 that he doesn't know Rust.
If we for a second disregard the fact that it’s a random graph without any context, even that graph shows changes in thousands of years, not like now when the temperature changes happens within decades.
Because I'm desperate for the money and solving an interesting problem is the closest thing to feeling happy I'll do this year. If just one financial plate falls down I'm homeless.

It is what it is.
It is really useful for calibration. Stick a thermometer in there and you can tell how accurate it is.
All kids in the UK learn metric, and possibly some imperial (but only as a side thing). There are still things colloquially said in imperial, such as weight and height, but if you go to a doctor it will be in cm and kg.

We're still a bit of a mishmash, but it's not as bad as it might seem from outside.
Imperial units (specifically, feet) are dominant in aviation to measure flight altitude. Despite a recommendation of ICAO to use SI units since 1979, only China, Mongolia and a few former-USSR countries (not Russia) use metres to define flight levels. [0]

This leads to two interesting consequences for aircraft that perform international flights from/to China: [1]

- they need to be equipped with two altimetry systems;

- they need to perform small climbs or descents when entering or leaving Chinese airspace, as metric flight levels do not usually match Imperial ones (flight levels are defined by round numbers).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level#Metric_flight_lev...

[1] https://skybrary.aero/articles/china-reduced-vertical-separa...
Most games I've tried to examine have had cert pinning enabled.
Prices of electricity have spiked as well in Europe, thanks to the war in Ukraine. I just recently read an article saying that in Netherlands it's now more expensive to drive electric car than gasoline powered one.
I have no numbers to back this up, but intuitively I'd put my money on 30m Wifi-Routers in France running a third of the year while nobody is home not having a larger impact than the 270 private jets being used.
How is this notable or even interesting? People commit suicides all the time.
We're social animals: for a lot of these guys, the point of having money is to display it.
Optimizing Polygon Intersections with Subdivide
Really? I only lived in London briefly years ago, but I can’t remember ever coming across Oyster in any non-transit setting. Maybe it’s like Suica in Tokyo? Technically capable of the same stuff but rarely deployed in practice.

Octopus, in contrast, is almost literally everywhere (except most taxis, sadly). You can use it to buy everything from groceries to petrol.
1/64th of an inch is less than half a milimetre. Does the average DIYer have that type of accuracy and precision?
Oh, I didn't know about B5. I knew B size papers exist, but never looked into it. Will definitely look at B5 notepad next time I'll need to buy a new one, because like you I think A5 is a bit too small and A4 too big.
Perhaps, but I believe you would trade excessive corruption for an absolute nightmare. There would be cat and mouse games, sure, but you and everybody you care about would be the mice. Your life would be subject to perpetual inspection. If you were to say or do anything that the current regime or any future regime deemed unacceptable, you would be dealt with swiftly. Why on Earth would you want to live like that?
There they basically can have all forms of sex with any human they desire, free of charge. Compare this with GBP 200 per hour in London...
This is fairly normal in today’s world of email providers, and one of the reasons it can be painful to manage your own SMTP server, right?

Mail delivery is an anarchy and I’m impressed the problem of spam has been solved to the degree we currently see. Yes it’s much more centralized than before, and no that isn’t a good thing, but from a customer’s experience point of view, I couldn’t go back to the old days of manually training your email client’s spam filter and whatnot.
We would not need cca 75% of our agricultural lands if stopped overindulging in meat/dairy.

Those 30% you're talking about is not the only land your cattle herds need ... there is also corn/seeds/alfaalfa etc. produced somewhere.

Beef needs 120x more land than plant-based foods for the same amount of calories.

Western countries are a model for developing countries. If we base our diets on meat/dairy, they will want the same. We're developed, we have to set a positive/meaningful example.

We would need several Earths to feed the world same diet as westerners eat. It's simply short-sided and selfish to insist upon current practices to the detriment of everybody else (& Earth & wild animals & biodiversity etc.).
Beyond all edge cases mentioned by others (I add the bicycle frame size to the list) what is the most shocking for me having imperical units in international air traffic! Feets and pounds and gallons (as far as I know) mixed with SI units. One notable accident is the Gimli Glider where miscommunication occurred in fuel quantity calculations and the airplane took off with very little fuel running out mid air (excellent pilots and great story eventually).

Also naval folks are stubborn too. Own miles, knots as speed, craaazy! : )
Author do not mention the frictions of going the other side (gmail/hotmail/live):

- you might not receive all the emails people sent to you, for the reasons mentionned in this very article

- you will receive much more spam/unwanted email. I quit using a gmail account because I kept reveiving newsletter and notifications from other people who kept mistaking his account with mine. There was probably a one letter difference in their real email address and mine. I surrendered and gave up trying to tell his relative they weren't reaching the right person, only had fun once by powning his NAS with a "cloud function", and gave up after receiving tons of newsletters and other shit.

- you can lose your account any day, for any reason without any possibility to get it back. I've seen it happen to 2 people with hotmail.
The money will trickle down just any time soon...
Would recommend the documentary Precision: The Measure of All Things by Marcus du Sautoy. It's no longer on iPlayer but thankfully someone's uploaded it to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81opjVDAaA
I'd like to know if any nation actually uses something other than dpi in printing.
We, an online store, have found deliverability to yahoo.com and btinternet.com addresses by far the worst, I don’t have statistics to hand but it’s up to a 10% failure rate. Much like the OP it seems to be silent too. We have literally no issues with other providers.

The unfortunate thing is that we also find the demographic of customers here in the UK still using btinternet.com email closely aligns with customers who tend to be more problematic…

(My parents have a btinternet.com email address)
Beef is heavily subsidized. Give it time.
I use AWS Simple Email Service to relay my outgoing mail. It costs almost nothing.
Its original semantics as designed. Attaching MUA-STS, MTA-STS or HSTS to existing TLSA records would mean changing the records' meaning, that's not okay.
English units like my 2 litre kettle which I use to fill my 300ml cup with tea? Yes they do make sense.
It’s worth remembering that the UK can almost be counted in that group to some extent - road distance and speed as well as human height and weight are normally defined in imperial measurements. Additionally the Conservatives have proposed return to imperial measurements (though just as a pretty transparent appeal to the “back in my day…” crowd)
No, it's not. Any stories about doing so are just dead cats.
They're a legal requirement in Denmark. Some take them off, especially the Tour de France LARPers that go in groups in the countryside, and just shout at you instead. Everyone hates them.
I love describing 41,4% as tad. Then again I suppose concept of comparing areas is bit harder.
You are putting far too much weight in arbitrary numbers, probably due to personal familiarity.

0°F is a big milestone? I'll claim 1°F should be the milestone instead, or -5.4°F, or 2.33333°F.

15°C or 12°C or something is an important temperature if you live in the tropics without a heating system.
This book is also available for free at https://www.cosmicpython.com/
Calibration of what? The thermometer? When do you need to calibrate a thermometer at the temperature of boiling water and how does the temperature scale affect that in any way?
> Well mine and most everyone's is almost exactly 0-100 degrees F, and 50 degrees C is on the extreme.

You don't cook?
clingon: Command-line options parser system for Common Lisp
> This is fairly normal in today’s world of email providers

Certainly not normal, but done sometimes, yes.

> and one of the reasons it can be painful to manage your own SMTP server, right?

It's part of the job, but it's more likely that the big providers are the least of your problems. They can be reached and you're usually not alone with your problems.

It's the small providers who have terrible filtering, who use low-quality shit-lists like UCEProtect/Backscatter or their own "heuristics", that are the most painful.
The're still immune to most laws and taxes... then they'd be gods without wings.
We have been using it in Sweden as long as I can remember.
Sometimes I wonder if we should try building a news site optimised for seeing the effect of appeals to authority.

To write an article for the site, we would need to:

1. Write a headline with no mentions of any experts.

2. Write another headline mentioning at least one expert in it.

3. Write the content without mentioning any experts.

4. Write the content and sprinkle names of experts as needed.

5. Publish.

Now, the reader would then:

1. Be exposed to the no-experts version of the article - both headline and content.

2. Once finished, the reader will be prompted to write their thoughts on the article.

3. Click “Reveal”.

4. The reader would then skim or read the whole article again, but this time it would mention the experts.

5. Prompt the reader to evaluate how their thoughts had changed after reading the expert version of the article.

I’m so gullible, seeing experts in anything especially when names of prestigious institutions or titles are tacked onto them, tend to shut down the reasoning part of my brain altogether.

Bear in mind, the site I proposed is not a place to police how articles should be written; rather, it’s all about increasing its readers’ awareness on how much mentions of an authority can impact their initial reasoning and judgement and sometimes make them stop reasoning at all. My view is that mentions of an authority are useful for calibrating our judgements after we tried to reason on our own but not before that.

And yeah, I have no opinion on the original post. Just like to go off on a tangent once in a while.
Yeah I don't see the need for this tech anyway in 95% of the cases they use it for. Sure, packaging is complex but distributions have become really good at it. It's a solved problem. And for the security parts there's better solutions like AppArmor. For some exceptions it could be useful but not with the ubiquity that Ubuntu uses snaps.

In any case I really wish Ubuntu would stop this "not invented here" nonsense and drop snap entirely (and use flatpak only for the apps that really need it).

After Mir, upstart, unity I thought they'd have gotten enough of a reality check but they're at it again. And they sandbox way too many packages that don't even need it. Even some golang command line tools which don't even have any dependencies (they're in go and thus statically linked)
My Netgear R6350 wifi access point running OpenWrt 21.02.03 and 5 GHz only uses ~4.5 W in casual use, and goes up to ~6.8 W when I run iperf3 full tilt through it.

Measured using a watt-o-meter like this: http://seacourse.dk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Home+Electricit...

They can be borrowed in libraries in Denmark, same as books.
Sure there is math behind it, I was at a paper factory once, I asked them about the whole A0 and so forth sizing, I was told in prefect german and translated that originally they made 1M^2 sheet (alle) and they would them take those and cut them by halfs, so when an order came in, it would read Alle/2 Alle/4 a so forth since they would then say take this pile to A, A2 and A4 cutting station. Who knows, but that is what the Aschaffenburg guide tolde me back in 1998, been telling everyone that story since… :/
It's solved?

From what I see, it's just a few players exchanging mail between themselves and discarding a high percentage of traffic.
No really. The "comfortability" points are basically separated by 10 degrees F, with only 32 degrees F being the special one.
Considering that 100F is almost 40C just put your scale from 0-40. It's completely subjective.

0C wear a woolly hat

10C wear a jacket or sweater

20C Teeshirt and jeans weather

30C Teeshirt and shorts weather

40C Get in the shade and keep hydrated

50C You want to avoid this end of the scale

It's almost all defending against the pro-Fahrenheit folks making strange arguments promoting it, like somehow you can't measure your life unless it's in F.
Yes, that's what GP said (or what i understood).

Basically the cost of electricity should be the average cost of the network's generators. Or, as it is hard to calculate, the operating cost of the most expensive generator we have to put online. Peakers (pulsed coal and gas) are the most expensive to operate, so the price of electricity is based on their costs.

That we use gas and coal for baseload, however, is the dumbest thing EU (and German) legislation put us through.
LED lights burn out prematurely in over half the fixtures in my house because they are fully enclosed. The bulbs can’t take the heat. This is true even for bulbs that claim they are suitable for use in fully enclosed luminaires. I have switched back to compact fluorescents.

It seems to me that EV advocates aren’t very similar to what we see with LED bulbs. EV advocates refuse to even acknowledge that EVs are not for everyone. Instead they want to ban alternatives. At least I can still buy compact fluorescent bulbs.

It’s as if laptop computer advocates wanted to ban desktops. Surely the laptop is all anyone needs.