skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The US is a big place" , but the world outside the US using Celsius is even bigger, more populated, and with more temperature differences.

Fahrenheit being more natural is purely subjective, there's no good reason at all for it.

Keeping the imperial system is just a matter of convinience because Americans are used to it and changing everything is difficult. Also some people think producers of food and any objects to sell might lose some margin by converting and rounding to the next round number of the new unit
My heat recovery ventilation system does exactly that. It has a bypass valve to just suck in filtered air when needed, bypassing the temperature exchange mechanism.
Here are the docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate
I think most people, including the author, would agree QC should be funded for fundamental research reasons. But that is clearly not the way it is being pitched to VC. Right now there is no clear use-case, that's what I felt he was warning against. If nothing materialises soon, he's probably correct to say this is a bubble.
As the tech is still unproven, it's research, rather than building capability, that they're spending money on. I hope all these investors understand this...
I feel like most of these issues are solved in Norway now. There's plenty of people with just street side parking in Oslo. The municipality set up public charging poles on a lot of them. They were free to begin with but now you have to pay. There's always a shortage since scaling up fast enough is hard during this transition, but in the long term I don't think it'll be a problem.

At the same time, there fast chargers eeeeeverywhere now. Supermarket, gyms, shopping mall, hardware store, etc. I would be fine just charging whenever I shop for food. Most of them were built in like the last 5-7 years.

There's legislation that encourages or forces apartment buildings with garages to install charging points.

There's really no significant technical barrier that hasn't been already solved in Norway. So it's down to cost and political will. I'm optimistic that even in the US this will solve itself in the coming years.
I suspect that a TOR service is easy to DDOS. Anyone know if that's true?
Ah, in that case I take it back. That's great news.
>That revolution happened because the King would neither address the needs of the colonists nor allow them to address their own needs, and felt his position was so dominant that the colonists had no choice but to accept his rebuke.

The elite landowning gentry unhappy with British taxation, not the colonists per se, most of whom were quite happy to remain British or were undecided on the matter. Popular support came later by means of effective propaganda, such as Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," not grassroots sentiment.
I found MailInABxo to be a dream. I ran it on home, with port forwarding etc with ease.

It is great for having a project have a completely different identity. I want to get a used to a few upgrade cycles before I use it for a "main" email address - but I concur the ease of set-up and use.

If it is for a separate project - normally only receiving emails are vital, sending has been ok even with low volume behind a residential IP.
> But if you host your mail on your cloud server, or even in your home, wouldn't you feel especially worried if you saw that you had received such illegal material?

Why would you be worried? In Law the main thing that matters to make a case against someone is demonstrating intent, and if you had no intent in receiving the material, not sure why you would have to care about that kind of risk.
> The tech titans were beaten by Tom Oxley, 41, an Australian doctor and founder of New York start-up Synchron. This year, his company became the first to receive an Investigational Device Exemption from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a permanently implanted digital brain device.

That is what matters and it’s four paragraphs down, hidden behind the paywall.

It is absurd that instead of focusing on celebrating this achievement and the people who made it possible, the writer’s concern is in repeatedly pointing out how famous tech billionaires weren’t the ones to do it. Musk’s name is featured more often than Oxley’s, with the title and picture being all about the former. What an unhealthy obsession.
I think that "animal friendly meat" is an oxymoron, but thank you for your opinion. Have a nice day.
Yes, some background, he had about a 10% stake in BBBY and sold out of it during the recent bull-run, the announcement of the sale caused the stock to crater 60% or so.
I'm a newbie to YC, can't c 'Edit' button, so I'm assuming it is like Twit. I'm not saying I wouldn't be interested, I think it is a really good idea, but really concerned that I don't find it is a waste of time after my privacy was again splattered
Their value proposition outweighs the harm.
> If I need to travel 260km at 20km/litre I need to but 260/20 litres or about 13 litres.

> With the “metric” way you need to do two calculations.

That's really an absurd way of looking at it, because one of those calculations is a division or multiplication by 100, and 100km happens to be a typical distance someone might be interested into finding fuel efficiency.

So the answer to me is an immediate mental computation, 2.6 x 5l = 13, you never ever need to compute consumption per km, express things in ml etc.

Your own "easy" examples look to me very intuitive and convoluted, so I guess the systems are 100% comparable, the only difference is the power of habit.
H.L. Mencken: "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
0F is the brine freezing point. The 100 is better - originally thought as human body temperature, now it's a mild fever.
Is there a comparison with other fast cpu methods of matrix multiplication?
The internet's capacity to move large segments of data quickly around the world is the lifeline that makes globalization possible.

Remove that and the dream of global markets have come to an end.
There are a bunch of these four-wheel bikes (https://vokbikes.com/) rolling around where I live. They're meant for commercial use and are slow enough for sidewalks and they do have a roof covering the rider. Cost more than $2000 though.
How did this come about? I think it's a very simple case of misunderstanding and overpromising. There are many interdisciplinary fields that mesh with computation. We have DNA computers and neural turing machines. QC is a subfield of quantum mechanics, one of many with some interesting applications but nothing shows that it has open-ended potential to revolutionize computation. But, it has the word 'computation' in it , and in the past decades the VCs with most money come from computer science. So you have a combination of Quantum (spoooky, mysterious) with computation (that one i know). I never got why QC was seen as so promising, it's an interesting exercise on paper but is not the 2nd coming of anything. Wish that money had gone to fusion instead, that one we understand now more than ever, that it has very real positive consequences
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You can put recurring references in a type, you just need to Box it up first.

So you'd have something like:

enum List<T> {
Cons(T, Box<List<T>>),
Nil,
}

Since the list is now boxed up the borrow checker has a fixed sized object to put on the stack at compile time.
How exactly is it defined in the standard? Is there a formula? Or just a list of sizes for A0, A1, etc.?

I wanted to read the standard myself, but CHF 58 is a bit too much:

https://www.iso.org/standard/36631.html
Speaking of which, is anyone aware of example code using the LSTM? I've been trying to get this to work, but there seems to be information missing e.g how to setup the input/output descriptors and how to manage input data: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/bnns/us...
For only your personal use sure. If you run stack for more than couple users you will sooner or later hit problems not with software itself but with outer world.
Seems like this must vary a lot as my experience is very different.

I rarely see/hear/use imperial outside pints and road signs, or for “sizes” like screen or clothing waist sizes, unless I’m talking to people a generation older than me (I’m 40).

Every recipe site I use either has both or is entirely metric, and I only ever use metric. I’d probably look elsewhere if a search turned up a recipe in imperial only.

Even distances are in KM outside of driving (because of the road signs).

Pretty much everyone I know talks about their weight in KG. Heights do seem pretty split between cm and ft/inches but everyone understands both.

Most liquids except beer and cider (including other alcohol like wine and spirits) are in litres and ml.

It’s very obvious to me how metric-first life is for me because visiting America involves constant conversion and thinking whereas everything in other European countries (which are generally entirely metric) comes easily.
The average is above 80%, and it was 83% at this time last year. I suppose it’s a good enough number, but that’s a pretty large drop year over year.
Ask HN: Will running Stable Diffusion shorten the life of my MacBook?
Seems like it's pushing my M1 MacBook Air to its limits. If I generate a lot of images, am I somehow going to wear out the laptop sooner?
It does wonders for security researchers jobs, because the idea of typing &arr[0] instead was asking too much.
Also the metre is a weird unit to use as a base. It is based on an incorrect 17th C estimation of the circumfrence of the earth and is now standardised as some weird fraction of the distance light travels in a vacuum in a second (a second itself being based on a weird fraction of transitions in a stable form of Cesium atom)

A foot is at least something very closely aligned across many cultures (from ancient Egypt to Japan) because of because of its clear and useful relationship to human scale and building products
This doesn't necessarily work the same way if pyrodactyl and the people he works with all work remotely. If they did, then surely they'd fire 10 people based in the Bay Area and hire the "10 other people ready to take [the] place for those wages"?
For FT articles at least, I usually see links to pirated content here, rather than workarounds?
> Same for wheels, rifle ammunition, …

"But being (as?) this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question ..."

(Which totally illustrates your point because it's not really 0.44 inches.)

On the other hand:

"Seven-six-two millimeter. Full metal jacket."
And then there's the mile. Originally comes from the Latin for a thousand (mille) paces, and one pace being 5 foot, so a mile used to be 5000 feet. But now it's a beautifully round 5280 feet. How come?

Well, in the middle ages, the furlong was important, because it was the standard size for farmers' fields (based on how long a furrow an ox could plow without resting). But 8 furlongs didn't fit neatly into a mile, so to make things easier for everybody, the mile got expanded to a nice round 5280 feet, or exactly 8 furlongs.
> Ask a German what their car's power is in kW.

> Other examples are screen sizes

that's common, but not as units of measure, but as marketing.

Same as megapixels in photo cameras.

Nobody measure power in HP, we say "that car has 85 HP" only in speech, but when it matters (for example on car papers) power is express in KW and screens are measured in cm that are also written on the package, they are only marketed in inches.

You would be correct if people had an idea of how much power 1 HP is or the surface of 1 MP camera shot, but they don't know, they only know that 16 MP > 12 MP and 300 HP > 100 HP, they (we) ignore what it actually means.

It is also perceived completely differently depending on context.

A 120HP tractor is not the same thing than a 120HP car or a 120HP motorbike.

According to US measures I'm 5'11, which means nothing to me, while it's obvious to them, because they actually use foot and inches all the time and do math using them.

Also 90F means nothing to me.
If this should happen in a developing African country like mine, it would have been perceived as outright corruption and will be all oer the news media. Hmmm.
You can keep telling yourself that, or read the proposal for constitution which I as a chilean proudly rejected.
I was curious about this as well when I purchased a UPS that shows the wattage used in real time. I connected only my cable modem and 1st Gen Google WiFi router to the UPS and it registered as between 1 and 2 watts. So, it seems like it's a fairly small amount.
IIRC I measured something like 10-50% performance difference (don't remember exactly, but it was somewhere in there), vs a reasonably well-regarded blas implementation. This was for dgemm specifically; I don't know if the story changes for smaller floats.
>So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin).

That was unnecessary, an obvious joke about both, and how people feel about them, etc. C and K scale the same way, so C is just an offset K (or vise versa). Both C and F are arbitrary, of course - zero (as developer) being the phase change of the water does make more sense to me; again arbitrary.
In Japan, the floor area of rooms are often measured in terms of Tatami mats (-Jo). You will see this on floor plans when looking at apartments, as well as when buying some items like lights or air purifiers that are advertised as being for certain sized rooms.

It's actually a pretty convenient unit, as long as you're familiar with how large tatami mats are.

Note that this unit isn't used for measuring an entire apartment's floor area though, that's done in meters.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami#Size
Wrote about harmful design practices. What you think about unethical products?
There's a variant of Conway's Game of Life called Wireworld which is turing complete. The idea is that there is a "signal" traveling along a wire. You can try it here, try programming a calculator if you have a lot of hours to spare: https://xalava.github.io/WireWorld/

Back in the day Golly was the best software for playing around with Game of Life variants, might still be true: http://golly.sourceforge.net/
Not this crap again.

Fahrenheit maps to your human experience because it's what you grew up with.

To me, Celsius maps to my human experience, because it's what I grew up with.

That's it. That's all it is, and that's the only reason you think it maps better.
> Like, if my phone can't receive calls

Do you not remember the iPhone 4, which couldn't be held in your hand while taking a phone call?

The iPhone 8 I was given by a client wasn't perfect either. It would regularly miss notifications - even direct pings in messaging apps - then spam many at once 3-4 hours later. I was never able to fix it, so the phone was just a paperweight with a 2FA app on it.

I've certainly had more problems with Apple devices (Macbooks & iPhones) in my experience, and I'm glad I now work somewhere where we all get Linux laptops and are not forced into dealing with Apple's locked down and underwhelming software.
I don't have enough knowledge on the topic to say whether the article is good or bad, nor if I should listen to someone on HN who says it is bad, hence asking to know what the credentials of someone are who attacked someone else's lack of credentials, yet made no actual intellectual counterpoints.

Stop telling strangers how to live their life. That's some control freak territory.
We have lots of evidence of chilling effects from copyright law.

I suspect that many of the people who are creating things which violate copyright law are simply unaware that what they are doing is against the law (they feel that they have rights which they actually don't) or they misunderstand the law (See: "No Copyright Intended" descriptions on youtube videos).

Some certainly also think that enforcement is lax enough that they won't be caught, or at least not before others have mirrored the content, or that they won't face meaningful consequences when they are caught, but I think we absolutely cannot say that the existence of copyright violations proves that the laws aren't hurting us by preventing popular original works from being made.

> The only thing they're prevented from doing is using someone else's IP.

Consider what happened with blurred lines (see https://mcpherson-llp.com/articles/crushing-creativity-the-b...)
We know copyright law hurts people that aren't using anyone else's IP.

This guy has a lot to say on the problems with the idea that using other people's IP is a bad thing in the first place:

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_laws_that_choke_cr...
Likewise anytime anybody says that Celsius feels natural as well, you also have 10 people tell them that they are wrong and Fahrenheit is a much better fit for human beings.

Now I think these discussions often go about cherry picking examples and just limit the discussion to outside temperatures is such a cherry picking.

The real power of the metric system comes from going all-in. You can't use everything but the temperature scale. If you would do that it would be even more obvious how disconnected the temperature scale is to the whole system.
At least here in Western (continental) Europe, it really isn't. I have never heard somebody say something like "She is almost 6 feet tall".
There's these storage boxes whose size is defined by the dimensions of an EUR-pallet [1]: https://euronormbehaelter.com/faq/arten-euronormbehaelter/. Each smaller container divides some dimension by 2. However, I don't think they follow the golden ratio at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUR-pallet
> for sorting strings of arbitrary lengths here

Ahh, I see. It only loads CACHED_BYTES at a time. This could be used to delay the tie-breaking loads until needed, with some sort of on-the-fly encoding, and potentially skip those loads completely.

I did not consider that. Thanks!

You are right - my experience is with LSB radix sorts, most specifically the one in NumPy. I see it references https://github.com/eloj/radix-sorting#-key-derivation which says "an LSB implemention is not well suited to sort character strings of any significant length. For those, a MSB radix sort is better" and in turn links to an implementation which includes benchmarks https://github.com/eloj/radix-sorting#cpp-benchmark . It in turn cites Bingmann.

Another thanks for pointing out a missing part of my understanding.

The radix approach still requires a mapping to a byte representation which is order-preserving.

> but I think these can be solved by unicode normalization + tolower + codepoint-wise comparison, which is probably what you'd do in your comparator for a comparison-based sort as well

tolower() doesn't work for all collations. Quoting https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/ "Some dictionaries and authors collate uppercase before lowercase while others use the reverse ... Sometimes the case ordering is mandated by the government, as in Denmark."

codepoint-wise comparison doesn't work for all collations. Quoting the same source, "There are additional complications in certain languages, where the comparison is context sensitive and depends on more than just single characters compared directly against one another" as well as "In some French dictionary ordering traditions, however, it is the last accent difference that determines the order".
September to December contain the numbers 7 to 10 not because the roman year was 10 months long, but because they started counting in March instead of January. That's also why February is a bit shorter: They ran out of days in the last month of the year.
Ideally, yes. But my understanding is that (at least in the USA) simply having this kind of content on your devices is very hard to recover from. Investigations, even if you are cleared of suspicion, will probably have a severe impact on your digital life. And this is the kind of illegal material that tends to bring out the "guilty until proven innocent" mindset. Even in the best of circumstances, I doubt the law enforcement or judicial people you deal with would be tech-savvy enough to treat you fairly.
I’m not sure what you mean here, bounds checks have nothing to do with debug builds, other than that optimizations may remove more of them if they’re determined to never fire, and release builds tend to have higher optimization levels. Semantically they’re always on unless you use the get_unchecked method.
very hot - about 35.5C or so, when you cannot dissipate heat with sweating. 30C is just uncomfortable but totally fine.

Also an year is not even 365days.
Many years ago I took (oddly) a physics class called (iirc) "Self Organisation" while doing a year abroad in Germany. Despite being a quite small class, it really inspired me from the perspective of self organizing systems.

I find structures like conways game of life, or slime mold or sand dunes to be fascinating for this reason. That from unit simplicity can emerge aggregate complexity, imitating facets of nature.
You should probably go reread their post cause I definitely didn't read the same thing you did.
A classic made up story.
zero, why does it matter?
And Henry Rollins
I must be more jaded than all of you, I see it as a simple money grab at no cost that could be done by anyone applying a B&W filter to previous releases. Even if they really changed the colour sliders for each scene as they claim there have been more ambitious fan edits than this.

Also, of all the problems with the film, the colour palette was not very high on the list.
I like hashed tries a lot. That's essentially a sparse array indexed by strings. Works well as a persistent data structure. Popularised by clojure and scala.
>Fifty years ago, you could have said the same thing about being black, or being a woman or a Jew

Yes, and if those cases were just about them not being elected because people don't like them for their beliefs it would also be fine.

Especially if otherwise they had all the right to be in an election, get elected, etc - which for wowen, blacks, and even jews in many places, was not the case. As opposed, to, you know, getting beaten up, lynched or genocided.

But women, jews, and blacks, faced certain different kinds of discrimination and persecution - and didn't even have the right to vote, eat in a restaurant, or even be left alone and alive. So, no, it's not really the same.

This is more like not voting for communists or libertarians.

>the fact that being an atheist prevents one from holding any real political power in the US - I submit it would be impossible for a non-Christian President to be elected, for instance

I'd say a Christian president, having God's work and charity and all as a real priority (as opposed to token gestures and lip service to religion, of the kind US politicians make), would also see it impossible to be elected. In fact they wouldn't even make it to their party's selection for President.

Ditto for a devout Catholic or Orthodox Christian (if I recall correctly, there was but one Catholic, not particularly hot on religion himself, and he was still smeared and called all kinds of names for being a Catholic, not to mention that he was also shot dead - though at least that wasn't because of his faith).

On the other hand, presidents who in practice, policy, and private life, couldn't give less fucks about religion, but are nominally Christian and make some empty gestures towards it, yes, are elected all the time.