skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fahrenheit was defined the way it was not because it was "invented to be useful and practical", but because a mixture of brine to set 0℉ was easy to concoct reliably. That's as close as it got to being "practical".

Every other argument seems to boil down to "I'm not familiar with it, so it's hard", "dealing with 10s is easier than 5s", and "Fahrenheit has more resolution because I've forgotten decimal numbers exist".

The actual superpower of metric is that all the units relate to each other in simple ways. For instance most liquids you and I deal with on a daily basis have a similar density to water, so if you've got 100g of it, it's going to be ~100ml. You don't need to deal with arbitrary artifacts of the measuring system beyond the unit prefixes.
Except that's not what he said happened to him.

He has that there as an example of things outside your direct control that can lead to blacklisting.
Russia halts gas supplies to Europe until western sanctions lifted
There are a few hex/disk editors that support "templates" (but you need most times to create those yourself).

Here is a sort of "curated list" of related tools:

https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing

The most complete/populated I know of is Kaitai:

http://kaitai.io/

http://formats.kaitai.io/

that you can use with Hiew with Kiewtai

https://github.com/taviso/kiewtai

If the question is slightly different, i.e. which bytes are used to identify a given file format, there is Trid:

https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

Which has also a database of known headers/patterns.
Hi everyone!

Before working on my startup, I was working in a Fortune 500 company as an engineer. Super long hours and I didn't properly take care of my body. At the age of 24 year old, I was told I had a body of a 40 year old. I was experiencing lower back pain and numbing fingers.

That led me to this product, because I realised tech folks were the ones most prone to chronic pain.

I built a 5-minute back pain relief app with AI. It's currently on android and released to a small group of early users.

How it works:

1.Fill up pain assessment

2.Algorithm creates 5 mins physiotherapy programme based on assessment

3.Get real-time feedback for your exercise form with our computer vision

4.Get matched with our in-house Health Coach and Physiotherapist for a 1-to-1 tele-consultation

Note: I am also working with a licensed Physiotherapist for the exercises.

I would love your feedback on whether this might be useful for you - thanks!

https://lexlyhealth.webflow.io/
China would seem to fit the criteria you describe -how's that helping out with their level of corruption. All solved over there, then?
The nautical mile is a sensible unit for anyone trying to navigate with charts (which, in the worst case, could happen to pilots). Feet, on the other hand, are nonsense.
I do want arbitrary people to reach out to me regarding my home page, so any just-allow-whitelisted-messages proposals are useless in that regard.

And in practice some minimal address obfuscation has been enough to block any address harvesters, and setting up a contact form or something comparable (and I guess especially also subsequently keeping it spam-free!) would have been much more of a hassle.
Could HN admins help unvote stray likes (which happened accidentally) to stories and comments.
Viddsee - YouTube Alternative for Content Creators
Perhaps I should have qualified my statement. It's difficult to subvert iDevices accidentally. Of course they have vulnerabilities like anything else, but in Android-land it's relatively easy for the owner to take actions that subvert the device unintentionally.

This is to say nothing about OEM-bundled spyware like in Samsung-land.
I agree with all that for the most part. Having used Celsius at various times, I still feel Fahrenheit is better for outdoor temperatures because of the range, but yea, there's undeniably a bias there no matter how much I think I reason about it.

I think the idea that it is indeed relatively arbitrary probably summarizes a more accurate reaction to the comment I originally replied to.
I'm not a historian, let alone of revolutions. I've heard it said too that starvation is the only thing that really causes a revolt - and yet I know of at least one counter-example, the American Revolution. 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. Perhaps if the King had been more considerate of the colonists' needs there would have been no revolution, and England could have traded away a small fraction of control to retain an enormous chunk of empire. I think the parallels to the modern situation are clear.
35mm is great up to an 8x10 print. It'll do 11x14 if you don't stand too close. It's 30mp+ of optical resolution.

In the ideal case. Shooting 35mm is much more sensitive to higher ISO, missed exposure, incorrect development etc.

Sure perfectly exposed Velvia 50 or Kodachrome 64 developed at a professional lab which really cared about the quality and temperature of their chemicals, has really high resolution. An ISO 400 or 800 film where you missed you exposure slightly and that got developed at a crappy 1 hour photo place, will have pretty mediocre image quality.
No, use an LSM.
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>> Biases are tools for fast thinking.

> This is your "bias" talking

No, this is my current view after reading/watching things about critical thinking. This might be a bias, but not an instinctive/builtin one. You have a point when you say that we don't have evidence on why biases are there. But this is how I choose to try to use or avoid them. My phrasing was imprecise.

> to be truly emotionally uninvested into anything

I'm not advocating this.

> A hidden benefit that is not clear. Maybe this benefit is no longer applicable in modern times... but we can't know for sure

It goes both ways then.

I think I see my biases as weaknesses (for taking well-thought decisions) and you, as strengths. I mainly seek truth, you mainly seek survival. I don't think trying to avoid my biases will put me in danger. I believe biases impair my reasoning (and so will go against me reaching the truth - of course, truth is not always an absolute thing). Given this, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

Your point about "Hang on, biases might be there for good reason, careful before trying to avoid them" is interesting though.
The peculiar history of the Windows Character Map (2015)
The most common sizes for milk to be sold in are 1.136 litres and 2.272 litres (i.e. 2 pints and 4 pints)
> I don't even know if there's perforated continuous stationery/form paper with tractor holes that, once you strip the holes, is A4 sized?

There is. We had an ImageWriter in the 1980s which printed on exactly that. Until i read your comment, i assumed that was the standard!

This format still exists, for example:

https://www.paperstone.co.uk/paper/listing-paper-computer/5-...
> Measures are much more common in inches, foot and miles than metric.

I think this is partially true, particularly with the older generation. People often talk about their height in feet and inches, and their weight in stone and pounds.

> Volumes are much more common in cups, gallons, pints than metric. Weights are more common in pounds and ounces than metric.

Your experience seems to be very different to mine. To be honest I have no idea what a gallon even is, and no intuitive concept of an ounce. The only place I have ever seen measurements in "cups" is one chicken biryani recipe I found on an American website. (I agree it's bizarre: half a cup of mint leaves - wtf?!). Any recipe published in the UK in the last couple of decades tends to be in grams and millilitres. Example picked at random:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chocolate-courgette-cake
Thanks for the example, but I'm still not sure what that has to do with the scale since you only care about a single number in that case.

I need to look up sous vide cooking. I've never heard of it before. Seems pretty interesting.
> I don't think you've done anything except prove my point. It's okay to express anger that you can't use a free OS, but plenty of other people do.

I guess your denial is that (even when the OP asked here) the majority of developers are using either Windows, and macOS instead of a Linux Desktop to get their work done as I have repeatedly explained.

> It's perfectly fine for development, and you've done nothing to refute the idea that Linux is a great platform for developers.

Except that wasn't the OP's question. They are talking about the host platform to develop ON and not the TARGET. Even when asked, the respondents say otherwise; even when the intended target is Linux.

> If you're going to keep moving the goalpost (remember: OP wanted something developer-friendly, not user-friendly) then we're not going to be able to engage in legitimate discussion.

There is no goalpost being moved. The OP gave a simple question on which host platform to develop ON and more respondents commented about their desktops or laptops running Windows with (WSL2) or a typical macOS setup. Since you already admitted that 'the Linux Desktop is terrible' and given the responses in this post, it is clear that it already has disqualified itself as a suitable host platform to develop on.

Furthermore, proving my evergreen point for the Linux Desktop:

If they cannot use the desktop then it is pointless to recommend it as a 'developer-friendly environment' or even begin clean installing it just for a worse desktop experience for the developer, which for GUI desktop apps, there are little to no users to target compared to the likes of macOS and Windows.
> Is that not charged via an alternator?

No, it's generally directly from main battery pack when the car is turned on, or when the car is charging. I would guses some models can also charge it now and then when the car is off, since some models are always connected to a cellular network.

> but then it seems more sensible to me to do away with the 12v battery all together.

No, no, no.. You need 12V when the car is off (for talking to key fob at the very least), but you probably don't want a DC-DC converter running from the main battery all the time. If you have trouble getting power from the main battery, it'll be hard to diagnose when none of the electronics work anymore. Having a redundant battery is a very good idea.

It's also a redundancy in case of emergency (some cars have buttons you can press to call emergency services).

I seem to remember Elon talking about removing it (of course), but they haven't yet, and I doubt they ever will.
A better way to build an AI business
I don't think that's how it plays out. Microsoft has a lot of users on their mail services. If you -- as a business -- cannot reach these users, most of them aren't going to blame Microsoft. They're going to blame you and probably choose not to use your website/shop/... unless there is a previously established relation. Thus your deliverability troubles are now a "you" problem. Because you're going to lose customers over it.
Exactly. That's the huge difference.

The USA only uses metric in some important industries.

Britain uses it for lots of "unimportant" things, like construction/DIY, medicine, health care, cooking, sport/fitness.
A dependency on russian gas should never have been established.
You are right. Is say it is metric, if not standard SI.
> The numbers don’t work out too, “litres per 100km”. Why not millilitres per km (or litres per gigametre)

> I drive X miles (or X km), I then fill up with Y litres (or Y gallons)

This isn't what most use the liters per 100km for though. People just fill up whenever the light on the car tells them to. Mainly the number is used to compare cars when buying a new one. Some keep track of the actual consumption to notice if something is wrong with their car (just write down the current number on the odometer and how many liters you put in on some paper/app/whatever. you can do the actual calculations later)

At least this has been my experience here in Finland.
> Paying a knowledge worker based on their physical location will soon become a relic, if your company does not realize this… quit and switch jobs.

It's a relic since 20+ years. And the end result is this discussion. Prices ultimately go down, because competition is rising and companies have the power to pay less. And automation will drive it even more to the bottom.
The irony here is that you're also responding to comments by other people in different threads!
I switched to Fastmail ... 5 years ago? I've had zero issues.

I pay them for a service, they provide said service. I think there have been a handful of outages, but I only noticed them afterwards from the HN front page :D

The Masked Email system alone they added a while ago has been a life-saver, I sign up to all mailing lists and weird online shops using it.
> The trend of removing colour from something and calling it an improvement. In photography, in film, everywhere.

I honestly prefer Greek statues without the (original) paint: https://i.imgur.com/hF5zzp4.jpg
It vary quite a bit. I have seen them go from 6w (ubnt aplifi hd) to 24w (A asus router, forgot the specific model) in idle.
Atheism only exists in opposition so it is necessarily defined in terms of whatever theism is knocking about in the local environment. If I’m not dealing with a religious person I’m just going about my day. I’m not constantly thinking about what I don’t believe in. “Atheism” has no impact on my life whatsoever.
Cool. Now do it with Elden Ring.
Actually, thinking about that Lisa quote, what you say can't be right, Ryan. Have a look at

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

The total sum of expenses other than salaries in 2020/2021 was about $43 million, which included –

* $9.8 million of grants ($5 million of which is the WMF paying into its own endowment at the Tides Foundation)

* $6.4 million donations processing

Once you deduct these amounts, that only leaves about $27 million of non-salary costs. And we know some of that $27 million was spent on PR consultants etc.

In other words, it's mathematically impossible for an estimate of $33.75 million to have excluded salaries of technical staff.
Probably. It's less of a let down to know the truth rather than be fed a fantasy.
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research for the app, ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not yet, and unless backed up by a large enough double-blind test, never will be.
That's great in theory.

Unfortunately many legitimate sending domains are newly registered, so have no reputation. It's not possible to rely on age either: if requiring domains to be aged becomes commonplace, they're cheap enough that spammers would just register them and wait for a bit, maintaining a pipeline of them.

So it becomes necessary to consider the reputation of whoever is enabling the sending of the email. The only way to do that is by IP.

If a domain uses DKIM, has a good reputation but comes from a bad IP, then sure, you might trust it. I don't think that'll help much in practice though.
Crypto is a bad example because it's pretty pointless in general. You can have better, faster, more efficient, safer, easier to use tech but at the end of day you're only achieving the same thing: skipping over regulations that apply to traditional currencies but somehow don't to crypto. That's assuming good will as one can argue that creating a distributed Ponzi scheme is another goal. It turns out that to achieve those you can get away with a simple idea and implementation like BTC.

It's really not a surprise it's not about tech when the goals and challenges were never technical.

On the other hand in areas where it is about tech we see superior one winning over established players all the time. Google, WhatsApp, AMD just to name three out of many examples in various times of this millennium.
I’m shocked at the number of people paying EV prices. The Model Y is just about the only EV SUV that you can go out and buy right now, and it starts at $68k.

The math does not support this price premium. You will not save money.

This is before considering that it will cost several thousand to have a charger installed, and to say nothing of the other drawbacks of EV ownership.

My prediction is that EV penetration will plateau pretty quickly. There are no short term plans to turn NYC into an EV friendly city.
If you are running a business and have customers having emails that are silently being dropped, adding a "verify your email address" page in your process is probably a good step to have anyway.
The Mercedes are connected too. The MGs aren't for now.
A few weeks ago my sister told me of a proposal for some contract that she’d been working on, and it ended up being 1600 pages, mostly double-sided A4, and printed in quadruplicate, and I rapidly worked out in my head, purely from the memory that A0 is 1m², that each subsequent paper size halves the area, and that 80g/m² is a common weight: that that was going to be something like 16kg of dead tree that was probably just going to clog up filing cabinets somewhere and mostly never actually be referred to. If I did this more often I’d remember 5g per sheet, but the mere fact that all this stuff is simple ratios and unit calculations means you can calculate it all from first principles quite easily. It’s really handy.
Is this a repost the other day, I thought that was too good have been missed out.

Also I’m keen to see if this 60Gb.a-1 near field wireless data link for Apple Watches for diagnosis will be able to be used in some sort of MagSafe/usb for iPhones.
> Heck, like 95% of open source fails in that regard.

That's a dubious remark. Even proprietary software most of the time fails at being easy. Easy takes great design and most software out there falls into the average.
Tokio Console Datasource for Grafana
The line height of a dot matrix printer is 1/6", so A4 continuous paper would be roughly 70 lines but not quite exactly 70. Breaks would be messed up after a few pages. It would also not fit 80 characters horizontally. That's why continuous paper is stuck with US letter or 14"x11" format.
Recent and related:

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437 - Sept 2022 (628 comments)

Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720234 - Sept 2022 (154 comments)
Their point was related to outside temperatures, which is what most people use temperatures for. And although I've never used Fahrenheit for anything, I don't think the 100c = boiling water is useful in day-to-day life.

I've used temperatures in the 60 something to 80 something range to measure the inside of food, my oven goes anywhere from 160 to 220 degrees, but water boils when it goes all bubbly. I know that that's at 100 degrees, but I don't do anything with that info.

I don't agree with bmitc's point that Fahrenheit feels more natural. But it seems like that anytime someone has something positive to say about Fahrenheit or imperial measurement, 10 different people need to tell them how wrong they are, and how there can't be anything positive about those systems of measurement. That doesn't seem necessary to me. Especially with temperatures where everyone just remembers a couple of numbers and associates them to a certain feeling or application, and whatever you've used your entire life will feel better or more natural.
But then it wouldn't be US Letter.

There are other paper sizes based around the A series that fit relate back to it as part of a geometric progression, which means stuff fits neatly together. For instance, the C and DL series, which are used for envelopes, with a C4 envelope being exactly the right size for a sheet of A4 paper.
Ask HN: DALL·E 2/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion for Music?
Anyone know what's the closest thing to a DALL·E 2 / Midjourney / Stable Diffusion but for music?

Input, for example, get a song from a prompt of: A slow cover of Elvis' version of "Unchained Melody" sung by Adele with piano replaced by post-rock guitars in the style of Explosions In The Sky, trending on Spotify

Output: MP3/FLAC/WAV

Or anyone working on this? I will hold your beer.
Technically it's 0.66 millimeter shorter than A4. A bigger problem is width, it does not fit the "standard" 80 columns.
I think we all can agree that this is a sort of a movie that benefits from lack of any judgement so we can enjoy it for what it is in its own ways :)
Two ways my teachers liked to deal with that situation was:

- "That's an interesting question. To find out we could ..."

- "Does anyone have any ideas what the answer could be?"

Both approaches can be easily combined (first ask for ideas, then say how to validate them), but if you're in a hurry to get on just use the first approach.
Here is book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Compact-Data-Structures-Practical-App...

I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on the quality.
Mining the moon could create micro imbalances which would negatively affect its trajectory and orbit.
Recent and related:

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437 - Sept 2022 (628 comments)

Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32719956 - Sept 2022 (10 comments)
That's absurd to say. Of course people care about the sizes of their cars and kitchens. And they need to know the weight of bricks when thinking about weight tolerances in construction.
I really don’t care anymore if my email reaches Outlook or Hotmail addresses. It’s impossible to make sure. And to some extent it’s also the users problem.

With Office 365 I have far less issues. So Microsoft can do it, if they want to.
Have you yourself read the book? The book provides massive list of references from all over the world used for researching the topic.

I will give you an example of how the UK manipulates the facts for consumption of its citizens. After Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech went viral, the BBC published an article by a leading UK "historian". This guy claimed that he never "heard" of the UK damaging hands of Indian handloom weavers to destroy the Indian textile industry to promote it's own! This shows how the UK historians write history. I would urge citizens of UK to visit the former colonies of the UK and talk to the locals and get their facts. It is very well known both within the UK historian community and across the world that the UK history is whitewashed to hide lots of misdeeds of the past. Unfortunately that does not help the country to move forward as most of the country still thinks that they did good by occupying other countries.