Their hours are pegged to the hogshead, and are about 3 seconds shorter than American hours.

The US use of units is worse than the UK.

Said from a proudly metric country, New Zealand, where everyone knows their weight in kilograms and height in feet and inches.

at least it's not stones

My parents used to measure us in feet and stones. I still know my height in feet, because it hasn’t changed in decades. My weight, unfortunately, I could only tell you in kilograms.

The metric system is the tool of the Devil! My Tesla gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

Gimme five bees for a quarter you’d say!

The lead author on this paper is a professor of anesthesiology. I think it's fairly safe to describe its conclusion as crank-adjacent, if not outright cranky.

Wake up sheeple!

Oh.. uh hold on a second... removes anesthesia mask from patient

Wake up sheeple!

I'd love some sort of "so what?" explainer in the README.

I imagine that would be found in the associated paper, but I’m not sure if it’s been published yet. I’m having trouble finding it.

Parent Paper: Baetzel, J. (2026). Statistical Characterization of Inter-Channel Redundancy Structure in the Kodak Lossless True Color Image Suite. Per-Image Principal Component Decomposition of PCD0992.

Or an abstract actually stating a conclusion versus the editorialized title in the HN post.

Definitely. This breaks HN guidelines for the title.

I don’t know where you read to find the conclusion that the editorialized title claims.

What is “curation” anyway? No kidding, Kodak curated the collection. The HN title is either unsubstantiated or useless.

Assuming that the announcement video Ben Collins posted represents the new logo, it's a delightfully pride rainbow-colored InfoWars logo with an onion in place of the 'o'.

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mjwx7i...

that's a lot of syllables.

Do you think you might have also broken up if it had only been stairs?

how does it work? (the multiplication)

Becaus ln(A*B) = ln(A)+ln(B), you need 2 sliding elements and you work in logarithmic scale. Look at "slide rule"[0], this is really nice stuff.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

Are you asking how the bracelet multiplies two numbers? It's the same idea used by slide rules -- you take the logarithm of the two numbers, then add the logarithms instead of multiplying -- same result, with somewhat less accuracy depending on available decimal places.

This method was widely used in the pre-computer era to save time in calculations. Tables of logarithms (and slide rules) were a mathematician's best friend.

lol, as an engineer I'd never considered that other disciplines used slide rules voraciously

I am so excited for this. I’ve used Amazon SES begrudgingly for years and have wanted a better UI and easier routing level automation.

Stock’s up 600% on the ‘news’

This just in: suzzer99 is pivoting to AI. Get in early.

What was the better mp3 player than the iPod?

unironically Zune is goated in its own way

anything from Cowon. Always has been

sansa clip+

Anything from iriver.