skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very important to distinguish the 2 physical quantities whose standard names are now "force" and "mass", but it is debatable whether it was good choice to arbitrarily assign to the word "weight" the meaning of a force and to establish the new word "mass" (new with this meaning) for what is now called "mass".

The word "weight" and its equivalents in other European languages, e.g. "poids", "pondo" etc., have been used for thousands of years principally to name the quantities measured by weighing with a balance, which are masses, not forces, and only seldom and mostly metaphorically and non-quantitatively to refer to a force. By etymology, such words derive in one way or another from the operation of using a weighing balance, e.g. "pound" means "hanging", from hanging objects on the weighing scales.

The word "mass" has been used for thousands of years only with a meaning that had nothing to do with a measurable quantity, but only to name some amorphous piece of some material, such as dough, clay, soil, rubble.

A wiser choice would have been to name as "weight" what is now named "mass" and to use a name such as "force of gravity" for what is now named "weight".

Such a terminology would have kept the continuity with the traditional meanings of the words and would not have offered opportunities for the majority of the people, who even today continue to use those traditional meanings in colloquial language, to be corrected by those who have made an arbitrary choice to assign new meanings to old words.

Unfortunately there exists a very large number of scientific or technical terms whose meaning has been changed some time during the last few centuries, sometimes intentionally, due to questionable decisions, but in many times due to various errors or misunderstandings.

Even when such names reflect very serious errors of those who have coined them, their meaning can no longer be changed, as too much new literature has accumulated, which uses the new meanings.
> So the oyster is a good showpiece to replace, if you can do it successfully.

But the whole reason that these niche "delicacies" are expensive and sought after in the first place is pretty much solely due to their uniqueness and rarity, not because they have some intrinsic amazing flavor. It's like I can replace diamonds with cubic zirconia, but that ignores the reasons people buy diamonds in the first place.
I wrote on this topic as well - https://lazydevstories.com/post/decisionfatigue/
Would that really give a sizable benefit over, say async IO? Especially an “automatic” one like Java’s Loom?
I agree that they are different but would argue that both apply
I loved yours better.
I liked the way you framed this as something universal. Is there any field where one can quickly reference knowledge from your peers to just as quickly solve a problem in practice? Maybe it's asking too much. Though I suppose it wouldn't be necessary to get everyone on board with such an idea if you have that single coordinator who everyone knows as the reference point. Although, if you think about it, even then that person would have to be available 24/7, which isn't feasible.

With patient documentation specifically, what I would really love to have is a simple search mechanism for patient notes. This still wouldn’t solve the problem of getting everyone to capture the right information. But assuming the information is there, and I'm having a real hard time sticking that right arm, I would love to be able to search for "arm", "blood draw," "stick" and see what pops up. I hope it's not something I missed entirely, but I have never used an EMR with such a feature.
Early in my career, in the late 90s, I was at Cox Interactive Media on the team responsible for the web farm which hosted all of Cox Enterprises news sites: newspapers, radio stations, TV stations. This was before the days of SREs and SROs and dev-ops. We were just system admins and programmers and some of us could do both.

The web farm was about two-dozen Sun Ultra 2s connected on a FDDI loop (we eventually upgraded to GigE), with content on NetApps (4GB drives). A couple Sun E450s. Apache[1] on the Ultra 2s. Apache + mod_perl on the E450s. Hosted at a Global Center DC in Sunnyvale (same DC that early Yahoo was hosted in).

Monitoring with MRTG[2].

It's 1998. The Ken Starr report drops. Now, we knew it was coming, and we did our best to be prepared, but this is the late 90s. There was only so much load testing we could do and didn't really know how much traffic it would drive. We kept the site up, but it meant, as I recall, a lot of fine tuning of the mod_perl box and disabling interactive parts[3] of the site.

I really wish I still had some of the traffic graphs.

Fun times.

[1] Receipt: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/1.3.x/src/CHANGES#L5754

[2] Receipt: https://github.com/oetiker/mrtg/blob/master/src/CHANGES#L310...

[3] The forums. OMG forum software was so terrible. I think we eventually wrote our own after nothing based on Netscape Application Server or that we found open source worked well at all.
Possibly the least useful advice in this thread
That sounds like low hanging fruit. Fixing that would increase mutual trust.
But driverless taxis aren't a commons: they're the opposite, a private resource managed by a for-profit company. I don't see how you're predicting a tragedy of the commons here. If you're a difficult client, then you get fined heavily and kicked off the service.

(And your fears are precisely why you'd expect corporations to run things like this: they'd respond to other customers' fears of "dirty, vandalized" taxis, and do what they can to avoid that image! You don't get that responsiveness from a commons).
Wrong.

Realistically assuming a 4-8x larger pool of potential male engineers, as well as assuming equal average skill among males and females, hiring 50% women is what's disgustingly sexist.

If 10 woman and 40 men apply and you hire 5 each based only on sex, you are sexually discriminating against the 35 other men some of whom are statistically highly likely to be better candidates than some of the 5 women hired.

Get your identity politics off this forum, it does not belong here.
Does it have legal implications to have a provisional driver's license?
The oyster thing is a bit of a meme at this point, considering I've seen the same thing about 5 times in the last month.

For vegans, avoiding eating any animal is easier than trying to discern which animals can truly feel pain. There are always updates to our understanding about what animals feel, and it's vastly easier to draw a line between kingdoms than to create some fractal border of which animals are ok to eat.

Also, people thought newborns didn't feel anything decades ago and performed circumcisions without anesthetic. There isn't a final word on how awareness and pain work and the nature and location of the seat of consciousness, so it's better to be conservative on this.
Cradle Lets You Design Custom Proteins by Just Typing in a Prompt
It's interesting that they had to hire from abroad. Meanwhile Latine people are the least represented demographic. It's not just Trump and racism at the border. Racism against Latine is everywhere. And worse is how accepted it is.
Show HN: Grila – Calendar for keyboard addicts, always one keypress away
He wishes to build a series of calculators and tables and your suggestion for some reason is to focus on the styling over the part that will handle the state and logic required for them? Inane.
They should make the super skeptic AI instead. Program that points out all the bs in scientific papers. Most CS papers would fail. ;)
I don't see any crisis.

JetBrains IDEs do everything I want them to do, and on my 16-core Ryzen with 64GB of RAM, they feel as fluid as touching water. I tried recording things in slow motion with my phone and I'm pretty confident that my keyboard to screen latency is <20 ms. Nvidia gpu, 144hz screen, Debian

That said, I did spend some time with their performance profiler after installing it and I generously increased IDE RAM limits.

We do have a monopoly, though. Pretty much everyone I know uses JetBrains CLion. But before that, everyone was on Visual Studio. So this effective monopoly has been around for 20 years, but we switched winners in between.
The crucial piece you're missing is that the problem is further upstream. Most American commercial pilots are white men. Most job applicants are too.

Forcing airlines to hire people who are not qualified just to meet a quota is the absolute worst way to solve this problem. In fact, it exacerbates it. What do you think happens when you force employers to hire people who are unqualified, and those people are all women or minorities? Well, now you just might create a perception that women and minorities are inherently less capable. Obviously untrue. But let's fix the pipeline instead of mandating "equity".

We should also work towards accepting that people are different and they have different drives and passions in their life. I imagine most Hindu women do not aspire to being professional rappers, or construction workers, for example.
Floating gears in a synchronized manual is just abusing the synchronizers as a clutch, if you get it right it's only a few rpm but why risk it? There is literally no advantage.

Race car gearboxes like crashboxes and unsynchronized sequential gearboxes have stronger gear dogs with more backlash (bigger gaps between the dogs) to allow them to be shifted without synchronization.

Double clutching is pointless. Just putting more wear on the throwout bearing.
I've seen this also in several software systems that started life in a CS grad department. (Not all the same university.)

The original authors' quirks get enshrined in the code base, and its neigh impossible to fix until they leave the company that commercialized it.
Check out bootstrap and bulma or halfmooncss for the front end stuff and keep it as simple as possible.

Bootstrap is very popular and easy to find components for.

For simple interactions look into htmx or alpinejs. Or jquery.

These recommendations presume you want to get things off the ground asap, without spending months learning.
The pool is skewed male because of sexist bullshit. Computers used to be viewed as predominantly clerical and thus women were far more prevalent. And it’s patently false to assume it has to effect hiring quality at all.
Concise intro and shares features I'd not encountered in my casual Madison adoption.

I recommend this article for the Internet savvy.
The article doesn’t claim that; it’s closer to the opposite
I wouldn’t say terrible. In some thing is worse in others much better. For a number of reasons it is easier to find new account to follow, follow them for a while and unfollow if necessary. This makes my twitter account much more “fluid” than goggle reader was, allowing me to keep it more up to date and interesting.

On the other side, twitter ha much more noise that you have to learn to ignore
Hi everyone!

After the app review fiasco [0] with Sub Sol [1] (which was an app I made to help fund my brother's college costs), I decided to do another try with a macOS app that was on my mind for a while.

So here's Grila, a calendar app that's always available on a global hotkey, and can be navigated with the keyboard.

It has hourly chimes (inspired by the Apple Watch, which I always wanted for the Mac), 3 different views (year, month, 3-months) and a lot of customizability in colors and themes.

As with Sub Sol, I made this app so that all the funds will go towards my brother which just started a chemistry college, and right now has to work a 12h/day job to pay the costs. My goal is for him to be free to quit that job and continue his studies with less worries.

The v1.0.1 version that you get with the trial is still awaiting approval from App Store reviewers, but should be released in less than a day.

Price is $3 for the moment which I will most likely increase it in the near future. I like to start with lower prices for early adopters. But that future is more like 1 or 2 weeks away, I'm not trying to pressure anybody into buying without being sure it's something they would use.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/apples-app-store-review-fix-fail...

[1] https://subsol.one/
As a backend/devops/mobile dev i would say that CSS is the easiest language. i learned in free time during grad classes.

Learn the tool designed for the puropse instead of looking for shortcuts
All of a sudden? Her's has been a steady rise for over 13 years. She was already big at the "incident" you are referencing. Is kind of the point in why that was an incident, no?
Sure, SafeQL[0] SQL library. It's been sitting in a close but not enough to promote state for a while. The main thing I wanted was to have generation of the bindings to existing DB schema. I also want to combine using Moja[1] datatypes for uniform handling of single/multi, normal/async, and errors.

I suspect I'm mostly driven by the unknown and as I get close to practically solving a problem start to lose the curious itch.

[0] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql

[1] https://github.com/karmakaze/moja
The American Dollar is worth nothing. America is over 30 trillion Dollars in debt. So you buy your scams with your dust. Also my response wasn't an insult, it was the truth. Anyway all Americans are dumb as a cocktail stick. Us British and the Canadians cannot stand you annoying dunces.
> "Type a text and galactica.ai will generate a paper with relevant references, formulas, and everything

One could describe DALL-E as "type a text in dalle and it will generate a Picasso with the right textures and strokes and everything". One would have to be particularly obnoxious to pretend to surmize that the Dalle image is an actual Picasso painting that you can sell in Sothebys or display in his museum. That is a giant strawman that some asinine people created there, and the Galactica team fell for it. They should stand their ground, but unfortunately they work for Meta, and corporate is where academic freedom goes to die.
"Thus in the case of a dark background colorscheme, the normal relationship for background and body text is base03:base0 (please note that body text is not base00)."

This was at the bottom, but even earlier in the blog when the codes were first shown, base0 and base00 just seemed kludgy to me on first sight. Then to see this note shows that I wasn't the only person to have issues with the naming. I know naming is hard and all, but this just seemed like low effort
Not sure where you coming from but let us go back 10-15 years when there was an open market for commercial crawlers and IP ranges to be used for it. You sold shoes and scraped all other competitors for instance. That era is over.

For legitimate interests today including search engines and services for price comparison that data is often provided for free.

There are design patterns used today that does among other things provide incorrect prices to scrapers.

Scraping is illegal in most western countries btw.
Your suggestion at the end assumes he can predict the future wrt to the collapse of twitters market cap at the time he made the acquisition offer. The reality is he made a binding decision that he was stuck with that looks terrible in hindsight.

I do agree that he could have handled the situation a lot better. But some things are outside his control.
Only 28% of software developers are women, so it’s impossible for all of tech to get to 50%. The only way to actually get 50% representation is by promoting tech careers to women, or by barring jobs/training to men

In my university not too long ago, my classes were maybe 14% women? May have been slightly more in others, but I remember counting at one point

We need to stop accusing companies of being sexist, they are bending over backwards to try to be the ones who get closer to 50%, which reduces the available female talent pool for other companies.

All these sexism allegations are completely toxic

The fix comes from outreach towards teen and preteen girls to convince them to consider stem. I’ve attended lectures on this
Can someone ELI5 how you “weigh” the earth? Isn’t weight based off gravity? And gravity is relative to the mass of the object you are on, for example we say you would weigh less on the moon and more on Jupiter. So how exactly to you weigh a planet, and why would that even be useful? Do you assume some theoretical force and hypothetically place the earth on a scale and apply that force? When talking about planets isn’t mass a better way to measure and classify rather than weight?
Religion has nothing to do with it, you are changing the subject and attacking me personally by claiming I am confessing to shame or something (like I give a shit):

Try sticking to facts. Naked people arouse sexual desires in others, yes, myself included and most people from any country and religion (or no religion). If you contest this near universally accepted fact the the burden of proof is on you.

I mean give me a break, even if this was a super religious person keeping themselves or child away from sexual content who are you to tell them they have no right and they must see your dick or vagina whether they like it or not.

Laws are literally getting passed against sending dick pics, how do you feel about that? Is that women who feel shame that support it? Of course not!
what's so wrong hoping for renewable rather than fossile fuel future?
The quality and price vary a lot, from a simple white base with truffle-flavored oil poured on top to slices of actual truffle, but truffle-flavored pizzas are on the menu of lots of restaurants in Paris.
But Meta’s employees aren’t uniformly distributed across the Earth so comparisons to the global population are irrelevant.
As far as I know python isn’t going to fulfil OPs need for a static site. Is there a way of compiling python to JavaScript (that’s actually supported and not an experiment)?
I also can't imagine most vegetarians or vegans having a strong hankering for oysters.

When I first tried an Impossible Burger, I thought it was awesome because it really replicated the taste and experience of a hamburger for me, and, most importantly, it satiated my cravings for meat. I'm struggling to thing of vegetarians that say "I'd really like to go all the way vegetarian but I just can't give up these oysters."
Or, and hear me out here for a second, people go where they’re most valued. Why would someone volunteer to go work somewhere where they’ll get less money, have less flexibility, be treated as second-class employees, have less work perks, etc. when so many alternatives exist? Doubly so in this economy.

Maybe genetic companies should catch up in workplace etiquette instead of recommending that SWE’s lower their expectations.
As a backend engineer you should be familiar with the concept of files and the file systems. You can make a website by installing nginx from your repositories and making an index.html file (<html><head><title>Calculators</title></head><body>...</body></html>) and transferring it, and your spreadsheet files, to your distro's www directory. Link the files in your index.html like, <a href="/spreadsheetone.xls">Calculator for tax</a>. Then forward port 80 on your router to the port 80 on the internal LAN IP address of your computer running nginx.

Providing the actual spreadsheet files directly will be of far more use to other people than trying to turn them into an inferior website.
I would try to start simple and go the HTML + CSS + Javascript route. Accept an ugly site at first and handle the calculations with Javascript. In case Javascript turns out to not be numerically powerful enough, consider compiling Rust to WebAssembly. Due to your back end experience, you’ll probably find Rust much more enjoyable than Javascript.

Also, I would stay far away from any Javascript package manager. Your calculator should be working for 10 years at least since HTML, CSS, plain Javascript, and Rust will most likely still work in 10 years and math doesn’t change either.
The bio & pharma & medical fields value academic credentials very, very highly. Too highly.

That's their whole life: "where did you do your PhD? Who did you do your postdoc under?"

Many world-class hackers would do pretty poorly on those questions.
Access to education and infrastructure could be the reason for disparity. But real challenge to solve is to have 60% of giant corps coming from Asia, run with proper corporate controls.
these are the prevailing attitudes on this forum get used to it
I remember when Trump was racist for saying this.
In Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming, Peter Norvig notes that strategies are just trivially replacable with higher-order functions (HOFs).

So that's where this trope is from! A few things:

1. The "just replace it with a higher order function" thing obviously falls apart when your strategy has multiple methods. In which case, the FP programmer might be tempted to supply a record where each field is a function, and maybe they want to close over some shared implementation details and... you've just re-invented objects, albeit memory in-efficient ones.

2. In many languages that support OO, a higher order function is an object, same way a string is, or an Integer.

I might be being harsh here. Presumably Norvig wrote this in the hey day of "OO flavoured" languages like C++ and Java being completely dominant in industry. But in 2022 we can stop repeating this tired trope.
Math doesn't do that, models (including language: a model of communication around which we have already reached consensus) do.
The interview process may be the same but the hiring choices ultimately must be discriminatorily skewed to achieve 50% women in the workforce if the percentage of women among the applicants is way less.
> I have no idea why you sense this from American culture.

The internet. And it applies to much more than this

You know that in your local social circle very few people have opinions about such trivial topics and you rightly see those with strong opinions as weirdos

But then you go on the internet and something in our monkey brain makes it hard to remember that comments on a thread are not a representative sample. Which is very bad because the kind of people who take the effort to comment on an internet thread are also the kind of people who have weirdly strong opinions one way or another

And because negative opinions are much more likely to be expressed than positive ones you end up basing your model of some other place (the US for europeans, europe for americans, other countries and so on) on samples which over represents the most toxic and negative opinions
Octavia Butler’s science fiction predicted the world we live in
In my few (luckily) interactions with American hospitals for serious matters I’m struck by how much the hospital looks like a unified organization from the outside but inside seems little more than common real estate and a joint marketplace for 1000 sub vendors. The system can produce amazing outcomes but suffers from a lack of coordination. It is telling that after a hospital stay you get 20 bills from different places which have no connection to each other.
The average car sits around doing nothing except depreciate in value > 90% of the time. We spend enormous amounts on our cars. The opportunity frontier here is huge. This doesn't solve society's demand for mobility at peak travel times, but I could see "Better Lyft / Uber without labor costs" as a viable business very easily.
Maybe export the spreadsheets to HTML tables and add interactivity with datatables.net? If you're going open-source, sharing the spreadsheets as-is would be great, I may be willing to hack on that.
but a private entity (person or corp) does not have any obligation to protect ideas they find abhorrent to be considered on the side of "good".
Hear hear. Computers should store TAI and convert to human time using leap seconds, time zones and DST offsets. I wonder if we could roll the leap second into the timezone and just remove UTC entirely (or rather make UTC an alias for TAI).