skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. "Date Read" UX is terrible:

My family was recently shocked to discover that adding a book as read and rating it doesn't automatically set the read date. I don't think it needs to do so, but these people are computer-literate and have entered > 1,000 books a piece. And they didn't know how it works. That suggests poor UX.

As someone who DID know this and and always manually add Date Read...here's how to do it on desktop: hover over the shelf dropdown until a little popup appears above, move up to that popup without it vanishing, and click "Write a review", which secretly means "write a review or enter date read."

2. It's slow.

Loading just the html of the front page is > 3 seconds. Loading My Books is > 5 seconds. Again, this is JUST the html, excluding no js, css, and images.

3. Nav is bad

This combines poorly with the site speed. One thing I do most frequently is to look at my most recently read books:

- Go to goodreads.com (3+ seconds)

- Click "My Books" (5+ seconds)

- Click "Read" (It defaults to books read and on your to-read list all mixed together.)

- Sort the list by Date Finished (5+ seconds)

- Re-sort the list by Date Finished because it did ascending the first time. (5+ seconds)

(Obviously, I could just bookmark that page with the desired params, but if I'm bookmarking to avoid having to use your site navigation, that's a UX issue.)

4. The recommendation engine is bad.

Various people have mentioned this. I will grant that recommendations are hard. But basically, don't use the recommendations. Use the lists manually built by users. (But note that on most lists the top spots will be pointless recommendations that you read Harry Potter. Gee, never heard of THAT book before, thanks!)

5. Lists aren't super-accessible

As I mentioned, the lists are much more useful than the recommendation engine. They're under Browse->Lists.

There's a search at the top of every single page. It searches books and authors. Not lists.

If you're in the lists section, it...still won't search lists. There's a tiny search box on the lists page for this.

6. Search Breaks Middle-Click

When I search a book, it populates the results without me having to click through to the results page. If I want to open those results in a new tab, though...nope! It'll just re-open the current page in a new tab.

7. Their export tool doesn't work right.

This is a minor quibble--it's VERY nice that they let you export your data at all--but I recently discovered that a lot (most?) of rows in the export are missing the Date Read field even if you entered them. Not all though. I don't know what the pattern is, but it's annoying.

Basically, I think Goodreads has approximately one engineer, whose job is to do some tweaks for the marketing team as needed (they renamed Giveaways recently-ish). There's clearly no designer, as UX has been essentially touched in the 12 years since I joined.

It doesn't need a sweeping redesign, but there are obvious UX tweaks they could have made at any point in the past decade and instead didn't. And some performance work, please!
Not in the traditional sense, no. Also those same magazines are selling their subscriber lists to other advertisers and data companies. Privacy is an illusion and always has been.
Funny thing, reading books. There are many that I read at one time and enjoyed. Today, I look at them again and wonder how I got through them. Would I still read all of Godel, Escher, Bach? Ehhh... The clock keeps ticking.

That was before internet. It completely changed my reading habits. There was a (surprisingly) huge backlog of non-fiction things I wanted to know more about. Books about history, for example, were always a snooze; that changed when I was able to pick the creator, exact era, topic and dosage. Reading about places? Nah. Watching videos about them? Yes. How long will mortals enjoy such powers?

A few living authors still have the power to pull me in just by publishing. But one or two books I bought years ago are still waiting - pre-abandoned?
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Where do you think Google Analytics demographic data comes from.
I used various modules with gc:none

I meant that new ARC GC, that will replace the current one, can be used for the kernel.

It's still a GC, technically, but, quoting Araq on ARC:

Nim is getting the "one GC to rule them all". However calling it a GC doesn't do it justice, it's plain old reference counting with optimizations thanks to move semantics.
Area capitalist opposes increased rights for labor
CYA. It's either that or denying kids access to youtube altogether and that is very hard to implement, so better to disable those features that might lead to legal exposure.
For Google, Zurich has slightly higher salaries but half the RSUs compared to SV. But taxes and housing are lower in Zurich, so.

Comp isn't based on what's important for the business; it's based purely on market reference pricing.
It's very difficult. Whole classes of hobbies are more or less out of the question in the Bay just because of the high cost of housing. If you play the game for a few years, some doors open up but it's never going to be as straightforward as it would be in a low COL area. You'll end up using more shared spaces and possibly need to sacrifice on the commute front to buy more spacious housing.

On the other hand, new venues open up due to the larger amounts of cash on hand. More expensive travel or dining, for example.
Thought PAMF was a part of Sutter Health?

Anyway, I agree with you. Kaiser is convenient, but the standard of care of HMO-nominal (i.e. poor).

I've used PPOs with PAMF for lots of years now, and it's been far better than Kaiser no matter who my actual insurance provider was.
> I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it.

C.f. https://cocoon.com/
You can’t predict a recession, and you’ll just lose money by trying to. The sane approach to retirement savings is to invest more heavily in higher growth/risk assets the further you are away from retirement.

If you don’t need the money for another 30 years, it doesn’t matter if you lose 30% in one year. If you were gaining 10% most years, but have a couple of big downturns during your working lifetime, you’ll still come out well ahead of the person getting 3% every year.
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Note that the original poster states that they are drinking in binge episodes of up to 10 drinks. That is certainly not moderation.
How is it condescending? It's obvious OP is inexperienced and the reply is sharing their experience.
Dell's new foldable laptops are all screens
Such a cool idea. I got a deep dive Postgres training from one of the their founders at my company and he was insanely knowledgeable. We currently are having these problems with Segment as well. I'm going to try and push to see if we can switch off of this from Segment. Congrats on starting a company that is solving a crazy pain point. I saw something saying that you need a minimal-loveable product nowadays and this is it!
I wouldn't think twice about buying something nice from a store for $25 dollars.

Once upon a time I bought something online for about $10 from what was a legitimate business with an address in San Francisco. About 14 months later they claimed I subscribed to some service and started making huge charges to my card ($150/week). Getting them to stop and getting my money back was an enormously stressful and difficult process.

That's why I have a knee-jerk reaction - not a cold, logical reaction - to online purchases from companies I haven't used before, and I'm not the only person like that.
How is that value determined though? It's just by what people think the stock is worth. If you have more money coming in to the market the listed companies' stocks will naturally be at a higher price point.
That's just because they keep compatibility basically forever (they build middleware to transform older versions to new ones). If you actually want to remove old versions not so much.
It’s a neat idea! We have an “internal products” team at Clever that is tasked with building tooling for our support team (and all our other teams too!) that makes them more efficient. They are definitely worth the investment, and I’d encourage the approach to other companies.

Re. Bugs - I actually really like the “top 2 things” approach for exactly this reason. It’s very illuminating when you as the PM are like “look at all these exciting things we have on the roadmap!” and your support counterpart responds with “my #1 request is that you fix this bug.” This is why I think that the customer facing teams can sometimes be better at doing this prioritization - even with lots of data about the size of a problem and anecdotes the pain, it’s still easy as a PM to not give it the appropriate attention, whereas the support team that lives with the pain will fight for it.
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Unlimited PTO is bs because when you give unlimited time off people usually request less time off, and companies don't have to pay you for unused time off when you leave. The potential to punish for taking time off isn't a thing anywhere I worked that had the unlimited deal, but the result was typically that the average employee would rarely ask for more than 8 days a year because they didn't feel like they had anything worth taking time off for and there was no use it or lose it mentality either.

Unlimited PTO is always in the company's favor because even if you try asking for more time off than you might have been granted your manager can simply claim that now isn't a good time, or say too many people have asked for the same days off, or point out that others haven't taken as much time off so they should get more time off before you do and because it doesn't risk you not using limited time off they can feel like it's not a problem and it leaves you with no way to prove a loss.
Train fuel is electricity.

A train with 500 seats running London to Manchester costs about £4/mile in electricity, of which 20p will be VAT (which I think is reclaimed) - so tax would be about £35, or 7p per passenger.

A flight of a 150 seat plane from London to Manchester attracts £3900 in tax.
Tangential, and only kind of related, but a personal pet peeve -- I like YouTube kids, but really dislike that half of the videos are "unboxings" of toys. These aren't really ads, but man they act like them and they end up in the recommended feeds kids see. There's also no way to get rid of them. YouTube Kids has some of the best parental controls relative to other streaming services, but this one ended up being a deal breaker for us.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/youtube-decides-...

> Individual video creators themselves are also now personally on the hook for penalties of up to $42,350 if they fail to explicitly mark their videos as for children, the FTC said in November. This draws concern from creators who consider their content family-friendly but not necessarily child-directed.

The Google blog doesn't go into it, but there are potentially significant fines attached.
I’m rebalancing to include more municipal bonds and less stocks. You can check charts for ETFs going back to 2008 and see which ones are recession resistant.
Also note that "investment" here is economic investment not financial investment. It does not mean people buying stocks or bonds. It means building factories, equipment, durable goods, infrastructure, anything that lasts for a long time and helps produce more consumption in the future (these are not counted in goods and services).

GDP is an aggregate measure. When you buy a financial investment, someone else is selling it. For the aggregate it ads up to zero.

"Government costs" here means goods and services and investment that the government pays for. It's not always explicitly separated in the equation. GDP simplifies to goods+services+investment if each variable includes both what is paid for by government and by private individuals.
>> Is he implying that other cosmologists have proceeded as if dark energy is well evidenced?

As a non-cosmologist just reading HN I would say yes. Not quite as extensively as Dark matter though. I personally think that's a mistake too based on my limited research on the topic. If these are both overturned it will be a huge blow to "scientists" credibility in the eyes of the public. That's how invested they are.
> I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own.

How is maintaining a local block list opting out? It certainly doesn't seem to have legal force.
I don't understand your question. If he is ostensibly anti-corruption, the rampant and obvious nepotism is counter to that goal.

Unless he is simply anti-corruption that doesn't benefit him directly, in case rampant and obvious nepotism is not incompatible with his goal (but, I assume, not what voters were actually hoping for when they elected him).
The coal industry is a driving force behind climate change which was the primary cause of the bush fires. Of course its not the entire issue so the fires would have still happened but how much lesser would they have been. I don't know but the answer seems to be between somewhat lesser and much lesser.
Right, which is why the Supreme Count rightly refused the case. The issue isn't the general principle of beach access easements. The issue is the specifics of whether there actually is an effective easement on this particular property. Frankly, I can't tell from the article or the discussion if there actually is an easement. That fact that irrevocable easements can be created by long-term public use (called adverse possession?) makes this more complicated than it appears.

Regardless, the right thing for Kholsa to do is provide access. And further the bad press probably is causing more issues than the few folks that would be accessing it ever would.
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These numbers are wildly inaccurate. Public schools are free and my kids daycare is $1500/month. 48k health insurance ? I pay $200 per paycheck for Kaiser for a family of 3. Other expenses are all relative and not that different from living in a low COL. Living in Bay Area, you can easily save $200k per year at $400k salary
Because the monetary regimes of, say, the late 20s, or the early 50s, or even into the late 70s and into the deregulatory periods of the 1980s are so vastly different than what exists now, that a comparison across vast timeframes would be completely specious.

Not sure that is explicitly what they were trying to accomplish, but that is what I got out of the graphic.
A number of copy-protection systems for mid-80's to mid-90's computer games asked that you opened the printed manual that came with the game and go to—e.g.—page 32 and type in the first word of the third paragraph. Doesn't seem that hard to automate doing that for ebooks, these days. After all, Goodreads is owned by Amazon so they have the corpus. Just use chapters instead of pages; that will work across all formats.
Oh they don't. They absolutely completely have no way at all of knowing. Just ask them, no way of being sure.

Course the data is all there, but they just really promise they never put it together and knowingly went after kids.
Oh that's interesting. Zircon is based on LK[0] which is in C, which is why I thought it was still written in C. I wonder how much is left of the original LK code then.

[0]: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/zx_and_lk
Seems reasonable, although that would limit you to just the handful of programs that report to CIRR. What about the rest of them?
He’d been the CEO since ... 2015. I think it’s entirely unfair to push all the responsibility on him. He didn’t build the modern Boeing culture. He inherited it, and by accounts I’ve read so far, was unable to change it sufficiently to prevent the accidents. It’s hard to change company culture once entrenched and I’m hesitant to scapegoat him when there are obviously a lot of other significant factors at play.
Mahindra tractors are based on the old International Harvester models I think. They sell them in the US also.

They look pretty cool, simple and repairable, but I don't know if they make ones the size of commercial John Deere tractors. All the Mahnindra tractors I've looked at were small.
I don't know. Enlighten me. And how accurate is the identification?
In the case of my company, their side-businesses were often the reason they were hired.

It was a photographic equipment company, and we had some really good photographers all over the place.

One of our lens techs was a well-respected avian photographer, and our Marketing department was filled with top-notch photographers.

You couldn't spit without hitting a first-class artist. Even the administrators and accountants tended to be pretty awesome casual photographers.
I don't know why this is down voted. I think you are correct.

That is exactly why brands use bright colours. It appeals to the part of the brain that evolved to recognize ripe fruit, for example.

As uncomfortable as it is to admit that these things may influence our behaviour, it is the reality. No person is completely immune.

Free will is largely an illusion. We act on impulses, then the conscious mind comes up with a plausible explanation for that action.
Yes - but try Des Moines or Missoula or Boise or even Portland, OR (a growing tech hub) and these salary levels are hard to hit. And, outside of the FAANGs the salaries are a step down just about everywhere.
I don't understand the prevention of adding to a playlist. Now I can't make a custom playlist of children's content for my kid?
So Myspace top 8 list? That's exactly what it was. Weade a game out of adding and removing friends from our top 8.

Some of those friends didn't realize it was a game.
Europe invests in army, but it isn't a global military peace-keeper. It was/is ? actually a role that America tries to play for a long time.

You already mention 3 countries. You are forgetting Georgia and a lot of other countries.

Europe is a democracy and tries to influence with trade, not war. We do not force western opinions that much as America does.

PS. I'm aware of Europe's history, but we live in the present. The EU is still young ( 1999 was the Euro ) and people seem to forget this all the time. I'm pretty sure that almost everyone who reads this will be older.
Another angle: ego.

Never drank in my life till 25 due to growing up in India and luckily finding myself among folks who didn't drink most of the time. I then had a chance to decide without baggage and never drink in my life.

The voluntary reasons are several, but the primary is the fact that I respect my authority over my mind too much. Even if you're slightly drunk, you're legally not allowed to drive. Neither are you considered "able" to give consent for things. Suggests to me (rightly?) That we momentarily don't consider people who are drunk as human, but as some mentally challenged being that is incapable of good reason. I personally feel like voluntarily becoming a mentally challenged person just to get a buzz is just too demeaning, so it encourages me to stay dry.

Why completely dry? It's always easiest to draw the line where it's absolutely clear, and with "addictive" things like drinking it's easiest to draw it at 0.
this is a leap, but I hope we get to a point where kids are afforded some basic privacy rights that protect them from parents who, intentionally or not, exploit their kids on social media.
I rent a studio in NYC for $2500/mo ($30k/yr). It's within a 12 minute walk to Google and a 12 minute bike ride to FB. Also close are Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Uber, etc.

You don't need to be at the company headquarters to make $500k a year. Not being at the headquarters is only a problem if you want to get past director level ($1.5 M/yr)
Those places are the ones who care primarily about tickets being closed, and you probably won't have much ability to be involved in the feature ideation process, and probably won't even have a real way to prototype things before they're all in JIRA.

My place right now is in the middle where much of the absolutely most useful work in the company is getting done because people behave autonomously, but the formal review process has had trouble recognizing that work as it can be difficult to put a number to it. Not knowing the 2nd and 3rd order effects means you can't say "I went over and cleared up this team's misconceptions and saved them a month of work" isn't something you can say because you have no way to know you saved them a month of work, so you just say "communicated and collaberated" which sounds suspiciously like you did nothing if the process hard numbers to avoid things like favoritism.
Amazing that his lawyers are more versed with the concept of land deeds dating back to pre-California Mexico, than they are of easements.

And the government has never demanded he maintain, at his own expense (mind you, he spent months paying $10k/day fines over this). Just that the access is there.
Oh, yep, that's the ratio.
You could use local browser bookmarks. No privacy issue with those!
Binge drinking is not synonymous with alcoholism, but comes with many downsides nevertheless. The benefit to stopping binge drinking is to avoid the associated risks of binge drinking (including risks to health). Avoiding binge drinking could certainly improve work performance. However, just trying to avoid binge drinking may be difficult. I would consult a health professional who specializes in addiction.

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcoholism-treatment/bi...
Our youngest lamented the lack of a front lawn to lay on. But I honestly don't believe that between the damp and the dog walkers she would have actually done the activities she had in her head.

You have to mow it. You have to mow it every week. You have to mow it every week even if you're tired, or sick, or it's hot, or it's cold, or it's rainy, or your friends are playing a game, or you had a sleepover. No excuses, no exceptions. You can't mow it too early in the morning, or too late in the evening. You can't stop halfway through and do the rest later (back yard/front yard perhaps, but not half of the front yard). The grass does not care what your reasons are. It just cares that you didn't mow it. If you don't, it punishes you. Sometimes the neighbors do, too.

In theory they understand this, in practice there are plenty of other activities that result in a litany of renegotiations. Grass. Doesn't. Care.
> How many properties and wildlife would have been saved if Australia had shut down its coal production?

Zero. Australia's position on coal is absurdly outdated, but even a complete cessation of greenhouse emissions by Australia would've only been a drop in the global bucket at about 1%. They'd still be having these fires even if the entire country ran on unicorn farts since the 1800s.
Assume, just for the sake of the discussion, obviously, that it may be possible, using some certain commonly accepted methods, and with some reasonable, commonly accepted margin of error, to detect that a user, signed into an account, is NOT a child.

Will this help?
Hi there! We actually talked quite a bit about that in a recent podcast https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/datadog-timeseries-da...
There's a certain immunity to ads that we develop over time. To the extent that we protect kids from them we could make them more vulnerable to them. Like a peanut allergy. I bought crap when I was a kid based on cheesy ads in the back of magazines. One was a Real Submarine for $5. Spoiler, it wasn't a real submarine. That's a good lesson to learn before you go shopping for cars and houses.
> That fact that irrevocable easements can be created by long-term public use (called adverse possession?) makes this more complicated than it appears.

“Easement by prescription”.