skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting the author to define "real peer review," but didn't see that. The best approximation is probably gleaned from the conclusion:

- integration of preprint servers and alt metrics

- tweaking incentives to review

- making comments on papers public

- use of software to detect fraud

- directing resources specifically to improving peer review

The bigger problem is that the author doesn't seem to actually zero in on the problem peer review is supposed to solve today. The author notes that peer review really got going in the 1970s as a way to filter content flowing to overwhelmed editors. But the emergence of the internet largely nullifies that problem. Wide distribution of scientific information no longer requires scientific publishers.

The real problem is the ways in which science funding, journals, and peer review have become intertwined, with publishers playing the role of bankers in this economy. This problem is cultural, not technical. It's a historical relic and it increasingly does not serve science well.

So, what is the actual problem that journal-supervised peer review is supposed to solve in the age of the internet?
Is it me or "decentralised" almost always means "crippled"? The critical function that exchanges have is to allow people to buy and sell tokens. Decentralised exchanges can't do that. They only allow trading a token for another token.
While the chief absurdity is very clear (also mocked by Spitting Image - J.B. on a date: "You loved that steak? Good, I'll order another one!"), I am afraid that the intended idea may be that your memory about the ads of what you just bought will last as much as said goods.

Utter nightmare (unnatural obsolescence, systemic perversity, pollution...) but. I have met R'n'D who admitted the goal was just to have something new to have people want to replace the old, on unsubstantial grounds.
If there's no salary range listed, I usually don't apply.
If I was evaluating multiple similar roles, and most offered salary ranges except a few, I would ignore the ones that didn’t offer salary ranges.

Your experiment is not valid because you are not controlling for the job market environment. However as the job market environment evolves to offer more data, the job postings with less data will suffer.

We already see this pattern in other markets such as housing/cars. More information makes the posting more attractive to the extent that there is whole industries dedicated to offering more information about postings, ex: carfax. The job market is not different.
The LA area has a population of wild green parrots as well. Supposedly there's a stable population of a few thousand, and they don't do much harm as they subside on non-native plants. They survive by navigating the different micro-climates in the LA area so if you keep an eye out, you'll notice them the same time each year, or when the weather is good for them.

https://pethelpful.com/wildlife/Wild-Parrots-Multiplying-in-...

https://elementalreports.com/urbanization/2018/06/08/parrots...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MpCjGXhRU
This is a really excellent read, and neatly summarizes a thought that flashes through the back of my mind whenever someone tells me that public transit is unsafe.

If over 100 people died each day on public transit, we'd have banned it by now. But we accept it in our automotive culture, while simultaneously handwringing over every incident that happens on public transit.
Agreed.

Prior to Newton's conception of gravity as objects attracting one another, the primary model used was the Aristotelian one, in which things tended to go to the "zone" where they belong. Things composed of earth (like a rock) tended to sink towards the center of the earth, while things composed of fire or air tended to rise towards the sky.
> She was the town's "book lady" or "just the bookstore everyone goes to" so it's obviously been a disappointment when that wasn't the case everywhere as I've moved on and visited other stores

Palo Alto used to have seven (!) bookshops downtown; now there is but one but that survivor is indeed run by a pair of "book ladies" as you describe (except for the tea or coffee).

I had a vacation house in a small town of about 2500 people that had a similar bookshop with a bunch of the usual staples and a somewhat esoteric mix of others. In a very deeply "red" area the owner also carried a lot of books that would definitely not appeal to that crowd, and they sold well. She eventually sold the business and it became a boring bookshop.

One thing that matters to me is opinion. One day I decided I had to see what the fuss about Ayn Rand was all about. So I went into another favorite palo alto bookshop (now gone) and asked the owner where they were as I couldn't find them on the shelf. He got a funny look on his face and said, "Oh, we always keep a few around for thoooose people as he led me to the spot.
If your upper bound does not greatly exceed that number*, then all of the actually senior folks that I know are not going to be interested in your role. Most of my contacts are outside the Bay.

I know lots of people who would consider applying to your senior role, all else being good, if you're offering, say $250k or so -- but none of them are the people on my mental list of senior engineering contacts. Still, you might hire one of my mid-level engineering contacts, and you might be happy with them, since if you're paying only around $250k (or even only $350k) you probably won't have many of the other group to compare with (and all of the people whose names I'm thinking of are all great engineers)

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* assuming we're talking total compensation.
She does have alternatives in IBM & Tesla. But they functioned the exact same way in interview. And given she's a top biller (~60 million yen per annum for her employer) Oracle wants her by August 1st week which is insane given she still has to give 30 days notice to Michael Page (but that will remain to be seen). I think in her case, she didn't bring it up because that isn't the norm. So all in all, it's not the market dynamics - but culture dynamics still.
The same applies within large companies. If you’re within a business team, and you’re requesting work from a design team/engineering team/data science team, you’ll face the same issues with scope creep + churn + competing priorities etc.
I wouldn’t blame agencies for being bad, this is people being people plus a bit of other things. Anticipating and steering around/against these dynamics has been one of my biggest career learnings over the last years. The author has some good suggestions for how to do it — if you work in a large company, take another look and ask yourself if they don’t also apply to your work!
This is one of those articles that I think would benefit from a sentence or two describing what Raycast is. Some sort of cross between a calandar and BitBar?
This one's clearly not ready for prime time yet, but I think it's a cool idea. I assume it's going to follow the teaching model from Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, which was a great resource for learning Latin.
Each person’s opportunity cost is different. A farmhand shoveling huge pieces of manure for minimum wage probably does not have better options, whereas a software developer already earning a few hundred thousand does.
Tesla limits Standard Connectivity package to 8 years on new vehicle purchases
From an employer's point of view there are many good reasons not to state a salary range, the 2 most obvious ones being:

- once you state clearly what your max is, why would your preferred candidate settle for anything less?

- why would you want to exclude good candidates willing to accept lower comp than what you thought your min was?

So then some places are a candidate's market... well maybe employers have to adapt, but I can see why they would not want to.
Denialism is the shiny new toy among the new aristocracy and their supplicants.
No, rides should be the same cost at point of sale (i.e. rider pays the same rate whether they're disabled or not) and then Uber/Taxi company bills the gov't for compensation for each trip.
I think they're implying the salary ranges are actually bad enough to smell like expired milk.
prbly they shared how to pass by this mode with the pegasus team pebblydy
Trams scale to higher capacities than buses, given the same vehicle width a dedicated transit lane takes up less space for trams (and can be built with green track) than a comparative busway, a highly used dedicated busway isn't that cheap to build either because buses with their high axle loads do pound the pavement just like trucks/HGVs, all the more so in the case of a guided-bus way in case you try to reduce the width requirements and built some sort of "rubber-tyred tram system", steel wheels on steel rails are more energy efficient, …
> Almost no voter has the expertise to accurately allocate resources in a country.

That's true as far as it goes. However if we had the ability to individually vote on allocations, presumably most people would delegate the details to an expert of their choosing, while taking a stance on high-level classes of expenditures, for example "I will vote for the <insert expert> budget because it reduces military spending and increases healthcare spending", or whatever your policy preference is. Basically Liquid Democracy[1] of some sort (whether the partial delegation is built into the system or implemented outside the allocation voting system).

I do agree with your general point that direct democracy can be problematic, particularly when a binary choice is presented rather than a continuum of options. E.g. see the CA ballot measure system which often results in "choose A&C or B&D"-type choices which exclude certain preferences from being expressed. I think a more granular direct democracy might enable better decision frameworks though, specifically by enabling more options for delegation.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
I will point out that the military spending that people complained about provided my brother a good job at a factory making a decent wage while he was figuring out his life and college. In addition grew up to a major AFB, which was one of the biggest employers in the region, and these were good jobs too that paid well.

Like all this money the government spends on military isn't just suddenly vanishing into thin air a lot of it gets put back into creating jobs, and the communities. Now there may be a lot more that gets diverted through seventeen layers of subcontractors, and more useless bureaucracy than you can shake a stick at but it isn't just being used for a useless purpose.
The super wealthy in the US sometimes pull off major conservation easements.

Roxanne Quimby, of Burt's Bees fame, slowly purchased land in Maine over many years then donated an entire National Monument.[0] She wasn't the first to do this, though. JD Rockefeller pulled the same trick almost a century prior by donating a National Park in Wyoming.[1]

[0]https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/transforming-kata...
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/04...
That seems to be the point where sunk cost fallacy strikes hard in the post to me. They had paid $X for "80% of the first milestone of work" and that sunk cost locks them in to everything else that happens. They seemed too fearful from that point onward that if they fired the agency and brought in a new agency or freelancer that they would start from square 1 and do all of the previous work (and spend) over again.

The sunk cost fallacy suggests that sometimes is better for you if you should just accept existing losses, accept you've already sunk those costs and won't get them back, and move on. I don't know what their contract looked like with the agency, but an 80% of a logo design sounds like a perfect deliverable that you can safely fire the existing team and take the 80% deliverable to a new designer, not start from scratch, and ask them to do a final polish step. I would have cut losses there, but of course it is much easier to armchair quarterback from hindsight and different perspectives than if you are in the middle of it fighting that gut feeling that you've already invested so much and can't "afford" to cut losses.
The Israeli-American firm Duke Robotics has built drones with guns for the better part of a decade. I believe they’ve already been deployed in Israel:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/israeli-military...
How to Get Consumers to Accept Slower Deliveries on Online Orders
Yes, that's why I wondered if the direct access via login details was intended to prevent that fraud.
Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKDTa5jHvg of the math.
A lot of other sources skip over the math to give you the big picture.
After that you will find the video very helpful in understanding the math.
Does the notion of suggestability extend to the notion of "creative breakage"? The latter is an important feature of a mathematical notation.

For example the dy/dx notation in calculus naturally leads to inquisitive thinking. Can you multiply by dx? It looks like a division but it isnt, really, except that a soon as you get past Calc 101 you are spraying dys and dxs all over. the notation is just incredibly suggestive.

Another example is exponents where m^n is introduced naively for natural n but instantly prompts the question around non integer n.

i think that having a notation that is suggestive and can be creatively broken to use in new ways is v important
How Quickly Can SiC Ramp?
> There's not a lot of practical benefit to looking at the stars beyond trying to understand the universe we live in.

Of course there is! We are not just looking at pretty pictures. We are also refining our understanding of physics.

Dark matter alone is a glaring indicator that we don't understand what's going on nearly as much as we should. Without any telescopes we wouldn't even know that our theories had a problem.

Improved physics understanding has always led to technological leaps. Be it electromagnetism, photonics, or even just relativistic effects. And now, quantum computers.
Will a Recession Save Biotech?
The ideal military size is such that we are strong enough that no one is willing to start WW3. The smaller the budget that achieves this the better. Too small and wars become more common.

WW1 we went home, and 20 years later things heated up. WW2 we stayed and it's been fairly peaceful since.
Changing our policy on avoidable Host cancellations
I've been in your shoes. My solution, which may not work for everyone, was to force myself to talk with coworkers a little bit a day. When they talked about something they've done, like over the weekend or whatever, I asked a follow-up question.

At first it all felt really phony because, to be honest, I don't care too much what other people do. However, eventually, it became somewhat natural and I began to care about the other person (even if their hobbies may not jibe with mine). And eventually I would begin comfortable sharing my ideas and issues.

This also works for making friends outside of work, once you figure out how to meet up with them in person.

*edit: fixing tenses
1. Unlikely, it's just investing. You are expected to gain from your investment, to promote it, etc. Like how companies buy and sell their own stock all the time and it's not considered insider trading.

2. Yes, since the fact that the coin was to be listed was inside information. You will be accused of insider trading if you trade correlated assets. Obviously there is a threshold somewhere, like if you have positive insider info on TSLA and you invest in a passive stock market index fund.
No, it's not. They probably got responses from better candidates on the one with no salary range posted because if those candidates knew what the salary range was beforehand, they wouldn't have applied at all.

The better question is were they able to hire any of those better candidates after they told them that the milk was expired?
Pretty far actually...However without the package index, and documentation of other libraries and imported modules and without an IDE, much more slowly.

I find myself using the Google --> Stackoverflow work pattern less and less.
High salary won't make you happy, but low salary will definitely make you sad.
A logical solution would be for it to work if they have each others number in their address book, but I don’t know what they chose.
Porting Doom but in the Opposite Direction
I don't think that leaving it out of the job posting would ever prevent me from pursuing a role.

If I'm interested in a job, I ask for the compensation range. If they don't tell me, then I will not pursue the role. Personally my other requirements like field and company are much better ways to narrow the search than salary.
Can't even buy a third of twitter with that amount.
Two primes cannot be infinitely far apart. Two of anything cannot be infinitely far apart, because the moment you put something at the end of a set (in this case, two primes with a whole lot of composites in between) you've made a finite set.

"Infinity" should not be misinterpreted as "yet to be calculated."
Honestly a lot of this ML to me seems eerily similar to how in older times people would use sheep entrails or crow droppings to try and predict the future. I mean basically that is what ML is, trying to predict the future, the difference is they called it magic, we call it math, but both seem to have about the same outcome, or understandability.
How do you invoke Finicky, then?

:)

I'm curious about the workflow. Finicky is set as the system default browser, and then how is that typically invoked when using Finicky? Spotlight? A custom app? Shell tool? etc.
I used to think this whole pattern was just Chasing the Shiny with a heavy dose of aversion, but something I noticed was that on a redesign, the management tends to give you the benefit of the doubt for a while. There’s a brief period where everything is easier socially before the ugliness starts up again.

Getting a redesign approved can be the difference between having a long project on your resume and people asking you why you job hopped so much.
This headline is egregiously misleading clickbait, since it is based on an absurd and self contradictory hypothetical:

"If my product had 10,000 daily active users generating 100 events per day, I’d easily hit that size in less than a year ... If I built an application to visualize this result and refreshed it every second, I would spend $40,340.16/day on Tinybird’s Pro-plan"

There is no plausible business sense in refreshing the display of a year's worth of data every second, and even scaling back to a likely still-unreasonably-frequent refresh rate of once per hour you're down to just $11/day.
Agreed. I think a better headline would be "Most Americans still think Space is Cool as Fuck, still embody some childlike wonder about the universe, and are excited about JWST"

But I bet that if you asked Americans "Was the $10bn cost of JWST worth it?" and then asked them to describe what the "it" was and re-iterated the first question after they qualified the it.... I doubt you'd get a "yes" twice in a row.
I'm sorry but if your egress costs are 40k/day I think it's time to consider leasing your own pipe. $1.2 million per month will get you one hell of an internet connection.
Apple, Android, Windows. Every OS has jumped into this bandwagon. Usability keeps deteriorating at the expense of aesthetics.

I resent designers for messing up user experience, pushing the industry away from good solutions that were discovered and implemented decades ago.
> You could have stopped at the first half and had a mostly coherent point that I would agree with.

You could have also just stated that the legislature has been ineffective at passing legislation that is important to you, and you'd have had a mostly coherent point. Instead you went out of your way to diminish what did pass as unimportant.

Juneteenth maybe isn't important to you but it certainly is important to a lot of people and naming it a national public holiday is seen as a significant gesture by many. Naming a memorial site for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting is important. Increasing access to mental health services for veterans in rural areas is important. Banning crib bumpers is important to... anyone that may have a child or already has a baby?

There's plenty of examples like this that you deemed unimportant.

> But [there] are hardly real attempts to tackle the problems we're facing, and I'd argue we're not even treading water on serious, serious issues we're facing as a country.

There are actually a lot of real attempts, but, as I already mentioned, legislators get stonewalled by the leaders in their respective houses. It's very hard to introduce legislation and have it go anywhere because the power resides mostly within the leadership. Individual congresspeople have very little power. If you don't understand how the legislative process actually works of course it'll seem like they're simply not doing anything.

> It's like watering your house plants while the house burns down. Technically - someone should be watering the plants. Is it really the right priority at the moment?

It's more like eating or taking a shit; they're necessary and important even if they're mundane and there are "more important" matters to attend to. They take up time but they don't prevent you from accomplishing other things in your day.

While I can appreciate that you characterize your agenda as super important stuff that absolutely needs to be addressed yesterday, you're not the only one that feels that way and what's super important to you is probably not the same as someone else.
My take is that since the pandemic Amazon has given up on Amazon Prime deliveries getting to my place in two days. Every other major retailer (Best Buy, Walmart, ...) seems to deliver things faster than promised lately.

I think Amazon gets people accept slower deliveries by "you've subscribed to Amazon Prime for 10 years, you've made it such a habit that we don't have to work hard".
Interesting, I know of a place where the same law had pretty much the opposite effect: every company pretty much just posts sth like "The minimum salary for this position is 35k/year, but we will overpay based on qualification". In reality, they'll easily pay 2-3x that amount, but my suspicion is that the law had an overall downward effect on salaries (especially at the junior end - being offered 1.5x the advertised amount might feel like a great offer if you don't have a good idea of the market).
The 'Kill Sticky' plugin for Firefox works pretty well for me for most stuff. Most popups darken the screen, though, and it doesn't handle that. It's very useful to me nonetheless. If you don't use Firefox, you can go their site and copy/paste it to your bookmarks.
It's enforced, but needs to be reported to have action taken.
But the point is that you don't know if there's more content without trying to scroll.

That's why so many websites have pointless scroll arrows inviting you to scroll.
I couldn't help but laugh the first time I saw that.

Should we go ahead and file copyright on Data Ocean and Data Beachhouse?
I agree, specially with the 2nd point. You can see this in virtually every academic institution where researchers will find all ways to simply "plot" good results, i.e., beat the data until you find what you want. The intrinsic value of the research is nearly 0, because all that matters is to get things published to attract citations that will help them in getting promotions and prizes.
NIH does get a lot more funding than NASA, they just don't tend to be in the news as much. 41.6 billion vs 22.6 billion in 2020. (I'm actually surprised the difference isn't larger.)

I do agree that the stuff that's immediately practical should be a priority. I'd be in favor of substantially expanding research to solve immediate problems facing humanity (e.g. cancer, climate change, pandemics, energy and food shortages) but I have no objection to our current funding of space exploration.