skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use the asterisk a lot in college when I kept a larger collection of bookmarks for class related resources. These days I really don't use book marks as much. I feel like the majority of my repeated browsing experience ends up on HN, GitHub, and our logging service.
Came here to mention that UI option. At an old job, some of the internal tools made you add a flag "--I-am-not-a-moran[sic]-I-know-what-I-do" or "--sudo-make-me-a-sandwich" to important operations, presumably to remind you of their impact and give you a moment of typing to think about it.
In this case, yes, it was the employee; I forgot the details as to how/why that was
Mail.app offers a unified inbox yes, but it also lets one view inboxes per-account. Just click the disclosure arrow next to the inbox in the sidebar, which displays each account’s inbox of individual viewing.

Mail folders are all shown under sections dedicated to each account in the sidebar.
> because "it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing".

Liberal arts includes the humanities. There's something distinctly Oedipal about that company . . .
How about linking Sweden’s membership to Turkey’s retention?
The EU is very much complacent with the current situation. There will be condemnation, but administrations across EU are very happy for having offloaded the dirty work to Greece and Italy.

And funny that you mention the Netherlands, because the Dutch government just resigned because the PM could not pass legislation to further restrict the number of asylum-seekers [1]. If Rutte is so hell-bent for that kind legislation while 2.000km away from the epicenter of the problem, one cannot imagine he would be the paragon of humanism, were the Netherlands closer to it.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66139789
While retailers continue to rely on customers to replace cashiers, their non-payed cashiers will continue to make mistakes. Seems fair to me. Want to reduce your theft? Hire some cashiers. It’s also really stupid to check receipts at the door. It’s irritating to treat all your customers like thieves, plus we know your staff isn’t actually reading the receipts. Retailers might have statistics to show that it deters theft but it also probably deters an amount of sales that they cannot measure.
TikTok, Pinterest, Spotify, etc. all bootstrapped off Facebook and Instagram. These are common growth tactics.
Social science is not the problem.

Biology is definitely a "real" science yet the problems with fraud in biology are, if anything, worse.

See the recent cases involving fabricated data in a Nature paper about Alzheimer's.

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

That actually seems to be a common pattern, there's another case now with strong evidence of data fraud in multiple Science/Nature papers, possibly implicating the president of Stanford.

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/04/25/stanford-president-dodg...

The problems seem less severe in physics, but there was that recent case where supposed experimental evidence of majorana fermions had to be retracted, with some research practices that look dubious in retrospect.

Or the famous Schön scandal at Bell Labs in semiconductor physics, where there was outright fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
'Like a mirror': Astronomers identify most reflective exoplanet
using https://read.cv/ as my 'online resume' now
I loved the youtube series that accompanied earlier versions of this book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9V07EIfIg&list=PLOg0ngHtcq...

It can be watched without the book. The coding parts can be skipped. It has some insights missing in the book, and they've got an amazing mix of incredible technical talent and a great ability to distill and explain concepts.
Good to see this getting some attention again.

This affected me personally when trying to find a family member's military records. When I requested them I found out they were all gone because of that fire. It's astounding how much was lost as a result.

I ended up having to piece together information from other sources. Hospital records were in a different place, safe from the fire, for example, and you could use that to infer certain things about where they were at what time, and some of the records had some information in notes. But if they weren't ill at a certain point, you would have never had that.

There's still a lot that's unknown as a result of the fire.
The data doesn't scale according to employee size. If they manage to cut the headcount in half, they'd still need to process the same amount of info.

The use case is based on public information on the internet. News articles, PRs, social media posts, etc.

LLMs are used to extract info from text in a structured format. It used to have several classification and NLP models to do the job, but now a single LLM can do it faster and with better accuracy.
Are you really saying that you don't think someone eating 10,000 calories of Kale won't get obese?
Sure, this one piece of software that doesn't want to look perfect will change the game!
Has Thunderbird still proper support for local mailboxes? I recently tried this, and all I found was local folders in maildir or mbox-format. But this won't recognize new mails added to them, making it useless for this demand. Did I miss something, or was this really removed at some point?
That doesn't make it any less absurd. Legal hoop-jumping is not so different from spin. The law itself is often silly.
Middle management (above first line manager) in large organizations is hard to do well. I think it is difficult to understand if you have never done it, and it is even difficult to articulate why. I find it much much harder than working as an engineer or Eng Mgr.

Fundamentally, I think it is an incentive and systematic issue: what is expected of middle managers, and incentivized, requires almost complete dedication to managing up and laterally. People who spend time w/ their reports are the exceptions because there is close to 0 correlation with getting promoted. Caring about your report either require crazy number of hours, or ignoring what people above you will expect. The latter will ultimately affect their report.

Many people in that line of work do the minimum ? Yes, I can believe this. But the odds are stacked against you. I used to joke "as a middle manager, doing above average work requires extraordinary dedication".

1. Lack of agency: once you are above first line management (EM), you actually have much less agency. As an EM, you can tweak processes, and improve things. You only are accountable to your manager, and maybe 2-3 other people. Once you are above that, the number of stakeholders explodes, and any perception of failure will get at you. You can't say no to many useless meetings because you have to be there. If you don't go, and something goes wrong, guess whose teams/projects will be slashed next time.

2. Corollary: spooky action at a distance. Once you're middle manager, you will get random people with random level of competence ask you things you don't even understand. I regularly encountered "You have not done X yet, and this is slowing down other teams", and that was the first time I heard of X. Everybody knows you can't do half of what you are asked, but you better not be perceived as not doing all of it.

3. Solitude: As an EM, you can foster your team. Above, you just have a bunch of individuals who very much don't work as a team. Very difficult to keep some cohesion.

4. You need to own shit you are not responsible for: You have to explain often nonsensical decisions you had no authority on, but you also cannot say "sorry guys, this is coming from above".

5. Outside of exceptions, doing a good job is completely unrelated to how you will be evaluated. There are many things you know in your heart will negatively impact your team that you absolutely have to do. The best middle managers are the ones who manage to balance the kafkaiesque and still maintain good environment in their report line. This requires an enormous amount of time that you can only do for so long, most burn out quickly.

It is slightly over cynical, but I think avoiding what spakhm describers on his blog is impossible to escape above a certain size: https://www.spakhm.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
Not reddit. Threads has chosen not to expand to Europe until they have found out how the "import all your data from Instagram" stuff holds up in court.
They're disputing that literally in this comment thread.
It sure does give you some cool factoids to bring up at parties though. Did you hear the one about the prison experiment?
just gave it a test, the design additions are introduced gently. Defaults for listings are on the familiar view. Menu quick actions exist to go from compact to normal to more padding.

I had the 2-line message header view on my wishlist for a long time. Thunderbird did pretty great.
There are regulations on quite a number of things but the evidentiary standards are not equal because a treatment has to demonstrate a health benefit whereas a packaging additive just has to "demonstrate an absence of harm" which is actually a lax criteria because proving a negative is inherently "impossible".

That makes no sense.

Of course a "packaging additive" only has to prove a lack of harm. What else would you prove?
Part of why I left Google was poor leadership at the VP level. The org wasn't set up for success and - as far as I could tell - the vision was myopic and incoherent. VP performance was more or less opaque to me for most of my career there, but eventually I got senior and experienced enough to have a real opinion.

Really liked my direct manager, but we were in it together, and there was nothing he could have done about it.
Oh wow, last time I rented a car was in Miami in early 2021, the line stretched from outside their booth all the way around the concourse. I think it was almost 3 hours there-- and I HAD a reservation. I had forgotten about that...

The next time I used Turo also and it was awesome (last summer). It was a half mile from where we were staying, much cheaper, much less hassle. Would recommend also.
Unfortunately, it's not implemented on iOS/iPadOS.
It is "decided" which is correct. With 24 hours a day and 360 degrees of longitude, it should be simply 15 degrees per hour.

The number of time zone that a country has is a political choice, perhaps based on geography somewhat. The size of each time zone is also variable depending on the choice the government makes.

* Look at China for example, one time zone.

* India is the same with one time zone.

* Mountain Time Zone in Canada actually stretches across 4 time zones (-9, -8, -7, -6)

* The Pacific Time Zone in Canada actually stretches across 2 time zones (-8, -9)

* Newfoundland in Canada should be geographically in the -4 time zone, but it choose to do -3.5 instead. If that's the proper value, then I'd argue Maine should be in -4.5 instead of -5.

* France should be in the UTC time zone with a tiny slice in the +1 time zone. In reality it is in the +1 time zone.

* Heck, why does time zones go from UTC-12 to UTC+14? What's with the values above UTC+12?

See: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0eb6e2b279845c866f903...
You're speculating, so no?
What if you also didn't use plugins, but a simple script that appends <section> tags to your blog's "index.html" and chunks and links them into whatever number of those you want per page? It's a blog after all. I agree it should be simple. I haven't met a blog "framework"/"platform" I didn't hate from the moment I saw it. Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but this seems trivial. Write this in whatever language you want.
Doctors say a lot of stupid stuff like "cartilage can't be repaired, it doesn't matter how much sugar you eat for tooth health, lifting weights is bad", etc. The number is 7-9 hours. The funny thing is that if you get 5 regularly, you won't feel tired, you will just be slow, sick a lot, and unable to put on muscle mass.
Because there is a huge difference between downloading an app and downloading launching logging in going through onboarding.
> If a software company doesn't write any code, what exactly is it doing

Not all companies are “software companies” and it still takes level of maturity to know when to write code and when to outsource.

At the interview for my n-2 job, I was interviewing with the director of IT and a junior to mid level dev.

The mid level dev asked me how I would write an address validation module.

My answer was that I wouldn’t and went into details all of the complications of validating addresses and that I would use 3rd party CASS software. I went on to explain that from what I know about the core business it wouldn’t be a competitive advantage and that “it wouldn’t make the beer taste better”.

The software dev wasn’t impressed, the director was.

I was hired as a senior dev and I was ruthless about using third party software from reputable companies instead of writing code internally. This company has no desire to hire a bunch of devs.

We had specialized consultants for Salesforce, Workday, our data capture system, learning management systems, AWS and everything else.

In about a year and a half, I put myself out of a job, they went public and are running smoothly seven years later from what I can tell talking to former coworkers.

But I sure did have a great story to tell interviewing for my current position working in the consulting department at BigTech.
That's still a problem with management. The entire system is designed to incentivize this behavior. If your people's individual compensation is tied to their personal billable hours, your people will maximize for personable billable hours.
cool, what are some of them?
The tech side of this is right but the corporate history may be a bit off

> The fastest 80286 CPU produced was the 25 MHz variant manufactured by Harris, who were later acquired by Intersil.

I worked at Harris (post split with Intersil) and we still used the same parking lot. Everyone at both companies said that Harris acquired Interstil, merged it with Harris semiconductor, then split it off from Harris as Intersil once more. Intersil never acquired Harris.
If this is an established fact, where could one learn more about this?
I think it really varies department to department. Was your program in an American university?
Also just chilling with the Bullet Bill a few pixels away for half the run!
Just curious, does anyone of you know if it is possible to use Thunderbird as a library, somehow? Or is the UI too intertwined with the "mail engine" (i.e something managing IMAP, mbox, maildir, email indexing, etc)? I would be interested to experiment with my own mail client, if I can rely on an existing project like Thunderbird that would make it way simpler to get started :)
same; maybe two dozen flagged stories, none of which I intended to flag. Comments however, they seem to be flagged appropriately
> No, the challenge is recognising that food is not equal, and we have chemical and physical reasons why we overeat some and not others.

Those reasons still add up to Calories in - Calories Out. You need Out to be > than In or you will not lose weight. Eat all the kale and celery you want if you aren't burning more than you eat you won't lose weight.
What actually happens is orgs, be they for profit or governments or whatever, decide what they want to do, look for studies that justify it after the fact (in social science, you can find a study to support anything), and point to the studies despite many of them not even passing a basic smell test.
This is why upvote/downvote systems are trash.

Sure, they keep some actually bad opinions out, but they also keep correct but unpopular opinions out.

The Sun revolves around the Earth! Downvote Galileo!
I'll push that it is also "stop treating academia as such high stakes as we treat it." We have "raised the bar" so much that you are basically thrown out with failure. If you make it life or death stakes, expect people to fight appropriately. At some level, that will be pushing the data harder than it has a right to be pushed.
Oil industry is about 6% of Norwegian employment.

For sure, it's a huge part of Norway and shouldn't be overlooked, but it's specious to compare it directly to a country like Saudi Arabia.
Is it JUST WORDS if someone insults you or your work? Or does it still hurt?

At the very least we can be constructive and civil.
> I'm perplexed at the implication that we "decided" to have the number of time zones that we do, rather than just acknowledging the reality that the US is a fairly big country.

Timezones are still a social construct, and decision made. Mainland China is wider than contiguous US, and yet it runs on single TZ.
@User :types Iunnerstan that cant be udon
A quick search returned this article which contains a decent list which includes recent works: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/astronomy_in_everyday_life...

I picked one entry because it has the word "tumor" in it:

> Radio astronomers developed a method that is now used as a non-invasive way to detect tumours. By combining this with other traditional methods, there is a true-positive detection rate of 96% in breast cancer patients (Barret et al., 1978).

This article also seems to contain a decent analysis: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/1635/chapter/14#313

Disclaimer: I only skimmed the articles.
Did the order of actions in the row of links change as well?

Right now `flag` is between the timestamp and `hide`, neither of which I ever click on for a story. I wonder if it used to be next to something I (and many others) clicked more often?
This isn't average user friendly. No one except nerds will remember these symbols. Why not simply make it so that typing !history ____ will search history, !bookmarks ___ will search bookmarks and so on? This at least stands a chance of being used more widely.
Suffer what you must, but some of us in busy town dream of a better world. Exploring better patterns "using the best tools" we have.
"Undone" is a travesty of a word, though. Pedantically it should mean "not done", in the manner of unencrypted or unwanted or unfeeling.

The correct construction should be "dedone", but that's so awkward that "revert" is probably a better option.
"?" is a very useful if your search is being treated as a URL instead of a search query, i.e. if you need to search for something which ends in ".io"
Depends on how you view OOP. For instance "The Repeated Deaths of OOP" (2015) [1] notes how the definition of OOP has been morphing over time to match current realities.

[1] https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/deaths-of-oop
Hey author! Please don't be discouraged by negative feedback here. This is legitimately a great app and it'll only get better as you fine tune it over time. Thanks for your efforts and keep going!!
https://www.primevideo.com/region/eu/detail/Game-of-Thrones/... true in some places :)
A lot of STEM requires expensive equipment that most individuals cannot afford with either money, space, and time to operate safely; though they are exceptions.

Also when a history major forgets a fact or two in their realm, it’s not as catastrophic as an aerospace or civil engineer forgetting a key fact in their domain. The gains from STEM are also more concrete and immediate compared to the liberal arts.
An R1 research university in the USA

Look at the most modern open source R and Python packages for statistical inference… probably 90 percent are developed and maintained by social science research labs
This explains why Prime Video is the only streaming service that can never stay stable on my gigabit connection, ugh. Sometimes it drops resolution until it's 360p.
I can only offer my own perspective, but as a reasonably senior person, my job hunting experience prior to COVID and the "great transition" to remote work was typically:

* Scour job listings for something that looked like a very good fit w/skillset

* Apply

* Have a phone screen

* Interview

* Get offer

For the first step, there were generally only a handful of openings that fit that criteria, and my success in the process was very high with about 25% average success rate from application to offer. Depending on the role, there were sometimes two screens: recruiter & hiring manager. The interview itself was typically one and done, and knowing the answer in a week. In the process, I'd probably be one of a dozen or fewer candidates.

In my most recent search, the number of available roles was astounding. So many felt like a good fit, but each also had 50+ applicants, even for very senior roles. I applied to about 70 total jobs over a couple months, with about 30 resulting in Zoom calls, 3 going the full distance, and with 1 offer (2 companies responded to my application with interview requests a full 2 months after I applied). "Going the full distance" meant 6-8 interviews spread out over a couple weeks, which was far more mentally draining than doing everything in one go.

Complicating things further was the fact that over 50% of companies never let you know that they're not moving forward. For 6 or 7 of the ones that did (all larger companies), I had several screens with each as the recruiters for specific roles either ghosted me until another one picked me up, or the recruiters were fired as part of layoffs.

The result was that I ended up spending 2-3 hours a day in the process, which doesn't seem like much, but it did really serve to wear me down mentally to deal with so many spread out meetings, sift through 50+ job postings every day (more if I failed to check in a day), customize resumes, customize cover letters (anything to try to shift the odds), etc.