One man's journey from state prison to a revered San Francisco restaurant #upliftingnews

While incarcerated, Thomas fell in love with baking as part of his work in the prison kitchen but never dreamed he’d be able to cook and bake on the outside. Today, he’s honing personal recipes and working four days a week as a prep cook at Flour + Water in San Francisco’s Mission District. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/mans-journey-prison-san-francisco-restaurant-19763190.php

"Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements." https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-carey-law-how-ai-tools-can-help-assess-verbal-eyewitness-statements

The National Wetlands Inventory, maintained by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, provides interactive maps and bulk data containing “geospatially referenced information on the status, extent, characteristics and functions of wetland, riparian, deepwater, and related aquatic habitats.” https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory

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A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/style/picasso-painting-junk-dealer-italy-scli-intl/index.html

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. — Abba Eban

"In the madhouse pressure cooker environment of running a startup, too few CEOs, founders, and executives recognize the power of a story to set expectations." https://www.andysparks.co/p/if-you-want-people-to-remember-tell-a-story-message-to-garcia

More People Than Ever Are Trying to Hack the U.S. Government--And They Love It

The vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) platform that CISA deployed in 2021 received more than 1,000 valid bug disclosures last year, and the volume of remediated bugs went up 78%.
https://www.vulnu.com/p/more-people-than-ever-are-trying-to-hack-the-u-s-government-and-they-love-it

For the last job you accepted, what was the percentage difference between the first salary offer and the salary you accepted?

Like: They offered 100k; you said 115k; you agreed on 110 — thus, 10% over the initial offer.

The entire Book of Kells has been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726

Behold, it is perhaps the most obnoxious careers page for a tech company since Klout was a thing https://icon.me/careers

159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates https://tcrn.ch/4eQRRaU

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"If you died, would your online friends know?" I asked in 2007. https://www.cio.com/article/293191/careers-staffing-if-you-died-would-your-online-friends-know.html

During the first half of this year, Germany added 200 megawatts of balcony solar. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels

Starlink is offering free internet access for 30 days for folks affected by Hurricane Helene.

https://www.starlink.com/support/article/58126733-e4d2-db62-b919-9da261a4e096

Ezra Stiles bears a healthy dose of responsibility for popularizing a system in which public recognition and classification of performance mattered more than individual learning, student development, or the cultivation of curiosity and inquiry — all of which are ostensibly the primary goals of education. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/02/the-origin-of-grades-in-american-schools/