skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been playing drums for 30+ years. I ended up with tinnitus after an extremely loud concert wearing Hearos, which are a brand name for Etymotic ER20s (as with all things hearing it probably was not just that concert, but that was the single point at which tinnitus started and didn't go away). After that I decided to just spend big and buy custom molded ear plugs (In my case 64audio). Even when wearing the -20db cartridges they were significantly more effective for me than the ER20s. My theory is the shape of my ear canal makes it hard to get straight plugs in to get full protection (even the foamies I can't get in far enough). Over time I have gotten used to the tinnitus and with the use of IEMs and the custom Ear plugs, which I've been using for 10 years now, my hearing hasn't gotten worse and the tinnitus levels have remained low.
No, there’s nothing except the fact that the "laws of physics", ie. our models of nature, are eternally incomplete simplifications. All that’s going on is that our models have a prediction error and thus tell us we’ve failed to take something into account. Which is an utterly standard part of scientific progress. Papers will be written, hypotheses proposed, more evidence gathered, and after some number of years we’ll have a new, more complete theory of neutron star evolution and/or emission processes.
Yeah that's why I asked if it's a system programming position. Anything else should not take a year.
You can thank HR for that.
If you think that this would be right up SCP’s alley, you’d be wrong, it’s not included (yet). Here’s a Reddit discussion on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBackrooms/comments/bs2zog/why_th.... The SCP 682 referred to here is, of course, the undestroyable creature: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682.
You can install any app to do anything on Windows. The issue here is that this is built-in, so it will be everywhere, all the time.
Use standard cloud images

> Something something incorrect cpu architecture for your Macbook
Fast fire. You've gotten past the hard part, admitting the mistake. The quicker you let someone like that go, the better for you and your team. The mistake here would be to work on their performance and drag it on. Your team morale will take a big hit. At best you'll see a marginal performance improvement over months. At worst you'll waste months on this employee and have to fire them anyway.
This proto-sociopathic behavior is the direct result of European employment law. It's disgusting.
I had a Voodoo 3 3000, friend had a TNT2. If the game supported Glide and/or had a minigl driver available it blew the TNT out of the water. Direct3D-games however the reverse was true.
Now someone should make a game where you design indoor rc car tracks in the backrooms.
It was a mistake to hire, but they misrepresented thrmselves and aplied for a position they must have known they didn't qualify for. To be considered they must have significantly embellished their resume. Fire for incompetence, no severence.
I was so pissed off, after managing to buy a Voodoo, having to come back to the shop and replace it with a Riva TNT, because for some odd reason it wouldn't work on my PCI bus.
Dealing with the exact same situation now but I'm not the manager. The new hire has a 12+ YoE but severely lacking technical ability. While they fall short in the specific stack we use (not a huge deal), they're completely unwilling or unable to adapt & learn it seems.
Uber exCSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up
Two problems with that, first one is these men are often unaware of the extent to which they don't pass. Second one is that some of them get off to defying women's boundaries, it gives them a thrill.

Only solution is to legislate against it so at least there's some consequence of being caught.
It really did.-

PS. Sink. I wonder about 'without a trace' though. It's still being talked about ...

No love for half-baked, overhyped products.-
That's not a better phrasing. That doesn't explain what happened at all.

If you think that's a sensible recommendation, it's nice to add it after the error message. But it's not an error message.
Related:

Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19476505 - March 2019 (46 comments)

Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7552570 - April 2014 (1 comment)

Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7547942 - April 2014 (235 comments)
What are some good datasets to combine with weather data based on a geolocation?
You forgot Amazon eating paste in the corner.
I remember seeing this before. Curious how / who found the original in the Wayback archives? Didn’t see that mentioned in the article.
It depends on the kind of contribution.

Sometimes it is very low-risk, i.e. you know for sure that it won't impact many users or that it is easy to revert if necessary.

Sometimes it has a fundamental impact on your codebase, and if you build on top of that then it will be very hard to "just revert".

It's the job of the maintainer to decide what kind of risk they are willing to take. The thing is that many contributors don't understand that and put a lot of pressure to force their contribution in. And that's how you end up burning out the maintainers who try to be nice.
A couple of other ones

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby

https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
> Do you think there is any way to rescue this situation?

No. Let them go and move on. This is the problem with title inflation and it happens all the time.

How did you evaluate this candidate for this role exactly?

Some candidates are great at acing the interviews (since 90% of the time it is measured on predictable leetcode puzzles) but as soon as the real work begins, the new hire lacks basic skills, asks for too much help on issues that can be solved by 5 second googling or they take extremely long on simple tasks.

If you used Leetcode and yet this was the result, then perhaps you might need to find another way of evaluating actual 'senior' hires.

A wrong hire is worse than no hire. Not only the money is spent but time is also wasted and will be wasted further by training.
It is certainly worth hoping for, but I will not believe it until I see it. Until now, we have remained on a dire course.
I'm wondering if it's possible, given the current job market climate, to spend way too long trying to get a job, in multiple rounds of interviews, and basically pigeonhole oneself into passing the interview but losing other skills that are pertinent to performing and keeping the job.

The stories I keep hearing, about companies ghosting the applicant after 5-6 exhausting rounds of interviews, are scaring me, to be frank. It feels like the companies are optimizing towards not hiring as much as possible, and it's very tempting to optimize for passing the interview and make it into the primary skill...
All it takes more courage than most of us have after writing our first book!
Because there are incompetent interviewers too out there, its just you haven’t encountered those yet.
It's sort of ironic that spreadsheets were both the original killer app for personal computers and the major replacement for BASIC for small business applications - which we still strongly associate with early personal/home computers - in its own era.
I don't know, whenever I go with my road bike somewhere I've never been to I just use Google maps to plan for the path, and if I get lost somewhere but I roughly know where I have to go I'll just go on and not check maps for a few minutes. By car I just follow the suggested path that maps calculates, aside from the highways you're almost guaranteed to get a scenic view in the countryside in Tuscany. Just select the option to avoid toll roads
No, there is no way to rescue the situation. If you make this sort of weak/poor management process where you tolerate incompetent employees standard, you will end up with a money hemorrhaging, adult daycare facility where all of the performing employees hate you and their job. If you aren't a monopoly, non-profit, or government organization, you'll also be bankrupt in short order.
I recommend a hybrid approach.

Till a new yard. It probably has chunks of concrete and other garbage from previous owners. It’s worth taking the garbage out of the ground.

Then smother the whole yard with cardboard. Then layer wood chips on that.

Dig out individual holes for plants and absolutely murder the rest of the ground with mulch.

In those holes, add compost, then plants.

With good layering, cardboard can even smother the bermuda grass menace.
It isn't impostor syndrome, they are literally an imposter. They committed fraud to get in the door, you didn't coerce them to get a much better paying job than they are qualified for. Now that they know they can't do the job, they are content to keep cashing paychecks and hope that your company is too hand wringing and soft to call them out.

To your face they are worried and "what will we do, oh no what a mistake we all made", behind your back they think you are suckers (and based on your post they are probably correct).
Your profile indicates this is Brasil... Let me do a quick Google search.

"[T]he Brazilian healthcare system has achieved significant success in improving population coverage, reducing infant mortality rates [a 4-fold drop!], and controlling infectious diseases." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231901/

It sounds like doctors are actually doing a much better job there nowadays than they were 35 years ago. The facts I see simply don't match your outrage.
I really appreciate that you want to salvage the situation.

I've been at the opposite end of the spectrum at companies where the CTO wants a perfect team, and fired employees that weren't perfect or made (what we considered) reconcilable mistakes. We were all stressed out that we would be next on the chopping block.
A censorship free mode where you can freely discuss ideas with it and ask it to generate anything you can think of.
Flash-Linear-Attention
Tomorrow People
It’s not like we need to write docs

/s
The Unending Allure of High Mountains
Is that available for macOS? I can't seem to find a recent release.
It's expected to happen this year as well - don't know if this is the new normal for Quebec.

https://www.ouranos.ca/en/news/2024-05-15/2024-forest-fire-s...
I'm not as familiar with the book scene as I am with the music scene, but I see a lot of similarities. Discovery is a huge issue, and takes a lot of effort.

I listen to a specific sub-sub genre of metal that gets no mainstream (even from "big" metal publications) attention. The best way I have found to come across new albums is to subscribe to really small labels that specialize in the genre of music.

Many of these labels are hobbies or part time jobs for their owners, but I find they do an excellent job curating music I'll be interested in.

The problem, is often subscribing and keeping up to date with these labels is really tough. Fortunately, for music, we have bandcamp.com which does a pretty decent job of this (although it takes some additional work [1]). If bandcamp.com went away, I don't know how I'd discover most of my new music.

Does the book scene have anything similar?

[1] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...
> Did an AI write this?

I think you know an AI didn't generate the sentence because it's ungrammatical.

The publication in question (Acta Biomed) is oriented around "mainly national and international scientific activities from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries", so there's a reasonable chance none of the the authors speak English as a first language. This in no way excuses bad editing—the journal publishes in English, after all.
also https://github.com/ex3ndr/llama-coder
Machine Bias in software used across the country to predict future criminals
In many places, there is a trial period of 3 months and then usually you do a one year contract. So you have at least two decision points.

Second thing is: most of our countries have a more direct conversation style.
Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)
I’m building my own dual screen laptop based on the framework 13. It has the 16” 4k+ 16:10 1000nit micro led panel from the razer blade 16. Just tested out the panel for the first time last night and it is the best I have ever seen.
IMO, you don't lose a good engineering mindset or skills within a year or few months. Rusty, sure, but I'd say those skills quickly start to sharpen after working at a new job for a couple months.
As someone using Swift’s concurrency features on a daily basis, I don’t understand what “deep concurrency” is and what Swift 6 is supposed to change except for enforcing Sendable conformance for every symbol shared across concurrency contexts. The tools have all been there for a while.
Green account. Hacker news comment history is the new novel.
The Rise of the AGI Profiteers
We do in the major cities and they are slowly growing but our idiot government is letting the big guys buy them up when they become a serious competitor. The problem, as almost always, is the government not doing its job and breaking up/ not allowing acquisitions by these big guys.
It is often argued that high taxes are detrimental, especially when they seem to disproportionately affect the middle class. However, in a system like Austria's, progressive taxation is designed to finance public goods and services, ensuring a high standard of living for all citizens. Austria's tax system, though progressive, provides a robust social safety net that includes healthcare, education, and housing. These services contribute to social stability and economic mobility, which are critical for the overall health of society.

Contrary to the claim that public housing in Austria is "still too expensive," Austria is renowned for its effective public housing policy. In Vienna, for example, about 60% of residents live in municipally built, owned, or managed housing, which is heavily subsidized to keep it affordable. These housing policies ensure that a broad range of income groups has access to affordable living spaces, not just the poorest. This inclusivity helps prevent the social segregation seen in many cities where housing is left entirely to the market.

The proof is in the outcomes. Austria enjoys a high Human Development Index and low income inequality compared to many countries with less robust social safety systems. These outcomes are not despite Austria's socialist policies but largely because of them. The systems in place ensure that wealth generated by the economy is distributed in a way that benefits a wide segment of the population, supporting overall economic stability and growth.
Leafy vegetables found to contain tire additives
> thinkpiece

That word needs to get in the bin.
Someone I know had a new house built fairly recently. I don't think there's a splash of anything that is not some shade of gray in the entire house. It would... not have been my choice.
You are correct and no offense taken at all. Thank you for the additional detail.
Not sure where I found it. I think it is this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Falcon_H...
I think your are right. But oxo is not my project.
I am recently curious about vuln and related tools ( I want to add some opensource vuln tools in my project ). I found oxo and share it in hackernews.

I am developing x-cmd in recently three years. And this is the demo of using google's OSV scanner in x-cmd: https://www.x-cmd.com/mod/osv

Welcome to our website.

To be honeset, I'm a bit stuck on how to approach the project promotion. While your advice is tailored for oxo, I'd still like to consider it and see if any aspects could be applicable to my situation.
How to Save the Princess in 8 Programming Languages [Comic]
(Not an expert manager; just some thoughts based on things I've seen.)

I can't tell from the description whether the candidate was outright deceptive, like claiming experience they didn't have, or candidate was just good at the normal interviewing rituals, and the real problem was mess-up on company's end (i.e., interviewers said "mediocre" but HR somehow heard "hire at all costs").

In any case, talk with appropriate management and HR -- with everyone clear on what the cause of the hiring mistake was -- and figure out what the acceptable options are.

Then, if the candidate seemed to be dealing in good faith, then probably talk with the employee, candidly, about the problem, and what options you're presenting.

If they're leaving, you can assist to do it in a gentle way. You might not have to assist much; they might hear it's not working out, and start job-hunting urgently.

If they're staying but downleveled, you can probably figure out the details to do it in a sufficiently non-awkward, discreet way. If employees noticed a bad-performer, they might be relieved to see that corrected, but hopefully they can also see the sympathetic and constructive way it was done, and adopt that tone themselves.

But, if the candidate wasn't in good faith, then they helped make this an adversarial situation, so talk with HR, and maybe also legal counsel, about how to terminate promptly and with a minimum of drama.
Call for Collaborators
RubinStatic – A featureless local first static site generator on top of .NET
You want to lay cardboard over tall green stuff, then mulch that. The improvement in fertility compared with tilling and laying cardboard over soil is huge.

Sheet mulching is amazing for eliminating ivy and other invasive species as well.
It wasn't just the NYT, it was almost all mainstream media blowing up about it when the east coast got a little smoke. The pics honestly didnt even look so bad compared to what I've been through the past 7 or so years. It seemed like it wasn't really news worthy until New Yorkers coughed a little more than usual.
> A good strategy would be to have them be a lead on a minor project that
> requires technical chops and communication. Ensure there is a daily standup
> and grind them on details and timelines. Get them some juniors as direct
> reports to expose their lack of knowledge, then have meetings with these
> junior devs about project performance.

Do not do this. You do not need a “strategy”. Just do it! Rip off the band-aid. Either tell them the truth or give no reason even if asked. Reverse the mistake asap and get moving on your company’s mission. You don’t need one second more of this. Nor does anyone else at your organization. Do it today! Do it dispassionately. Do it as nicely as possible. You are going to feel bad because you are a good empathetic human.

Some people will have a reaction. Some people will “have a reaction” to try to get more out of you. You are not responsible for either. You are responsible only for your own actions. Figure out what you should give them to be fair and add a little extra so you are sure it isn’t unfair.

Plan what you will say and do in advance and have someone you trust with you in the meeting. Stick to your plan. Even the best hiring processes succeed only 50% of the time (though this goes beyond just a bad hire). Firing, and firing quickly is just as important as hiring well.

Also remember that if an applicant tailors to a hiring process to this extent, that’s not just a failure of the process. It’s dishonesty. Even if the applicant were competent, you absolutely don’t want to entertain someone dishonest in your company.
It is not. You would fire the person in the trial period or after a year.

What is expensive in most European jurisdiction to fire a permanent contract after the initial trial period/first year contract without wrongdoing. But that is typically after a year or more.

The reason here is that they are trying to be a employer which focus on personell development. Which is contradictive to capitalism and obviously they have not figured out yet, how to deal with situations like this.
> "constructive dismissal", which is not allowed.

I agree, but a lot of things that are not allowed but happen frequently.

Doesnt matter what the law says is illegal, unless its enforced.

Im not saying its a good thing to resort to such toxic measures.

Parent comment said it is evil and should not be done, I just mentioned the reality that in most countries its one of the classical tried and tested method to bypass employment safety laws that almost rarely gets backlash.

I myself dislike such toxic behaviour, but just stating the reality of what happens.
This is the kind of high-quality niche posts that makes HN for me. This is really an incredible hobby project that someone has also taken time to share details about.
Most companies in France have a trial period of 3 or 4 months which can be doubled to "make sure that everything is right." Which means that companies have to 6 or 8 months to fire new guys.

I guess it’s the same amount of time in other countries.
As America's Solar Power Surges, Wind Power Is Struggling
Summary:

The expansion of wind power in the United States is facing several challenges, resulting in a recent slowdown in growth. While solar power installations are surging, the wind industry is struggling with various logistical and community obstacles. The lack of transmission lines and lengthy permitting processes hinder the addition of new wind projects, particularly in areas already crowded with turbines. The wind industry is also facing supply chain issues and inflationary pressures, with equipment costs soaring. These factors have led to the cancellation of many offshore wind projects in the Northeast.

However, there are signs of a potential rebound for wind power. Tax incentives and new policies in some states are supporting the expansion of wind energy. The federal government is also taking steps to accelerate the planning of transmission lines. The demand for clean electricity around the clock could boost wind power, as it complements solar power by generating electricity at different times of the day. While wind power faces challenges, experts believe that both solar and wind energy are crucial for moving America away from fossil fuels.
Helping the Conference Hallway Track
It seems daft & irresponsible to build a case whose damage claims amount to nothing more than a penny found on the ground to Google. It's counterproductive to create a sense that there's an active regulatory body that won't seek significant sums for anti-trust activities.
Obviously the US has gone through various phases. The one relevant to our decision making in WW2 was largely driven by what happened in WW1.
Entrapment is sociopathic.
My experience with hiring is it's better to error on the side of not hiring. If you make a bad choice, unless it's a flagrant fraud, you're going to spend a couple of months trying to get them to be productive. That's way more time then doing a couple more interview. And firing is risky from a legal standpoint as well.
Consider firing your HR department too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKL47LUeHYM
Interesting. What's the definition they use?
Just wait until the Linux founding fathers are no longer around.

Try to write Linux POSIX code for Android, WebOS, and ChromeOS apps, and see how many normies will buy your wonderfull app.

Free beer ate the world, everyone likes free beer, even it is warm.
If you were wrong then, maybe you’re wrong now. What are these basic skills and can you measure them across the new hire and the existing devs? In order to hire better next time, you’ll need to be able to apply this sort of screening at the front end. If you can’t, then maybe it’s a management / utilization issue.
It’s often better not to compost under a new plant because it encourages it not to spread its roots. Instead mulch with it and the rain and worms will bring the nutrients down.