skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of underperformers I've managed are people who are less motivated to perform, less technically skilled, not aligned to the team, have different values, etc. Almost always the answer is to keep them around and try to squeeze what value you can get. One engineer I have really values on-call firefighting which is great, except my entire org is aligned around avoiding that. I'm getting value out of him by letting him do the firefighting he likes, but ensuring he drives the postmortem process so we can avoid fires in the future.

At the end of the day, all I care about is getting an acceptable level of output compared to pay from an employee who knows the business and isn't particularly fussy. So I'll try to find the path to get low performers upskilled, find what interests them, or find another role in the company that fits & do some horse trading. Or I'll let them coast and replace them when it's easier for me to hire.

>> hiring is a goddamn mess right now.

> Any insight you can give on why? I know enough from the hirees end, but how's it on the other side?

Someone smarter than me might know the true answer. I've heard three compelling arguments:

* tons of companies were irrationally exuberant and overhired, cut roles, and now we're seeing the impact of those workers looking for new work

* increasing shareholder greed means running a threadbare team and driving the company into the ground is better than staffing appropriately if it means next quarter looks good

* most companies are big dumb herd animals and hey, if the big guys are downsizing, so should we

But even though the market is saturated, profitability is now king, so if I'm going to hire someone I need to have a compelling answer to finance saying "how does this new role guarantee us ROI?"

All I really know and can see is the knock-on effect: I posted the same role in 2022 and last month. In 2022, I had to recruit like crazy, to the point that I had external vendors placing below-average employees at above-average salaries. Last month I had the pleasure of sifting through 700 applications, and plenty were "pass: overqualified, won't stick around".

So it seems there are tons of people out there competing for fewer roles.
Biorefining process could make grass digestible for pigs, chickens, and fish
Counter argument: Zoom, DocuSign

But you do have to be next to amazing at execution
invent, not adopt. that's the difference between government and industry, government doesn't invent anything except problems to manage.

reality is, governments want smallholding farmers out of the business and to replace them with agribusinesses because it's a process of de-kulakizing their subjects. it has nothing to do with science or environment at all. I think maybe a war over this stuff will give us the reset we need.
> This is where the idea of creating my own TUI-Application for Gmail came into mind as I was unable find one that could fit my use-case.

Did you try aerc or mutt, and why didn't they meet your needs?
> This entry was posted in [...] Zombies

I feel like I'm missing a joke or reference somewhere - can anyone help me out? I'm familiar with the concept of p-zombies, but that doesn't seem to be relevant here - and a "Zombie Statistic"[0] is sorta-related in that it refers to the psychological power of incorrect assertions, but I'm still struggling to see the link.

[0] https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2019/11/30/the-power-of-zom...
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This should be a poll.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
If this is causing you any "consternation" at all, it means you expect too much from unpaid free software developers. The repository doesn't even have a sponsor link.

The software is provided as is, in the hope it will be useful, but without any warranty whatsoever.

All free and open source software licenses contain some version of the above statement.

All of this is implicitly for personal use. In the sense that it's not a product, just something people made because they needed a problem solved.
> Don't see what prevents the solution from the language side.

The standard has nothing to say about calling convention. Calling conventions are defined by the ABI standards. unique_ptr is a class template, how a class is passed between routines is defined by ABI standards, ergo how unique_ptr is passed between routines is defined by the ABI standards. I don't know what else you're implying here. Unless you're saying we should have language-level smart pointers, not class templates, in which case yes that's an awful idea.

> That's not C++...

If you're arguing about some abstract, Platonic ideal of C++ that is divorced from the actual implementations that exist in the world, I don't know what your point is. We write code to be compiled by compilers that exist, not printed out and contemplated in a museum. The compilers support __restrict, people use it all the time, so its not a problem.

> Even the compilers...

Where else do you want it? What would its meaning even be to something like a member variable?

Restrict is pointless in any scenario that doesn't involve a potentially aliasing ABI boundary, ie, function parameters. In every other scenario it is ignored.
Thank you. That’s good feedback.

The gist of it is: you have an llm application such as Claude desktop. You want to have it interact (read or write) with some system you have. MCP solves this.

For example you can give the application the database schema as a “resource”, effectively saying; here is a bunch of text, do whatever you want with it during my chat with the llm. Or you can give the application a tool such as query my database. Now the model itself can decide when it wants to query (usually because you said: hey tell me what’s in the accounts table or something similar).

It’s “bring the things you care about” to any llm application with an mcp client
Making a whole team based off this

Also side note launching a cook based of my friends mom that passed away that gives daily recipes based off videos she left behind for him
I thought hackernews sounded like an akward poll platform, so (just for fun) anyone who would like to vote can contribute here:

https://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=e954c5a89f228a3e1
The short of it is that building a database on top of object storage has generally required a complicated, distributed system for consensus/metadata. CAS makes it possible to build these big data systems without any other dependencies. This is a win for simplicity and reliability.
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Thank you for this great app! I have used it for a while now on both, Windows and Linux. Love it!
I have recommended it here on HN in the comments a few times.
YT is using USM, which is supposed to be their SOTA ASR model. Gemini have much better linguistic knowledge, but it's likely prohibitively expensive to be used on all YT videos uploaded everyday. But this "correction" approach seems to be a nice cost-effective methodology to apply LLM indeed.
If you double down on export capacity, and let's your hypothetical is true and China now completely dominates the global supply chain, where does that leave other emerging economies like India or Nigeria in the future that would also seek to climb up the economic ladder?
Easily, the memory subsystem on AMDs consumer parts is embarrassingly weak (on all desktop and portable consumer devices in general save for Apple ones and select bespoke designs).
Yeah, no way this wasn't just fraud.
> CPython 9.72 - 22.10 secs
> PyPy 1.65 secs
> Node 1.76 secs
> Rust 0.25 secs
> Raku 0.12 secs

Hi librasteve. :)

FWIW I find it really hard to believe your bench marking was reliable / repeatable. Mistakes happen, and I think mistakes must have happened in this case.

I'll write more about this in another reply to another of your comments.
I think PowerShell works this way essentially. As I understand, all data is structured which makes formatting and piping to other programs much simpler.
Firefox for all things i am not forced to use a specific browser.
Then i mostly use edge.
Storytelling as Practice
I don't have enough karma to create a poll.
Thanks! Do they mention when the comparison is done? Is it before, after, or during an upload? (For instance, if I have a 4tb file in a multi part upload, would I only know it would fail as soon as the whole file is uploaded?)
From Data to Insights: Segmenting Airbnb's Supply
> What is apparent in both the path and IP space changes over time is that there is some sort of cyclic behaviour in the IPv4 updates.

does this imply the internet has something akin to tides ?
If you make misusing the header illegal then only illegals will stab you.
"If all you heard was VC hype, you could be forgiven for thinking that start-ups have driven American growth in recent years. Far from engines of American innovation and technological progress, however, the start-ups of the last few decades have yielded, at best, slow-burning losses for investors."

In some sense, HN is a steady stream of VC hype.
Another reason why this probably wont happen is that the government bails out banks beyond the FDIC insurance when people lose faith in the ponzi scheme that is the us banking system.

Since the government can clearly point out that these companies were not banks they can just say, "look at these idiots who didn't put their money in a bank" and they have solidified confidence in the banking system EVEN MORE
Awesome, you're welcome. :)
cppreference say strstream is removed in C++26, not C++23.

I knew they are bad, but I don't think it should be removed.
He might also enjoy https://highseas.hackclub.com, where thousands of high schoolers and middle schoolers are spending their winters making projects.

For each hour they "make", they earn "Doubloons" which they can spend on things they need for more projects - like soldering irons, Raspberry Pis, Framework Laptops, and more.

There are about 900 teenagers coding each day and working on different projects. He might be inspired by some of the things they're working on, like this personality quiz (https://personalityquiz.kittycat.hackclub.app/) and this overly aggressive cat-themed study timer (https://study.sticks.gay/).

One good beginner activity could be making his own homepage, which he'll earn a boba tea for: https://boba.hackclub.com
`is:open is:issue label:bug label:"node compat"` -> 203 issues currently open.
Interesting. Do you have any peer reviewed scientific publications or technical reports regarding this work?

We also compared Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure as well as a bunch of smaller players (from Edinburgh and Cambridge) and - consistent with what you reported - we also found Google ranked worst - but that was a one-off study from 2019 (unpublished) on financial news.

Word Error Rate (WER), the standard metric for the tast, is not everything. For some applications, the ability to upload custom lexicons is paramount (ASR systems that are word-based (almost all) as opposted to phoneme based require each word to be defined ahead of being able to recognize said word).
What exactly makes ls faster?
Imagine that same reasoning applied to the car itself. Ugh, wheels?? Humans get around just fine bipedally, so cars should have legs too.
If my memory of parallel algorithms class serves me right, you can build any synchronization algorithm on top of compare-and-swap as an atomic primitive.

As a (horribly inefficient, in case of non-trivial write contention) toy example, you could use S3 as a lock-free concurrent SQLite storage backend: Reads work as expected by fetching the entire database and satisfying the operation locally; writes work like this:

- Download the current database copy

- Perform your write locally

- Upload it back using "Put-If-Match" and the pre-edit copy as the matched object.

- If you get success, consider the transaction successful.

- If you get failure, go back to step 1 and try again.
> if you have examples of any database using only object storage as a backend

I think DuckDB is very close to this. It's a bit different, because it's mostly for read-heavy workloads.

https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/httpfs/s3api

(BTW great article, excellent read!)
Changing license terms, aggressive changes to the API to disallow competition, horrendous user experience that requires a support contract. I really don't think there's a limit to what I've seen other companies do. I generally trust libraries that competitors are maintaining jointly since there is an incentive toward not undercutting anyone.
I don't want to be a debbie downer, but I'm seeing this sort of post often now on HN. If not bimonthly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41714345

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41867294
> If you can't afford actual education

For working people it's not necessarily the cost of a degree, it's the opportunity cost of time out of workforce. Rent/mortgage still needs to be paid.

> settle for a scam?

Yes, boot camps are a "scam" in a sense, but when done right they are a happy one. The service they are providing is legitimacy washing. It is working around credentialism in the hiring process by providing a baseline credential or ticket to participate. A company that wouldn't hire a "self taught programmer" will often be more inclined to give a "boot camp grad" a chance. Really it's the same person, just with 100% more rubber stamp.

It is VERY rare in my experience that you're going to take someone with no aptitude or experience in software development and make them employable in a few weeks or months. This part is oversold. But targeted training on in-demand skills (e.g. the modern JS horror show) can be quite beneficial for people who already have some foundational skills.
BWNT new tab is my favorite:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bwnt-new-tab/doiinc...
>Look at Switzerland, it has all you want - one of the best rail networks in the world, its tiny, rest of public transport is as good as western Europe can get yet... folks still keep buying new cars, highways are getting fuller every year.

It sounds like Switzerland is very poorly managed then. Here in Tokyo, we have absolutely the best rail network in the world, and no, people aren't buying more cars and making the roads more crowded at all. The key here is that owning a car in the city is extremely inconvenient: the roads are frequently very narrow and slow, there's no convenient place to park, the few parking lots available are expensive (and likely not near your destination anyway, unless you're going to some large building (like a mall), and you're not even allowed to own a car in the city unless you have a place to park it, and can prove this to the police. There's almost no street parking. So trying to use a car to get around the city is just not very convenient at all, except for certain trips (e.g., going to a mall that has a parking garage, from your apartment where you're spending a huge extra amount every month for the privilege of a parking space). Taxis are a different matter, though: they exist and are somewhat popular, but they're pretty expensive.
Every time I’ve flown for the past few years, my ID fails to scan at TSA. Don’t know why but every time it’s happened, the TSA agent will just call over another TSA rep, they will look at it, and then say I’m good to go ahead. Never knew these other methods existed, I’ve never been asked to confirm my identity a different way.
The situation in the San Francisco Bay Area is similar. While there are still low-income communities in and near the urban centers (e.g., East Oakland, Richmond, Bay View/Hunter’s Point in San Francisco), there are many low-income and middle-class people who endure 4-6 hour round-trip commutes via car from places like Stockton, Modesto, Los Banos, and Salinas. I find my 45-minute commute from San Ramon to Fremont difficult (sadly I can’t afford to move to Fremont on my current salary without downgrading my apartment); I can’t imagine having to drive five days a week from Stockton to Fremont, but thousands of commuters do this.
No worries at all. I kind of wonder if using LibreOffice for the initial import -> Save to (say) Excel format would work better, than opening that in Excel?

ie might be easier for people who aren't comfortable changing the default settings in things
NiMH packs are usually used without balancing, because in principle they should equalize at each full charge. Maybe the charger circuit is too gentle and terminates charging too early with low ΔV when not every cell is fully charged yet.

I think methods used in that video are somewhat dodgy. When dealing with severely unbalanced packs care should be taken when discharging, as unbalanced cells could go below 0V and become damaged by reverse charging. And while cooling them during charging might keep the temperature in check, it probably doesn't completely prevent internal outgassing and pressure buildup. Very long charge at low current would likely be safer option.
Tech companies, once again, are trying to do publishing
What about good ol' about:blank ?
I can guess, people want cheap and only cheap.
I’ve actually tried applying to the NSA before and various other government agencies but never heard anything back lol
This is simply not true. Let's look at the best autonomous driving features available today, i.e. level 3:

Mercedes Drive Pilot: Uses a lidar (and a dummy unit) up front.

BMW Personal Pilot: Uses a lidar (and a dummy unit) up front

Honda SENSING Elite: Uses 5! lidars

They all use lidar, and some of the placement locations are downright hideous (Mercedes EQS). I think further development will require even more/better sensors, and manufacturers tend to agree on this point.
>Sometimes the weather is bad, or we have things to haul around, or multiple people to move.

150cm-tall women here in Tokyo have no trouble with all of the above on a bicycle. If they can do it, so can you. They have e-bikes with child seats and cargo baskets, and they wear rain gear when it's raining.
This is a pretty bad article because the author didn't really consider how product design works.

The new M4 MacBook Pro products are not a new design, they are a spec bump in the existing design. Making the kind of changes they are asking for requires a more extensive product redesign that only happens on Mac systems every 4-5 years or so.

Apple's full redesign of the Mac mini does show a slight increase in the modularity of the system by socketing the storage on a (proprietary) module.
If you just listen to the narrative of most of these videos, there is all sorts of agency referenced in the vocabulary. When in reality it's like a bunch of tiny magnets of indescribably complex geometry bashed around in a box until an eyeball pops out.
its on annas archive
I'm looking to immediately withdraw all of my funds from wealthfront and put them into fidelity.
Kim Dotcom Suffers Stroke
Could anybody explain for the uninitiated?
I use about:blank together with only showing the bookmarks menu bar on new tab pages, and it's basically perfect.

Then again, I almost always type in domains, I don't search for most websites - I know their domains or their duckduckgo !bang, or have a bookmark.
The big caveat is that it's trivial to measure the AIC, BIC and other quality of fit measurements for a distribution. If you think it's so and so distribution, go for it. In my experience in this specific case of chess rankings and in the broader case of test scores, skew-normal and log-normal have worse fits than plain Guassian.

I have no idea why you would believe increasing the population would make this Gaussian distribution look Pareto, when the exact opposite is true - increasing populations make things look more Gaussian - in all natural circumstances.
Is this a pisstake??
Tech is also a pretty wide umbrellla of industries.

A SaaS product is tech. So is a VR headset. One suceeding does not mean the other one will.
Starbucks has been outclassed by local rivals in China
Another American here -- never heard "next best" meaning anything other than second-best to what you're currently looking at.

"Next big thing" is commonly used and unambiguously means what's intended here.
You couldn't pay me enough to squeeze myself in narrow tunnels underground. But I'm glad there are brave explorers who can do it.
They're part of the Western (Catholic) tradition as well, but less frequently encountered: during the Litany of the Saints that precedes ordination to the priesthood those to be ordained are prostrate; the ministers at the start of the Good Friday liturgy lie prostrate before the altar; and a few other special contexts.
Google do this to their internal monorepo.

This is one of the reason why they are bad at open sourcing - their internal code almost never match what is released
Would You Use a Chrome Extension for Sharing Contextual YouTube Videos?
I'm working on a Chrome extension designed to improve how we discover YouTube videos. Sometimes the algorithm doesn't surface the best videos, or related content at the video url you're watching. Or perhaps you want to see what other viewers are sharing their links towards. This tool helps users share and explore curated recommendations directly from others, making it easier to find high-quality or niche material.

For example, you're watching a song on YouTube, but instead of relying on the platform's suggestions, someone could submit a remix, cover, or to other similar musicians that you might like.

I'd love to get your thoughts:

Do you experience frustration with YouTube's recommendations?
Would a tool like this enhance how you discover and share content?
What features or use cases would make this indispensable for you?
Feedback and insights from this community would be incredibly valuable!
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Do you have any examples of this happening? How many products on Product Hunt do you think are patent-able?

My startup was posted on PH, and many years later we're quite successful. We had $0 budget and it was just me at the time, and it worked out wonderfully.
My understanding is that these kinds of planes have systems that issue prominent warnings if they are about to fly into terrain other than terrain they are supposed to fly into such as airport runways.

Questions: how do those systems know when the terrain is a runway? Do they automatically know it, or do the pilots when approaching the airport turn the terrain warning system off?
For example, Chinese coffee chains are beating Starbucks in China:

"The pace of growth of domestic coffee chains has been impressive in the past year. Luckin’s performance has been especially strong. It has proved sceptics, who once saw its ultra-cheap coffee prices and high costs as a flawed business model, wrong this year. Luckin Coffee’s operating margin hit 15.3 per cent in the latest quarter as net revenues rose more than 40 per cent to $1.5bn, adding to annual sales that nearly doubled last year. It opened 1,400 new stores in the latest quarter, bringing its total to 21,300. Meanwhile, signs of the pressure are showing with same-store sales at Starbucks down 14 per cent in China last quarter."

"Automation, a rapidly growing trend in the local coffee chain industry, is helping margins during a time when costs are rising, especially delivery, sales and marketing expenses. Cotti, which has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2022, is pushing out coffee-making robots. Luckin has fully automated pour-over coffee machines. Luckin’s coffee robots and unmanned coffee shops were key to maintaining growth during the pandemic."

https://www.ft.com/content/5f070e18-3249-4bec-999b-56535cf25...

And you would be hard pressed to find anyone middle aged or older that actually drinks any coffee.
hunt lies
rebrand!
A legend. I’m still amazed by how ahead of the time MEGA was with full in browser file encryption when the other players weren’t ever starting on that.