skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SplittyKitty – A Cat-Themed 65% Split Keyboard
Around half the original pool were excluded, mostly as they quit the questionnaire partway through. It seems believable that process would result in a larger part of the pool having ADHD. It'd also help explain the disparity in musical training.
I wish people would stop using CF. It’s just making the internet worse.
I mean, everyone's trying. I've noticed a marked increase in the number of people in software engineering who are there first and foremost for the paycheck. Some of them don't even like writing software!

This doesn't necessarily correlate to skill at writing software, but I've also encountered a higher ratio of poor performers from this growing demographic, as well. The end result is that the median skill level seems to go down over time.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and seems like it should be expected as the pool of people working in software development grows.

But as time goes on, there are definitely more and more people who are trying (and succeeding!) at doing it.
It's a little bit click-baity, but an interesting article. It shows a demonstration attack against a WhatsApp MCP, not an actual in-the-wild attack. But it's still worth reading, and illustrates the problems with the MCP protocol's insecurity-by-design.
It's a tech assisted operations company, similar to Uber and Lyft.

The key distinction between say United Airlines and gig tech companies is that the latter will aggressively avoid owning physical assets and use tech to be a streamlined middle man in a market that actually requires a lot of operations.

They are a tech company, but in the sense that they get their edge from software not that they sell it.
> Because Github was better than Bitbucket?

Github was more popular than Bitbucke, so git unfortunately won.
Air-transport pressurized suites at your own peril.
Hell yeah! I wanna read more about this kind of stuff.
Like Peter, I do recommend talking to someone about this. You don't sound content, and life is too short to miss out on the journey.

I say this as someone who earns much less than you (never mind 800k), and who didn't go to a top school.

I'm no psychiatrist but your posts suggests that you see yourself as a failure, or possibly you've gotten that feedback from others directly. Perhaps at Amazon or elsewhere.

Projecting that feeling onto others suggests you would really benefit from talking to a professional about this.

I don't think you're a failure, I don't know you. But from what little you've revealed I'd say you're not a failure. But perhaps you had your own goals you failed to achieve?
Not true. CVS stuck around a while longer.
I like to call that category of bugs "landmines". Hidden till you step on them, then all hell breaks loose.
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There were far, far worse things out there than Subversion. VSS, ClearCase, an obscure commercial one written in Java whose name escapes me now..

Subversion was basically a better CVS. My recollection is that plenty of people were more than happy to switch to CVS or Subversion (even on Windows) if it meant they could escape from something as legitimately awful as VSS. Whereas the switch from Subversion to Git or Mercurial had more to do with the additional powers of the newer tools than the problems of the older ones.
> A part of me thinks that there was a Sun users aversion to anything Linux related.

It wasn't that. It really was just about file renaming.
As in sit, watch TV and drink beer?
They may pay for premium craftmenship in one of those options. This is very common.
How do you know ahead of time when to pull it out?
My impression is that once we didn’t want to call jails for containers to differentiate them to jails’ advantage: they’re essentially more secure. They’re not just containers (if your frame of reference is Linux).

But since containers have become such a hype in our global infrastructure, and people are seeking off the big cloud platforms, perhaps it is more in FreeBSD’s interest to remind off-clouders that FreeBSD does have container technology.
The $1 coffee from 7-11 was my go-to drink in Australia. Came with the added bonus of annoying the hipster coffee snobs in melbourne when I was walking down the street holding a 7-11 cup. Damn fine coffee.
Data broadcasting companies did use scanlines originally intended for Teletext/Ceefax in the 90s to transmit public information (e.g. weather forecasts, water levels): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacasting

In that case the "antenna in" signal did go to an ISA decoder card in the PC, but it appears that the BBC Micro also had an adapter for receiving classic Ceefax pages, some of which also contained software: https://www.teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/telesoftware/
Good to know! I'm a software engineer not a lawyer and it's been roughly 20 years since this incident.
it doesn't need to be every Australian. It only needs to be Australians that get jobs at fortune 500 companies. Australians don't even need to leave the country to be hired and compelled.
this is all the more important since 60$ in india is enough for a meal for four in an expensive restaurant in one of the better malls ( for e.g. in Mumbai ) ... and 25k to 30k is just ludicrous for a laptop. Even 5-10k will easily hurt his pockets but it depends on what the laptop's specs were and what it was worth
Data modelling, especially in high dimensions can be non-obvious to a human, yet a tractably small program can do well.
In principle it's a fine idea, but their implementation has so many footguns (race conditions, thundering herds, perf cliffs, etc) it was easier to impl your own simpler alternative.
sometimes, selling to someone with deep pockets is the only way to save a company.
Welcome to the new world, where one stupid tweet sets off a tweet storm, which is picked up by so-called reputable news agencies, unchecked and set off a market roller coaster. [0]

> Around 8:30 a.m. ET, the National Economic Council's Kevin Hassett was asked during a live Fox News interview whether Trump would consider a 90-day pause to the sweeping tariffs he imposed on many countries last week. Hassett responded: "I think the president is going to decide what the president is going to decide." On X, that morphed into a bogus headline that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for all countries except China.

> It appears the X account "Hammer Capital" was the first to share this false report, around 10:11 a.m. ET on Monday. The account has just over 1,100 followers, and it has a blue verification badge, a paid feature that helps enhance the reach of user's posts.

... which was re-tweeted over and over ...

> Around 10:12 a.m. ET, cheers broke out across the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, according to CNN, as the market rallied on the false premise that the White House was weighing a tariffs pause. Reuters, citing CNBC, then published a headline carrying the inaccurate tariff pause report.

> In statements to NPR, Reuters said it has withdrawn the incorrect report, blaming a headline published on CNBC. When asked for comment, CNBC said it "aired unconfirmed information in a banner," which it "quickly" corrected. The network would not comment on the source of its information.

It's truly a post-truth and no-checking world. It's not journalism any more, just move fast and literally break news.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5355055/tariffs-markets...
And? governments shouldn't require their citizens to introduce backdoors into private companies.
It was a spooky ghost!
Something is mysterious? ... IS corruption mysterious now?
By stating it should be zero, it is literally, by definition an ideal. That is not something you can decide on. Maximising shareholder value? Now, that is an ideal which is a root cause of many evils today.
I didn't say they are always necessary so you probably replied in the wrong place.
Until Musk includes Tesla with this scheme, the SEC doesn’t have jurisdiction. Twitter and xAI are private companies.
I’d love to learn some of the advanced rework skills they need to work on modern motherboards - especially BGA part replacement. And how to build a workshop on the cheap! I’m always in awe at the skills they need to learn that are nonexistent in the western world.
A colleague of mine got his job using an AI assisted cover letter. I was part of the interview where he still convinced everyone that he knew his shit. I am happy with his hire now, a year later.
I used to read Quartz everyday. As a gen z digital native, Quartz was my first foray into reading journalism daily. It's clean interface, direct and high-quality writing style, and lack of clickbait appealed a lot to me.

These days, I read print newspapers everyday. But I still find myself wishing Quartz existed. I have not found any suitable replacement for it, and I am on the lookout for the same.
Why would you add this constraint now?
No, actually. He said it was a part of his job because they did not understand his work? So we are back at square one here, why do people not understanding engineering work, end up managing engineering work?
In to the cylinders! Water injection.
Any time I have run (other than in an intentionally limited scenario like a sport) I have wondered “why am I not instead riding a bicycle or rollerblades.” We if we ever need a phrase for reinventing the wheel but, like, simpler and worse, I propose “doing a run.”
It's fine to feel that way but it's not the kind of dismissive comment we want on HN; we're here to have curious conversations, thanks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I deeply support community resistance via vaccination programs.

However there needs to be some ability to avoid vaccines for those that are psychologically scarred by the sheer idea of them.

A friend's wife went off the deep end about the vaccine - and it really harmed him, her, and her child. Not everybody is rational. I don't know the solution but I do know we need to find a solution. The needs of the physically susceptible (those we are most trying to protect by herd immunisation) need to be balanced by the needs of the psychologically susceptible (those we harm by herd immunisation).

When something is that important to someone that they will give up their career and livelihood: that's a strong indication that harm is occurring.

Disclaimer: volunteered for all my shots.
Blame the title character limit.
You walk into your nearest Chase (or similar) branch. Out in 10 mins.
I am pretty sure my current employer could make an exception if you can show proof of your condition (which would benefit you either way in Germany). But we also like to see collegues in person, as this is what the interaction for many positions might look like anyways.
Is it racist if I hire happily hire South Koreans and not North Koreans? Are they a different race? If they are, I'm sure they'd be interested to hear about it.
EU offered 'zero-for-zero' deal to US weeks before tariff announcement
UK's demand for Apple backdoor should not be heard in secret, says court
Oh hush. I have zero tolerance for conspiracies. Yes, every country has its own flavor of nationalism, pride or propaganda but let’s not confuse ourselves and try to sell NK as some misunderstood nation.
It's such a pity 51nb's upgraded ThinkPad project is no longer quite as active as it was. I think the small niche market for hacker-friendly laptops is far too diluted now, especially with qualitatively unique products like the MNT Reform.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1dh04ud/how_do_ge...
So cookie banners go first? As an obsolote "requirement" when all that tracking will be finaly banned? Right ? Just like paper journals - they don't do any identify-your-page-flipper...

And employer will be finally allowed to know his employee name and address?? Without additional paper trail? No, they won't allow that, it will be to sane.
I would prefer this very much to Jocko Willink
"It didn't make sense that the Twilio API would not be able to handle sending 30 SMS messages at once - this seemed like a scaling issue that would be easily resolved through upgrading the plan"

Twilio indeed can't handle batching of SMS requests -- even to this day several years after I asked them to :)

To be specific, what I want is what sendgrid offers, copy + replacements, so I can send the copy I want to send, a list of recipients and a list of replacements for each recipient in a single request.
Cool. Go hire some North Koreans to work at your company. Have fun with that.
Thanks! That's a good idea. Currently, users have to manually navigate to the tools they use. I think AI can be a help in some form.
> Fly where? Many companies don't have offices anymore

While i dont agree with the idea we'll be flying anywhere for interviews, havent most companies gone back on remote work. "hybrid" is a benefit now and being in the office is the expectation.
Composer Web is an extension that helps you debug better, not build.

And it's not made with AI, but supports building with AI with simple features.

I never said it offers AI/complex algorithm solutions.

I understand your frustration with the current hype of AI wrappers, but I'm just helping out those people here brother.

Please don't judge blindly before actually trying something out. Or maybe it went over your head and you won't be able to understand that it's not at all what you're implying here.
Doesn’t mean that the shell is given more permissions than other commands.
> raise the level of scientific and medical rigor [snip] so that people will feel comfortable taking vaccines

That won't help because people mostly aren't scared of the facts.

They are scared by the stories they get via social media.

They are scared by the actions of their government (the foolish words by WHO and the US politicians early in COVID really damaged trust). I'm in New Zealand and we had our own foolish government decisions (often unscientific).

In my experience trust cannot be regained after it is lost.
> If they buy your entity (stock transaction) it comes with all the legal liability

For dying companies, most of the time it's fraudulent and illegal to create a transaction divesting the good assets from the bad debts. Why is that potential problem not an issue for a proposal to sell off everything good and leave behind an insolvent shell?
Dupe (166 points, 19 hours ago, 176 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609661
You do not get the same automatic guarantees when not using external tools. But you get almost the same results when using tools readily available and having a good strategy for organizing. I do not have problems with double frees, void type unsafety, or tagged unions in my code. I occasionally have memory leaks, which tooling then tends to find. I certainly have exploitable integer overflows, but those are easily and comprehensively mitigated by UBsan.
Bitcoin: Not so independent from the rest of the market
If it was racist rhetoric, wouldn’t it necessarily also have to implicate South Koreans as nefarious agents as well, if we’re claiming that being a nefarious agent is an intrinsic feature of the Korean race?
Are you sure?

"Nobody interrogates each other's internal states when judging whether someone understands a topic. All we can judge it based on are the words they produce or the actions they take in response to a situation."

I'm fairly sure I wrote something that contradicts these two sentences.

You can commonly figure out whether people are leaking information about how they feel and what emotional and cognitive states they are in, even in text based communication. To some extent you can also decide the internal state of another person, and it's often easier to do with text than in direct communication, i.e. two bodies in the same space.

This idea that people aren't malleable and possible to interrogate without them noticing would be very surprising to anyone making a living from advertising.
So, which evidence are you questioning. That Harrison Leggio has identified many North Koreans posing as US citizens? His claim that other companies he is familiar with are finding the same thing?

Are you disputing the evidence from other specific named private citizens in companiess that are reporting this happening, such as Michael Barnhart and Jamie Collier of Google, Bojan Simic of Hypr and Emi Chiba at Gartner who are confirming they have experienced the same activity in their firms? How about the evidence from Aidan Raney, a private security researcher, who reports he personally infiltrated one of these scam operations?

Furthermore it’s not just unsubstantiated claims by US agencies, the article also refers to two successfully prosecuted court cases in which they had to present evidence to secure convictions.

Your criticisms are aimed at US reporting, but the United Nations reports the same thing.
If I were an enthusiast, I would rather consider a mini PC with AMD Strix Halo APU. These things have been coming soon for a few months now.

The memory is slower but not by much, 256 GB/s is much faster than system memory found in most consumer-targeted PCs. The devices have way more memory, up to 128 GB. A system with a Strix Halo APU is a general-purpose computer; these special accelerator cards can only be used for one thing.
I had an HP laptop bought in 2016, that worked like a charm and worked perfectly till 2023, when I upgraded to Windows 11, which wasn't supported on it. But in Delhi's Nehru Place, I got the damn thing repaired several times for several times, including battery repairs, a broken keyboard amongst other things, that extended its life quite well. In fact, I was open to using it for more years, though the HDD kind of sucked compared to the SSD.
> But to the best of my knowledge it is not just US tariffs on the PRC that is driving the migration of manufacturing for Japanese companies away from the PRC over the last decade or so

Cost has increased as China itself domestically has matured (both as a consumer and the manufacturing side).

Even China itself has moved some to e.g. Vietnam.
It's not hiring north koreans that's the issue. It's that doing so is worthy of writing hysterial articles full of unsubstantiated propaganda.
The UK government wants the ability to decrypt ANY UK users data no matter where they might be located. What do they think, that no other country would follow suit and ask that ITS citizens be "protected" by the same ruling? How short sighted can you be?

And props to Apple for refusing. Time and again Apple has refused to compromise their security in the face of government pressure. I know, I know, they are part of PRISM (and other Snowden leaks) but they are the company most willing to publicly resist. At this point, I wouldn't trust Google to host my dumpcake recipe, and it's terrible.
I grew up in a village, where literally nothing goes waste. Eevrything is recycled. You can't think of anything that is junk. Animal poop and rotten bio-waste makes a great fertilizer for crops. Metal waste is melt by blacksmith, Wood in any form or shape is highly reusable. Plastics are almost absent, but they are sold in exchange for onions etc. Fabric is extremely reused. After reusing multiple time, things end up in a dump at the corner of own premises, which degrades and becomes fertilizer, in time for next crop.
Perhaps adding some guide on how to hook this up to... well anything would be good :)

There is a lack of guidance for https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go/ which this is using as well so while everything is there, its hard to know how to make it do anything.
The point was that you can not reject warnings as part of a solution for C because "it annoys programmers because it has false positives" while accepting Rust's borrow checker as a solution.
I'll just flip my copy of Ignition! open to a random page and build a car around that...
HK, what do you mean when you say 'can't derive an is from an ought after all.'

I can read a meaning in that but I'm not sure if I'm understanding it the way you intend or not.
Expecting journalists to have evidentiary integrity is now a conspiracy? I didn't say it was false, or that it was true. I'm saying that uncritically reprinting dramatized, political statements from government agents without evidence is propaganda. When they operate in this way, the media acts as a propaganda wing of the government.
It is a comparison between a North Korean practise to an apparently similar Australian practise.

The ideology each state has nothing to do with the risk coming from employing people who can be compelled to follow such rules.
Hey - it doesn't send the logs and screenshot automatically at any point. All control is in your hands

You can send those on-demand with a mouse click / keybind whenever you want

And there's no server game here either. So no latency issues, context issues, and no worries about privacy either

Btw it's my first time on hackernews and idk if I get notified about anything here, so missed your comment by 2 days. Sorry about that. Feel free to share your thoughts on our discord here so we can have a better conversation about this: https://discord.gg/cyA7NpTUQS
Well, they have no choice. Similar to chinese students abroad who discover freedom and then get a video call of the police visiting their parents . Its like s mafia thing, you do not volunteer to that, you are born into that slavery anf you either serve or get broken . Oh, and than there is the tanki left, refusing to acknowledge the problem, helping to undermine dissenters escapeplans by downplaying the problem . The worst are the ones with good intentions refusing the call to horror that is reality .
I fear that even though we are at the door of this moment, it's not a door they will be kicking down.
A lot of the time, a lack of bugfixes comes from the incentive structure management has created. Specifically, you rarely get rewarded for fixing things. You get rewarded for shipping new things. In effect, you're punished for fixing things because that's time you're not shipping new things.

Ownership is another one. For example, product teams who are responsible for shipping new things but support for existing things get increasingly pushed onto support teams. This is really a consequence of the same incentive structure.

This is partially why I don't think that all subscription software is bad. The Adobe end of the spectrum is bad. The Jetbrains end is good. There is value in creating good, reliable software. If your only source of revenue is new sales then bugs are even less of a priority until it's so bad it makes your software virtually unusuable. And usually it took a long while to get there with many ignored warnings.
It's simple, the labour cost for repair is lower than the replacement cost, we also have people scavenging for valuables in landfills. As/When India will become rich enough, this will become uneconomical. Long term solution is to force companies to build products with repairability in mind.
parent post：https://nav.al/happiness
The context is creating companies in another country.

The states hasn't yet devolved into separate countries (I'm not sure what advantages California gets from the union. But a Brexit is clearly a costly move).
Literally just watched this episode the other day! Hell yeah.
Scaling Up LLM Codegen Workflows for Bigger Projects
It’s mostly just a hand-waving acknowledgment that, yes, I’m broadly categorizing everyone as a North Korean state actor. I get that there are gradients of belief, some coerced, some true believers, but in the end, they’re all still acting on behalf of the state, one way or another.
you only ever look at files through a web application or other api?
You can also trick the default shell 'bash' into running any program.
> If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, even if his/her technical skills are less than yours.

This assumes that was the job? What if the job never talks or sits in a room with anyone?

> Hiring is all about finding the best candidate.

Then what is leet code about?