skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abhas Abhinav of Deeproot Linux runs "Mostly Harmless" which sells refurbished Thinkpads with binary blobs removed. https://mostlyharmless.io/computers/
I took it to mean that the corporate entity had some favourable tax treatment (perhaps from losses in previous years, which could offset against future profits). Which indeed means the corporate entity has no value by itself, but it has some value if you can turn it back into a functioning business.

G/O either had their own tax shelters that meant they wouldn't benefit additionally from the favourable tax treatment, and/or didn't want to take the risk of assuming unknown liabilities (which Zach Seward could have known didn't exist, but would have required more DD from G/O to rule out).
It was probably the worst economic crisis of the last fifty years. It went on forever, particularly in Europe and the UK (mostly because of a bunch of bone-headed moves by politicians).

Even the US basically didn't get back to where it was pre-2008 till 2019.

Tech was fine because mobile was happening, but it was incredibly grim everywhere else.
That's the point. One of my first interviews in tech was with a CEO who dressed with an Iron Maiden t-shirt. That settled to me the question about whether I would need to worry too much about looks at the office! :)
Maybe I'm using it wrong, but it's way less cognitive overhead for me to just type for for x,y := range something {} than it is to try and prompt "Iterate over this list of values...etc."

I'd say that prompting "Iterate over this list of values...etc." is definitely using it very wrong (autocomplete should more or less handle that sort of thing anyway). Prompts should be more in line with "write a C++ function that can parse XML files that look like this (upload a few sample files) and return the data in this struct (copy and paste struct from your header file)" followed by "write a set of unit tests for this function". You then check that the unit tests look reasonable, add any other things you feel you should test for, make sure the generated code passes the unit tests, and then check it in.
> having experience puffed up on a resume happens around 100% of the time

Maybe I am the rounding error. I have zero puffery, exaggerations, embellishments, stolen credit, or lies on my resume.
The stats bear this out, but you can usually pivot to something better, especially if you have the skillset and drive to continuously up your skillset and find parts of industry that are in demand. It’s the companies where you learn nothing where you stagnate.

I doubt there’ll be a shortage of ML jobs in the next few years, unless somehow the AI industry completely collapses somehow.
You may want to reconsider. They have written an article criticizing the applicant while posting half of the applicant's resume online. The only hope for Kapwing is if this story turns out to be fabricated.
I don't know if this is a recent addition, but I started recently to use it: `git worktree` is awesome. It let's you have more than one copy of the repository at different points without doing the stash dance.
PSA: I recently carried a box full in my hold luggage and am happy to report that they survived intact (presumably the hold is pressurised), in case anyone was worried about that.
1. "OTOH I fear that developing no experience for several years to come is going to leave me stranded"

I believe so too. If you do 4-5 years of "technical writing involving no coding at all nor a particularly deep knowledge of the technology", that's IMO bad if you plan on going back to writing software. You have 5 years experience now, in 5 years it will mean that you haven't coded for half your career. If you want to keep on coding for a while, look for a job now. It doesn't mean it's urgent; you just don't want to stop coding for years.

2. It seems like it's your second company, and the first one was a startup where you burned out. I just want to let you know that not every company is toxic or dysfunctional. There are a ton of stable companies that are interesting and allow you to have a healthy work/life balance. It does exist, don't lose hope and keep looking! It seems like there is no rush, so you are in a good position.

3. "I really like the space sector and would love to stay in it"

My opinion here is that as a software engineer, it's easier to change domain than to compensate for years of non-coding. I.e. I believe it would be better for you to find a nice software engineering position in a different domain for a while and eventually come back to the space sector than to stay in the space sector and stop coding for 5 years. You will learn useful things in another domain, while if you don't code in your domain... you still don't code. Again, not that it is bad to not code, but you seem to be willing to keep coding for a while in your career.

Again my opinion: as software engineers, we will regularly have to choose whether we want to go into less technical roles, typically management. It's always possible to go from more technical to less technical, but once you do, it's very hard to come back. If you want to stay on the technical side, you have to do it now (I mean, in the next year, not in 5).
> Like any new tool, especially a tool that got popular as quickly as htmx, there are differing schools of thought on how best to use it. My approach—which I believe necessary to achieve the results described above—requires you to internalize something that htmx certainly hints at, but doesn’t enforce: use plain HTML wherever possible.

That’s the path for ultimate long term functional web pages!
Beware if you want to copy files with extended attributes, ACLs or resource forks to another Mac.

The short syntax used to be "rsync -Eva"

Since openrsync this is now "rsync -va ---extended-attributes"

I will need to go through a bunch of scripts now I'm afraid. Bye bye Eva.
If we're going down this route I feel you should think about how likely it would have been that I got a similar response if I called out the objectification of men.
It's really nice to finally see a job opening that I almost qualify for. The description points out that they are looking for someone relatively new to development . If any other HN readers are like me and typically gloss over the job postings on here, don't skip this one.

Looks like a great opportunity for a fresh dev and I can only hope that one like this exists when I am ready.
Why would I think that structs are objects?

I'm using "object" as it is commonly used; essentially a value. In e.g Java or C or C++, the struct/class is a type, and an instance of the struct/class is an object.

Accessing an object's members is a different operation from looking up a symbol in a namespace. Even in Zig.
> I am worried about AI because it has reduced the entry barriers. Much easier now to write code or atleast build MVP and get traction.

There's always been enough people doing it. What difference does / did AI make? Whether it's no-code, outsourcing or what not.

A business isn't a 5 second game. It's a long journey. AI isn't and won't ever be the only factor. There are lots of things to worry about.
I would have made it needlessly complex by gluing a set of strong neodymium magnets on the exterior and a set of small flat magnets on the screen side to avoid the risks of drilling and protruding bolts.

Of course gluing or taping are also viable options ?
Ad spending got put on hold or canceled during the covid recession. Companies in all sectors moved to conserve cash.

Even Google froze hiring.

It was a good time to have a conservative balance sheet. I bought some good stock on the cheap, and hired my best programmer.
The grammar of your own comment isn't any better.
Ref counting is garbage collection (cf https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-b...). It's just not tracing garbage collection.

I'm a decent fan of both Tcl and CL, but Tcl has the big problem of being "almost" homoiconic and lacking good meta-programming tools like quasi-quoting. I say almost because comments break homoiconicity, whereas in CL they are discarded at read-time, never appearing in the parsed tree.
Do you choose one model over the other if your basis for it is along the lines of “it sounds weird and unfamiliar to me” or “it sounds less like things I deal with in daily life” or “I cannot imagine what it looks like”? Should you do it?

Surprisingly, in some ways, yes. A model is ultimately an attempt to lossily explain something in terms of (map it to) something else, more familiar. If it fails to do that, maybe it is not a good model.

However, you cannot stop at the term. Yes, we all have seen a black hole (hell, I have one in my bathroom) and none of us have seen IRL a multi-dimensional anything, much less a supermaze fuzzball—but if you consider what the black hole model actually is, with things like event horizon, Hawking radiation, etc., it quickly loses its intuitiveness.

Finally, of course, I’m not a string theorist, but I reckon if your model for something includes singularity as one of its main features then you obviously need some better model.
Which of any the alternatives don’t have their own unique solution?
Oh, good point. The test was done in the current stable 5.5 release in a development configuration :)
Since this is a change to the memory layout of the class, there should be no change due to the build configuration, though.
An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
I don't understand people who want to defend Apple in this case. UK is a functioning democracy, and why would you want to put a (foreign) company above that? If you want change, you know the route ...
I'm curious about your target market, as well — is there a substantial amount of people who would be willing to donate in crypto, who wouldn't donate with PayPal/Stripe?

I just started getting into ko-fi, and I'm wondering from a content creator perspective in which cases your product should be my choice over the classic players (patreon, bymeacoffee, ko-fi). Good luck tho :)
All countries should govern themselves, based on their cultural needs.
China "occupies" Tibet to the same degree that USA occupies California Republic, or Texas Republic.

The fact that this meme stil lives in western mind just shows how pathetic and detached from reality is western anti-CCP propaganda. Propaganda should contain truth, to be credible, otherwise it ceased to be effective
Okay, there’s a new update: Evolving Agent Toolkits is now oriented toward providing the tools needed to implement AI-first strategies. Please check the updated project and let me know your thoughts. https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents/blob/main/R...
Starting to exist a bit around here in Germany as well.
> whereas waiting for the trial phase to be over would force me to wait 6 months to leave.

Where I come from, the notice period is here to protect the employee: if you get fired, then you know you have a salary for those months. But from the employer's perspective, as soon as you resign they want to see you go; what's the point of keeping an unmotivated employee for 6 months? Are you sure that you would be "forced" to wait 6 months?

> My fear is that, coming from a similarly dysfunctional place, I'll just put in hopes and efforts for a better workplace and end up somewhere even worse

I understand that feeling, I started with a messy startup and followed into a toxic one. Now I am in a healthy environment that I didn't know could exist! I just want to tell you that there is hope, it exists! Keep looking.
Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
Today, I noticed that my behavior has shifted over the past few months. Right now, I exclusively use ChatGPT for any kind of search or question.

Using Google now feels completely lackluster in comparison.

I've noticed the same thing happening in my circle of friends as well—and they don’t even have a technical background.

How about you?
The US also depends on several bases in Europe and other countries. If the decision is made to close them, they're going to have a harder time projecting all that power. I may not be a military expert, but i'm guessing that would also influence operations in the Houthis region.
> In practice, this is virtually impossible to get right

Somehow every other JS frontend framework manages to hook into the History API just fine?
See this: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly
“Prove you’re deaf” would be a pretty rude thing to say, but you also don’t want to hire someone who’s lying about a disability. Presumably you’d do some kind of vetting before an in-person interview, and certainly before a hire.

Anyway in Germany I bet there’s a Taubenausweis (Gehöhrlosigkeitsbescheinigung?) or other form of official status marker, and the employer would expect you to show it to HR.
I was once turned down by Microsoft (in the 1990s), because I wore a suit to the interview. They made a point of mentioning it.
There is nothing to compare to - the USA is by far the biggest committer of war crimes and crimes against humanity, by a wide margin.
Oooooh that's crazy - I thought it was long dead! Thanks for sharing!
No, the approach in the Anthropic blog has no structure. It is literally just a place for the model to “write its thoughts.” If you took the server above and stripped everything except the “thought” tool.

With reasoning models you don’t carry forward the reasoning tokens in the context for the next call, so my hypothesis is that calling a tool/responding lets the model ditch a lot of built up context and “refocus.”
Even functional democracies make mistakes. Calling them out is part of the correction process.
Secret trials to enact mass surveillance on an unknowing population (the original demand gagged Apple from talking about it) doesn't sound like a "functioning democracy" to me.
Are you doing technical interviews, or manager-conversation-type interviews? This makes sense for the former (whether someone was a Senior Whatever in Googlebook or wrote CRUD apps for a bank is irrelevant if you're just seeing whether they can find a bug in a library or whatever, but it may influence the interviewer's _perception_ of their performance, thus it is strictly better than the interview doesn't know), but seems quite impractical for the latter.
Same for me, nothing comes close!
Hans-Bernd von Haeften at '20 July Plot' Nazi Trial (Deutsch) (1944)
shortened judgement available here: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/apple-inc-v-secretary-of-...
I don't understand your comment. Apple seems to be engaging with the order in the appropriate way under a functioning democracy, i.e. by challenging it in the courts.
have you got any evidence to the contrary?
My Asus 1215B netbook from 2009 has served me well, until it died last year.

There was nothing in 2025 laptops that I would have replaced it for, the use cases haven't changed from my 2009 requirements in computing on the go with a cheap laptop like device.

Its replacement is now Samsung tablet with DEX capabilities, which I will likewise use until it dies.
Because in the industries I have experience in IT has typically very little to do with the type of efficiency that matters in manufacturing. For instance, moving a factory from Germany to Romania is going to give you faster and more predictable savings than, say, optimizing production with IT and automation (obviously take this example with a grain of salt and the usual "it depends").

The theory was that Industry 4.0 should somehow change that, at least in Europe, by adding more automation and tech to production. I have seen only 1 factory built that way and, let me say, it was a complete mess IT wise. There is also the issue that the same people that were building factories in the 90s are now also building the "new" factories.
Yeah.. but if he didn't actually work exactly on it, but took the effort to learn from coworkers (or LLMs or google or wherever) and is able to answer my questions on what he did, and more importantly on why he decided to do something a certain way and not some other way, then he/she must have spent considerable amount of time actually learning about it and figuring things out. So I'd still hire him/her. The trouble is most people who embellish are either not competent to go deep enough to learn, or think that they can get away with some superficial knowledge of it.
The UK is not a functioning democracy, at all.
It's not SH, it's the last 20? 30? years of lack of experimental evidence for it
I have a question. Who gets to own the dagger? The museum? Or the people who found it? What the general law around finding things like this and ownership?
My experience is that the less done in GitHub actions the better.

I tend to prefer either:

- Using a build-system (e.g. Make) to encode logic and just invoke that from GitHub Actions; or

- Writing a small CLI program and then invoke that from GitHub Actions

It's so much easier to debug this stuff locally than in CI.

So an interesting trick, but I don't see where it would be useful.
I think you vastly misunderstand or are oversimplifying the problem here. They actually spoke up against a government mandated privacy violation.

What I am worried about really is Google, Meta etc did not speak up against it and likely have had the same requests. So I am worried about some foreign companies complying with my government. And very surprised that one particular foreign company gives more of a shit about me as an end user than my own government.
"functioning" is a reach.
There is a class of exploits that can read the browser UI without breaking into the OS, but that wouldn't usually get you the password from the manager itself, but on use. And the session cookies.

Session cookie exfil is the more common, so it's a good idea to log-in on demand especially to secure critical sites, and preferably wipe those cookies too. And use separate profiles or browsers.

Normally at that point the browser is sufficiently compromised it would be able to capture passwords put into it, so it doesn't matter which password manager is used with it.
Unless you clicked one of those phishing grabber links exploiting poor security settings of a site or outright entered the password. This is actually easier to fall prey to with an external manager as it's easier to fool as to which domain is being accessed.

I'd like to hear of that exploit that doesn't also void all other managers. Maybe if you had the browser in a VM and the exploit was not persistent...
(Browser sandboxes were notoriously weak. They're getting better though.)
I was sharing this story and responding to various comments (here) in my conversations elsewhere on the Internet, and as part of my statements I questioned about quoting/paraphrasing the "word gets around" to determine if this is best way to reference the point, and thought I may as well share it here too. https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_c0378709-b716-48af-8996-a0e4...
As to black hole theorising, it is fair game for silliness , so, keeping in line with the joke
they would be smoking "shatter", which is held in a kind of awe, even by the most hard core smokers
as the densist and most refined form of cannabis
availible, and casual observation of the effects and fall out from it's use suggests that it can precipitate life altering situations, also these days it would be very advisable for anyone trying such substsances to exercise extream caution, as 1
the actual stuff is powerfull, and 2 there are many reports of other things bieng added, that are outright deadly bieng thrown in. 3 hence the people I know who were indulging, made there own.
And personaly I dont smoke anything, or, even though I do theorise about ,gravity, and black hole, I never expound upon those things, lest I realy get a greater reputation for oddity, and speculations as to what I am smoking.
Well it is because the judiciary smacked the secrecy side of it down pretty hard to make sure that it was done in public. That's a pretty strong indicator of a functioning democracy.
Get a trainer. A good one will help you understand the progression and the different lifts and such. And will also keep you motivated when you are figuring it out. You don’t have to keep them forever but just to get started for a couple months can be great motivation in my experience.
If it's two orders of magnitude cheaper then plenty of people could want one. It's handy to have a spare laptop or two around and with a lightweight linux on there old ones can be perfectly functional
I have used htmx just a little bit; but I have found htmx + solid.js for some small reactive components to be ... very, very pleasant and very much else of what this blog post says to be accurate.

I've written a lot more html than I have in the past and it just ... feels good? html has upgraded quite a bit in the last decades since I learned it.
The poison is in the amount, not in the substance. Salty or sweet food is completely fine if you don’t eat a ton every day. You actually need salt, it is much more dangerous to not consume enough of it.
Integrity and reputation goes a long way?

Except it doesn’t if he hadn’t stretched the truth in his bombastic resume he would never have received an interview.

I will defend him because companies do the same thing of stretching the truth.
Cheap laptop I've bought in 2011 went through several upgrades: replaced ram doubling amount of GB. Replaced HDD with SSD, added HDD instead of DVD reader. Even replaced CPU to get more cores!

Nowadays I can only replace m.2 stick to get more storage. Everything is soldered.
Probably not real. What's the logic behind bringing in a junior at 145k?
The way I read it is that there are frustrating edge cases that (at least the author) has run into, regularly, that would imply it's ... more difficult to custom handle that than to just let the browser do it.
https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/SlopData

Writeup about some of the ideas that went into it:

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_112_slop_ideas/
I don't know of any country with fully open governance.

There are always decisions or information which is kept secret/illegal to publish.
> Almost certainly not.

Trump created a cryptocurrency, didn't he? I don't see why he wouldn't think about doing that.

> a better move would have been to target China with 100% tariffs then ...

Not saying it's a good move, even though if you are already rich and manage to make more billions by screwing the rest of the world, I think it's individually a good move. Which is why it should be highly illegal.

I could imagine someone doing that if they were rich, narcissistic and incompetent: they don't care about the recession because they are rich, they don't know the "better move" because they are incompetent, and they believe they are right because they are narcissistic. :-)