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New comment by helge9210 in "Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa"

helge9210 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:16:30 +0000

> you have to go to a school that costs around $2000

So cheap. Comparing to Germany.

New comment by helge9210 in "[dead]"

helge9210 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:56:53 +0000

Sabra and Shatila all over again?

New comment by helge9210 in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

helge9210 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:09:31 +0000

From my experience greenfield /brownfield is not the best dichotomy here. I observed, how same tooling is generating meaningless slop on greenfield project and 10kLoC of change (leading to an outage) on existing project in one hands and building a fairly complex new project and fixing a long (years) standing bug with a two lines patch in the other.

And I have more examples, where I, personally, was on the both sides of the fence: defined by my level of the same problem understanding, not by the tooling.

New comment by helge9210 in "German police probe student poster slur against Merz"

helge9210 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:46:07 +0000

These were not private individuals. This was an official cash/good transfer between Austrian bank and Ukrainian bank.

New comment by helge9210 in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

helge9210 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:56:42 +0000

> tight feedback loop between military intelligence, private startups

It's just friends buying from friends.

New comment by helge9210 in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

helge9210 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:54:37 +0000

I would put the upper bound on the population relevant to _the_ tech sector at 28000.

New comment by helge9210 in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

helge9210 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:29:20 +0000

I remember GM cars in Herzliya, Israel with cables and cameras held by duct tape circa 2019 after Andrej Karpathy already presented end to end neural network training for Autopilot in Tesla. Looked like very late to the party.

New comment by helge9210 in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

helge9210 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:14:59 +0000

Long time ago when I was managing ISP email relay and customers asked "Where is the message I've sent?" seeing in the logs message accepted by receiving SMTP server was the end of the debug for me: I just handed the customer the part of the log and suggested talking to the receiving side IT administrator.

New comment by helge9210 in "We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]"

helge9210 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:04:17 +0000

These reports are not for engineers, but for businesses. HR will point to the statistic and state "we are paying top of the market". In reality, trying to hire a senior engineer below EUR100k is like looking for a black cat in a dark room (you can be certain, the cat is not there anymore).

New comment by helge9210 in "Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF"

helge9210 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:18:35 +0000

https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2006773495066464580

> Seeing as this has made the orange site, let it be known this person is a model security researcher.

> The issue was not in any FFmpeg release, and a report was sent three days after a new code was added to FFmpeg Git.

> There was no big CVE ADVISORY "MUH SECURITEH" "you need to fix this now or you will be hacked and the world will end" associated with the report.

New comment by helge9210 in "Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA"

helge9210 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:19:09 +0000

If we assume the company runs N projects with positive Net Present Value (NPV) at the start of the project and after re-evaluation some of the project NPV turned to be negative, closing the project and laying off the staff will actually make company worth more.

New comment by helge9210 in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

helge9210 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:49:01 +0000

I would try to pass it between the wheels and would crash the same.

At least for me there was nothing indicating there is not enough clearance.

New comment by helge9210 in "How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe"

helge9210 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:35:19 +0000

Not if you consider all the modern negative connotations of being called "white". Eastern Europe was under colonial rule (of Russian empire) up until 1980-90s.

New comment by helge9210 in "How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe"

helge9210 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:24:24 +0000

Reminds me of a joke: calling a Slav white is like buying a "made in Vietnam" Rolex.

New comment by helge9210 in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

helge9210 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:47:04 +0000

Don't try to catch thieves. Go for the scrapyards/recycling companies buying the metal.

New comment by helge9210 in "Cognitive load is what matters"

helge9210 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:38:11 +0000

You can carefully pick an order of features to build in a way, that every new feature will invalidate an abstraction correctly implementing all the previous features.

New comment by helge9210 in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

helge9210 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:52:44 +0000

AI translation (to English) is off in places. "Ukrainian cybercriminals" is not in the original and was picked as the translation of the closest sounding full word.

New comment by helge9210 in "Leave Russia"

helge9210 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:34:08 +0000

You are free to create and maintain leave-any-country.com.

New comment by helge9210 in "LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust"

helge9210 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:30:17 +0000

I checked with HR at my company and got an answer I'm not allowed to announce the following: anyone submitting the code or asking a question about the code without disclosing the fact that the code in question was generated by LLM would be cursed.

New comment by helge9210 in "SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly"

helge9210 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:19:32 +0000

Expressing new opinion is OK. Expressing a change of opinion in the format "Before ..., but now opposite after ..." smells like propaganda.