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698969··on Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk
698969··on Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
> a very popular format that gets EXTREMELY high compression ratios on bilevel images of types typical to scanned pdfs

Funny you say that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character_substitution_e...

698969··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
The list was from before it was added.
698969··on A shrub in Nepal supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Japan
I wonder if the demand is expected to remain stable..

The article mentions that Japan redesigns its currency every 20 years, and they're doing so this year.

698969··on Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons
Got any links?

I assume one'd need a lot of bees in that warehouse to make it economically feasible, hence lots of openings for them, and at that point can you do efficient climate control?

698969··on Optimize CSS with SAT Solving
There are a lot of bad examples on the internet, "try this, it worked for me" but only because of some other rule up the cascade that the person answering isn't aware of.
698969··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
No hypothesis, just trying to gauge at what point could/would someone willingly consider that lifestyle.
698969··on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
Out of curiosity, what is the ballpark of your and your spouse's income and net worth?
698969··on Postgres as queue
Does the advice only apply to self-hosted/bare-metal VMs? Would sharing our Azure Flexible Postgres for a queue be a bad idea?
698969··on UUID v7
Isn't the real issue here that your competitors had the authorization to see the contracts you had with other customers?
698969··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
Super difficult to pirate multiplayer games, keep up with DLCs/patches and to keep the competitive aspect of some games (leaderboards, steam achievements).
698969··on Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React
Million's optimizations are only relevant if you're rendering a large number of identical stateless components (exactly like JS Framework Benchmark).

Real world applications are mostly deep trees of stateful components.

698969··on Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
Not the large state schools, but some that don't get enough students do based on your academic profile. In FL or TX, your out-of-state tuition is removed if you get other merit scholarships above a certain amount, so it ends up compounding.

I think the taxpayers would be pleased to take the $20k I'm spending there relative to the $12k or so that's spent on my scholarship?

698969··on Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
Yes, the work visa after graduation is the main source of my worry. I've read the problem for internationals is amplified by the current state of the tech economy.

Dunno if that'll persist by the time I graduate or not. I'm considering switching my major to Electrical Engineering if the university allows in hopes of keeping more doors open.

As for the gap year, this particular university denied it, besides I'm 20 and have been out of school for more than a year already, that plus moving to another country thus loosening my ties to my home country feels like it'd seriously jeopardize my visa application as well in a year.

698969··on Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
What was your path to moving to the US without a college degree, H1B with the 12 year experience substitution or something else?
698969··on Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
> I say this as someone who got a GC

Were you on an F1 visa or something else?

698969··on Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
Indeed, I'm sure the answer would heavily rely on someone's personal values, but as barely an adult, I don't think I have developed that many personal values that I bind tightly to.

> got yourself some sort of very disputed scholarship

fwiw, it was a fairly common one that I got solely based on SAT/GPA

698969··on Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad?
Immigrants don't get a lower COL, they live in the same place and pay the same taxes.

If anything their COL is higher because of the fees related to being an immigrant, they lose out on benefits and on sharing fixed costs with the family.

698969··on Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file
When was the last time you used SvelteKit?
698969··on Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
The calling location has been omitted from the snippet. You don't need to do anything special to call it, just `increment()` wherever it's in scope.

`<button on:click={() => increment()}>+</button>`

698969··on Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
You can only do so many compiler-y things in a dynamically typed language like Javascript. And even less of it within the context of a single file, unless you implement a bundler (web jargon equivalent of linker). Otherwise by the time the run-of-the-mill bundler is done connecting parts of your component tree into a single file, so much of the high-level information of the component is lost that you can't really do much analysis on it.

At least that were the reasons I saw when I was thinking about the same. If anyone has ideas around it, please get in touch.

698969··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
I guess big in-person investors were told as much, but if it's about that big purple banner on their site, that seems to be an image with no alt-text. I wonder if an investor with impaired vision may be able to sue them for failing to communicate that part.
698969··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
*lower compensation
698969··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
MSFT runs it on their own infrastructure and gives it away for free in Bing. How come that it's financially feasible for them running it for free and not for OpenAI which has paid subscriptions?
698969··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Presumably your miner is running 24/7 throughout the month. Not the same for ChatGPT which would answer maybe 10 sessions (with multiple pauses between queries) tops from a single person in a day.
698969··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Ahh, so that's why he cut off signups after Dev Day.
698969··on Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
(read: all the popular ones at the time)
698969··on Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM
The only part that rubs me the wrong way is,

> The pipe operator will first check to see if the left hand value could be used as the first argument to the call, e.g. a |> b(1, 2) would become b(a, 1, 2).

Optimizing for one less _ typed is a really bad trade-off in terms of clarity here.

698969··on Show HN: Sshx, a web-based collaborative terminal
Seems like something to do with your deployment server config. You may be redirecting all pages to your fallback spa.html. I built the site and served it with `python3 -m http.server --dir build` and it served the script to the browser without an issue.
698969··on Martin Goetz, recipient of the first software patent, has died
Agreed, It'd be fitting if it was about a retirement, but using it for someone passing away feels really unpleasant.
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