<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alphabeta3r56</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alphabeta3r56</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:19:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alphabeta3r56" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah battery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460851</link><dc:creator>alphabeta3r56</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The reason it is a weasel's move is because decisions at the consulate are made by consular officers who are career public workers and won't deny visas for arbitrary reasons.<p>No? Visa can be denied for arbitrary reasons based on what executive branch of US. there have been multiple cases where it has been clear that visas are a privilige not a right. Visa needs a reason to be granted, by default it is denied.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460828</link><dc:creator>alphabeta3r56</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's by design too because immigrants visas are capped by country of birth. And the quota has nothing to do with reality.</p>
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<p>That's on purpose too. To send a clear signal that we don't want you. It's just a mobster way of doing it.</p>
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<p>Linux (especially KDE) is probably the best desktop OS right now.  Not great for laptops though</p>
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<p>I also dont think the OPs done was condescending.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:33:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359593</link><dc:creator>alphabeta3r56</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the answer. And I understand that. But for me, that answer is potentially a very biased answer. Is it a feeling that comes naturally or is it forced in the sense that you realise you are everything for the kid and the kid is everything for you and both you  the kid have no other choice.<p>Talking to a lot of people (bit you) i felt it was more the latter.</p>
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<p>Yes. I keep getting that feeling everyday with my work as of now. And I also got a PhD after fighting a lot of hardship including huge opposition from my parents to the effect of having lost contact with them.  But what you said does ring a bell in that, I need to be constantly doing my work in getting that feeling. (apart from my PhD which every once in a while makes me go wheeeee).<p>I guess with kids, its like my PhD but a constant source instead of static fading in time?</p>
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<p>Thanks. I have a friend who says the same as you.</p>
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<p>Thank for your answer. I appreciate that.</p>
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<p>Why? Noy disputing you but I am childless yet primarily I cannot think why bringing up a kid would be significant or meaningful.<p>Like once I have a kid, then that kid has to be the most significant part of my life. But before that, why?</p>
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<p>First break up MS though.</p>
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<p>There will be something else</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336577</link><dc:creator>alphabeta3r56</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "More German than many Germans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAGerman/s/kUJllIkqFs" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAGerman/s/kUJllIkqFs</a></p>
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<p>It's more simple.  Online bin packing problem is simpler to solve and has more optimal solutions with smaller chunks</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/releases/tag/n8.0.3" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/releases/tag/n8.0.3</a></p>
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<p>Ffmpeg has patented codes and is GPLv3, what gives?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:59:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166858</link><dc:creator>alphabeta3r56</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphabeta3r56 in "More German than many Germans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not the OP but to give you an example.  Spines on books in German are written one way along the spine. While generally in English books it's the other way round.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/1n5booe/do_all_german_books_have_bottomtotop_writing_on/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/1n5booe/do_all_ger...</a><p>Both have their trade-offs and most cultures are chill about it,  but a lot of Germans will swear by the way it is done in Germany being the logical method. It is a vrry homogenizing culture that way.<p>It also goes for most things in life like sentence case vs title case for headings.  Pairing of flavors in dishes (although that is changing).<p>All in all,  it gives you the idea of "there's a german way to do things which is the correct way,  please adjust."<p>To be clear, there are some German ways which I think have much more far reaching consequences, and one about should argue about them, like attitude toward labor laws or LGBT stance. (And whichever way you feel about it, you can agree that the stance has far reaching consequences). And Germans will club all of the different level of seriousness together at the same level with whether you have a accent in your German, for example, when considering how integrated you are.<p>And that is incredibly frustrating and makes one feel left out. And it is not just immigrants. I know people who moved from Hamburg to Erlangen who felt more left out than me who moved from India to Erlangen (mostly because I had a German girlfriend at that point.)</p>
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<p>I have mostly worked with computational physics with discontinuous polynomial approximations. Stuff like this would be easily detected in those methods as anatomy brcsuse of assumption pf smoothness.<p>Statistics on the other hand is more accepting of discontinuous data due to it's basis in measure spaces.<p>Hence In general, you should know what your data should look like before you aim to detect anamolies. But also, it might be a good practice with new automated research actors to always use both approximations (measure theory based and otherwise), to figure out what's going on.</p>
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<p>RSSFeed yes</p>
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