Hacker News: ilove196884

New comment by ilove196884 in "Can Substrate disrupt ASML using particle acceleration?"

ilove196884 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:35:12 +0000

We know it can't be used in a fab because the mask in EUV scanners is in a hydrogen ambient to protect the optics and masks whereas the synchrotron is in a perfect vacuum. Now EUV has tons of problems with stochastics and as the wavelength decreases these errors increase. Second 13.5nm has optics with highest reflectivity which lower or higher wavelengths do not. It was tried by IBM but it failed and many in IBM and AMD's lithography team ended up at ASML.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs"

ilove196884 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:03:33 +0000

I do wonder about your opinions on the Impoundment control act. Should the president withhold money allocated by Congress?

New comment by ilove196884 in "Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs"

ilove196884 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:01:52 +0000

So according to you any country with a strong civil service is racist. Maybe you are unfamiliar with modern governance or norms.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Apple announces American Manufacturing Program"

ilove196884 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:18:40 +0000

1. Apple moved production to India to avoid Indian tariffs so as to sell it to Indians. Initially the factory only made iphones for Indians. 2. Tariffs revenue will stabilize once they are set and revenue can easily fall. 3. Democrats are for free trade since the FDR administration, Biden was an exception not the norm for democrats. 4. JD Vance has to win first, he is not charismatic or funny like Trump.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Apple announces American Manufacturing Program"

ilove196884 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:15:19 +0000

Those jobs require a ton of college education. Atleast as far as I know TSMC only allows PhDs on lithography and etching machines. And Apple smartphone manufacturing is nearly automated and most of the required personnel are engineers.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

ilove196884 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:21:22 +0000

I am in India with friends in their last year in college. Hiring is effectively ice cold. Companies like TCS, Infosys wouldn't come to his college but now do. I just want to say good luck, these projects and products are on autopilot with no hiring in India and layoffs everywhere.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS"

ilove196884 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:58:30 +0000

Any benchmark and comparisons?

New comment by ilove196884 in "Supreme Court Review Sought to Revoke H-1B Spouses' Work Permit Rule"

ilove196884 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:56:31 +0000

I would argue that SCOTUS tells congress to make a better and more clear law, but Congress never makes one. H4 is not important for big tech as hypothetically speaking partners can stay apart in different countries for the term of the visa. Though imo H4 has more abusers of the program than h1b.

New comment by ilove196884 in "France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU"

ilove196884 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:04:47 +0000

I just don't see how this doesn't get exploited and result in a huge hack with a few billions in losses. The ransomware threat is extremely huge.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Treasury officials: Musk ally 'mistakenly' had power to alter payments system"

ilove196884 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:11:08 +0000

These guys keep threating to burn down everything. Honestly I wonder what kind of disaster will wake Congress up from hibernation. These guys are claiming to find fraud but they have no auditors. The hubris is insane. Though as someone who identifies as Gen Z, I can say that the arrogance is expected. They will not doubt be sued by contractors who will demand compensation for contracts signed. Let's get ready for a showdown.

New comment by ilove196884 in "82% of Waymo's autonomous miles in California were human supervised in 2024"

ilove196884 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:56:22 +0000

wholemarscatalog is a completely unreliable. Show me the source. Dude is a tesla shill.

New comment by ilove196884 in "NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs"

ilove196884 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:09:15 +0000

Indirect research cost is not spent on admin.

New comment by ilove196884 in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

ilove196884 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:12:35 +0000

Advocating for political interference in the Fed is a new low.

New comment by ilove196884 in "The Government's Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified"

ilove196884 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:46:36 +0000

If any modernization is yo be done. It should be done by any trustworthy and reputable. Not someone who brags about credentials.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Elon Musk's Demolition Crew"

ilove196884 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:46:56 +0000

Sorry but the spoils state is called corruption and is totally bad in all forms. If you want to curtail the so called administrative agency then the parties have to win elections by dicisive margins. Or the president and judiciary can force Congress to pass laws.

New comment by ilove196884 in "NIH is deleting grant applications from review based on keywords"

ilove196884 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:34:39 +0000

Bias(statistics), polarization (physics), inclusion (math), and many more.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz"

ilove196884 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:30:36 +0000

And some athletes can invest their own money. I think players for GSW invested a lot in tech.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Scientists on alert as NOAA restricts contact with foreign nationals"

ilove196884 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:24:52 +0000

Funny, very funny. Oil companies are refusing his request to drill more. They are not interested in political theatre.

New comment by ilove196884 in "US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal"

ilove196884 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:35:46 +0000

EU holds all the cards here. Aws and azure have everything to lose. Europe has competitors but the offerings are fragmented between different companies. If they come together then yes they can have replacement for most users. Most users don't need bleeding edge features. Painful but can be done. Definitely not impossible.

New comment by ilove196884 in "Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need"

ilove196884 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:00:00 +0000

I hate how paper titles are worded like seo techniques.