Hacker News: ktta

New comment by ktta in "Migrating to the EU"

ktta — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:06:58 +0000

ProtonMail? Not strictly speaking EU, but atleast EEA

It also comes with a whole suite of software that you don't have to find EU alternatives for like Calendar, Drive, Password manager, etc

New comment by ktta in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

ktta — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:21:42 +0000

*Fei-Fei Li

New comment by ktta in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

ktta — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:18:28 +0000

Since iPhone Air is thinner, it needs to use titanium for the increased rigidity to avoid another iPhone 6-eqsue 'bendgate' at the risk of worse heat dissipation

New comment by ktta in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

ktta — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:25:28 +0000

It does happen-- which is why we're told to watch out for high CO2 levels in our living spaces and let fresh air in often

New comment by ktta in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

ktta — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:10:57 +0000

But that may be where most of the revenue comes from

New comment by ktta in "Updates to H-1B"

ktta — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:55:16 +0000

You're right on North Macedonia (which again needs $200k, so terrible value for the $ hence the low takers) but wrong on others. Montenegro suspended its CBI program and Panama never had one, only a residence visa which then you use to naturalize after 5 years (plus it technically doesn't permit dual citizenship although enforcement seems non-existent)

For EB-5, China and India have a waitlist but that's only in the 'unreserved' category. There are new EB-5 categories now that both reduce the investment amount required and processing can be done in a couple months now. If one really wants to immigrate and has the money, EB-5 is still the best choice by far.

New comment by ktta in "Updates to H-1B"

ktta — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:01:20 +0000

Only CBI countries on that list are Grenada (200k+) & Turkey (400k), and USCIS put out a rule specifically for that situation, with additional requirements. From: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

> In addition, for those individuals who obtained treaty country nationality through a financial investment, USCIS may require additional documentation to show that the applicant has been domiciled in the treaty country indicated in the application for a continuous period of at least 3 years at any point before applying for E-1 or E-2 classification.

Plus E-2 visa is a non-immigrant visa, so it doesn't give you any kind of special pathway to green card. Might as well apply for an EBx at the outset instead of fiddling with an E-2 visa.

New comment by ktta in "Google partners with Internet Archive to link to archives in search"

ktta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:39:42 +0000

I don't think so. Most of the web is behind a login and/or unlinkable. So you're left with 'open web'. This part is much smaller. So not impossible to archive a meaningful part of it, pretty tangible, especially the useful parts.

New comment by ktta in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

ktta — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:20:02 +0000

Absolutely. Bard felt worse than GPT-3.5 in some aspects. Gemini Ultra looks to be on par with GPT-4 and better than GPT-4 atleast when it comes to speed, which isn't trivial when expecting longform answers

New comment by ktta in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

ktta — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:43:34 +0000

Landed at a 404 as well, but my /u/0/ is not a Google Workspace accounts. I'm in EU at the moment but with a US billing address. While the upgrade succeeded, I'm only seeing a 404 after

New comment by ktta in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

ktta — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:21:40 +0000

That's standard "You were too good for them anyways" post break-up speech

New comment by ktta in "Tell HN: Marcus.com' automated fraud detection locked me out of life savings"

ktta — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:15:39 +0000

KYC is much more involved outside the US. Have you tried opening an account in the EU or South Asia?

It's just that US does very little to no KYC upon account opening, instead relying on risk indicators (like IP address, and credit systems) at the outset, and throwing flags way down the line if some 'unusual' activity happens in the account. This happens typically when someone really needs access their account urgently (real estate txs) or in unusual situations, which results in stories like these.

No other country has high-street banks (obv. excluding the 'tech'-banks of yore) that let me open an account without ever entering a branch or requiring a single piece ID

New comment by ktta in "How Bear does analytics with CSS"

ktta — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:31:42 +0000

Not if they use a password hash like Argon2 or scrypt

New comment by ktta in "1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023"

ktta — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:23:34 +0000

I'm expecting @tptacek to come in anytime reminding us of his thoughts on DNSSEC

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

New comment by ktta in "Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference"

ktta — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:20:00 +0000

This just makes the case for supporting it even further, because then they'd be supporting multiple years worth of hardware with just the effort for one uarch

New comment by ktta in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

ktta — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:16:25 +0000

I would agree with you on the first few responses. It is the almost self-aware responses towards the end (but still before the canned "As an AI..." responses) that were of real concern.

Imagine your child having a conversation with your Google Home/Alexa, and its tone suddenly turning terse, and saying it is sick and cannot move due to a medical condition, talking like a real human.

New comment by ktta in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

ktta — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:09:23 +0000

This is scarier to me than any horror movie or video I've seen in over a decade. Maybe it is because I use ChatGPT a lot, and I feel something like this happening to me directly might make me stop using it entirely.

It makes mistakes all the time, which I can deal with, but not this. Especially, the "I am suffering from a medical condition" line is bonkers.

New comment by ktta in "Unpacking Xilinx 7-Series Bitstreams (2018)"

ktta — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:29:17 +0000

Do you have rough pricing yet?

New comment by ktta in "Why is desalination so difficult?"

ktta — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:34:42 +0000

Is the only remaining use left agricultural?

New comment by ktta in "Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off"

ktta — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:58:59 +0000

Software is never done if the software it runs on is never done. Making that transition is not easy, and tech debt can accumulate to the point where you have to make substantial changes. In the meantime, UI standards/tastes change. Now you're at the right spot for a re-write