Hacker News: sharmajai

New comment by sharmajai in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

sharmajai — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:22:49 +0000

Who said investing is _only_ for "capital and capital appreciation"? It can also be for social good.

New comment by sharmajai in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

sharmajai — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:42:31 +0000

They have a very opaque and subjective permanent residency program. So while they get all the benefits out of you as an immigrant, they may provide none in return.

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

sharmajai — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:32:58 +0000

Product companies with deprioritized R&D wings are the first ones to die.

New comment by sharmajai in "DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days"

sharmajai — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:41:03 +0000

I get the urge to be cynical all the time, but this isn't that time. "Once you grow", they have already grown and competing with the SoTA models and still giving it all back to the community.

I just wish this smear campaign against them stops sometime soon.

New comment by sharmajai in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

sharmajai — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:45:41 +0000

I am 100% sure that company is the F in FAANG.

New comment by sharmajai in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

sharmajai — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:08:02 +0000

Dude, that's cheating!

New comment by sharmajai in "Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license"

sharmajai — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:58:24 +0000

But but look at all the Turing Award and Putnam Prize winners he was worked with.

New comment by sharmajai in "Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper"

sharmajai — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:23:05 +0000

Maybe not everything should be about business.

New comment by sharmajai in "OpenAI predicted to generate over $1B"

sharmajai — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:05:28 +0000

What're the issues with PayPal that you're aware of?

New comment by sharmajai in "Instead of your Life's Purpose (2021)"

sharmajai — Sun, 14 May 2023 12:59:05 +0000

https://youtu.be/OVXTAKpmgww

New comment by sharmajai in "Tech firms' nightmare: Vanishing green cards"

sharmajai — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 22:51:24 +0000

That's being tried [1]. Although, it's not going well [2].

[1] https://www.visalaw.com/onboarding-mass-litigation-clients/

[2] https://twitter.com/LilySAxelrod/status/1437846756394520582

New comment by sharmajai in "I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

sharmajai — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:45:50 +0000

While I agree that Peter's suggestion is the safe thing to do, based on the following tweet from the official account, if you were in the country legally on 06/24, the proclamation doesn't seem to apply.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TravelGov/status/1285331446232743...

New comment by sharmajai in "Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages"

sharmajai — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:58:16 +0000

Of course it does, because it can be combined with other characters. This is the semantic meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent

New comment by sharmajai in "Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages"

sharmajai — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:38:45 +0000

I don't see which of those 4 definitions supports the grapheme cluster interpretation.

New comment by sharmajai in "Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages"

sharmajai — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:54:01 +0000

All Unicode characters map, one-to-one, to their code points. A code point being a numeric identifier. It's a grapheme that combines multiple characters to form a unit of writing.

New comment by sharmajai in "Chrome OS native development"

sharmajai — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:35:57 +0000

That's an amazing price given it's retailing for more than twice that. One option to expand storage is have an always-inserted, low-profile USB 3 flash drive like SanDisk Ultra Fit, providing read speeds upto 150 MB/s.