Hacker News: sva_

New comment by sva_ in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

sva_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:27:32 +0000

> First, things are bad

As a German, it sounds like you integrated well.

New comment by sva_ in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

sva_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:25:06 +0000

> Most countries will grant PR without requiring a language

This statement is clearly false, off the top of my head only USA and Spain come to mind. There are some countries like Japan where there it isn't a hard requirement, but you'd need a very good reason to justify why

New comment by sva_ in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

sva_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:44:07 +0000

> like all the smartphone brands

But there is at least some argument that smartphones nowadays have some pretty crazy waterproofness that I'm not sure is physically possible with a replaceable battery?

New comment by sva_ in "Immich 3.0"

sva_ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:37:57 +0000

Sync was already fixed in the last major version, at least for us (android and iphone)

New comment by sva_ in "Immich 3.0"

sva_ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:13:20 +0000

If you want a cheaper alternative, maybe look into ServaRica. That's where I run my Immich instance for my wife and me. 4TB for $11 per month. The servers (cpus) are not super fast, but fast enough for me.

New comment by sva_ in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"

sva_ — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:19:26 +0000

all usage has been reset. lez go!

New comment by sva_ in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

sva_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:40:59 +0000

I propose that humans use Unicode U+2E3B three em dash ⸻ it is an impressively long character.

New comment by sva_ in "How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?"

sva_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:15:14 +0000

> reasonably sized prime number

I feel like you're alluding to something but won't say to what? Maybe something like the 'fine-tuned universe' hypothesis?

New comment by sva_ in "Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms"

sva_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:09:05 +0000

> The finding surprised the doctors since tapeworms aren’t endemic to Spain and he said he hadn’t traveled. However, the man may have been exposed during his work. Until 10-years prior, when he retired, he had worked in construction, often working alongside people who had migrated from regions where pork tapeworms (Taenia solium) are endemic. The parasitic worms can spread through the fecal-oral route. His doctors speculated his infection might have been a rare case of cryptic transmission from sharing meals and bathrooms with his coworkers, one of whom apparently had a tapeworm infection.

yikes

New comment by sva_ in "The annotated PyTorch training loop"

sva_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:14:56 +0000

I mean partial derivatives aren't that complicated if you know normal derivatives, which most people do. And backpropagation isn't too difficult either.

The value of PyTorch lies more in utilizing accelerators like GPUs while offering a nice abstraction. But you can build your own (inefficient) tensor library without too much effort as e.g. Andrej Karpathy has shown in his "NN zero to hero" youtube series.

New comment by sva_ in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

sva_ — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:22:56 +0000

Interesting. I have the Google AI Pro plan and use Gemini several times each day and I don't remember the last time I got a refusal. I wonder what criteria go into that, like maybe how they rate your Google account?

New comment by sva_ in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:06:32 +0000

@dang please update if you see this

And merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651613

Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/germany-trains-halted-communications-radio-problem-deutsche-bahn-e8fd970b2d889f3ae7ce03322d5c726b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651613

Points: 186

# Comments: 190

New comment by sva_ in "All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption"

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:14:08 +0000

It is the only English source I could find.

Apparently, all train services in Germany are currently disrupted.

German source:

https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/verkehr/zugverkehr-in-nrw-komplett-e...

Not much is known currently, except that the German railway has issues with radio communication - which I found curious enough to post.

All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://english.news.cn/20260624/65f1b6192cd947e28849776a5aef05c6/c.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651552

Points: 73

# Comments: 2

New comment by sva_ in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:04:13 +0000

RAM prices are crazy now, but they always tended to go up and down in waves over the years.

New comment by sva_ in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:59:58 +0000

My university offers locations such as India for the semester abroad, but most people rather go somewhere else.

New comment by sva_ in "Show HN: Neural Particle Automata"

sva_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:09:45 +0000

From the original research - self-organizing textures: https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/

New comment by sva_ in "Nvidia Halos"

sva_ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:58:36 +0000

> Safety transistors safety assessed

Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society

sva_ — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:17:44 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04075

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608384

Points: 3

# Comments: 0