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aphexairlineson Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/download?seqNo=000031...

Google Translate:

> Draft Revisions to the Guidelines for Permission for Permanent Residence (Summary)

...

> Regarding the positioning of the "Permanent Resident" status of residence:

> ・ Explicitly stated for the first time that, as it is "the most stable legal status—entailing no restrictions on activities or duration of stay and presupposing a lifetime spent in Japan"—there is a "need for particularly careful screening."

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> Regarding "2. Requirement for Independent Livelihood"

> ・ Underlying Principle: Explicitly requires an economic status equal to or better than that of Japanese nationals, both currently and in the future.

> ・ Income: Whether income consistently meets or exceeds the average income level of Japanese households based on household size (raising the standard).

> ・ Pension: Whether the projected future pension benefit amount reaches the level corresponding to 30 years of enrollment in the Employees' Pension Insurance at the aforementioned annual income level (newly added requirement; however, financial assets that can cover any shortfall will also be taken into account).

aphexairlineson Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons

If you train and instruct a circus tiger to entertain an audience but not attack the audience, but the tiger attacks the audience anyway, are you liable?

aphexairlineson Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept

It's interesting that you chose to measure how well each LLM did in talking to other NPCs, and having each NPC also use an LLM to react to each input. Why not have the LLM fight NPCs and loot items (both a significant part of the MUD experience, neither requiring LLMs on the server side), then measure character progression in experience and stats?

aphexairlineson Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab

Also standalone: https://www.meta.ai/ and https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-ne...

aphexairlineson NumPy 2.0

If your requirements.in referenced numpy before this release, then doesn't your requirements.txt already reference a specific 1.x version?

aphexairlineson Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture

Not a Thinkpad and not Intel, but that already seems attainable with the asus G14 (AMD 8945HS + NVIDIA 4070) or the upcoming asus zenbook S16 (AMD HX 370).

aphexairlineson From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate

I've never seen a large company with more L7+ engineers than L7+ managers. Usually it's a ratio of drastically more managers hired/promoted into those levels than engineers, and some orgs don't have any engineers in those levels at all.

aphexairlineson Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

Take a look at https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues before deciding to abandon the devil you know.

I prefer sticking with bash where necessary (where a script is the only thing that will reasonably work), and elsewhere using a programming language with testing, type checking, modularity, and compilation into something with zero or minimal runtime dependencies.

aphexairlineson TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'

This is a JavaScript keyword and there's nothing TypeScript-specific in the blog post.

aphexairlineson We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data

Is this similar to people moving away from giving their code as open source when companies take it, repackage, and sell it while the authors get nothing?

aphexairlineson [dead]

Looks like fake reviews here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968995

aphexairlineson Bun v0.5

They don't have to hire people who already know Zig -- just people capable of learning it.

aphexairlineson Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs

You don't need to run jlink yourself to avoid shipping the entire JDK. Here's a java19 runtime docker image at 62MB: https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-temurin/tags?page=1&name=19...

Not customizing the runtime per build or per app also potentially helps reuse of docker image layers across your container registries and clusters.

aphexairlineson Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time

You still need postcss or something like it to use css modules. The alternative of CSS-in-JS requires a build step to extract either a CSS file or inline critical styles for server rendering. The browser-native alternative of CSS Module Scripts doesn't work in Safari.

You still need babel, tsc, or swc to transform typescript to JS.

And then there are imports of files that aren't JS (images, fonts, stylesheets, etc).

aphexairlineson The Evolution of Scalable CSS

There's still no good way of publishing an npm package with multiple components, stylesheets per component, and transitive consumers using only the stylesheets for the components they reference while rendering fully server side. CSS is still not scalable.

aphexairlineson Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime

Very good to have a smaller runtime. Some of the stated benefits of the new generator are silly and the comparison with ts-proto doesn't point out the actual improvement (generating d.ts files means your CI doesn't spend time type-checking and compiling ts sources), but nice to see this new alternative.

aphexairlineson TLDR explains what a piece of code does

Comments explain why the code is there. That's different from translating code into English.

aphexairlineson Disneyland with Death Penalty

Or just walk down Peterborough street: https://elpelon.com

aphexairlineson Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework

There's a super interesting article from the just-js author explaining how he got a JS implementation into that top 20: https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...

aphexairlineson Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework

- High performance

- Scripting language

Pick one.

aphexairlineson Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming

I think that's ocaml. Higher level, with GC, nice type system, no traits but signatures and higher order modules might be enough for you, and a compiler that produces fast native binaries.

aphexairlineson The ACLU Has Lost Its Way

Yes. Even this week, we have the news that his supreme court nominees are voting to strike down abortion protections, and I have female friends and family in states with trigger laws.

aphexairlineson NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter

create-react-app starts with 1506 deps:

    $ npx create-react-app my-app
    $ find my-app/node_modules -name package.json | wc -l
        1506

aphexairlineson The ACLU Has Lost Its Way

> in my life

Lucky you?

aphexairlineson Illinois college, hit by ransomware attack, to shut down

Whoever sold the vulnerable software should be liable for damages.

aphexairlineson Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to justify

It's also easy to provide a default factory: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/default/trait.Default.html

aphexairlineson Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries

Reconsider because you'll do yourself a disservice by expecting the world to work that way. You don't want to be surprised and upset when your employer rewards someone for introducing more bureaucracy instead of some technically challenging work you delivered.

aphexairlineson Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries

If you truly believe this, then please reconsider. The tech industry doesn't reward people for technically challenging work. Consider how many large companies were/are built on what you'd consider to be terrible technology choices.

Don't expect an "ultimately necessary transition" because it'll likely go in the opposite direction.

aphexairlineson German gov plans software company's liability for damages caused by vulns

Health service in the US comes with liability:

https://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerc...

The HHS regulates public health at the federal level. It has around 80,000 employees.

https://www.hhs.gov/regulations/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_He...

aphexairlineson German gov plans software company's liability for damages caused by vulns

> the invisible hand

The FDA has 18,000 employees. The USDA has around 100,000.