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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-10-22 03:01:25+00:00
The Immigration and Nationality Act is a moving target. Periodically it is amended, or the Supreme Court strikes down certain provisions.

Having been born to a Canadian father in the US and moved to Canada when I was nine, my US citizenship lapsed when I turned 25 in Canada (I was quite happy to stay in Canada during the Vietnam war during my twenties). At the time I was unaware of the INA provisions repealed in 1978 that lapsed my US citizenship.

New FATCA and IRS obligations motivated me to research my US citizenship status and I was happy to discover that it had lapsed.

US Customs officers sometimes ask questions when I show up with a Canadian passport with a US birthplace. Now I pull out my copy of State Department FAM 1200 APPENDIX C to explain my status, but the legalese is a challenge for people with just high school. .
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-22 03:01:30+00:00
If it didn't work, of course I wouldn't use it. Duh.

The only way to survive in the long term is to become a part of the ecosystem that delivers more value more than it extracts. This is not impossible.

Moreover, the analogy with XIV is 100% bogus. There is nothing safe about 0DTEs. If you knew the first thing about 0DTE, you would know that it is held very selectively, not like XIV. A good number of the 0DTEs get wiped to $0 every day, not once in ten years. XIV was unforgiving just once; 0DTEs are unforgiving as a routine. Also, the logic behind inverse volatility offerings has been updated to mitigate the risk of what happened, not that it holds any relevance to this discussion.
by rtpg | 2025-10-22 03:01:31+00:00
I think this is selection bias. I know plenty of people in Asia who have plenty allergies to some degree or another (selection bias on my side as well)

Hell, most of hayfever season in Tokyo is a bunch of people with allergies!

I think you should remember that American TV shows will use certain kinds of extreme scenarios to make a story. Lots of people who are allergic to things in a fairly benign way.

And also just more generally, I think Americans will be more likely to identify that _they have a shrimp allergy_ when every time they eat shrimp they feel bad. But I know plenty of adults who just go through life and be like "I guess I feel sick every time I eat this" and not be willing to use the word "allergy".
by ljoshua | 2025-10-22 03:01:39+00:00
Just a plug for the book this content is derived from, Noam Wasserman's "The Founders Dilemmas." It lays out so many facets of startup decisions that deserve thought from the outset to prevent issues. It also strikes a good balance IMO between being based in statistics and research, and including anecdotes from actual experiences that bring the statistics full circle. I'd highly recommend it.
by badosu | 2025-10-22 03:02:59+00:00
I had a hard time trying to parse something understandable from the article.

This is what I got from it (I'd be happy to hear someone informed correcting me/confirming). (excerpt from a discussion yesterday I had with some friends not too math inclined)

What it seems to be the articles claim is that, you could define a scaling operation in the angles you performed, finding some constant scaling factor (say alpha) and running the operation twice to reach the identity (rotation 0 compared to baseline), e.g.:

I = R ⊕ (α.R ⊕ α.R)

In their example that would be something like (with alpha=0.3):

I = (rad(75).X ⊕ rad(20).Y ⊕ ...) ⊕ (rad(0.3x75).X ⊕ rad(0.3x20).Y ⊕ ...) ⊕ (rad(0.3x75).X ⊕ rad(0.3x20).Y ⊕ ...)

Remembering that our rotation action is non-commutative, e.g. `aX ⊕ bY != bY ⊕ aX`.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-22 03:03:15+00:00
It proves nothing, and has, in fact, been overtaken by events (see another of my replies [1]).

As for its alleged conclusion, I love David Chalmers’ parody “Cakes are crumbly, recipes are syntactic, syntax is not sufficient for crumbliness, so implementation of a recipe is not sufficient for making a cake.”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45664226
by nativeit | 2025-10-22 03:03:24+00:00
"One side note, and it really irks me, it seems to be a legislative reaction to some morons increasingly wanting to melt Cents and Nickels. It is now illegal to melt them. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always thought that the mindset of melting coins to make a profit never made an ounce of sense. It costs money to transfer a globally recognized coin with a known metallic composition, into a bar or round, and to have that object assayed. It’s the undertaking of an idiot. And yet, untold millions of silver coins have been reduced to bars and rounds. Friggin’ idiots."

Some person on Quora, for whatever that's worth.
by YesBox | 2025-10-22 03:03:48+00:00
Edit: I missed this was software rendered. I’m one gen-iteration ahead. Prob would still be possible to render my game cpu side provided I use the most efficient sprite depth ordering algorithm possible (my game is isometric pixel art like rollercoaster tycoon)

Ha! That’s what I’m stuck with for Metropolis 1998. I have to use the ancient OpenGL fixed function pipeline (thankfully I discovered an AB extension function in the gl.h file that allows addition fields to be passed to the GPU).

I’m using SFML for the graphics framework which I think is OpenGL 1.x

Game to show what’s possible: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/Metropolis_1998/
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 03:05:08+00:00
> is a very good speech, very courageous

Really? It’s eye opening. But Destin seems to miss the point.

We’re not trying to go back to the Moon, one and done. That was Apollo. We’re trying to build a system that reduces the repeat cost of Moon access, with medium-term plans for permanent settlement. (Like in Antarctica. Not The Expanse.)

His criticism of Artemis is on point. But his anchoring to Apollo is bewilderingly blind. If we’re just redoing Apollo, the programme should be defunded. (If a NASA administrator set that as a goal, I’d argue the NASA manned spaceflight programme might need to be overhauled.)

> everyone in the room is hesitant to say yes

This is like Trump complaining his generals won’t laugh at his jokes.

These are senior NASA scientists. They’re listening to a talk, not a rally.
by jasonjayr | 2025-10-22 03:05:20+00:00
> During this phase, 15 discovered the Pony Preservation Project, a collaborative project started by /mlp/, the My Little Pony board on 4chan.[47] Contributors of the project had manually trimmed, denoised, transcribed, and emotion-tagged thousands of voice lines from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and had compiled them into a dataset that provided ideal training material for 15.ai.[48]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai#2016%E2%80%932020:_Conce...
by TheDong | 2025-10-22 03:05:34+00:00
Even better than earlyoom is systemd-oomd[0] or oomd[1].

systemd-oomd and oomd use the kernel's PSI[2] information which makes them more efficient and responsive, while earlyoom is just polling.

earlyoom keeps getting suggested, even though we have PSI now, just because people are used to using it and recommending it from back before the kernel had cgroups v2.

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd

[2]: https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-22 03:06:05+00:00
> Their message for the last ten years (plus or minus some) has been that if you think that an unborn baby deserves legal protection, if you don't think that trans people belong in womens' restrooms and on womens' sports teams, if you don't think that gay marriage is a good idea, then you are an irredeemable moral leper, and their goal is a complete destruction of your culture. If you're, say, poor and white and blue-collar, they still are totally against you, even though you're the people that they have, historically, represented.

The opposite of your point is that I recall the GOP frequently calling anyone in favor of abortions murderers, people who are gay or transgender pedophiles and that non-whites are destroying our nation. This isn't even a recent phenomenon either, this was all stuff I heard decades ago just slightly less overt.

Mind you, I don't disagree that the Democratic Party is a complete waste, because they are. But you're arguing simultaneously that they had toxic core principles which alienated their voting base, but the reality is that they've never had any principles at all. They've had no issue for as long as I've been alive negotiating and watering down their platform into absolutely nothing for the sake of trying to cater to the people who vote for the GOP which is the actual reason why we're here today. And their plans for the future mostly involve doing the same thing: making concessions on abortion, throwing minorities under the bus etc for the sake of trying to appeal to people that will sooner vote for Bootstomper Jr provided that they make a pinky promise that they won't stomp on their head too hard.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-22 03:06:29+00:00
Avoiding PDF is a perfectly admirable thing to do. When people avoid Chromium everyone treats them like a royal knight, but with PDFs they're a luddite?

I'll boycott Luckey's laptop just like I boycott Cook's and Pichai's. I don't need the satisfaction of one-man-armying their entire company to smithereens, I simply don't want any of my paycheck furthering their failures of a business. It saves me time, money, and hours of existential dread relating to whether or not I'm the baddie. If they won't stand by their principles, I'm happy to do it for them.
by rtpg | 2025-10-22 03:07:12+00:00
Plenty of stuff is poison to animals as well as humans! Lots of animals get sicknesses and like parasites from everything they eat.

Like with humans, though, animals have immune systems which help. This is the trouble with food hygiene arguments: you can eat "dangerous" food and 99% of the time be fine. But it's still good for people to not roll the dice on this stuff, even with a 1% hit rate. We eat food 3 times a day, so that's potentially 9 very adverse events per year!

"Yeah I get food poisoning once every month or two" is a thing that some people live through, and I do not believe they enjoy it. I have not have food poisoning for a very long time, and appreciate it a lot.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-22 03:09:50+00:00
What's the point of a work visa if you can just bypass it with a robot?

IIUC, typically you don't hire foreign individuals for "your company". "your company" sets up a subsidiary in that foreign country and they work "locally" for the foreign subsidiary. And so the difference is that your local company would _import_ the work products from that foreign company and pay any relevant tariffs (see Nintendo of America paying tariffs from Nintendo Switch 2s produced by Nintendo of Japan). Now, IIUC the tariffs for digital goods are typically 0% so it's pretty simple to import them but you're still following a law allowing for the importation of a digital good.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-22 03:09:53+00:00
The term "relevance" usually refers to something, i.e., relevant to what

But it can also mean "popular"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/relevant

"Popular" information, evidenced by web traffic for example, may be important for so-called "tech" companies seeking to profit from intermediating access to free, public information, i.e., acting as a middleman. The information may be valuable to the so-called "tech" company middleman for purposes of supporting data collection, surveillance and online advertising services

However, the so-called "tech" company does not determine the value of the information to others. For example, a small group of people may find information on a web page to be valuable for their individual purposes. The web page may receive little traffic. The amount of traffic does not determine the value of the information to the small group
by m348e912 | 2025-10-22 03:10:02+00:00
There are such stark and notable exceptions to this dilemma it makes me wonder if it's the reason founders believe they can grind on through the growth of their startup. Gates, Zuckerberg, Jobs*, Bezos are founders who lead through immense growth of their companies. The "if they can do it, why can't I?" mentality has to be a factor.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-22 03:10:22+00:00
That is a false assumption.

I am getting paid. I was able to resurrect a startup that failed 8 years ago. Back then, we tried to bootstrap with a very nice off-shore dev for the MVP, that's all we could afford. The iteration period was ~24hrs. That period is now minutes. You know who that helps? Every startup who didn't nail the idea from go, and requires iteration.

I can now meet with a user on Monday, show them the little feature they wanted by Tuesday... like a real full stack dev would have done 4 years ago. Is it ready for b2c scale on Tuesday? No, but that's not my goal.

I understand all the LLM-dev derision to some extent. But if you are not using the billions of non-gate-kept subsidies given to all of us right now, then either you are working on real computer science problems, or you are wasting what seems like the biggest opportunity of my lifetime.

This is the greatest time to build a startup ever. However, if you are stuck making that money for the boss, then yeah.. that's probably annoying. And yes, it is scary as hell that we are all going to be replaced, in possibly very short order. This is the time for every dev to learn to be a ... eeek... product dev, and not a just a software dev. I think Product Dev will become a thing.
by bamboozled | 2025-10-22 03:10:32+00:00
Little off topic but does anyone else find AI summarise really misleading, almost dangerously misleading ? In a search box you can never rally provide anywhere near enough context to get a sufficient answer on anything of even small consequence.

Yes I do use the internet for “medical opinion” and information and seriously some of the falsehoods it’s provided…similarly anything related to construction. Steer clear.
by tedggh | 2025-10-22 03:10:45+00:00
If it is that bad why don’t we see it being exploited at scale? I work with many Fortune 500 companies and I would say 9/10 use SharePoint. Also some deployments are much better than others, so I would rather say many implementations of SharePoint are shit but if done right it’s actually pretty solid. There’s really no better alternative unless you want to maintain 5-10 separate tools owned by multiple vendors. I also don’t get the hate for Teams. I use Zoom, Slack even Discord for work and don’t have strong feelings for Teams. I can take calls, join meetings from my calendar, record them and summarize them with Copilot. I don’t need anything else and Teams does that just fine. I do like Discord ability to share multiple screens and jump into a channel to collaborate, particularly useful when debugging or pair programming.
by conradev | 2025-10-22 03:11:08+00:00
Codex is actually pretty good at getting things working and unblocking itself.

It’s just that when I review the code, I would do things differently because the agent doesn’t have experience with our codebase. Although it is getting better at in-context learning from the existing code, it is still seeing all of it for the “first time”.

It’s not a junior dev, it’s just a dev perpetually in their first week at a new job. A pretty skilled one, at that!

and a lot of things translate. How well do you onboard new engineers? Well written code is easier to read and modify, tests helps maintain correctness while showing examples, etc.
by cyberax | 2025-10-22 03:12:57+00:00
I have a WiFi 6 AP that can saturate a 2.5GB link when I test it with two devices. So far, for me the peak speed for an individual device was around 1.6GB

I have not yet tested WiFi 7 APs, but they are supposed to be even faster. The use-case for me is video editing over WiFi (I do have a 10GBe Thunderbolt adapter but hey, I like wireless).
by generuso | 2025-10-22 03:13:59+00:00
From what I have seen, Ethernet ports always have a small isolation transformer for each twisted pair, between the connector and the PHY. Usually four of such transformers are combined in one small magnetics package. The insulation in the transformer is specified to withstand over a kilovolt of lightning induced voltage -- that's one of the purposes of such galvanic isolation.

The data travels as the differential voltage in each of the twisted pairs, and is transmitted magnetically by the transformer to the secondary winding. The power is applied between different pairs, and in each pair appears as a common mode voltage. This is all stopped by the transformer, and in devices designed to support PoE, the PoE circuits tap the mid-point of the primary windings to access the supplied voltage.

So at a first glance, it seems that if 48 volts is applied between the twisted pairs to a non-PoE device, this voltage would simply be blocked by the transformer. But since there is a widespread concern about this, there must be more to the story -- maybe somebody who actually worked with these circuits can explain why this is more complicated than it seems at first?

Edit: Found an answer. It seems that at least some of the designs of non-PoE Ethernet jacks terminate the common mode signals to a common ground though 75 Ohm resistors. In this case, if the voltage were applied between the twisted pairs, the resistors would dissipate far too much power and would burn out. So there is definitely a concern with the dumb PoE injectors and at least some non-PoE devices. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/459169/how-c...
by webstrand | 2025-10-22 03:14:02+00:00
I've experimented with no-swap and find the same thing happens. I think the issue is that linux can also evict executable pages (since it can just reload them from disk).

I've had good experience with linux's multi-generation LRU feature, specifically the /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms feature that triggers OOM-killer when the "working set of the last N ms doesn't fit in memory".
by kazanz | 2025-10-22 03:15:36+00:00
You'd be surprised. There are very few because it takes a lot more work to build reliable systems across mid-market cloud providers (flakey APIs, missing functionality, etc). Plus you need to know the idiosyncrasies of all the various frameworks + build systems.

That said, they are emerging. I'm actually working on a drop-in Vercel competitor at https://www.sherpa.sh. We're 70% lower cost by running on EU based CDN and dedicated servers (Hetzner, etc). But we had to build the relationships to solve all the above challenges first.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-22 03:16:20+00:00
I’m against internet gambling, but the value of prediction markets in predicting world events is very important.

If you’ve ever read James Suroweicki’s “The Wisdom of Crowds”, he talks about a lot of research showing that this is more accurate than the news or any single person.

I hope it continues and they don’t introduce crazy things like leverage.
by protocolture | 2025-10-22 03:17:02+00:00
>So, to me, the aliens will come to us loud and proud. Balloons and banners.

Charles Stross' Singularity Sky seems the most reasonable to me. Superintelligent computers trade unimaginable technology (their infintely replicable trash) for their most sought after asset (new forms of entertainment) and then just piss off to another world having completely bent our cultural development.
by seneca | 2025-10-22 03:19:31+00:00
> I'd love to see your citations on that.

Yeah, sure. Here are the popular studies on the subject: https://nheri.org/academic-achievement-and-demographic-trait...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15582159.2015.99...

https://nheri.org/a-systematic-review-of-the-empirical-resea...

If you look into these you'll see people arguing against Ray's studies saying "the population is overly white, overly married parents, and overly Christian, it doesn't represent potential results for the wider population". That's definitely true, but it's also a fact of the home-schooled population that those groups are wildly over represented, and the results of that actual population being called "meaningless" is what I was responding to.

It is fair to argue that home-schooling isn't a panacea, and wouldn't work for everyone. I never intended to say it would. I did include the second study which is specifically about black American home-schooled students and their results.

As for the rest of your post, I understand your opinion, but don't share it.
by marak830 | 2025-10-22 03:19:57+00:00
This is actually along the lines of what I'm working on in my free time at the moment. I am working to extend a local model's memory to allow smaller self-hosted models become a better solution than paying someone else.

Once this is working better, it will allow to extend the abilities of local models without running into the massive issues with context limitations I personally was hitting for self hosted.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-22 03:20:29+00:00
While I agree the speed benefit is marginal, the API is the differentiator.

Polars is a v2 of a dataframe API with a lot of thought put into offering a consistent experience. Variable names are seemingly regular across the board (eg no `sep` on this method, but `delimiter` here), no Numpy int nan baggage, and no silent data type conversions do a lot to improve the robustness of the code. That it is faster is nice, but a big shrug for my typical use cases.

The loss of the index is probably the right move - the implicit column has some subtle logic which I do not miss after switching to polars.

Source: over a decade of pandas experience. There are still a few idioms for which I do not have a good polars alternative, but nothing that is a deal breaker. The syntax is overall more verbose, but I am ok with it.
by jorvi | 2025-10-22 03:20:46+00:00
> - Existence of the ego. What if they live in a constant state of ego death, like some humans on certain drugs?

> .. And they execute creatures like humans when they see a human do anything immoral

You will enjoy reading: https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/the-wager

> - And many other possible examples that i can come up with that exists within human "thoughtspace", let alone concepts that do not exist within human thoughtspace

And this: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub / https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-Novel/...
by hnburnsy | 2025-10-22 03:21:01+00:00
Full post...

>The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it.

>We are taking two main actions:

>1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently working, with some experiencing data processing delays.

>2) We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done.

>More updates soon.
by bigiain | 2025-10-22 03:21:57+00:00
Interestingly, the reason I originally looked for and started using it was an unapproved "shadow IT" response to an in-house Nagios setup that was configured and managed so badly it had _way_ more downtime than any of the services I'd get shouted about at if customers noticed them down before we did...

(No disrespect to Nagios, I'm sure a competently managed installation is capable of being way better than what I had to put up with.)
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-10-22 03:22:18+00:00
I still don't know what your point is. don't use llms to remove bias as they also have bias? is it just nihilism for the sake of nihilism? If so I can kind of get that, but then it leads to nowhere right? if something doesn't work perfectly I'd still use it if it's better than a less good alternative. I see it as a matter of relativism.