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Hi Peter, I'm a UK citizen who has held a E26 Green Card for 1yr 9 months. My partner (US citizen, we are not married) and I both have remote jobs and we are switching between working 2 or 3 months remotely in Europe then 2 or 3 back working remotely from locations in the USA. Do I need to worry about this pattern of movements?

So approximately 50:50 split between US and Europe, but not more than 3 months at a time outside US, usually more like 2. We do not own property anywhere, nor do we currently have permanent rented property. She has family in the US, I have family in the UK.
What’s the physical hardware you are running these on?
Turning on power switches to the chips is pretty important!

It gives a hint about how manufacturing is, that the switch tops come out so late.
Or maybe they wear some sort of tags in their clothing to identify them as hiders.
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I'm at a very early stage startup and am preparing to make my first hire in the next couple months. To me, it would be ideal if I could consider people who aren't US citizens or permanent residents. But, given how often I see small-mid sized startups saying, "sorry but we can only hire US citizens/green card holders", it seems there are a variety of reasons (that I don't fully understand) that this may not be feasible.

Could you share some thoughts on what particular challenges there are in hiring people who do need visas, and if it's possible or reasonable for a very early startup with limited time and resources to overcome those challenges?
You'll be all up on the lives of at least three other people -- some of whom figure as long as we live together, why not go out for pizza every now and then. At this point, whether you're sharing a by-owner apartment or shacking up with The Collective, your loneliness is largely a function of how aggressively you choose to sequester yourself from the people in your immediate environment. That is, until The Collective starts requiring neural implants as a condition of residency...
That might be bad for your mental health but I know several people who enjoy that, and prefer the privacy of having a tiny personal space rather than a larger shared house. It’s important to get the right people into these.
With Alt+D to focus the address bar, this is super convenient. I use it all the time.
The typical highly-structured educational environment seems to be an increasing disservice to those being educated, if indeed it ever was useful.
Yes. The joke the original commenter is playing is that Fermat's `x³ + y³ = z³` is equivalent to `x³ + y³ + (-z)³ = 0`.
It isn't even a conspiracy. Lots of people loudly and overtly oppose policies that might lower housing costs (or even just increase supply enough to reduce the rate of increase).
Friend who is a Singapore national is trying to figure out if he can do an online bachelors at Capella University in the US, specifically the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology have it be used to get an H1B or H1B1.

The sticking point is that he plans to complete it in a year- (he knows how to program and its a self paced program) will it satisfy USCIS requirements which say a foreign national must complete 4 years of post secondary study- is it specifically the years that matter or is it fine that its a 4 year degree done more quickly?
Haha. That reminds me of this scene from Independence Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr3J11fbRXk
An L-1A - if you can show management of people now and in the U.S. - is much easier than an L-1B - unless the L-1B involves advanced scientific research and development.
Apple probably won’t comply with this request from the government, but I bet that Google will.
This is so illegal it’s basically blatant gimme for the tech companies to have cool PR by sticking their finger up to the man. This story has come up twice a year for the past five years.
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I never even considered that people would add clients to Slack. We don't even have all our consultants on Slack. We use it as a purely internal message board to communicate short thoughts, updates, publishing reports, maybe ask for an impromptu meeting etc. External communication is almost all by email, phone, or Zoom.

That said the 25 year rule is absurd. Who really thinks Slack is going to exist in 25 years? Netscape was just founded 25 years ago.
Do you consider a probability distribution function as objectively true? If it's not obviously true beforehand, I'm not sure if it's only clear in hindsight, which has all kinds of psychological issues in interpretation.

IOW, is there any practical difference between "there is no objectively correct price" and "we'll never know what it is"? The price at any given time reflects the current consensus of the objective price, distorted through the current average psychological lens of the market?

If something is unknowable before it occurs, we will never know what the objectively true measure is until it's occurred. At which point it changes, since the market is dynamic. How could we ever know which point is the correct price?
This looks great. Something I have been looking for since upgrading to a 49-inch Ultra-wide, where I now prefer to keep my application windows floating around the center on this giant monitor.

Do you still actively develop it? The digital signature in your .exe says 2017 and your website footer says 2015.
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One issue is that its difficult for companies or anybody to plan for the long term. 12 years ago no one had a smart phone. Internet shopping was rare. House prices only went up. China was a trusted trading partner.

How are you supposed to plan for the long term, when you can't even see what is going to change in the next 5 years? It makes sense to keep current customers happy and spend most of time planning for next year or two.
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Yeah I agree with that and the post itself. Thanks for writing it, just the title made me think it was going to be about a different subject.
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> Honestly I'm sick and tired of the normalization of rent seeking. It's draining our collective creative energy.

I feel like this is the prototype of Roko's basilisk.[0]

I mean the rent-seeking part isn't new. That's been around since the beginning of time. Rent-seekers are going to rent-seek.

But the application of the latest modern technology to optimize it. This whole gig economy. That's new and feels like it's getting out of control.

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We've been saying for awhile that an individual has agency and that the free actions they choose on the free market with their owned money is all on them, fruits, pains, and all.

We allow people to enter into all sorts of arrangements where they compromise their rights, such as by giving up their right to sue in court or not seeking employment in the same industry.

We allow people to enter into onerous credit card agreements, and we all agree that it is voluntary. And we say that when an 18 year old youth purchases cigarettes, that again, they are exercising their intellect in an act of agency.

And then we come to the issue of software licenses, which also begs the question as people trade privacy for services, "Yes, you are an individual of formidable agency, are you not?"
It’s a problem that is easy to state, yet hard to fully solve, and doesn’t seem like it should be unsurmountable, as it is easy to make some progress on (the “integers that equal 4 or 5 modulo 9 can’t be written as the sum of 3 powers of integers” part handles 22% of cases, and interested kids can understand it)

That makes it interesting to most mathematicians (if it weren’t easy to state, it could still be interesting, but to a smaller audience)

Edit: it also is easy for non-mathematicians with a knack for computing to get a crack at. You need not know much about number theory to write a program that searches for solutions for the unknown cases (it will help, but knowing how to optimize programs may help more, and that’s not something all mathematicians are good in). That grows the set of people who might find this interesting.
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Sure, but imagine that 25% repeated over and over again.
How far do you live from the seller?

Shipping prices can vary widely for items of significant size.

It is easy for a giant like Amazon to negotiate shipping terms that they can amortize over a vast amount of sales, but that is not true for a small seller moving only double digit numbers of items.
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So it seems the "secret" to tech-life balance is choosing more life than tech? Don't get me wrong, I'm all about tech-life balance and work-life balance (which this article and the problem in general heavily overlaps with), but the secret is conciously organizing your life to have more life than tech. Part of this is finding a job that allows you to choose life outside of office hours. Having more free mornings to do things not related to tech is probably a symptom of achieving a better tech-life balance.
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It's the course credits that matter. He should make sure that the school is an accredited institution of higher education of course but I'd also have him run this degree program by an education evaluation service.
But turning off notifications is not using the tool right. The fact that you have to turn off notifications indicates that most people use it incorrectly (e.g., @channel/@here-ing for super unimportant messages).

Slack does a really poor job of guiding its users to use the tool properly. There is no warning when someone decides to @here the #announcements channel with 200+ people to wish someone a happy birthday. That's poor design.
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I'm not saying I can't think of anyone that's been harmed by tech -- there's obviously plenty of those just as with any big business or sector of the economy.

I'm taking issue with the idea that there is a large group of people that has unilaterally been harmed by tech that isn't defined as "the people that have been harmed by tech".

A counterexample might be "people harmed by car accidents" -- there are a lot of those too, year after year, yet we don't see a column dedicated to anti-automobile narratives popping up in the nytimes. I'd hazard a guess that it's because car accidents affect only a small portion of all groups (or just very small groups) no matter how you slice them -- unless you slice the entire population into two sets of "people harmed by car accidents" and that set's compliment.

Not only that, but unlike with car accidents we would all have a very difficult time agreeing what constitutes the group of "people harmed by tech". Some pro-privacy advocate might want to include all people on the ad-sponsored internet in that group. You apparently want to include taxi drivers and journalists. These are some very strange bedfellows that can only be cobbled together in the most tenuous way using a narrative that scapegoats tech companies in general.

Addressing push back about specific changes made by specific companies from specific groups? I've got no problem with that. Cover it all day. Grouping all of these issues into one big narrative and pointing a mob of angry pitchfork bearing people at it telling them that these companies are the source of all your problems? Yikes, that seems like it could go really really badly!
I don’t know someone from this client could have called my boss and said that I was a disrespectful dipshit that compromised their reputation in front of a third party...

But I guess they also knew my boss would have laughed at them and said he support me. I have a great boss. I really can’t complain on that level.
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Until someone injures themselves climbing up a storage rack, or someone hides in a refrigerator and suffocates. The liability is massive.
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The hiring bar at Google does not test for the ability to organize code coherently. The skill is completely unrelated to algorithms and data structures.

It’s like requiring candidates to deadlift 500 lbs and then assuming it means they can all run marathons.
It's not about paying for the fuel, it's about not having to lift the fuel.

Going from a rocket that is 2880T fuel and 120T for everything else to a rocket that uses 25% less fuel gives you 2160T fuel and 840T everything else. Decreasing the fuel by 25% increased the rest of your budget by 7x!
I wish I could speak intelligently about it because honestly I'm jealous of all the CS grads ;)

Personally, don't think it would take a great deal of adjustment to really improve the structured educational setup that would provide specific curriculum ... but also more open ended experiences.
Well, sort-of.

Its not just about p-values or the likelyhood of making a particular type of error by agreeing with a thesis.

There is a fundamental misunderstanding that most people, and even many scientists make with regards to the philosophical interpretation of 'truth' using the scientific method.

By definition, scientific 'truth' is always fallible, and the vast majority of people have a very hard time dealing with this concept. A better explanation or additional data, or better data is always possible and needs to be possible for science to not be dogma. This is fundamentally different than how people interpret truth and understand what the word means. All scientific truths are replaceable.
Hi Peter,

I aim to apply for YC. I'm German. I have some questions regarding visas:

1) What kind of visa would I need for the three month program time? And how early in advance do I have to apply for it (i.e. do I have to apply before I know if I get accepted at all)?

2) What kind of visa would I need if I wanted to stay after the program (or if I don't get accepted, to start the company in the US)? From what I read an O-1 visa might be the best option, is that correct (I submitted my PhD thesis and have relevant publications, but won't get the official degree until mid next year)? How long in advance do I have to apply? Do I have to found the company first?

3) How much (approximately) will that cost?

Thanks!
I'm not sure I understand your question, but we've posted countless times about this and are happy to answer about specific cases. You can find a lot of information via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and similar searches.
That appears to be one exchanges policy, not law. There may be a law I'm unaware of but in any case this wouldn't come into play using something like LocalBitcoins. Exchanges need to do this in order to conduct transactions with banks—obviously something that isn't needed for unbanked populations.
Perhaps the nytimes is worried about being sued by rich pedophiles.
This doesn’t work well, because of this:

“This requires to be able to work on a couple of problems at the same time.”

...which is a really bad idea, because context-switching carries a heavy productivity penalty. Many studies show this clearly: even though people may feel more productive when multi-tasking, they actually are much less productive, and the solutions they come up with to complex problems are more likely to be wrong because they haven’t spent as much time in the same context (i.e. asked for help, couldn’t get any on time, was forced to switch to another task/problem).
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Peter, I'm currently on H1B and my I-140 was just approved this week. When can I technically change jobs and keep my priority date?

Is it true that my current company can withdraw the I-140 petition within 6 months of approval and have you seen cases where it has happened?
Within a monorepo like most code at Google, there isn't as much of a bright line between public and internal interfaces. If you don't get a public interface quite right on the first try, but it still has <~100 call sites, it's really easy to just make the change and fix all the callers. If your library has become popular and has substantially more call sites, then it's hard but still doable to fix.

This assumes that the interface is a function or method call within a binary. If it's an RPC, then making changes is much trickier, since you can't assume that both sides of the call were built at the same commit. This requires a lot of thought to make sure any changes to your RPC messages are both backwards- and forwards-compatible.
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It's absolutely possible from an immigration standpoint (really no different from a large company) so I would definitely not shy away from hiring foreign nationals at all. However, depending on the visa type, there could be wage requirements and sometimes those can be a challenge for new companies.
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So no need for WinSCP if you just want to use the terminal.
A 3000-person game of Hide-and-Seek in an IKEA is what happens when private businesses start to take over free culture, public places, and public events.

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Google does not give away its data on people anymore readily than Apple does.
1) The dynamics of your social network aren't FB's problem (legally)

2) Your friends being on FB doesn't preclude them from being on other social networks
This might be an off topic question.

Do you think startups shouldn't be bearing the burden of sponsoring an H1B? The reason I ask is, there's great talent going to big tech because Startups are not in a position to sponsor H1B. Otherwise I myself would love working for a YC startup.

Do you think YC and potentially VCs should handle this part for startups just so they can attract good talent?

Or are there any other alternatives you'd suggest to help this case?
The priority date is yours now and your current employer can do nothing to take it away.
&tldr; the scopes are controlled under ITAR and have been found to end up in locations outside of where it should be under ITAR. They are looking to locate scopes where they shouldn't legally be.

Given Apple and Google have location data on people (or at least Google does) the information for those using the App outside of the US or in ITAR restricted places could have been requested. Instead they went for all records. I hope this nuance isn't lost.

I wonder if they are doing this under a pen register.
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Hi, Peter - thank you for doing this!

I'm one of the lucky ones - my I-485 was approved for LPR on the last week of July (EB2, RoW). I've got the I-797 to prove it! :-)

The funny thing is that I'm STILL waiting for the actual green card - USCIS has been adamant that "60-120 days between approval and card issuance".

I've been told twice, on the phone, that under no circumstances will they even allow me to schedule an InfoPass appointment for an I-551 stamp until the 60 days have passed.

My question is simple: is this normal? Both the delay between approval and card issuance, and the refusal to issue I-551 stamps...?

Cheers!
>> Randomisation is a major part of traditional stats, and it is inherently a causal hypothesis

Yes, randomization is central to classical statistics, but no, it is not inherently causal. Drawing a random sample from a bivariate distribution (X,Y) is key to doing a lot (though not all) of classical statistical inference (think of estimating slopes in regression), but the randomization does not imply anything about the causal relationship between X and Y. When you speak of randomization in the context of "treatment regimes," you are thinking about randomized controlled trials, which the piece does analyze explicitly, in some detail. So in this sense the account given in the essay is not misleading.
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