skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an E-2 is available, then probably the E-2 or O-1 - after you have taken advantage of OPT to build up your company. If you have other founders/owners that diffuse the ownership and control, then there could be other options such as the H-1B or a country-specific visa.
I'm curious if there's anywhere else outside the US where "building your credit rating" by accumulating debt history from e.g. credit cards is a thing and makes a difference. I haven't heard it mentioned as a US-specific thing, but I've also only ever heard Americans talk about it.
> Out of curiosity, do you have any formal training on medicine/physiology or is your knowledge base self-aquired?

This isn’t an argument that supports your reasoning. It’s just an appeal to authority.

> When an immuno-suppressive is effective at reducing symptoms you know it’s an autoimmune disorder.

Is surgery an autoimmune disorder? A lot of doctors will give a patient steroids to reduce inflammation after surgery.
The data at hand indicates that there would not be a way to serve kosher food given the broad number of kosher authorities, many of whom are in direct conflict over religious validity making trying to appease them impossible.

The nyc school system has lots of experience with these communities and knows what it is doing in terms of how to reach the most people.
Hi Peter,
I work on H-1B for a Biotech and they are applying for a Green Card through PERM for me.The current step it is on is the labor market test, I know the overall economic situation is pretty dire, but my company seems to be doing well and is actively hiring, will the overall economic impact still play a role in the PERM approval ?

Thanks
Thanks for the feedback.

We're constantly improving the institutions page. I agree that adding the url to the bank / entity would be helpful.

The homepage for the developer portal you mean? We put it together using read.me as a first iteration but as we improve the product we'll also polish this up with a more customised UI.
It's literally doing what they (school cafeterias) already were doing. It would be harder logistically to have shut it down than doing what they're doing now, having to lay off workers and cancel food contracts.

The cafeterias have an existing capacity and are likely just producing the same amounts they usually do. They're able to give some away because it's not likely that every student shows up everyday (or at all), so there's plenty of excess.

It's a good use of existing resources, but nothing logistically impressive.
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But then why criticize money if the issue is that people are not good enough with money to budget it? Either the suggestion will be that we provide people without enough money that even with poor budgeting and planning they will stay fed (and do we really cover everyone, the difference between 99% of people and 100% of people is like the difference in 99% server up time and 100% server up time). Or is the suggestion to remove the need plan by providing them food instead of money? You probably provide more food this way if optimized (economics of scale) and you would get more buy in from some people, but you would face heavy criticism and inertia from others who see this as looking down on others.

We could go for education, but many people do not take education even when offered for free.
There probably does not exist perfect company.

What we can do is to learn how companies solve the problem.

Was the layoff necessary? Was the form of the layoff necessary?

Probably not. Probably with all those billions of investments you could have made choices that will leave you with more than paper thin margins or maybe you could beg your investors for more to keep the company afloat.

This could have easily be a formative experience for the company bringing everybody together and motivating for years.
This is a bit "don't do that, then"; almost all the vital things take debit cards, including through contactless.

It would certainly be nice to have something like Vipps in more countries; EU Faster Payments is getting there but not quite as usable. And it's 24-hour.

For any of the peer-to-peer solutions, you have to consider the fraud problems. The problem with micropayments is microfraud.
That was true a few years ago, but fortunately the state of the art for 2D rendering on GPU has been moving forward. Among others, Pathfinder 3 is quite comparable in quality to Freetype, and there are lots of good results coming out for performant vector drawing on GPU, including my own piet-metal work.
That's only a big advantage for how many users?
OpenGL would be cool. Skia is nice because it's designed for UI as opposed to other uses. I'm not sure what other alternatives for Skia exist however.
How about disconnecting it when you're near the laptop and the lid is open because you're .. I don't know... working on it?
If the land mass springs up, does somewhere (everywhere?) else on the planet drift down to make up for the change in volume?
The point is, that there are so many different standards that allow you to pay with one thing everywhere. And I personally need to pay a fee for a credit card, which is the usual case in the EU. And there are not many uses cases or advantages I have for a credit card over a free debit card. The thing is just, that I want to point out in the article, that the systems we have all want to solve this but always fail. Its 2020, not 1990, We have so much tech on our hands and banks still fail to implement it.
How are gloves without sanitizer a good idea? You’re just going to rub the virus all over your possessions.
Hey, 'not sure' is supposed to my guiding star! I may have lapsed here, and absolutely agree that we should not define activities that deviate from normal human behavior as mental illness. On the other hand one should not romanticize and define as normal or unproblematic that which is a mental illness either.

Granted I could have dug further. To my defense I just echoed a quote in the article, which states he held a resentment that "eventually metamorphosed into a paranoia which is evident in the pages of Récoltes et Semailles. - Excerpt, "The IHÉS at Forty" by Allyn Jackson (1999)".

I did however do some digging in order to produce this response to your comment, and I found an interesting article about Grothendieck on Psychology Today [0]. It also mentions an apparent trend among some mathematical geniuses to develop mental illness, and it expresses hope that a connection may be found thanks to "advances in the nascent field of creativity-psychopathology neuroscience", of which I know nothing. But I stick to my original speculation: that overworking might be part of it (until I'm convinced otherwise).

As for Grothendieck the author has this to say about the later stages of his life: "He believed himself to be in communication with Plato and Descartes, and even with God himself. The belief in signal transmission is a signature psychotic delusion".

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201707/the-mad-g...
Somehow as soon as possible in the application/recruitment process, let the potential employer know that although "sponsorship" is required, the process can be quick, cheap, and easy.
http://www.ctfoodbank.org/about-hunger/take-the-snap-challen...

took 3 seconds to find this by googling "average snap per month". I could find national numbers from secondary sources that cited federal sources but couldn't easily find a hyperlink to those federal sources.

But I am sure just as easy as typing Source? you could find your answer
SSL e-mail isn't ETE though
Its not doctor's job to tell her patients to manage anxiety. Doctors job is not to play a guru. Her job is dispose medically proven solutions.

Why would a doctor be in better position to give this personal advice to her patients ?
Certainly some people do that, but I would imagine it's a very small subset that are either trolls or consequentialists who feel the end justifies the means who originate it. Most who spread it are useful idiots (I use the word idiot very lightly. It's easy for anyone who is human to get suckered by a fake news story here or there).

I have quite a few family and friends that unintentionally spread fake news because they really thought the story was real. One in particular is extremely hateful toward fake news but made a conclusion based on a headline that turned out wrong (we don't all have time to read every story we see, as much as we'd want to).
Did public schools previously provide 3 meals a day?
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"There's also altitude compensation but unless you're doing something really weird that shouldn't affect you so much."

Disagree. I've moved co2 sensors between sea level and 2000m, and measured reference 400ppm gas and seen quite large differences (~150ppm). So it can matter. That's the reason why the SCD30 allows you to set an altitude or pressure.

But its not important enough to constantly feed it pressure data, a once-a-day pressure reading from the NWS would be sufficient.
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Even that isn't a universally acceptable solution; most countries will take dollars as well as local currency in some shops, but by no means all. And if you're from a non-dollar country your chances of international acceptance are much lower.
"Only with a credit card. I am a student, I have no real world use for this kind of card"

Yes you do, that vending machine you're standing in front of
De-paywalled here: https://archive.is/gS9hB

See related HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769901

and also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769288
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Is there a significant difference in the length of the process for filing K-1 (fiance) compared with the I-130 visa (to bring a spouse to the U.S.)?
Thanks for doing this Peter! How do you think pending AOS employment based applications might be affected? I anticipate longer processing times due to closure of local USCIS offices, do you foresee any other risk such as suspension of these applications? (This is post EAD and AP). Thanks!
Finished, see especially "How not to read these notes" (section 1) and "How you can contribute" (section 2) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14332
Warning: link hijacks history.
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> You have no excuses.

Billions of users who aren't using linux distros with aptitude have an excuse. This isn't remotely close to the "just works" that you need to get wide adoption.
True, but in the same way that all engineering can be complex.

Which is to say, you can use quantum mechanics to augment Newtonian physics, but the latter dominates results in most usages.

Biology does have the quirk that sometimes (I guess because exponential growth / propagation?) nuances dominate observed result.

But usually things proceed as expected. Otherwise, we'd be killing people left and right with pharmaceutical side effects!
OODA is certainly overused but "Orient" is hardly a mystery or metaphor – Boyd described it as the continuous re-evaluation of your "Cultural Traditions", "Genetic Heritage", "Previous Experience", "Analysis/Synthesis", and "New Information", and explained each of those in detail.
Unfortunately, no. Cash is effectively getting phased out in Sweden; these days, there are more physical shops denying cash than accepting it.

Trying to make either a deposit or a withdrawal of "large sums" (> ~1K USD equivalent is my understanding) cash at a bank will get serious scrutiny and may even result in funds being seized or frozen.

Things have changed really fast, too. Just 2 years ago I don't recall ever being in a store which didn't accept cash.

And yet, all solutions other than cash are from private banks, which have no obligations to take you as a customer.

Unfortunately it seems like Sweden is far from alone in being on this trajectory, they're just a little bit ahead in this sense.

I do think that there's a case to be made for permissionlessly operated cryptocurrency on a public ledger here.
> high-speed camera that captured 2,000 to 6,000 frames per second
I work for a telecom where we've used it to generate network configs for a long time. We just got rid of it because it's impossible to hire people who know it and nobody (new hire or existing people) want to learn it either
Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines
I desperately want to escape the United States, what is the best country to go to and how do I get residency there?
postgrest actually does a `SET LOCAL ROLE`(transaction scoped, so no need to DISCARD), but yes, that's the gist of it.
Don't make the mistake of assuming 'experience' is synonymous with 'performance' either.

Side-by-side comparisons aren't really of any real-world significance. Very few people do that when forming their opinions. For the average person, performance either detracts from the experience, or it doesn't.

There are many other factors that are more important to experience than performance. Does the interface conflict with their expectations? Does the user find the features to be self-explanatory? Does the device enable the user to conform to social expectation?

> People don’t buy specs, they buy experiences.

More specifically, people don't buy actual experiences, they buy expectations of experience. 99%+ of people who buy a phone haven't had more than a couple of moments of experience with it. They buy it because they expect it to be good based on their first impressions and/or preconceived notions.
We always try to do our dev work and connect to both the website and the app. In many (most) instances, though, in Latam going via web is the only way forward. That being said, we actively work with banks to partner up and establish direct connections too.
My experiences with reiki were positive, but my practitioner mixed shiatsu (lots of touch) with reiki.

There's an article on HN today also on "Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals", which might be an interesting angle to consider with any sort of therapeutic massage involving contact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22757857
Is there a a significant difference in the length of the process for filing the K-1 fiance visa compared to the the I-130 visa to bring your spouse to the U.S? (I know the latter requires first legally getting married in another country).
Many thanks!
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To think that American southern slave trade (e.g. plantations) is the only real form of slavery is extremely myopic.
> I always thought Canada was so much bigger than the US but they're about the same size - 3.5m sq miles.

You can thank Mercator for that. And, these days, Google and Apple for still using it (Google Maps is a globe on PC but still Mercator on iOS. Apple Maps is Mercator only).
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I don't think CC threatens the livelihood of creative industries, but Netflix isn't in a creative industry. I don't think Netflix, as a publisher, wants to promote free and open licensing. Their only product is licensed content. I suppose there could still be a market for a streaming service of free content, but it isn't as safe as the way things currently work.
In general I wonder if anybody buys insurance at all unless it is required by law (or civil contract).

For instance, you have to buy car insurance if you drive, so most drivers have it.

You have to buy homeowner's insurance if you have a mortgage.

Hardly anybody buys renter's insurance so it must be badly affected by adverse selection: a friend of mine had his apartment burn up and was told by the police that they were glad he didn't have insurance because if he had, he would have been a suspect.

As for life insurance the whole market seems pathological. A relative got trained as an insurance salesperson and all she learned was how to make an unconvincing argument for "whole life". When an election isn't on, TV is saturated with ads for life insurance for youngsters and oldsters who don't need it (no dependents.)
Many people have aversion to actual credit cards because most middle-to-lower-class families have stories of family members going into financial ruin, exacerbated by or ending with credit card debt.

"Just be responsible with your credit cards" is an easy mantra to live by if you are financially privileged.
screams into the void

Everything about the Silicon Valley VC-fueled startup culture is against the goals of humanity.

Startup culture: ignores and continues to destroy lives and planet for the profit of a few individuals who will later inevitably go on to develop mental health problems and commit suicide
Norway has oil. (For now.)
I'm guessing all kinds of viruses and bacteria that evolved to infect whatever was living 90mil years ago.

But there's always a chance of also finding a buried spaceship.
We're so fucked, we can't even distribute supplies to people who can't leave their homes without giving them massive exposure risk. Not sure why it's so hard to buy some fucking masks and gloves for the warehouse
I think the whole point is that there is no code (firmware or otherwise) driving the switch. I guess it depends on your threat model, but if you don't trust apple's hardware or firmware to disconnect the microphone, you can't trust their hardware not to have another microphone somewhere else that isn't advertised and is on all the time.

I'd take the term "hardware disconnect" in this sense to mean that there exists no program that you can run on any of the processors, or no bitstream you could load into any FPGA on the device that would be able to enable the microphone when it shouldn't be enabled, eliminating the threat of malicious code enabling the microphone
I'm beginning to think Apple isn't very good at making software that its users want or need because their focus is flashy fluff that demos well on stage.
My old lady thanked me for crossing the street as she was proceeding south and me north.

I pumped both fists in the air and exclaimed "we're not dead yet!" and she laughed.

You live in a big city perhaps.
That feeling when you're documenting that someone made a HN comment documenting the blog post that documented the completion of the documentation.
> No registration or ID required

So, it sounds like anyone that shows up can get food.
Every political philosophy is rooted in valid critique and lofty ideals, but gets selectively amplified by the status quo and used to justify oppression. This is part of why I use a lower case 'l' to describe being a libertarian.

It comes down to judgment. If a "Libertarian" thinks that reducing government means taking the opportunity to dismantle the CDC while NSA/DEA/TSA/ATF remain untouched, they're a useful idiot. Or more aptly, defunding the CDC/FDA while leaving their veto authority in place.

If you do not see how your own favored philosophy ends up doing this bait and switch in the limelight, you too are likely working as an enabler for oppressive paid-for policies. The major function of voting is to make the winners think they actually want the ensuing corruption.
Hi there, is there a significant difference in the length or complexity of the process for the K-1 Fiance visa compared with the I-130 visa to bring your spouse to the U.S. (I know the latter requires having already been legally married in another country). Many thanks.
Depending on your metrics for expense/cost, I'd tentatively suggest Boeing's MCAS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
If I wanted to learn Azure, is there a free program where I can get limited credits while I learn?
They should have just figured out a way to add a user id parameter to the DNS resolver and let users configure which sites they want to censor, ublock-style. They would have able to get better-than-google level of analytics data collection since DNS covers stuff like apps and local software beyond browsers too.

Since DNS already have some id fields, here's how they can potentially implement it:

When the user sign up and add devices, have them visit a unique subdomain to "activate" the device. On the load balancer level the device should be fingerprinted and stored, I think their VPN product already does this so it should be quite straightforward. Every DNS query can now be matched against a custom block list. Of course this would take more server resources. Cloudflare can turn this into a business opportunity by offering tiered plans, with higher level plans so that users can choose what to censor based on their own brand of politics, instead of a third party corporation. Or perhaps they can simply recover the additional server costs through selling analytics.
It's similar in a way, yes. We have clients that are just like Mint for the Latam market.
Well, not in the US, so maybe the solution then is to just do what we do. I have never had any of your problems, at any merchant, anywhere, in the US.
The original British seizure was because it was in violation of international sanctions, no?

The Iranian seizure, whether it matters or not, was illegal as far as I'm aware.
It's really hard to say. At a minimum, the freeze in in-person interviews and then backlogs in scheduling could delay the process significantly but because of the massive number of layoffs, high unemployment, and overall economic devastation and uncertainty, almost certainly there will be a lot fewer green card applications so some of the delays and backlogs might be reduced or go away.
Seems impossible but from observation obviously is not.

Comorbidity is the issue with SARS-CoV-2. It is interesting that some patients testing positive report losing the sense of taste and/or smell while others report digestive problems prior to the onset of acute respiratory problems or even sore throat.
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That's the point. It should.

If we remove the fear of starvation (we can afford to feed everyone twice and barely put a dent in our military budget) a lot of people will have a HUGE improvement in their day-to-day happiness. This is one of those obvious huge moral positives we can do.

The only "down side" is there will never be fear of starvation.

Edit: The one progress I can see in a society is when we can basically say that certain problems that people may have... those problems just literally won't exist.

- basic housing

- 3 meals a day

- a basic level of health care

with the amount of cash flow in the US there shouldn't be a single person who has to worry about one of those 3.

edit 2: I mean any person who "struggles with hunger" which is ~40 mil. Also, that is in itself a terrifying number.
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The state possesses a monopoly on the use of force, so the only way to acquire a useful place to live is to have money or expose yourself to the state’s wrath.
Lisp ends up in nearly every project I work on. For instance, I'm using a custom Lisp for defining CPU behavior right now: https://github.com/daeken/libmoonage/blob/master/Generator/a...
Get a secured card then.
Unfortunately, my expertise is limited to US immigration.
It's nice to know that the superluminal space is not just an isolated fantasy land with imaginary particles like the tachyon. Could be a real place where quantum weirdness actually resides. Very interesting indeed.
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Uhh what? I'm with you that the days of the "trusted internal network" are coming to an end but you're insane if you think that directories are going away. LDAP has certainly fallen out of favor but every SaSS user management platform / service is just implementing what are essentially "noLDAP" directories.

What do you think is providing the authentication and user management in those private clouds? OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, ActiveDirectory, Keycloak?

And even when you move everything out of the office to a datacenter you still need all normal IT stuff that you needed in your little office rack just in the datacenter now.

The only part of the "old-guard" IT stack I see disappearing is the office file server.