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I just asked and they did it, haha. I work for a big company with a big lawyer team. I came here on an O-1 and it was basically just resubmitting all that paperwork. I was actually pretty pissed off at the time, because they just filed it super fast after I asked, without even getting my final approval on the full application. I thought the standard for EB-1 was much higher so I was worried, but it turned out fine I guess (though I haven't got the physical green card in my hand yet, I do have the i-140 approved which I think is the hard part where they judge if you're "extraordinary" or not?).

Getting the O-1 was such a nightmare though. I'm not being modest. I'm really not extraordinary at all. I just think the O-1/EB-1 system is a little antiquated, so they look for things like academic publications more than e.g. if you actually invented a really great technology. Plenty of colleagues are actually more extraordinary and productive than me. The criteria for O-1/EB-1 maybe made more sense back in the 1970s where the smartest folks wrote academic papers? But anyway, I did a PhD in a very niche subject area which was kind tied to applications in industry, which you can make the argument affects lots of people, and so the general argument the lawyers made was: "X is a very niche field. America needs X". I have a few hundred citations, not thousands. But one or two pieces of work were with bigger companies so did make the press (mainly a short article which was copied and multiplied lots of times across different outlets). The really big pain was asking for 7+ references from people I had worked with in the past, explaining that, hey, this isn't a normal professional reference, this is a US immigration thing, so if you could say how much of a genius I am that would be super helpful, thanks.
The standard advice is that forking is a last resort if you can't upstream your contributions. Over the long term forking is usually more work than maintaining a good relationship with the project.
It's actually not really a restriction. The real issue is on absences of more than one year. And with the pandemic, I've had no issues with clients stuck outside for more than 6 months - but less than one year.
Ah. That's not a very sharp barb considering the significant power differential between England and the Revolutionists at the time.
The real breakthrough will be when another chipmaker can come anywhere close to the M1. Nothing on the ARM, Qualcomm, or MediaTek roadmap is even close. The Cortex X is a baby step in the direction of the M1, but the M1’s architectural advantages (gigantic memory bandwidth, 8-way decode, re-order buffers twice as deep, specialized instructions for x86 translation and reference counting atomics, and so on) remain untouched.

Hopefully this lights a fire under some of the other chipmakers and they’ll adjust course, but we’ll see.

In the meantime, it’s almost embarrassing for the rest of the industry just how far ahead Apple’s chips are. It’s been that way in smartphones for a long time now, and now it’s coming to laptops and desktops.
I need to sign off now. I'll be back at noon. Thank you.
Isn't most of the good stuff from the previous century, before the first tech bubble?
It's a fact, but it means nothing without context.

I punched a man in the face yesterday. To determine if I'm a violent person it's important to know whether I punched a man who was pushing his child on a swing set, or whether I punched a man who was crawling through a window in my home.
I don't think it's exactly connected to the kickstarter, but in this[1] interview with James from May, he talks about how he's currently working on the K-Web[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUb6Sv-rUv0

[2] http://k-web.org
Perhaps, I use WhatsApp daily and was never harrased, spammed or sent child porn.
Although, I still don't understand why a block wouldn't suffice.
If the same user is harrasing you, and you block it then problem solved. If it's a more sophisticated harrasment where users change, then reporting one of them won't do anything better than blocking.
If it's someone spamming random numbers, a simple algorithm can raise a flag without any report necessary.

The child porn scenario just seems so bizarre, why would someone send you child porn? And I'm pretty sure the police will get involved in that case.
I'm not even sure it's true that there are more teachers than programmers. But the pool of money for paying programmers is large and expanding, because we can easily calculate the value they produce, while the monetary value of teaching is harder to measure.

It doesn't help that teaching is presented as a "caring" profession, that you do for the love of your charges. Teachers don't threaten to jump to a different school district for more money, and when they campaign for more money, they're presented as not caring about the students. Nobody expects programmers to have any loyalty, so they get to demand money.

I would love to have schools fight to get the most talented teachers, instead of settling for "any woman who likes kids". (Those "caring" professions are usually ones associated with women.) I'd love to see school systems compete with software companies and research institutions, and to have school districts run by the people who might otherwise run Fortune 500 companies. But that won't happen without money, and until we start deciding to pay for it, we're going to get a lot of mediocre teaching.
I'm from a country with a large EB2 backlog, and I'm at a principal/staff level at a FAANG, currently somewhere on the EB2 backlog.

What are my chances of getting an EB1 if I self sponsor (with help from a law firm)?

I have about 15y of professional experience but everything I've done has been very proprietary, albeit on well known household-name products. I haven't blogged or published either under my own name or for my employers. I can probably get references from senior leaders in various FAANG companies. I don't have a PhD but I have a Masters with some publications and a few dozen citations.
As thousands of athletes get coronavirus tests, nurses wonder: What about us?
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Obscurantism
I think any good study has to consider habitual use. Spiking blood sugar in false anticipation once means nothing. How about daily? The body learns from its mistakes.

For me, I could never drink diet pop, but when I discovered Coke Zero it was amazing. Finally I could cut my sugar intake. Tastes delicious with a meal, or even after a meal.

Over time, I noticed if I've been fasting a lot of hours and then consume one - it won't taste good at all. My body seems to have become keenly aware that it is not contributing a single calorie of the energy it is dying for.
> Israel isn't subject to Iranian jurisdiction

The nature of sovereignty is that sovereign jurisdiction has only those territorial limits that the sovereign chooses; extraterritorial jurisdiction in law is common as is it's practical exercise.

More to the point, Israeli agents acting on Iranian territory are subject to Iranian jurisdiction without extraterritorial jurisdiction entering the picture.

> any international conflict could be considered "terrorism"

The proper crime is “aggression”, and, yes, almost every international conflict involves that on at least one side. (You can construct artificial scenarios where there is a plausible argument that both sides are exercising legitimate response to an apparent imminent threat, but they don't tend to arise in reality.)
CLOS is inherently multiple dispatch, but Flavours that are the most prominent precursor of CLOS were single dispatch. Interesting consequence of that is that IIRC traditional implementation of CLOS/MOP does not really use multiple-dispatch internally.
> In 1978, he didn't have the Internet. Research is much easier today.

Lowering the barrier to entry to anything just makes it easier to create crap. Even when not taken on its own terms, Connections is still a massive achievement given this lack of ease. If you look at the book supplement to the series you can see the depth of research that went into the show.

The Internet making research "easier" is false economy since it's cluttered with misinformation and even more crap. To get good information on the Internet requires more effort that you give it credit for (see the practice of OSINT).
The physical separation of Lockheed's Skunk Works may have had this as a side benefit.

That mindset produced the big corporate labs of the 1950s to 1970s - Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, Sarnoff Labs, the Department of Energy labs, the NASA centers, etc. They got impressive results. But in time, they stagnated, working hard on the wrong problems. You have to have a well defined goal to make that work.

Of course, at the other extreme, we have the brogrammers making webcrap. "Agile" is not likely to lead to independent thinking. It's a system for keeping nose to grindstone.

We're seeing a very strong push towards political conformity, but it's bipolar. On one side, we have groups where saying there are only two genders can get you fired. On the other side, we have groups which think whatever Trump said today is gospel. This is not getting us anywhere useful.
I find this hard to imagine without someone getting reprimanded. Not disbelieving the person's quote, but not accepting it as fact either. Seems like it would be easy to get corroborating witnesses for a situation that inappropriate.

The only group I've seen it be permissible to make stereotyped observations about in the last decade in an SF tech office is european/indian/chinese workers. FWIW I don't think that's okay either; we should be striving to make an inclusive workspace for everyone.
I just want a content alert system. Tell me when my author's new book is out. I don't care about the con appearances or the awards or the community drama or the writing update. Tell me when the album is out. I don't care that the band is on tour or they traded out a drummer or they have a new interview on YouTube.

Right now there's no way to immediately find out about the stuff from people I like without exposing myself to the cloud of bullshit surrounding their lives.
> Neither have been its main nemesis, the Saudis, Israelis and the U.S.

I agree. OP said the Iranians have been virtuous. My point is nobody is virtuous in these sorts of conflicts.

Washington has the original sin of supporting an authoritarian against the Iranian people. But we have supported bad leaders in lots of places, from Cuba and Korea to Vietnam, that didn’t start menacing their neighbours and sponsoring terrorists.
Trump ordered the assassination of Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds force, earlier this year. So I’m not sure that this argument applies to Iran.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/middleeast/qassem-s...
>> it would be exclude the human

That is one way of running an captcha: set a task that is not possible for a human. Anyone who answers correctly must be a bot.

"How many flowers in this field?" "Solve for X: 3567/134 = X" Anyone getting those correct in a reasonable time is probably not a human and so has failed the captcha.
It's as garage as capitalism in general in my opinion.
I think you’re missing his point. He wasn’t saying e-bikes were bad or pointless, he was saying that the design decisions made around this bike don’t make sense for an e-bike commuter or a performance racer or basically anyone. I’m similarly confused.
yes but it's a master's, does that affect the decision making process is my question.
This could be seen as setting the stage for something worse down the line... Come the week before inauguration day, and Biden still hasn't "proven" (whatever proven means to Trump anyway) the 80M votes... what will Trump do? refuse to leave because his stipulation wasn't met?
I can perhaps grasp the independent thinking when applied to the initial thinking for startups such as AirBnB and Stripe. But what I find insulting is that beyond this simple nugget of an idea, most of what these startups do is very conventional.

AirBnB to me reeks of the same VC funded attitude to expand their moat and eviscerate all competition with less than reputable thinking: they rarely care about customers and very much focused on competition. This isn't any spectacular independent thinking beyond that simple idea at the beginning. Similar to Twitter's beginning from an idea bored down on a napkin.

I think these companies are filled with very conventional people with very conventional thinking. But the VC folks can claim superiority in thinking they are solving the world's problems with independent thinking within some circlejerk.
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I agree completely.

After dealing with the same sort of rot pattern in both software and services for years, I've set out to replace as much as I can with my own tooling.

Mostly this has meant developing a hybrid blogging, forum, note-taking and writing, DAG database, information archiving and retrieval system and dogfooding it as much as possible.
If I remember correctly, the Hodge star much more closely belongs to geometric algebras than it does to exterior algebras, since you need a nondegenerate bilinear form to define the Hodge star, from which you can just as easily define the geometric product, and from the geometric product the Hodge star.

To make an analogy, it sounds a bit like you're asking whether inner product spaces and vector spaces are equivalent. Every geometric algebra gives rise to a Hodge star, and an exterior algebra, and so on, but exterior algebras are a much more general concept, so they're less powerful until you tack that extra structure on.
For me, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is the best football game from the 80s. Was released 2 years after Maradona scored the Goal of the Century against England. I remember that Emlyn Hughes was one of the commentators.
Thanks! Realm is really easy to start, but not far from Core Data in its API. Dflat focuses on writing correct code easy, thus, its API is fairly different from these two. Its API resembles from Apple's PhotosKit (which I liked the interface a lot), but generalized it and makes sure you can have concurrent and synchronous read, managed write threads, strict-serializable multi-reader / multi-writer. Also paid extra attention to edge cases such as schema upgrade upon disk full (hence, read-only schema upgrade).
And yet many of the greatest mathematicians produced their best work before their 30th birthday.
Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job

1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver

There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.

What's on your 'to watch' list?

[1]https://hasura.io/

[2]https://strapi.io/

[3]https://www.forestadmin.com/

[4]https://www.appgyver.com/

[5]https://www.integromat.com/en

[6]https://nodered.org/
>One could argue that even the "cheapest M1 + paying your remote Docker/Compute friendly machine" is not really the cheapest option.

You don't buy a Mac because it's the "cheapest option". You buy it because you value several extra conveniences (displays, trackpads, speakers, construction, weight, baterry life, even keyboard - before and after they've messed theirs up for 3 years). Sure, it's not better in all of those than a comparable in price PC laptop, but it's usually better in most, and unaproachable in others. The SSDs it comes with are speedy as hell also (compared to the options Dell or Lenovo has on comparably priced models).

The CPU/GPU you can find in PC a too. At least until the M1, which has the best performance/power ratio of any current PC CPU. Plus there's always macOS, which lets you have a no-fuss desktop OS than runs all your proprietary apps and a native UNIX (as opposed to WSL/WSL2). Plus an ecosystem, drivers for your external peripherals (as opposed to the hit-and-miss Linux experience).

But it's not about saving money, and "I could the same work while spending less".
In 1989-90 or so he had a much more optimistic special (After the Warming) about climate change.
You don't think this is intended to intimidate others who would work on nuclear weapons?
Because that definition would mean that almost every single person in the western world is "starving" at some point during the day. The definition is -

"suffering or dying from hunger." (Oxford)

Starving is more extreme than hungry, just like suffering is more extreme than uncomfortable.
>> Not much for developers who are looking for interesting challenges .. From a Swiss person

This is simply not true. I'm Swiss and working as a developer and consultant in Switzerland since the nineties. I - as many others - was able to do several studies at a world-class university right on my doorstep without getting into debt. People are fair, hardworking, innovative and responsible. Switzerland has ideal conditions for companies and people looking for work. And it's a great place to live. Why do you think Google and others have large development departments in Switzerland? And it's also good for start-ups. Have a look at e.g. https://www.organisator.ch/die-100-besten-startups-der-schwe... and https://www.top100startups.swiss/index.cfm?page=136340&cfid=....

Also see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swiss_companies_by_rev....
Thanks for the feedback! Glad I’m testing it out beforehand. I’ll update the messaging and revisit the video to be clearer. Probably change it completely.

It’s not a chrome extension - it can open up chrome windows.
So do you believe that all the white employees just laughed about this? Did any of them corroborate the allegations?

I work at a FAANG and a massive percentage of employees are rabidly anti-racist, and wouldn't stand for anything like that. Are coinbase employees just cut from a different cloth?
I distinctly remember in the 90s thinking there should be a voice prompt for a password to incoming callers after a certain hour heh

This actually has been solved on my phone at least, there is an option that it will ring through on silent if the caller attempts multiple times within a certain interval. This will result in you being 15 mins late to the emergency, but is pretty much guaranteed to work since in any big enough disaster they're sure to try multiple times. :)

I think the phone should just explain to the person "press 1 to override silence", then you could enable it for known callers only.
It's more that if you reset to 0 at mid-day and midnight, then logically 12:30am should be 00:30am for example.
Fun fact - the atomic bombings were not the most deadly bombings that the US carried out against Japan.
> Intent. Understanding of intent is incredibly important when analysing any conflict.

Well, I think all reasonable minds see that the intent of the US is to stay as the world's power and it is a bad intent to have a nuclear weapon for!
I mean if you’re a human and you’re trying to generate weekly content or similar, there should be some kind of s-curve in your production function. No one is novel enough to come up with new ideas ad infinitum (sp?). Dudes been writing for how many years?
My favourite is Luxoft incorporating in Switzerland so instead of "Russian outsourcing sweatshop" they can claim to be "Swiss fintech".
> “suspicious activity on your network” - I’m using a reputable, top-tier UK mobile provider

Same in Canada. WiFi is fine. Using the web when connected to cell data (from the second biggest mobile operator in the country) brings up CAPTCHA almost 100% of the time.
Yes and no. If I wanted to start a social network today, it would not be sufficient to just clone Facebook because the space is already so saturated (it's zero-sum). I would have to have something very novel. If, however, I wanted to start a social network back in the early 2000s, I think it would have been sufficient to clone Facebook because the space was not yet saturated. This is not to say that it would have worked out, of course. Most likely I would have been crushed by Zuckerberg.

When a new technology emerges, there will be a lot of "obvious" ideas that are ready to be "plucked", but as that technology matures, these obvious ideas become saturated, effectively turning the space into a zero-sum game. For example, in the early days of the app store / mobile revolution, I think there were a lot of reasonably straight-forward ideas out there ready to be executed on, e.g. Uber. I'm not saying that Uber was necessarily obvious to everyone, but I don't think that the idea of summoning a taxi from your phone would have been met with comments like "that's crazy, nobody would ever want that." However, if you wanted to come up with a startup around mobile today, you'd be better be very novel because pretty much everything obvious is already taken.

Looking at trends today like autonomous cars, I think there are plenty of reasonably obvious ideas that we all sort of expect will be part of the first generation of applications (shipping, robo-taxies, last-mile delivery). That's not to say that they're easy to implement or by any means are guaranteed to succeed, but I don't think that they'll necessarily be super controversial.
Well, who did the things first to destabilize the region?
Did regulation reduce drone usage? Or just lack of interest?
Explaining the “Why” behind consumer spending on Black Friday
This a million times. You could further prove your point by bringing up some specific examples:

- Webvan vs Instacart. Prior to Instacart, the conventional wisdom was that grocery delivery doesn't work as a standalone business, and that hypothesis was based on the Webvan data point.

- GM vs Tesla. GM's failure with their EV1 was frequently used against Tesla in their early stages. But GM's decision to abandon their project had nothing to do with market demand, and was instead entirely a politically driven decision.

- Concorde vs Boom. Building a supersonic commercial airliner was assumed to be a futile exercise for over 50 years, despite massive changes in regulations, advancements in technology, and overall market demand.

There are so many more, but these are the ones that instantly came to my mind.

An unrelated point that might be worth making: two of those startups are from YC, and the third one was funded by a guy with $100m burning a hole in his pocket. So while going against conventional wisdom has its merits, it does seem that the funding might turn out to be more difficult than for more conventional startups. I suppose this has to do with many VC funds' focus on certain investment themes, which are used to raise their funds and serves as a de facto contract with the GPs. One only has to look at the funding history of Airbnb - even USV couldn't wrap their head around the concept, and Sequoia bought into the concept but then struggled to match them with one of their existing investment themes (I forgot how they finally did it, but I recall it was a bit of a stretch).
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To me, Hanoi is the future of the startup world:

- surprisingly libertarian pro-buisness environment

- super low cost of living

- supportive of expats working for american incorperated companies

- easy visas

- wonderful culture

- great dating life

- safe if you don’t go looking for trouble

- instead of having to qualify for goverment benefits, the goverment controls prices for nessecities for everyone.

- rapidly improving political environment/infrastructure

- very little online censorship compared to China

- China adjacent but resists Chinese influence