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> The statute doesn’t say anything about “dual intent.”

V, L and H-1 (including H-1b, but excluding H-1b1) nonimmigrant visas are explicitly, by statute, excluded from the rule requiring nonimmigrant visa holders to lack immigrant intent; Immigration and Nationality Act Sec. 214(b), as amended, codified at US Code Title 8, Sec. 1184(b).

"Dual intent" isn't an administrative fiction, its a term of art for the nonimmigrant visa categories excluded from the generally applicable requirement for having (and demonstrating) the absence of immigrant intent. Its true that there are some visa categories where "dual intent" is applied adminstratively rather than from a clear statutory rule, but V, L, and H-1 (except H-1b1) visas have explicit statutory allowance for dual intent.

> If Congress had designed H-1B to be a pathway to permanent residency, it would say that in the statute.

But...it does say that in the statute.

> Instead what happened is that for 40 years the executive branch abused the H-1 program to turn a temporary immigration visa into a de facto permanent immigration system.

Whether or not H-1 may have been abused that way between 1980 and 1990 (the first 10 years of your "40 year period") [See EDIT below], the exemption of H-1 and L visas from the no-immigration-intent requirement has been express in statute since the Immigration Act of 1990, so for the last 30 years the behavior you complain about has been strictly as directed by statute.

References:

Summary: http://www.americanlaw.com/dintent.html

Current codification and history: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1184 [history of amendments, including text added by the 1990 amendment at issue, by clicking "Notes"]

[EDIT: The H-1B can't have been abused between 1980 and 1990, while I checked when the H-1B was added to the exception from the no-immigration-intent rule, I didn't check when the visa category itself as added, which was at the same time in the INA of 1990. So, no, it was never abused as a route to immigration, it has always explicitly allowed that use in the statute. Conceivably, the unsplit H-1 could have been abused between 1980 and 1990, though.]
I do wonder if I got some sort of hearing damage from seeing it in person. It was incredibly loud. I’ve been to many loud movies and several obnoxiously loud concerts, and Tenet was easily the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Frankly, it was an irresponsible choice by its creators. If it physically hurts, viewers can’t engage with the movie at all. They’re distracted by pain. I can’t even call it an artistic choice because it goes so far beyond that. I would never see it in a theatre again, even without COVID.

I can’t wait to watch it at home so that I can properly digest and enjoy the movie.
I still have an old @msn.com email address, I remember at the time you could choose from @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @passport.com. Haven't used it for email for at least a decade, but I do use it for OneDrive so my account stays "active".
33 is a great age to have a kid (if you want them, and if you're in a position to do so). I had to wait (long story) until 37 and there's part of me that regrets it a little bit. There's a real benefit that comes from upending your whole life (there are, of course, other ways to do this) and having your priorities radically realigned (obviously, though, not for everyone).

If you have money to put away, get a financial planner and start saving money. The end of your career is coming up sooner than you think.

Take care of your body. In my late 30s I started to notice little things with my joints, muscles, etc. that made me think "oh, I guess I'm getting old now".

More generally, if you're not on the path you want to be on, change it. Over the last few years I'd had a strange feeling come over me: "Whatever person I want to become, if I don't become them in the next few years then I never will." Which, if the thought hadn't arrived uninvited into my mind I don't know I would have ever agreed with. The simpler version is "When are you going to become the person you want to be?" (or, "get right with yourself"). I hope the answer isn't "in my 50s or 60s".

Read more books, spend less time on computers/internet/TV.
Actually talking too much can ruin dates.
Nabokov's phrase "black, foam-veined, complicated waters" are indeed words of genius.

Take a sea kayak out in your favorite river-mouth when there's a storm coming.

I guess Hemingway might have written "waves crashed over the deck and stung my face".

Homer would have written "the wine dark sea rumbled at grey-eyed Athena's anger."

But the Nabokov version is better. Homer? Best, maybe.
I'm quite afraid the timing of this filing will allow Dems to kill this off when Biden takes office without taking any political damage due solely to the association with the current administration. As someone who leans Dem that would be quite tragic.
Email from Google here[0] and corroboration from Jeff Dean here[1]:

"Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google."

[0] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364732480958467?s...
[1] https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
My ego is not bruised. As I said:

> I'm not sure I fully follow here, but I would like to be able to

What I'm calling out is that you may have fallen into the trap (as I did years back) that you need to be an asshole to drive towards solving hard problems. You don't, and it actually blocked me from creating the psychological safety necessary to get good ideas out of people who otherwise wouldn't feel comfortable speaking up. Genuinely good/supporting vibes from my direction to you - do with it what you will, but I do believe your ego is showing here more than mine. We can agree to disagree since I believe each of us will over-index on our past life experiences vs. those of some random person on Hacker News.

> I think you need to reread my initial post in this thread. The importance of minimizing rtt blocking is acknowledged in my questioning of chrome’s decision to not implement http push.

I think I get what you're saying, but honestly the way you're wording your points is a bit confusing. I am going to chalk this up to "I'm just too dumb" for sake of laziness at this point.
Certainly you could go on netjets.com and fly private if "enclosed-air spaces" are such an issue.

Ridiculous right? The way I understand the argument so far is:

Pets should be allowed on planes and everyone else must deal with that.

Pets should not be allowed so pet owners must deal with that.

Neither option sounds reasonable to me.

Really it looks to me like there is a market for safe and reliable pet air transport. Why have carriers not addressed this?
Agreed. Just more peeved that it upon registration, this would be the last exit I would have imagined from the product.

The marketing to acquire users versus to keep them is annoyingly polarizing.

>> Hey! Free growing memory. Choose gmail! Look! A counter that is incrementing in the browser real-time!

>> Much later... Nope. You reached the limit + we stopped your emails from coming in. Goodbye.

I'm definitely on the way out, just have been lazy about it.
Can you talk more about how WMR fits into the morass of Snowpack, Vite, Rome, Parcel etc.? The self-contained aspect looks great, but I'm at a loss as to how this doesn't also add more entropy into the pool of "next-gen" JS build tools (and thus more analysis paralysis for webdevs)...
>Maybe his take is after the USA didn't manage to contain an epidemic

Combined with the crucial failure of China that kept it under lid for too long, and followed by most of the rest of the world who also failed to contain it.

> used its power to steal medical equipment from other countries,

What are you talking about?

> developed a marvelous vaccine that will sell at a high price for other countries after vaccinating itself.

Good thing the world is capitalist by nature and we have two more (cheaper) vaccines ready to go, and Moderna will have to lower its price or sell it to those who are willing to pay them a premium for whatever reason. Right?

And I'm not sure if this is even a thing, but even if it is, what is your problem with each country requesting their labs to provide for their host nation's citizens first, specially in a case where all labs AFAIK received funding in some form by taxpayers?
Any university web dev course assumes you can already program and has pretty good architecture summaries you can go off like https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa19/6.170/materials.html or https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1320/lectures.html
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”

-- Mike Tyson
I think one in important point is that she submitted the paper the day before the deadline when 2 weeks is usually required for review. It was approved then, but after the review process worked out she was asked to retract her paper.
> I just don't like the almost-religious overhyping of everything Apple. They're doing a great job. They're not perfect.

That may be so, but again that doesn't really apply to the M1's performance as hardware. If the article was about Apple as an investment, or Apple as the designer of the next computer for me, I'd agree that taking into account their software would make sense. But the whole point of the article is that equating Apple's being Apple with the M1 being a badly designed chip is wrong.
Perhaps, if it can recognize traffic lights and crosswalks.
But why should package management be language-dependent? No reason to stay within the confines of one programming language...
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Unless they aren't being offered interviews, it's probably because they can't code. I don't mean that in a bad way but programming is not a skill that is emphasized in most undergrad CS programs.

It's kind of a catch22 but that's one reason we have these boot camps / tutorials etc...
Thanks! That feature is on the todo list, might be added in following weeks.
I've pretty much accepted that I will never have interesting work and I will never make that kind of money (except for inflation adjustment).
I have email from when I got my college email address in the late 90s, but I still can't find email from earlier, when I had a couple different addresses that I'd gotten from my local dial-up ISP. I was always -- even then, when hard drive space was expensive -- pretty good about keeping old data as I moved from machine to machine, so it really bums me out that I can't find that old stuff.
She said Jeff Dean fired her. Then she realized editorializing could get her into trouble so she quoted Megan.[1] Not weird.

Google terminated her employment sooner and for a different reason than she offered to resign. Firing someone who's offered to resign is still firing.

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364732480958467
Sounds like something to take up with the US Government to be honest. Every payment processor faces this challenge.
They don't make them "as happy" as you might imagine. Even a guitarist that is good enough to do European tours and get an endorsement deal will get discounts of 20% (on pretty expensive stuff for which they would have to fork out 2000 euros), maybe 30% on bespoke instruments that cost even more.
More correctly, their value vs their pegged asset doesn't change.

In this case the US cares about USD denominated stablecoins, but they existing for a variety of underlying assets.
Many believe this to be a good thing. To discuss it we'd have to go all the way down the keynesian vs. austrian rabbit hole. Someone here might be up for it. I'm content to sit on the sidelines and watch it continue to succeed and speak for itself.
RedisAI from the Command Line
"Wasn't it funny when charter X did Y?"

"Yeah! That reminds me of a time I did Y! Let me tell you how that happened"

Movies are a great shared cultural experience that can be a good jumping off point for a conversation.
It serves to further entrench incumbents and raises the barrier to entry for newcomers.

Deals like this typically benefit the Facebooks of the world because they can afford to pay for preferential treatment. This is commonly seen in developing nations where mobile data caps are low but Facebook pays to be exempted from data allowances. Facebook then becomes the defacto way of using the Internet because it's all people can afford.

If Facebook want paying this fee then carrier's would have more incentive to compete on data price rather than trying to court the best range of subsidies.

It also doesn't make any sense from a technical pov 10gb of data is 10gb of data, your carrier/isp has no reason to care who provides that data or what it contain s.
> But before the guillotines come out, the .01%ers will have lots of cash for buying...

The richest ones will also buy their own automated armies, so there will be no need to worry about the guillotines.
> I can work on a last date

...is both non-committal and non-specific. What are you seeing that everyone else is not?
Is there a need for more proof of impossibility after prohibition? Which have been tried in multiple countries and always with similar results.

The issue with alcohol, smoke, caffeine, soda, refined sugar, is that they are not very harmful so people can say "my grandfather used to drink every day and lived to 95". The hard drugs have much more visible effects so people are better at rejecting them.
Also note that alacritty's benchmark are throughput oriented, not latency oriented. The benchmarks measure how fast it can tear through data, not how quickly pixels change on screen.

But, rendering the entire terminal buffer is slightly overkill when only a few pixels changed, and the time it takes can end up significant on weaker devices driving high resolution displays.

As a result, Alacritty doesn't have the best "time to light" performance, and there have been long debates in the issues about it.
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Because the opposite is also true

If you want to watch youtube, that will be an additional $5. Want to play World of Warcraft? You will need the $12 MMO package in addition to the $8 gaming package. And that shiny new apple iPad will def need the $15 apple package so you can use iMessage. Sometimes you might work from home and you need a $50 "Business class broadband" to use your companies VPN. It might seem expensive but you also can't do video conferences without it so if you want to facetime granny or Zoom for work meetings it is essential. And don't even think about streaming netflix\hulu\etc without the the movie access package ($15.99 for the first 12 months and then $24.99 each moth after)
We recently relocated with our dog on a 13 hour flight. Everything went well and our dog is happy. But the process of flying with our pet is absolutely horrible. First of all, our only option was to let the dog fly in cargo. Extremely expensive (5000 USD). It’s also stressful for our dog to be in the crate in a noisy environment during “check-in” at the cargo company, sending the dog through an industrial x-ray machine, didn’t seem safe at all! The dogs are really handled like any cargo package, getting picked up by forklifts and placed to wait for extended periods of time. The only alternative option for us would be to charter a private yet, then our dog can fly in the cabin. But the price is prohibitive.
That one from one dollar to $32 is the best of all time
That's not quite true in my opinon. Take your example of academia. Many students will chose to stay in the US after (if they can, because salaries tend to be higher than in many other countries) rather than depart. Also, instead of "taking" knowledge, they might actually create some new knowledge. Think about how many brilliant professors in US universities were once foreign post-docs there. If the US chooses to close its borders to this sort of talent, it will considerably weaken itself in the longer term against countries enacting more rational immigration policies.
There is a whole mindset that has invigorated growth investing and has been invigorated by it: success is more luck and social proof than correctness or work + winner will take all = illusion management is key work + valuations don’t matter, but getting in does.

It underpins major perspectives on investment, monetary and gov policy, and individual agency. It is infuriating, but it has worked spectacularly for a long time and has just enough truth in it to keep people building castles in the air.
Keeping him with gen-pop pre-teens is likely more cruel than pushing him to college.

I do hope that he doesn’t get overspecialized in STEM though. A well rounded mental diet including arts and humanities and athletics is better preparation for a meaningful life and a significant contribution to human knowledge than only learning about the world through scientific theories.
If averaging down is the key to your daytrading strategy, I suggest you rethink your strategy. There is a good saying - "never add to a losing position".
Will be interesting to see this product allows you to support customers who are e.g. on the ChexSystems list or have inadequate ID. Since it is real banks under the hood, same problems may apply.
Same here. No matter what I do my sound won't be as good as a theater, and then there is the source data issue too. That's why I want to see loud movies in theaters.

But for most movies, the sound doesn't matter that much, it's more about the story and characters and visuals.
So first, the headline seems to be based on "primary energy supply" - I assume that includes transportation, vehicles, heating and so on. Even if Germany went 100% renewable/nuclear for electricity they'd still be at ~60% fossil fuels in "primary energy shares" (from spit-balling the figures). I think that comparison was chosen to make the German "Energiewende" look worse, it does better when just looking at energy production.

If we look at electricity shares, then Germany did better albeit still at an undeniably high cost.

And second, as has been discussed in another article shared on HN - Germany bank-rolled a lot of the solar "virtuous cycle" and China's solar industry. Now any following country can just follow suit and achieve the same carbon goals much cheaper, even if they 100% follow what Germans did, because the technology is more familiar and manufacturing is more efficient. Kind of a "first-mover disadvantage". Though I think many Germans are ok with financing many of the advances in renewables.

Edit: I forgot to add, this time period also coincides with Germany's prompt/hasty nuclear exit after Fukushima which was expensive but quite popular.

The two very last graphs on energy production mix show that the US mostly increased natural gas for coal and Germany renewables for nuclear, and then the last few years finally renewables for coal.

There seems to be an acceleration of renewables adoption in the last 3 years and Germany decreed to exit coal-based energy production by 2038 afaik.
This is what I like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwb6wPStEpY
It's going to be the ability to act as an AP and a client at the same time. Frequently this means two physical devices.
Multiple rounds of 20% improvement will still not give you the performance jump brought by M1. It takes tasks that were simply unthinkable on a light laptop and not only makes them possible but manages to beat something like a 10-core i9 [1], in a machine without a fan.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/mac-mini-and-apple-s...
Sure, but I’m right now paying for 1TB space, and I can easily forget for example if a credit card expires. Google makes enough money from my subscriptions to at least write my data to a tape when I stop paying, so that I can access it again even 10 years later when I start paying again.
Late to the party on this one but I wanted to leave this note for posterity. Turns out that there's an interesting business story and a timely death tied-in here too.

I got curious because some of the tapes bear the name of an audio production company in Greenville, OH, a few miles down the road from my hometown. The booming male voice on the recordings also sounded familiar to me, too. I'm fairly certain I heard him on the local radio station that my father played over the PA in our family grocery store when I was growing up.

I did some searching and learned that back on November 30, the gentleman who founded the audio company, and who acted as the "voice of K-Mart", died.

It looks like he was involved in ventures that persist today. His company EchoSat[1] (which I'd heard of with some past involvement in the convenience store / retail petroleum industry) recently merged with an IT security firm to become "ControlScan".

Quoting the obituary[2]:

He started Tower Sound and Communications while in Greenville to pursue a venture that would eventually spearhead "in store" broadcasting for companies such as Kmart (he became the voice of Kmart) and Jamesway which evolved into another corporation in KY called EchoSat that would use satellite technology in helping with multiple stores for POS processing and security.

There's an interview with Lee Rutherford in 2011.[3] He absolutely still has that "radio voice".

[1] https://www.dandb.com/businessdirectory/towercommunicationsg...

[2] https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyadvocate/obituary.asp...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQqoQL3pkyI
"I hate Bank of America. I'm not happy with any of the other startup banks. And honestly, at this point my first instinct when seeing Stripe Treasury is "Imma just build my own bank for myself!" (and that actually looks like a real possibility, at least technically)."

I did this with Twilio - which is to say, I built my own little personal telco with Twilio.

It's not without it's ups and downs but there are a lot of interesting little superpowers I now have over my telco interactions that I would not otherwise have ...
You can't do what you do on a desktop on a laptop, not even a good one

Who cares if an M1 consumes less energy than a candle if I can buy 64GB of DDR4 3600 for 250 bucks and render the VFX for a 2 hours movie in 4k?

Another 300 bucks buy me a second GPU

When I deliver the job I put aside another 300 bucks and buy a third GPU

Or a better CPU

vertical products are an absolute waste of money when you chase the last bit of performance to save time (for you and your clients) and don't have the budget of Elon Musk

The M1 changes nothing in that space

Which is also a very lucrative space where every hour saved is an hour billed doing a new job instead of waiting to finish the last one to get paid

You can't mount your old gear on a rack and use it as a rendering node, plus you're paying for things you don't need: design, thermal constraints, a very expensive panel (a very good one, but still attached to the laptop body, and small)

So no, M1 is not comparable to a Threadripper, it's not even close, even if it consumes a lot more energy

When I'll see the same performances and freedom to upgrade in 20W chips, I will be the first one to buy them!

https://www.newegg.com/corsair-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82...

Then there's the 92% (actually 92.4%) of the remaining market that is not using an Apple computer that will keep buying non Apple hardware

Even if Apple doubled their market share, it would still be 15% Vs 85%

How is it possible that on HN people don't realise that 90 is much bigger than 10 and it's not a new laptop that will overturn the situation in a month is beyond me
Would love a citation on this one. Forcing above average American students into cram schools to memorize leetcode problems would probably help make Americans “the best candidates” for the whiteboard merry-go-round, but I have a strange feeling interviews would start morphing again if that happened.