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Ask HN: Laid off while abroad on F1 OPT
Hello HN,

I'm unsure if this is the right forum but I'm desperate for advice on how to handle this situation:

My partner was recently laid off while they're still traveling abroad. They were employed using their F1 OPT (Post completion, they have STEM available still). Their EAD expired in February 2022, is it still possible that they can return to the USA to look for employment? They still have some grace period left over from the 90days, but I'm unsure how much.

What are our options here to ensure return and job search, they still haven't received details on the layoff / severance so I want to be hopeful.

Another thing to note is that we're not married (or in a legal equivalent of that).
If it can be exchanged for money that can be exchanged for stuff, it has value. I can't spend gold or equities at the grocery store but those are priced in dollars and have value as well.
There's no value unless you coax other individuals into it.
Having used C++ relatively little, and a long time ago (and never used Go), I don't think I ever realized that value semantics could be used to implicitly clone heap objects

Yeesh
Our very small company is running Woodpecker CI + gitea and they work very well together.
I would love a phone with pre-built grips on it...

I bought a Pixel 6 Pro earlier in the year and the first one cracked then turned into a brick, while using the Google case for it. My second one cracked in my pocket while using the top Amazon case.

I would like a rugged and sturdy phone that won't crack sitting in your pocket and is not slick as snot.
Hey, me too! Spicy food does wonders for making a meal feel like more than just food.

I've found I get the same level of gratification from eating really well-seasoned dal (for example) that I used to get from eating meat. As my tastes have adjusted, I don't miss the meat at all. I think what it is though is that I used to season meat heavily, cook it carefully, and it was this delicious, very intentional, and extremely gratifying sensory experience. If I replace that with vegetables, grains, and legumes, it seems to basically do the same thing. I never crave barbacoa beef anymore, but I'll crave chilli or pad Thai (heavily seasoned and savoury or bright, intense flavours) and feel just as great when I eat them.

I also agree that ensuring your nutritional bases are covered goes a long way in reducing cravings (arguably for just about anything).
Appreciate the great conversation! I fundamentally don't like the idea of having skyscrapers as the goal versus medium density/mixed use but if we are going to build them for sure a sustainable material seems to make sense.

Typically I'd say maxing out at 3-4 stories would get us to where we need to be, although certainly something like a hospital or special use building would/could be taller.
CE is typically obligation of result, not obligation of effort. Do you have source on products that can't be self-assessed?
> Who is Zhang Yitang?

> Born in 1955, Zhang could not attend school and taught himself mathematics at the age of 11. He worked in the fields and factories for several years to make his way to Peking University, where he earned his master's degree in 1984.

> Zhang then moved to the U.S. to get a Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University. Failing to get himself a job, Zhang then worked as an accountant, a restaurant manager, and even a food delivery person before getting a position to teach pre-algebra and calculus at the University of New Hampshire in 1999, the SCMP report said.

> In 2013, Zhang shocked the world with his twin prime conjecture, which proposed that there were an infinite pair of prime numbers that differed by two. Prior to this, Zhang had achieved only one publication.

29 year old (1984) - Got master degree.

44 year old (1999) - Got first academic job.
Key point here: before other people in order to be seen by them

We have a similar notion in Islam called Riyaa' (رياء), where not only will the person engaging in it not get any rewards in the Hereafter, but he would be actively punished for it.

Intention matters. It is possible that doing a major good deed in public is the right thing to do in order to get other people to do the same. It's all about setting your intentions right.
I don’t agree on a few of these.

I wouldn’t personalize your resume for any company, nor do I recommend writing a personalized cover letter for any of them — you have no idea the skill set that will be valued by the person reading the resume, as they are an unknown random variable. I feel it’s just a time waste and there is no proof that this sort of thing is fruitful.

Also fuck leetcode. I’ve refused to do the leetcode and still gotten the offer to do an interview without it. Imo, we should all show some backbone and stop accepting all this superstitious mumbo jumbo as the accepted form of recruitment.
People will pay way, way more for a painting of their pet by a human artist.

$30 is super cheap compared to that.
Revenue $469.822 billion (2021)
Operating income $24.879 billion (2021)
Net income $33.364 billion (2021)
Number of employees U.S.: 950,000 (June 2021)

(($33.364 billion (US dollars))/(950000 people))/(12 months)

$2927 per month per person (US dollars per month per person)
$96.22 per day per person (US dollars per day per person)
$673.5 per week per person (US dollars per week per person)

Can you define your understanding of the term 'razor thin margins'?
Or it could be that previous management was constantly prioritizing new features instead of performance gains and now he's getting unnecessary flak for it.
Ask HN: SWEs working from home, what advice do you have for WFH junior devs?
One of the concerns I always hear people complain about when working from home is that a software engineer or developer in a team might not get the help they really need, especially if they're starting in the industry. For example, they might not get proper mentorship, might be passed over when it comes to promotion, etc.

What have you done to leverage this clear disadvantage and continue progressing in your career?
Reminds me of the bug where certain strings would crash apple products.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4124

https://xkcd.com/1957/
There are alternative ways to deal with a downturn, in the past German companies have successfully introduced part-time employment for all employees to avoid having to layoff employees. This avoids employee knowledge and experience from leaving, making it easier to scale back up once economy picks up again.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277267537_Securing_...
Command K Bars
That's very interesting. It's a fair argument, but sometimes, instructors for example want to protect their content and only share it with a person and they allow account sharing but limit it to one person.

but if gets out of control (as one company had 47 people sharing one account), that's plain rip-off and costs companies a lot of money. So it's a good idea to limit the number of devices. Many companies do that, for example Evernote limits how many devices you can use to access your own notes.

On top of that, you pay for 24 access to a device but companies would totally change the structure if they knew everyone would be streaming 24/7 it's a stats and chance game.

Also, not saying everyone has good intetions nor is everyone a bad actor. Manytimes it's just easier to share than add a paid user. Other comapnies allow you to share account for a discounted price. It's not a black and white situation :), but for anyone who wants to control or just monitor that, this library helps them.
It doesn't matter if it's "thousands of RPC calls" or not. Eric's response is, "It's definitely not that! It's... well... we don't know... so just spend more money on servers." That response alone would have me fire him.
Subscribe and save toilet paper. It just shows up.

Bills are annoying. Need account for autopay, their website sucks and crashes (Talking to centerpoint energy).
Same for me. Doesn't happen in Firefox which is strange because I thought all browsers used the same Safari engine...
Reminds me of a US tap in Mexico I saw once - the installer obviously decided C must be for caliente which meant the H should be hielo.
Going to film school would likely ruin movies for me, as I'd see the man behind the curtain. I used to watch the "making of ..." bonus features, until I realized they'd ruin the movie.

It's like that for video games for me. I used to program them for a job when I was in college. Ever since, when I see a video game, I don't see the game so much as how it is constructed and programmed.
Valuation is meaningless from the perspective of analyzing if a company has been a success or a failure. Valuation concerns the players who sit at the poker table and how each and everyone of them managed to fare during the game. The table being the company and the players being the investors.

The OP is right in accounting funds raised vs. losses incurred as the metric to watch for.

The funds raised belong mostly to public pension/private funds and insurance companies, with the intermediation of PE/VC funds.
And because it's a fork of 'mirror/newlib-cygwin', searching for "picolibc" on GitHub does not find it, even though this project has 678 stars and the original newlib-cygwin has only 144 stars. Why is GitHub search so broken?
Founder of https://interval.com here. We're somewhere in-between Retool and Windmill which was mentioned on this thread.

Like Windmill, Interval is heavily code-focused. Our model lets you define tools in your existing TypeScipt/JavaScript codebase.

Like Retool, you can use Interval to build complete internal dashboards that handle the "view stuff" side of things, not just the script/workflow "do stuff" pieces.
At least $1B in investor assets missing after FTX collapse
It's actually kind of soul sucking bad, and I have trouble coming to terms with that "this is just how it is now."

I really do feel for those without a decent network.
yet again you're trying to argue multiple points irrelevant to the initial discussion: the semantics of easy vs easier; whether it's easier to bribe in the first place; whether sortitioning is better or worse than the current system. this is called the Gish gallop[1], and it is not conducive to good debate

stop trying to move the goalposts

it is difficult to prosecute someone who has taken this kind of bribe, even in a system of sortitioning. do you have a refutation to this argument?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
I think this is half right. For anything 64 bits or smaller, value semantics are pretty much always going to be better. That said, being able to choose between value and reference semantics for larger objects per object is a pretty useful feature.
Unfortunately nobody has distilled accounting into a series of six-paragraph blog posts.

(see https://lithub.com/crypto-nerd-sam-bankman-fried-who-just-lo...)

“I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that,” explains SBF. “I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”
Usually CE regulations do not care if you hired an auditor or not. They only care about the regulations being obeyed. My understanding is that warning the users of the level of security they can expect, and handling security flaws reasonably is probably going to be enough.
It costs me $11/month. $6 for a small DO droplet instance[1] and $5 for DO spaces storage[2] which gets me 250GB of space.
I use both the instance and the storage also for other purposes. E.g. I also host my personal blog and store backups there.

If you want to save a few dollars, you can get it close to $5/month if you go with cheaper S3 compatible storage from Backblaze[3] or Cloudflare[4] + the cheapest $2.5 instance from Vultr[5].

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

[2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/spaces-object-storage

[3]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037814594-B2...

[4]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/platform/pricing/

[5]: https://www.vultr.com/pricing
A Course in Mathematical Logic for Mathematicians, by Y. Manin
https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/lg-readings/Manin,%20Logic...
> a BeyondCorp outage makes it impossible to work

Yes. So does a VPN outage if you're using that instead. If your laptop gets chewed up by a lawnmower, it's also impossible to work.
that's the ugliest URL i've seen on HN.
> not possible without a divine, all-giving power.

I would say the atheist view is actually the same as yours with the exception that "god" isn't a man in the sky.

The way I see religion is as a coping mechanism for dealing with emotion.

When things get hard or tough who can you turn to? What can help ease emotional pain, give you hope when there is none or look out for you when noone else will?

It's simple, let's create an imaginary figure that always has your best interest at heart => God.

Let's now utilise this to help drive the behaviours we want in our tribe => Religious scripture / Church.

Personally I find it much more satisfying to simply admit that we don't know what's out there. Noone on earth has the answers because we're still learning, and we're also stuck in our bubble which we call the universe. Death is just a part of life and a way to recycle our bodies, we're not all that special and that's OK.

Anyone that finds it emotionally helpful to believe in fairytales is free to do so, but I feel like you're missing something even more magical if you can bring yourself to search for it, which is reality itself.
I would describe that as ego, not honor.
Outside of the web, I already use a tool called HashCache [0][1] to ensure that I can repeatedly fetch the right upstream source tarball for a Linux distribution I maintain. A simple script I use to download is here [2], and example usage is here [3]

This has the advantage of being pretty transparent and self-maintaining. The disadvantage is that it doesn't work for things that are dynamic (duh) or not serialized.

[0] https://hashcache.rkeene.org/
[1] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hashcache/
[2] https://kitcreator.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact?udc=1&ln=on&na...
[3] https://appfs.rkeene.org/web/artifact/22239c774b50efa6
Nice prose, good explanations.

A little digression can be interesting.

I wonder about the plot: why not create the other bug, that converts glucose back? Then it'd reach an equilibrium.
No, I mean you no longer need to test the feature on actual users to know how they might react to it.
Some feedback, as you asked for it and I signed up for both OpenBlocks and Budibase cloud versions today to try them out:

(NB: If I like either or both of them I’ll self host, as I have no interest in SaaS, indeed it’s what’s stopped me from using things like Retool despite missing RAD tools ever since Delphi stopped being a viable solution for me.)

OpenBlocks dropped me quickly into its pretty snappy app (literally just connected Github and done) and I was away and designing a simple screen in no time. Budibase on the other hand asked me a bunch of questions about my “company” and job, then dumped me straight into a wizard to create or connect to a database.

It felt like ages before I could start clicking and playing around. I nearly gave up and left at least twice and in fact ended up only trying the actual tools in Budibase out for a much shorter time as a result. Maybe I’ll go back to it later, but I’m already planning to deploy an OpenBlocks instance to mess around with more.

I massively prefer the OpenBlocks approach here. I want to be dropped quickly into a powerful and intuitive tool, not taken through a signup and data harvesting flow nor invited to create an app through a series of wizards. From what I see Budibase looks promising and it seems to have some features that OpenBlocks doesn’t (though the app also felt a bit less snappy than OpenBlocks and speed is really important), but the general experience as a new user was a bit much.
You might want to update your model based on the latest bombs’ radius of impact. And conclude that you are safe nowhere. Literally.
> I was refused service at a hair cutting chain because I did not have a cell phone

I don't believe this.
Since we're playing the action->fatal consequence game, what other perfectly legal (although irritating) things should justify first-degree, premeditated murder?
Facebook was not selling data then either. Users gave their explicit consent to Cambridge Analytica to use the data in the surveys. The mistake Facebook made was giving Cambridge Analytica access to those users' friends data, which qualifies it as a data breach. Again, Facebook never sold data to third parties.
What's the political situation ? It may well be that some execs further up the chain don't really want your team to be hiring ? That would explain the friction.
3blue1brown linear algebra + the linear algebra chapter from “all the math you missed but need to know for graduate school” - linear algebra and abstract vector spaces in general finally feel familiar.

Also, timbuktu manuscripts - showed a history that I had never really heard of. These are written manuscripts of african scholars which are hundreds of years old, and still exist today. Some record the history of great west african civilizations along with other things they studied (e.g. science, religion, math, literature, ect). I was never taught this history even existed but yet was made to learn the various details about asian, european, middle eastern, central/south american history. This, and the attempts to destroy/steal these manuscripts at various points in history, made it click how serious power of controlling information, and ultimately influencing beliefs can be, with respect to giving legitimacy to the various rulers/authorities. Beliefs/perceptions matter quite a lot. This 1hr lecture is quite good: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQiqyyRfL2Y&t=16s

Behavioral biology class from Dr. Sapolsky (Sanford) - explains a lot of why we behave the way we do, from different biological perspectives https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqeYp3nxIYpF7dW7qK8OvLs...
That's client-side requests. Musk was talking about internal RPC calls to microservices needed to ultimately respond to the client-side requests.

If the internal arch is heavy on microservices and you're putting together, say, 50 tweets you're at 1000 RPC calls with just 20 per tweet. It's not inconceivable.

The developer puts the real number at 200.
I think it depends, if you're early in your career you're basically trying to find a company willing to take a chance on you and train you. Once you have some accomplishments under your belt companies will start being more aggressive at hiring you because you can hit the ground running.

If you're applying for "senior" positions and have the CV to back it up and you're still batting 1/200 getting to the first interview then you are either the unluckiest person ever or there's a red flag you haven't noticed.
Having talked to trans and bi youth, they're cynical, well-read, yet simultaneously naive and emotional, use slurs copiously and ironically, and like any generation, are politically all over the map, including fashy. I would not dare to try and paint these people a certain way.
1. It's written specifically to one Jacob Watson, whose signature appears on the back like a modern personal check. The written amount is $5500--, and below that is added "5000 discounted", which I take to mean the note was already (mostly?) cashed.

2. I used to follow someone online who worked as a scanner for IA and sometimes posted behind-the-scenes stuff including a few weird finds. (I can't name-drop since she hasn't worked with IA for a few years now, but maybe somebody else knows someone.) That might be the best bet since the process is largely automated and there's not a lot of time to document and compile incidentals like that.
“best “

“bedt “

“old “

“wel “

“dta “

All of these crash safari in iOS for me.

What’s strange about this bug is that it happened overnight for multiple iOS version.

It seems to be a server bug that happens with the requests that populate the suggestions.

Turning off safari suggestions fixes it.
there's more evidence to support that actually being african american will hurt you during job interviews
> Most countries around that world have stopped recommending any further boosters.

What makes you say that? It doesn't sound accurate at all, given that Autumn booster programs are underway in USA, UK, EU - and those are the only ones that I have checked. And what are you attempting to imply?
I chose to cut out the middle man. I'll only buy mobile devices with SD card slots and headphone sockets. Loading all my music onto an SD card is an order of magnitude quicker than uploading it to the web. And I have all my music everywhere, even when there's no internet connection.
1) Yes, people use tweets to report bugs all the time. The problem with nitpicking is that anyone can pick your nits back, which leads me to...

2) Yes, they will, but that won't necessarily repro the bug without knowing which type of device it's running on, so at the very least they might need to check several different devices, and even then other factors can come into play that go beyond basic device configuration.

I'm sure, given that this appears to affect at least a significant minority of users, that Apple will be all over it and will find a way to repro it in relatively short order. Yet, at the same time, it's obscure enough to have escaped their no doubt reasonably robust QA processes before release, so it may well be there are some wrinkles to reproduction that aren't immediately apparent.
>Worse we would've ended up in a dystopian future of CBDCs and social credit etc.

I think we might still be heading there. The Fed announced recently (iirc) that a CBDC is officially on the way.
He was describing yield farming schemes, not FTX or FTT.
Plus then you can stick out your tongue like this: c(: c):
Which would move up the chain to all dependencies of a critical project.

Libc, clang/gcc, whatever. Needs to be audited.

Perhaps they require the “integrator” to perform the audit or maybe the fact someone provides software which can be useful in critical environments is enough to signal an implied warranty and they are on the hook for compliance. Nobody knows until it all goes through costly legal procedures where everyone is trying to cover their asses and pass the buck.

I’m waiting for the day where FLOSS devs are greeted at EU airports by process servers because they released some software while in college and it got used in some critical software.
For contract position in the U. S.? Where total comp is going to be...$60/hour, and you pay your own health insurance? For an IC role better than junior, I'd laugh as I hung up the phone...ten years ago. And I'm nothing special, just a grunt with a decent resume.

(Seattle-area, if it matters, and it does.)
I wonder if "Safari Suggestions" is crossing a privacy line with its API it shouldn't and iOS nukes the app from orbit.
Arguably, the Model A is the first modern car, moreso than the Model T, which has a lot of quirks that would be unrecognizable to today's drivers. For example, it didn't even had a throttle pedal, and choosing the gears is done through a bizantine system that includes a "reverse pedal". In a Model T you get this distinct impression of riding on top of the car instead of inside it, and it has many other things like this. By comparison, the Model A is remarkably similar to the cars of today, except much more primitive of course.
Not to defend any of the catastrophe of management that just happened but can't both be true? Eric does say in his tweets that a lot of time is spent waiting on the network. If that is because server side, the endpoint handling a request is spamming other backend services with 100s of RPC calls it would be slow. Now, why you would call out your android dev. on why your backend is not responding fast, I dunno.
What would happen if a nuclear bomb was used in Ukraine?