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No; they're already in the country, that's really the whole point. They'd still need to meet the requirements for H-1B visa.

Say you're a STEM graduate; you first got an F-1 visa to study, then you spend four years at school in the U.S. You find a job with a great firm for your OPT, and that firm immediately starts to enter the H-1B lottery on your behalf.

Based on the amount of oversubscription, there's a significant number of people who are just not going to get selected before they time out on their OPT and have no option but to leave the U.S. after seven years living here, amounting to perhaps their entire adult lives.

The fact that such people have no preference in a random lottery with others that have no investment in the U.S. at all is utterly perplexing.
Does anyone know if this can connect to an External HDD via USB C?
Samsung CPU, samsung oled display, Balda touchscreen analogous to what LG has used previously, Marvell wi-fi, Skyworks cellular, various Intel and Infineon aux chips. $499 vs Blackberry's 8320 at $449.

Not even remotely.
Flutter apps have god awful performance when there is even a single platform view on the screen. In effect this means that if the app is monetized by ads, have any video, map embed or anything of the sort, it will have sub-30fps and very janky scroll even on iPhone 15 Pro and it really seems that there is no hacks to save you.
That's exactly it. Almost no one actually drives anywhere: most of the cars are taxis, and most of the rest of the vehicles are commercial (e.g. cargo trucks). When most of the people outside are taking a train, walking, or riding a bicycle, there aren't too many cars on the roads and consequently there isn't much traffic. The busiest places I see are near logistics centers, with lots of truck traffic coming and going.

Also, driving isn't expensive in Tokyo at all, it's actually free except on the toll highways. What's expensive is parking: with few places to park, and it being expensive to rent a parking space in your apartment, it's not that affordable or practical to drive. People also aren't allowed to own cars unless they have a place to park them, so we don't have the problem of car owners fighting over scarce street parking like many other cities.
It's not perfectly explained due to the apparent contradiction
I think the minimum value is comparable to a desktop shortcut
Has Google done anything new and major in these years? Like as a product.

So could there still be 10-20% extra as workers?
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That's not awesome. He's paying his staff about 20% of what they're earning him and keeping the rest.
Have you ever heard of this thing called sun? It sends down radiation many times stronger and at a frequency that actually damages human cells.
> I think that eye tracking perhaps could be used to enhance gesture-based input methods

That's how it works on the Vision Pro. I didn't really feel annoyed by it, but make sure the device is calibrated to your eyes, or the results might not be that great.
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You would have to transport it regardless. Whether it's crushed rock or sand.
Actually I think they edited in the "CHECK" sign, the other texts in the image (the sign of the shop across the street, the text on the terminal to the left) are the usual "AI-generated gibberish".
Maybe the discussion should be about how much changes regulation should allow being done to a plane, before it must become a new type.

The 737 Max is like double the size of the original 737 - roughly twice the passenger seats, more than twice the weight, roughly 1.5 times the length... How much larger can a plane get, while still keeping the same certification?
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It’s kinda the same thing. From DC management perspective, it’s EOL if it’s not economical to run relative to new hardware available
Plane, the top open-source project management tool on GitHub, raises a $4M seed
These satellites are around 500 km up. Round-trip latency is less than 10 ms if you’re somewhat close to a ground station, and if you’re not, odds are you’re not that close to your application server either and would have comparable latency in fiber.
Starlink would have that control.
It’s hard to bet against human determination but on the face of it, it seems out of reach to put satellite voice calls in a package the size of an iPhone.

The power requirements and thus the bulky batteries of existing satellite phones could be reduced by switching to protocols which trade off bandwidth for higher error correction abilities through encoding and I don’t think existing satellite phones use the most bandwidth efficient encoding available so that could be another improvement.

There’s still the free space path loss between the surface of earth and a Globalstar or Starlink which my best guess estimate is in the order of 130db (can anyone more knowledgeable share a better estimate? I assumed bottom end of L-band, a height between Starlink and Globalstar, and used unverified dBi values for antennas at both ends).

Then there’s latency but I don’t think that’s a show stopper for many common use cases of voice and data.
As someone who worked for a trading firm that did some* crypto stuff, you absolutely could sell 2B Euros worth of BTC, in a matter of weeks (contingent on market conditions), without significantly impacting the price.

*Some being trading volumes under but approaching $1B/month, although we didn't really have directional price exposure.
i honestly don’t see what you are seeing in terms of taiwans future sovereignty. Of course, China would like to do something about Taiwan, especially now with their economy kind of in the dumps and a collapsing real estate bubble. But when you look at the facts of it all, there’s absolut ZERO chance chine can muster up what it takes to hold their own in such a conflict. Their military isn’t up to snuff and they are one broken dam away from a huge mass casualty event.
>And for many people from oversubscribed countries (like India and China), marrying a US citizen is the ONLY viable path to a green card.

That's obviously not true, by both analysis and observation.
You don't have to "vouch" that you have a parking space, you have to prove it. The police will actually come to your home and measure your parking space to make sure it's big enough for the model of car you want to buy.

I can't imagine Americans submitting to a law like this.
The satellites fly over China and Russia either way. Starlink isn't geostationary, they're quite a few of them above you at any given time and place.
It’s a great idea. I’m learning Finnish via the chat and noticed some issues.

- invitation email link is huge, does it need so much entropy

- the web application is borked on iOS (no audio recording, buttons don’t work)

- inline translation of my spoken Finnish just says “I’m unsure”

- despite knowing my name from the introduction, the app keeps translating my name as “grilli“

- after finishing the introductory lesson, I had to close and re-open the app for the next lesson to display

- it almost seems like the app is trying to translate my spoken input to English despite the conversation being in Finnish

Overall, I like the idea and will continue trying the app. I’m not convinced enough yet to pay 14€/month but will give it some more time.

I like that the app doesn’t focus on grammar or gamification. Grammar comes after learning a language since the initial learning is all about I/O and grammar mostly makes sense when you already “get it.” Gamification and other addiction mechanics are what put me off of Duolingo as it doesn’t feel good to be manipulated, even if for a “good reason.”
That’s not how the market works. It doesn’t go “oh we need chemists let’s increase their pay and they’ll flock here”. It goes “oh I guess we let our science skills rot for 20 years it seems really hard to do chemistry now let’s pivot the business into a glorified real estate holding and invest in those ad companies that seem to have good ROI”.
From the article:

> One of the reasons I covered the checks as a payment method recently was to lay the groundwork for talking about some of the fascinating alternative financial world around them. In the main, this helps people at the socioeconomic margins turn payroll and other checks into cash (or otherwise immediately spendable value) in return for a fee. This is not how you, reader, probably deal with checks, and the existence of this industry / product have been controversial for many years.

So what's funny is that the topic is actually totally alien to me. But that's because I have only ever dealt with one or two checks in my life (when interacting with an American company paying interview expenses). And otherwise, I've never handled them at all. They just have been out-of-use in my parts of the world (Europe, Singapore, Australia) for at least as long as I've been economically active in them. From what I've heard, the US is going in that direction as well? So many younger people would have never handled checks there either?

But the paragraph just assumes that you would be familiar with checks in general, but not with check cashing. (Later on in the article, our author explains the basics of how well-enough-off people handle checks. So that's fine.)

Edit: reading further down, I'm ok with the tone of the article and don't share the concerns.
Is there any way for it to connect Via USB to an external HDD. how are you ment to get data off it?
Fair point but I wish they’d allow more when I don’t need perfect latency video, just mostly static ide material
If revenue is the only reason to choose a provider, we would all buy Oracle.
Yup, the threshold theorem is the holy grail.

Going back to the number of qubits: IBM and some other research institutes have been working on an idea of connecting multiple quantum computers in a grid. This would potentially help alleviate the problem of "how to fit 1000s of qubits, with all the wiring, into a single fridge", as well as "how to fabricate high-quality single chip reliably". In theory, we could fabricate and wire-up medium sized-chips, setup full quantum computers and connect them with some sort of quantum memory and quantum communication channels.

Fabrication is tough; the company I work at does it all, from fabrication of quantum chips to final on-premise installation, and fabrication is as difficult as one can imagine.
This seems such a weird logic to me. if you removed the debugger, they’re just going to put print statements wherever until they bartow it down.

Hell if they’re doing that and not putting the breakpoint at exactly where the exception occurs based off the stack trace them already something is odd.

How do you folks debug a third party library without jumping into the debugger? In order to test certain conditions at a breakpoint are you printing and refining the code every time ?
Not really?

Do the math of how much bandwidth like three windows/screens (because with this model each window is basically its own screen) at 4K/100hz/10bit color each would take.

You're at limits of TB4 _very quickly_.

You can compress the image, try to do something smart with foveated rendering (only stream the windows that users are looking at; but that breaks if you want to keep a window with logs in your peripheral vision), use chroma subsampling, etc; but those all are varying trade-offs with relation to image quality.
Sure, but that’s natural skin cancer. Much better for you than the synthetic kind.
That's great feedback. If it doesn't help, don't do it.
It's already possible to cross-compile using an Intel Mac runner, but maybe you meant "easily" as not setting any additional compiler option.
I think the graphs would be better if they didn't start at zero, it's hard to see the difference visually as is.

One of my concerns is around managing statefull data in k8s versus using a managed service. There's more peace of mind handing off data to a managed database versus managing a container (even when using a k8s operator that does all the right things).
> there is no good reason to read uninitialized memory, for example

That's an assumption on your part.

One very good reason might be to ensure that memory really is there given the optimistic allocation schemes and to force a page to be read into core. You could also write to it to get the same effect. Another good reason to do a read on uninitialized memory is to see what's still there from the previous program that ran. Now arguably that's a nefarious reason but it is still a good one and it may help uncover bugs in the underlying system.
Wow, you guys have unused parking lots? We chronically don’t have enough, anywhere.
Let's take China for instance. They can prosecute the the customers, interfere with the communications, prevent the building of or seize the ground stations (eventually the laser links could get around that), can blow the satelites up with missiles (though that is not likely), and in general prevent any future authorized business that Starlink might want to do.

If I were in charge, I'd try to get licensed and be able to collect money from customers there.
Interesting how docker was profiled as important to the project. Certainly there are hundreds or thousands of other just as important technologies involved.
Ah, fair point! I guess I was unaware of the range of things that are covered by the name 'rocket'
Before electricity, yes. Not before steam. The principle of a steam engine existed in ancient Greece.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

Most likely the reason it remained a toy, rather than being put to productive use, was the abundance of slave labor.
This is copy pasta for crypto scam. They are searching for gullible victims to scam them again.
Why would companies go through the hassle of getting H1B workers, if they could hire Americans for the same job at the same amount?

Clearly there has to be either a shortage of the type of worker, or the Americans want a higher pay.
Depth charges and a PA system.
Yeah, SolarCity was a... stinky acquisition that was mentioned in this case. Some of the relevant false statements related to it.

Full disclosure, I agreed with Elon's current opinions before he had them, and I'm an avid legal nerd. I try to separate them as best I can, but when cases like this come up I can get a bit testy. I could word the same statements in an anti-Musk way, but this judgement is, to use a technical term, bullshit. My point is that this is a ridiculous penalty for the violations alleged, and simple punitive damages for misrepresented information would have been appropriate. A "slap on the wrist", as it were.
There seems to be significant domain squatting on .ai. I looked for a simple, non-obviously-AI-related word as a .ai domain a week ago, which was registered but listed as for sale, and the domain registrar suggested it was worth $4M.

That's more than the yearly sales Anguilla makes in total.

Many words and phrases I've looked for in the space are registered but listed as for sale. I suspect this means new sales will slow for Anguilla, and I wonder if as time passes and value drops, renewals will slow too.
Probably not the answer You are looking for...

Try some variant of this in your remote .bash_profile or what-not:

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
if [[ "x${TERM}" = "xeterm" || "x${TERM}" = "xeterm-color" ]]; then
function set-eterm-dir {
echo -e "\033AnSiTu" $(whoami)
echo -e "\033AnSiTc" $(pwd)
echo -e "\033AnSiTh" $(hostname -f)
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=set-eterm-dir
fi
fi

Now, locally, invoke M-x ansi-term, then within the ansi-term ssh to the remote machine. Change dirs, hit C-x C-f to open a file in the current (remote) directory.

See also the ansi-term hints on emacswiki

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnsiTermHints#h5o-5

or the comments in /usr/local/share/emacs/*/lisp/term.el

Edit: formatting
> so much time on your Internet comments though.

??

How much time do you think that comment took?

I type fast and I research fast - decades ago I spun up a mineral intelligence company that condensed tens of thousands of (power law distro) terse to quite dense documents per diem.

Extracting the guts from a primary source and countering a bit of lazy snark took seconds.
Yes agree, they recently opened up a small forest near me and yes, it’s just full of homeless people and their piles of trash and we can’t walk through it feeling safe anymore.
You're spot on. The CVE lists are filled with people who thought they understood this stuff better than they really did.
I had .im, .io domains et cetera. Seeing some crazy price increases I moved those to .net and .com. It’s not guaranteed but I believe it’s less likely that a generic domain will go bonkers in terms of cost overnight.
The problem is this... The money cow is datacenters, and especially top of the line products where there is no competition.

Then fastest single core and multi core x86 cpus that money can buy will go to databases and similar vertically scaled systems.

That's where you can put up the most extreme margins. It's "winner takes all the margins". Beeing somewhat competitive, but mostly a bit worse is the worst business position. Also...

I put money on AMD when they were taking over the crown.

Thank you for this wakeup call, I'll watch closely if Intel can deliver on this and take it back. I'll habe to adjust accordingly.
The "area" in a spherical coordinate system is cold "solid angle" with unit steradian.

The whole sky has 4pi steradian.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle
Especially with magic track pad, I could imagine this working quite well. You might be able to use both simultaneously with a single hand for some use cases.
They actually do?
It's not even a nuclear submarine. The Elites are so boring.
I loved this story about the Nigerian professor who also works as a welder and employs people to make ends meet. Here in the West we often see 9-5 jobs as the norm to survive, but in many places around the world people have to be entrepreneurs and inventive just to put food on the table.
Onshoring manufacturing is a given why?
This is just the early version of the technology. Once miniaturized to fit into standard size glasses and integrated with a voice controlled LLM assistant/companion that can perform actions and tasks, there's a good chance these things will replace smartphones for alot of people.
Love this, can we mangle the problem some more? Like, you open one door and it’s a goat, the host then says he will open another door containing the trip to Bali. Do you want to open the other door or stay with the goat you already have?
Is it any easier to find a good software developer?
When it comes to regulations, I hope my country is actually "the center of the world". Actually, the attitude you display in your last paragraph is more confirmation of my suspiicion then I actually want. Tech innovation people like you easily take a few dea people as long as innovation is not hindered. I am afraid of you guys.
I was going to recommend the Griffin iMate ADB-to-USB adapter, I have a couple, but apparently they’re hard to find now and expensive [1]?

I paid $35 for one brand new on Amazon just a couple years back.

I too used an old Apple keyboard when I first started using a Mac for work because the flat keyboard’s were nightmarish. I moved to a HHKB Lite 2 [2], and through several other keyboards before ultimate landing on a UNIX layout Sun Type 7 as my Mac keyboard of choice.

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000067V8L/

- [2] https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards
It’s fun, but some of the Civilization deaths are kinda dopey. I mean, sure, a Gamma ray burst from a local supernova is gonna wipe ‘em out, fine. But an old culture that has mastered metallurgy dies because of an out of control cooking fire? Lol ok.
You’re arguing ability when they are only taking about rights
https://saasstartupkit.com/

Close?
I actually don't know. They say in the paper they can't figure out a better way to approximate Solomonoff induction in the UTM (universal Turing machine) section, so they just guess some reasonable value (based on knowledge of the program that generates the sequence).
Huh, so going indoor climbing 2-3x a week has not only boosted my strength and endurance, but is also apparently reducing my chance of prostate cancer?? Sweeeeet.
> The power requirements and thus the bulky batteries of existing satellite phones could be reduced by switching to protocols which trade off bandwidth for higher error correction abilities

No, you can’t trade bandwidth against error correction. What you can do is use channel coding/error correction to trade effective signal-to-noise strength against data rate (at constant power).

But since your data rate demand is fixed for voice, and the uplink transmit power is fixed too (by 4G/5G specs), you need to raise the received signal strength. The only thing that can help you there are more directional receive antennas on the satellites, which is what these new generations are doing.
The question should've been "can a vnc SERVER serves as a virtual display?".

On that, I found https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen
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But at the same time, the hardware is not where it needs to be for ubiquity. We need ~60PPD, great FOV, and lighter hardware to really break the barrier. Vision Pro is at the limits, but still not quite there, and we all know the 90/10 rule.
No, it’s a processor and graphics card issue as well. You have to actually render a potentially unlimited number of 4K screens (at least the ones in your direct view) on the Mac Pro. It was never built to do that.
That’s a fair point. In the current iteration there’s not much functional difference.

The vision though would be to build something that feels a lot like one of the centralized git services, just built on top of Nostr. So, it’d be some kind of a frontend that you may be able to run yourself if it’s open source which you could point to a set of relays to get the ‘git notes’ from. Couple this with the integrated payments functionality, and I think it becomes an interesting proposition.

If I recall correctly some time ago Jack Dorsey pledged some amount of BTC to make that a reality.
Why you should if you don't have to ? Satellite phones are a thing at least since the 90s, but nowadays you prefer some kind of communication via Internet, possibly using wifi. Ok, emergency call, place out the civilisation, but those are same use case present 30 years ago. If you don't have to you want to use real cell towers or wifi. Also I think that to cover the communication needs of a single western rich country they have to increase the number of satellite drastically, with lot of side effects. So really satellites aren't new cell towers. Besides, is that type of infrastructure so profitable to justify its creation ? I want to say, if I wasn't able to do an emergency call the problem was dead battery, not absence of signal, in other cases I use the ol' dirty Marconi's wireless telegraph: the radio. Obviously , if I have a way to send sms from desert place, it's a "nice to have feature" not a necessity for the majority of us, so, again , how the company want to monetise from the infrastructure that is greatly expensive ?
> simply overstayed their tourist visa and never left. Some 5 years later...

How did he make money during those 5 years?
How so? There’s a 100+ year wait on EB2 and EB3 Green Cards for people born in India. Only 7% of GCs can go to people of any one country. At the current cap of 49000, it means only 3400 EB2 GCs can actually be issued to Indians per year. An approved application doesn’t equate to a green card actually minted and issued. There’s a 12 year backlog on applications alone. (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...)

H1B is neither a green card nor a path to one.

There is one category that has no cap at all however. The “Immediate relative of a US citizen” one.