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Ask HN: Path to enter the US as an EU citizen?
I am currently doing a Ph.D at a national lab, somewhere in Europe, and I am myself an EU citizen. My field of expertise/research is deep learning machinery (the stuff under the hood that makes your models run faster). For various professional reasons I want to move to the US after I finish. It is in fact the natural progression in my field to do a post-doc in the US if one does a Ph.D in Europe (or vice-versa). And it has always been a dream of mine to work at a national lab in the US.

But in doing a bit of research, I am reading that one typically does a post-doc on a J-1 VISA and it is not possible to transfer to a permanent or sponsored VISA afterward.

Ouch. There goes my plan. My aim is to attain permanent residency and work in industry, if not for anything else, because it is the only logical thing to do for my very specific career path.

So what immigration path would most likely work in my case?
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> Personally, I have had an experience with an ex-partner who was diagnosed with autism but showed clear traits of narcissistic personality disorder.

so shocked. I'd reject the whole thing on principle. while autism and other neurological problems are real, personality disorders seem largely cultural.

usually, a psychopath is someone you got into a power struggle with, a sociopath is someone who doesn't share your values, and a narcissist is someone you felt insulted by. They didn't merely steal or cheat, but were surely afflicted by a mania, they don't have beliefs or experiences, but are in fact expressing a phobia, and they were not exercising agency, but responding to a trauma. to me the whole framework is intended to externalize your locus of control and it has the uncanniness of predation.

further, what people call "empathy," is a self-justifying shim for viewing people as subjects of external forces, of which your impact on them is just an indifferent and neutral one of many, which absolves either of you of moral agency.

I often object to the language of psychotherapy because it's the artifact of an inferior ontology- what you are left with when you don't have (or are deprived of) a sense of faith. these psychological tropes don't appear in alternatives like compassion, dignity, charity, faith, fraternity, which are ideas from better moral systems than psychotherapy. maybe instead of medicalizing and pathologizing our ex-es for political ends there is an opportunity for a more spiritual reflection.

there is value in therapy, and i see how it helps, but just as all medicine and care is predicated on consent, you can't ethically apply psychotheraputic criticism to someone you hate. we should challenge this stuff when we see it because it becomes a pernicious justification for darker things.
> The CVE has been discovered by a security researcher/firm, rather than being found in the wild.

The researcher/firm was the one that disclosed it, but I don't feel like you could conclusively say that the exploit isn't in the wild.
You're right - if you select it from the drop-down it works that way. If you refresh the browser, as I was, it defaults to the same sample.
I dunno if it's the biggest myth about education, but it's gotta be in the top 3: The myth that you can stand in front of someone, speak some words on some topic, and all humans will automatically absorb the words, retain them, correctly make all relevant logical deductions from these words, retain all of this for the next several decades, and no particular effort need to be put into the specific words used and no examination of the audience need be done because humans do all of this automatically for you, 100% reliably.

I do not know where we get this idea. Literally everyone knows from years of personal experience that it is false. I can hardly think of a claim that each and every one of us has had more thoroughly debunked, in the strongest possible manner.

Yet virtually all of us act as if it is true, and indeed, there's even a contingent of people who will attack you if you claim it isn't true.

Lectures can work if you do as described. There's some other ways to make them work too. But there's an awful lot of just standing in front of a bunch of people, flashing some slides, and reading them off, and then, I guess, expecting some sort of miracle to occur because they darned well ought to know what the result of that approach will be from personal experience.
Jeep Almost Gave Us an Entry Level Suzuki Samurai Fighter in the 1990s
Yeah, that makes MUCH more sense
I don't think it's "hydrogen and oxygen ions"; that doesn't really meet the definition of water. I'd assume it's more like ebsom salts, where H2O is a part of the crystalline structure of the chemical compound. If you heat up epsom salts enough then the bonds are broken and steam is released.
This sounds like a modern Linda which is itself a coordination language between parallel actors reduced down to a very simplified model of pattern matching and "pub/sub".

This kind of parallel programming fell out of favor with PVM and MPI kind of taking over the space in the late 90s, but I suspect Tuplespaces were just a bit ahead of their time.

Things like this can potentially really help with the observability of distributed systems, which has been a huge pain especially in areas of eventual consistency.
Take a guess at what this icon in Confluence means
idk, to me it seems like no matter what this is a lose/lose situation for disney.

either way it's bad press, which granted doesn't mean much in the long run

assuming the motion to dismiss is denied and it moves forward, regardless of which way it is eventually ruled, doesn't this eventually open it up for federal courts to rule all forced arbitration agreements in T&C's void?
(or more likely assuming they rule against disney, limit them to less severe crimes)

though that the widow is willing/able to move forward with appeals process, the latter of which likely won't be possible without some civil rights activists group stepping in to provide pro bono legal assistance

a settlement seems unlikely, since the widow only went forward with this case because Disney refused a 50k settlement, the cheap bastards. They are almost certainly spending more on lawyer fees than it would have cost them to settle this out of court
I never knew about HL7, thanks for sharing.

I agree that simplicity and open standards will win. SFTP is straightforward and has worked well in the past. In banking and finance, SFTP is what powers most programmatic corporate banking. Eventually, I think we'll see SFTP and message queues (like SQS) used more often as processing speeds up. I believe message queues are what powers much of real time payment processing already (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805571)
[dupe]

Official release: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239635)
No sure why you are downvoted. I can easily see Beckham hitting a 3 of them in a row with some practice shots. Fairly big targets. Getting ball into the can is impossible (he would have to try a lot of time, 3x in a row probably statistically impossible).
It seems the TDPSA does require consent, just like California's CCPA/CPRA, Virginia's VCDPA it is based on, and the EU's GDPR.
They are harder to implement than ECC.
The bad idea was to have a secret identifier in the first place. Who thought that "a ten digit number printed on a bunch of documents" was a good thing to use as sole proof of someone's identity?
I am not NSA, but I think their idea is something along the “once Shor’s algorithm is practical for key sizes of hundreds of bits, it’s only a matter of a few years of engineering effort to make it feasible for thousands bits long keys”. In other words, there is no sufficient safety margin for larger keys.
For mild astigmatism, you can use regular lenses and get pretty good results.
Made action to gen csvs + json
Working on the mui data table frontend right now
> the wrong time

Would you consider lack of marriage stability as a reason to not have kids yet?
Doesn’t matter. Use them, don’t. Doesn’t matter.
iPhones will be used to detect offside rule breaches in Soccer matches
This policy by itself: perhaps not. He did skip a room cleaning one day before the shooting, but he quite probably could have worked around one if he knew it was coming as a matter of policy. It is, however, just one of many changes made, all of which in concert (no pun intended) would make something like that at least significantly harder to do.

For instance, he had bell desk bring 22 large suitcases to his room over a few days. That's a huge red flag that would not go unnoticed now (and there's likely some procedure about logging/reporting since then). Prior to that event, nobody logged or even paid attention to such things. When you work with whales in Vegas, you just get used to eccentric rich people being eccentric rich people. Now you're at least aware of threats from people posing as them.
Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments
> If someone steals my car and kills someone with it, I'm not liable for murder. I just had a car stolen.

Right. You're a victim. And you'll probably be involved in the process of investigating and resolving the manslaughter.

> If someone who looks nothing like me steals my passport and convinces someone to loan them a bunch of money, I'm not liable for that money

Right. But you're obviously going to be involved in sorting out that mess, even if that begins and ends with "fuck off."

> If the bank does the above, suddenly it's my problem for "getting my identity stolen"

How? If someone opens a credit line in my name in a foreign country, and I'm never contacted about it, it's not my problem. It only becomes my problem if they try to take my stuff.

Identity theft is in the same category, from the victim's perspective, as a bank error. If a bank mistakenly initiates foreclosure proceedings against me, that's their mistake. But it's my problem. That's the basic reality of the situation. (For a lower-level analog, if you accuse the wrong person of a crime to a police officer, that's your mistake. But it's their problem.)

What you're recognising is how much more powerful the bank is than you or me. Given how common identity theft is, they shouldn't be given the benefit of doubt they (or anyone else) would if they had a piece of paper purporting to promise something from us to them. But we have to recognise this isn't a return to the status quo; we're creating an exception.
Never to late to fix things.
SiFive announces high performance RISC-V cores for Datacentres
I still wonder how electrocution is not a big issue.
My local electricity codes say absolutely no electricity within zone 0. I get a bit nervous about hooking up IP 65 rated lights to a IP X4 rated switchbox a meter away from the shower head
> If you mean, measuring the neutrino baseline difference when a GW passes through the Earth, perhaps. I never thought about it, but its definitely intriguing.

That's where my mind went. Lasers need a lot of precise controls for vibration and such, and neutrinos move through matter almost like it doesn't exist. If the emitter and detector were on opposite sides of the earth, and gravity effects the neutrinos since they have mass, would that increase the resolution of a gravity wave detection?

The multi-messenger concept is fascinating too. Seems like the volume of discover is going to keep increasing exponentially.
> There's no way for someone to make an identifier that's also a secret secure.

There is, but it requires assymetric cryptography, so entities can verify you have access to the private key without having access themselves.

And that would be more technically sophisticated, and difficult to deploy, so I don't see it happening any time soon.
Umm, proof?
OK, this works cos package ast already has `func Inspect`.

So how about a more general case ? A case where we do not have a `func Inspect` already in the stdlib ?

Maybe just replace it with (for example) `filepath.WalkDir` ?
A useful midpoint is to use just the year. That way you get a fresh namespace on January 1st.

I use that for static files on my blog and it’s worked great for 20+ years:

https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/mlx-whisper-gpu...

https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2003/getElementsBySe...
It's good, but it's work. I have a friend, really good swift/iPhone dev who charge 350 to 500€ an hour (so 200-350 after taxes). If after taxes and expenses (loan repayment) he can earn 2-3.5k for less than 10h of work per year that can be a good investment. But that's not taking into account the principal he invested, the fact that the job would bore him, the fact that he can't improve his skills.

It might be an okay investment for me (I'm a salary man, can't be bothered with freelance work), but for him I'd bet it's a money loosing proposition

[edit] the 500€/hour is an outlier, he wanted out of a project and kept increasing his rates, which were accepted up to that point.
I wrote a remembrance when he died a few years back. The timing of this story (2005) is a little unfortunate, because the genius of the Newton investment only showed itself later, even with its failure: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7jdgw/larry-tesler-the-inve...

See, Apple invested in ARM because of the Newton, which means they held Newton stock. And on top of the fact that this gave Apple an inside line/competitive advantage with ARM that we’re still seeing today, it also meant that Apple owned ARM stock—and could sell it. When the company was near its nadir in the late 1990s, it nursed itself back to health by selling shares of ARM.

So even Tesler’s biggest failure was a stroke of genius.
Yes because nobody can sue the Secret Service for billions but they successfully got $800m out of MGM for that incident.
Another interesting related area is designing URLs for third-party components.

Third-party component have to coexist with existing site navigation logic, so generally you can't safely add URL-based configuration to such a component.

Fortunately, configuration can now be stored in fragment directives in order to hide this from normal site routing. e.g.

https://example.com/page#routing-info:~:additional-routing-info-for-third-party-component

With fragment directives, location.href and location.hash exclude the additional content in the hash after :~:

This is used in Transcend Consent Management for configuring parameters to debug and simulate various privacy experiences[1].

1. https://docs.transcend.io/docs/consent-management/reference/...
I think that we're each focusing on the right thing for the domains that we're thinking of, they're just different domains. When I first heard about Nickel I was like "wow, I'm gonna use this everywhere"--because I too get excited about fancy new languages--and I think that was premature. I'm looking forward to when the opportunity arises, but I don't think it'll become everywhere.

Config languages are definitely the way to go for system config and polyglot projects and maybe also places where the config/project divide is natural in some way such that users reasonably can spend their whole life without writing only config code (kubernetes comes to mind). I just tend to lean somewhat radically away from those things... to such an extreme that I've been thinking about making the code editor (and all its various configs) a project-level dependency instead of a system config.

I know it sounds crazy, but If you bundle the tools needed to work on a project into that project, then wherever it ends up, the user has what they need to work on it, even if the internet is down: Little dev-focused operating systems bundled with each package so that the actual operating system needs to be interacted with hardly at all. Something something right to repair...

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Re: The Little Schemer, I actually have a copy of that on my desk, I have spent less than 5 minutes on it. I'll find you on NixOS Discourse :)
Thanks for sharing the exact workflow, and sorry for potentially derailing the discussion on this! (For the record, I upvoted all substantial comments, and truly enjoyed my comment going from +4 to -2 and back again...).

I've never had iOS (either the Cisco or the Apple variant) randomly apply CamelCaps, though. One more thing to look out for in the future :)
URL shorteners are more for UTM tracking codes. Those get long.
I see a lot of parents say this. They somehow think their kids are a gift to the world.

To me climate change, overpopulation causing insane resource consumption make it look kind of selfish when people want their own kids.

I understand that in terms of social systems we "need" more kids to support the old. But at the same time these kids will grow old at some point as well, and if you always need more kids than old people that means you need growth forever, which just means you're kicking the can down the road and creating more environmental issues in the meantime.

Have kids, don't have kids, whatever. But don't pretend like you did something selfless.

If people were having more kids we'd just have a bigger demographic collapse in the future.
Search engines usually have a date filter. Here's DDG searching "wordpress" between 2000 and 2005.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wordpress&t=h_&df=2000-01-01..2005...

I'm guessing you were looking for:

https://wordpress.org/news/2004/01/cruft-free-uris-in-wp-10/

I assume Google supports something similar, but I've stopped using it.
Biomedical research is sometimes more of a cottage industry than "at scale in production" but some think that HE can reduce cross-institution collaboration. Here is a systematic review from 2022, the Background section will give you an idea of what folks are doing or plan to do:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062639/
Right, its not like you have a public identitifier (your email address) with a secret (your password or even MFA)...

Could you imagine if we just treated knowing your email as being proof it was you in financial deals?
I know right? Personally, I only watch MIT lectures or C-SPAN highlights on YouTube. No idea how the proles can tolerate that slop.
Unless the death was caused by the horrible quality of content on Disney+. This case should be tossed and judge should sanction attorney’s.
It doesn't make everything cheaper.

The price of housing is one of the biggest drivers of cost of living in the US. The constraint on housing supply is primarily political (codes and zoning) not technological.
You may be taking a narrow view of "the problem". Stella Rimington,
head of British (internal) intelligence (MI5) courageously spoke some
clear truth a couple of decades ago. She said there isn't and cannot
be a reliable connection between information and an active body in the
world with agency. In other words, she thought "identity" is a weak
idea and forcefully opposed the idea of "ID cards".

Individuals may occasionally be of interest in intelligence, but less
than you think. Identity really comes from banking, law and medicine
so that we don't give the wrong person money, drugs or put the wrong
person in jail. It's low-level, procedural, civic stuff.

Beyond that there's a lot more dark, unwanted applications of identity
and we forget how much it is a cultural artefact of the
individualistic society we presently inhabit.

We do have plenty of nearly-good ways of _re_cognising_ a living
person, if we have previously "cognised" them. Images, voices, faces,
and various biological scans are all limited and likely to be defeated
with coming technology.

So separating "trust" (as expected behaviour) from identity is a major
challenge, and a most fascinating one. They are not the same thing.
Now? None. I believe they've all done away with it. In the past, quite a number of states. Mine was originally; but, I was able to change it in 1995, when Virginia began offering people the choice of SSN or a DMV number. (It was the result of efforts by the ACLU and others.)
Could you clarify? I'm afraid I don't understand either of your statements.
We use a bunch of caching mechanisms on the LLM requests themselves and extend the same to guardrails now.

So there's 2 levels of cache - the LLM request itself might be cached (simple and semantic) and the guardrail response can be cached as well.

We use a mix of a distributed kv store and a vector DB to actually store the data
So when you bookmark the Hacker News frontpage, that would be a hash of its current content and then you will visit that stale stale version forever and never see any new stories?
They're not mutually authenticating, they're origin-bound (making them non-forwardable on the remote side) and channel-bound (meaning the authenticating action is guaranteed to be for the same device as the user action).

However, there's no particular reason a FIDO key couldn't sign a login statement to a phishing site---it's just that statement wouldn't then be usable as a valid credential for the true site, regardless of if the signature from the FIDO key was valid or not.
Some (balanced) automated testing gets you away from "hoping nothing bad will happen" while not having to spend a year coming up with a formal proof for your program. Worth testing if you haven't ;)
3-SAT solver for two-way quantum computers
I'm not so sure. The art of typesetting something like a newspaper page doesn't exist for most people. They see oldschool wooden printing press ... big gap ... then bubblejet printers. I know people who think newspapers were somehow silkscreened. The idea that someone in the mid-20th would glue bits of text to a page, which was then transformed into a metal printing plate, is a process most do not appreciate.
"some professors can be downright mean to their students"

I've had far too many teachers like this. They should be weeded out, fired immediately, and never allowed in the profession again.
I totally agree about the cost issues. But could I suggest that maybe giving too much weight to social media "flaming" is related to also giving too much weight to dramatic anecdotes and mistaking them for trends?
They provide updates to Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Another approach is to treat it as a document exchange process that is done over REST or RPC. Message queues are attractive though in that they are easily bidirectional.
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Exactly on point. The more we grow the bigger the future catastrophe.