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by ahussain 1y ago
I have lots of examples: * By law, the US can only issue 140,000 employment-based green cards per year, and no more than 7% to one country. This means people from India or China can face a 100+ year backlog, even after they have proved they
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by ahussain 1y ago
Wouldn't this person be put on a PIP and then fired if their performance didn't improve? Even at companies with non-uniform salaries, it's difficult to down-level someone. Their morale will drop, the team's anxiety will
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by ahussain 1y ago
It seems like it's worth taking some time to steel-man the AI argument, even if your CEO hasn't made it very well. E.g. If you don't work on AI now, and AI models keep improving, how likely is it that a competitor who integra
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by ahussain 1y ago
This is excellent! One of the benefits of the live-demos in the post was that they demonstrated just how big of a difference a good system prompt makes. In my own experience, I have avoided tweaking system prompts because I'm not convi
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by ahussain 2y ago
This is awesome! I love the game. My one piece of feedback is to improve the keyboard (if that’s at all possible). I regularly miss points because of typos even if I had the correct answer.
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by ahussain 2y ago
IANAL but I don't think there's a need for O-1 evidence to be from a specific country. The evidence just needs to credibly show that you're extraordinary. You can try https://o1pathways.com/ to evaluate your
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by ahussain 2y ago
OP here: I got my O-1 in 2022 and my post about it led to some interesting discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143958 Now, I built a free tool to help others figure out if they could qualify for an O-1A
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Show HN: Find out if you qualify for an O-1 visa(o1pathways.com)
4 points by ahussain 2y ago|1 comments
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by ahussain 2y ago
You can definitely apply for an O-1 based on a successful career in tech: https://blog.awais.io/o1-visa
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by ahussain 2y ago
If your kid is using a balance bike, be sure to take them somewhere flat like a playground. If the ground is even slightly inclined, the kid cannot coast, and they spend their energy inefficiently pushing themselves and their bike forward.
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by ahussain 2y ago
The number of tailwind classes is so large now that copy/pasting the whole set into your project would mean a huge bundle size. Part of that the tailwind package is doing is making sure that only the relevant tailwind classes are inclu
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by ahussain 2y ago
One advantage of published books is that they have been through an editorial process, and so are guaranteed to be good (on some dimensions). Once publishing dies, who will set the quality bar? University presses? Stripe press?
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by ahussain 3y ago
OP here: Sorry that you had a bad experience, but glad that you made it through in the end! I would love to talk more about your experience if you're up for it. My email is in my bio.
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by ahussain 3y ago
The high salary is benchmarked against other people doing the same job, in the same geographic area. So you would have to by at a high-tier tech/banking job.
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by ahussain 3y ago
Most lawyers I've spoken to disagree with this. The O-1 and EB-1 have similar criteria as written, but the EB-1 is adjudicated to a much higher standard than the O-1.
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer(blog.awais.io)
244 points by ahussain 3y ago|198 comments
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by ahussain 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | NYC | Remote Product-minded full-stack software engineer with experience working on pre-PMF -> Series A startups. Previously an early engineer at a YC-backed fintech company. Stack: Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy), Javascript &
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by ahussain 3y ago
This 'focus on problems' attitude is interesting to me given that the founders of companies like Facebook, Apple and Amazon never set out to solve specific problems, but rather found cool new applications for maturing technologie
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by ahussain 4y ago
Why do you think neural nets will be bad at making UIs, data models, cruds, gameplay, audio, graphic engines, etc? There are already some compelling examples of AIs making progress on those kinds of tasks.
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Dealing with period of low focus / energy(awais.io)
2 points by ahussain 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why has Facebook stopped improving?
16 points by ahussain 5y ago|24 comments
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by ahussain 5y ago
Hmm, we already trust programmers enough to design our cryptography (hash functions and such)
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by ahussain 5y ago
Have you seen any models for equity allocation that you think are fairer to employees?
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by ahussain 5y ago
I think asynchronous communication ( https://blog.doist.com/asynchronous-communication/ ) moves in the right direction on this. 99% of things are not urgent, and people should not be expected to be available instantaneou
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by ahussain 6y ago
I purchased the course but was disappointed that it doesn't go much beyond the basics. For example, there is no tutorial on the dot (.) command, which is one of the main productivity hacks for vim users. There's also no mention of
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by ahussain 6y ago
I'm curious how you relate this to the emergence of statehood. For modern states to exist there needs to be some state-level understanding of concepts like inflation, fiscal policy, central bank interest rates etc. and at the moment it
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by ahussain 7y ago
I like being able to return to the same desk every day, and having some predictability about what my work environment will look like (noise level etc.)
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by ahussain 8y ago
I like this. The only worry is that sometimes it can take a long time to get to the center and in the process of making that journey you may realise that you chose the wrong center to go towards.
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by ahussain 8y ago
Do you have any pointers to where one might find some of these checklists? I have been building my own but they are still very sparse.
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by ahussain 8y ago
Kids' books also have a lot of pictures

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