bubblethink

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by bubblethink 10mo ago
No, it shouldn't. Stuff like recapture has no likelihood of passing. The reason country caps exist is precisely because everyone wants to carve out some provisions for their favorite group in hopes of getting the mythical comprehensive
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by bubblethink 10mo ago
That's right. Individuals from every country should be subject to the same set of rules. If the backlog is to be a century, it is to be borne by everyone.
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by bubblethink 10mo ago
HW support for av1 is still behind h265. There's a lot of 5-10 year old hw that can play h265 but not av1. Second, there is also a split bw Dovi and HDR(+). Is av1 + Dovi a thing? Blu rays are obviously h265. Overall, h265 is the commo
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by bubblethink 10mo ago
Get an x1 carbon gen 13 (lunar lake version) for a general usable laptop. For clunkers/workstations that use desktop style CPUs, Dell still makes them and so does Lenovo. The Lenovo version is P16 Gen 3.
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by bubblethink 10mo ago
It's not the type of CPU that is driving up the cost. It's a niche hobby product which will sell O(tens-hundreds) units worldwide. The issue with these frankenpads is the brokenness of bios/ec, tb ports, thermals, fan noise,
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by bubblethink 11mo ago
Yes, all that is a part of the cost equation, which points to the same thing, namely, that $200-$300 widgets are not worth selling to the general public; they would rather sell them to a customer who will spend a lot more in the ecosystem.
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by bubblethink 11mo ago
That's tautological. Everything that is not supported is so because supporting it has a cost. The question is what is the cost? It seems quite obvious that the marginal revenue from airpods would be overshadowed by the revenue of getti
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Well, we are already doing that but with an extra human too. More than drones, I want a network of pneumatic tubes like in the movie Brazil.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
That blog is about training. For inference, the weights and kv cache are in SRAM. Having said that, the $100M number is inaccurate/meaningless. It's a niche product that doesn't have economies of scale yet.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
The solution to that is to give more rights to people on visas, and yet pretty much nobody supports that. Not Ds, not Rs, not corporations, and certainly not the people who complain about H-1B.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Yes, that is still a problem, which is somewhat mitigated by the $200 fee to enter the lottery currently. The proposed change of giving higher odds to higher wages instead of a flat lottery is a step in the right direction.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Half the people complain about H-1B and the other half complain about outsourcing. Neither of them makes sense to me, but the outsourcing angle even less so. It's just labor cost arbitrage for knowledge work. And soon that arbitrage op
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by bubblethink 1y ago
That used to be a common abuse vector, but that loophole was fixed last year. Apps are deduped now (1 person, 1 app). It's still a lottery that is oversubscribed by something like 3x.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
O-1 is a useless visa. Nobody switches to it or uses it by choice. You only use it if you can't use H-1B.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Same on maps as well. That has actual annoying consequences where you end up at the wrong place.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
A friend of mine, originally from Iran but now a Canadian citizen, was stopped at the border during a recent visit by CBP. They interrogated him, scanned his phone, found some EE paper, insinuated that he makes bombs and is a terrorist, and
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Congress. This will cause interim disruption though while the lawsuits play out.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
This is a net positive action for the following reasons: The chuds have been clamoring for this for a long time. You can see every past thread on HN all the way back to the December blowup on twitter with Elon. At the same time, the economy
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Friends don't let friends buy laptops with nvidia GPUs. I can't believe optimus is still such a mess.
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Instacart sent a cease and desist for trademark violation. You cannot become a middleman for random businesses/services. Kind of similar to how doordash and others got into trouble by hijacking restaurants' order flow without cons
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by bubblethink 1y ago
> different case by a different organization means this case is also political. It's the same issue - the DOJ is going after companies and their ads. In SpaceX's case, the ads said citizen/LPR only due to export control, a
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by bubblethink 1y ago
> The government settles this kind of cases because of politics, not merit. The government also files these cases in the first place because of politics, not merit. See my point about theater earlier. >If there had been a modicum of w
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by bubblethink 1y ago
>That's just, like, your opinion, dude. That's the official opinion of the government, the judiciary, and the defendants. A settlement is not admission of guilt - the opposite actually. What are we even debating here ? > &qu
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by bubblethink 1y ago
I don't see the contradiction here. The game is as follows: Company has to make a good faith recruitment effort. Not an exhaustive search, not beyond reasonable doubt. Just good faith which follows the preponderance of evidence standar
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by bubblethink 1y ago
larger pool + larger pie due to the growth of the economy. You are viewing it as a zero sum game. What's better ? Two jobs with a pool of 3 people, or 2 million jobs with a pool of 2.3 million ?
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by bubblethink 1y ago
The "busts" are more theater than anything else. The DOJ also sued companies for not hiring enough immigrants ( https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s... ) . >The problem is
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by bubblethink 1y ago
The lack is established by a good faith recruitment process, not an exhaustive search. This is intentionally vague because it's a non-sensical requirement that is hard to prove one way or the other and was only added as a political com
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by bubblethink 1y ago
The ways to build the system you desire are simple; the political challenges though are insurmountable. This isn't rocket science. However, there has been no substantial legislative change in this area in over 30 years. The current mor
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by bubblethink 1y ago
You're reading too much into it. It's a case of bad UX. The jobs do not exist. The actual job application/interview etc. happened years ago, when it did exist, and everyone, including locals, had the same shot at it. When the
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by bubblethink 1y ago
Companies are always going to lay people off, because they can and it is in their financial interest to do so when the shareholders or investors demand cutbacks. AFAIK, Amazon even has a formalized stack ranking system where a certain perce

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