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by wenc 2y ago
It's not about foreign relations but how long the queue is. The current date for India (Employment-based green cards) is most backlogged, followed by China, Mexico, Philippines, and Others (Others being its own category). https:/
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by wenc 2y ago
The first thing I install is "brew". Then I get the latest versions of everything.
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I watch this guy a lot. I noticed a few things. He does two things that increase believability: he cites papers and studies, and he runs experiments on himself. This is good. He does one thing that decreases believability: he only cites pap
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by wenc 2y ago
Dietary fat isn't actually bad for you in reasonable amounts. It's the overindulgence of carbs, which turns into body fat. Also the Japanese diet is interesting. It's actually not low-calorie pound-per-pound, but the portion
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by wenc 2y ago
I've heard it like this: FB: Boomer, Gen-X, Older Millenial -- sharing stuff with friends and family. Insta: Millenial and Gen-Z -- visual story telling. TikTok: Gen-Z -- entertainment. I'm from the BBS days, and I use FB for the
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by wenc 2y ago
Tetlock's research tended to focus on very specific, falsifiable True/False questions rather than open-ended questions with predicted quantities in them. A good Tetlock question might be: "Will ChatGPT-5 be released in 2025?&
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by wenc 2y ago
I don't have lived experience with Nucor, but some years ago I read "Plain Talk" by Ken Iverson, who was Nucor's CEO. I don't have context but I remember it being a breezy, folksy management book, and one that had h
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by wenc 2y ago
> Also: if sensor fusion is so hard, why is Waymo able to solve it but not Tesla? I think Karpathy's point is that Tesla wants to try to avoid the "entropy" that comes from adding a sensor (senior software engineers and hi
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by wenc 2y ago
I used to live in a rust-belt steel town. My knowledge is cursory except for my lived reality of my town being economically depressed by poor management of steel production facilities. US Steel mostly focuses on commodity steel. Nippon Stee
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by wenc 2y ago
Also worth noting that U-Haul customers ≠ general population movement. U-Haul has a lot of seasonal college/temp relocation customers.
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by wenc 2y ago
Are you thinking of board-game cafes?
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by wenc 2y ago
Oh the 24 hr Kirkland Starbucks is still there. https://maps.app.goo.gl/UUsVjfy9MPeF3RwT9 There's another 24 hr one in Northgate. https://maps.app.goo.gl/RxT4vwEDsZECTu2k7 So there's 2 in the enti
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by wenc 2y ago
It's both. Seattle is one of the most introverted cities in the US (socially, it's disproportionately shaped by the tech population). Seattle Freeze is a real thing. COVID also did a number on people worldwide. Also, gloomy weathe
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by wenc 2y ago
I feel you. Most Seattle people are homebodies by their own admission. Anything open after 9 pm is usually a bar. Also, things have gotten worse after the pandemic. Low revenue after 9 pm (unless alcohol is involved), high labor costs, and
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by wenc 2y ago
I stopped drinking after I hit 40 and Starbucks was my third place (my favorite Starbucks was the one near DePaul University in Lincoln Park in Chicago). I am now in the city of Starbucks (Seattle area) and am surprised that many of the Sta
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by wenc 2y ago
I remember when CETA was ratified, and there was talk about labor mobility which got me excited. Having more options on which countries to work is always better than fewer, but I ended up in the U.S. and turns out that worked out much bette
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by wenc 2y ago
I use Amazon Pharmacy and it’s been an amazing experience. I get my drugs auto refilled, insurance is recognized and delivery is fast. I haven’t filled a prescription in a brick and mortar pharmacy for a long time. Only limitations of onlin
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by wenc 2y ago
I used QModemPro (after it was bought by Wildcat) and it was the best. It integrated with OLR (offline reader) which meant I could login to the BBS, download my messages via Zmodem as a compressed QWK file, and logoff. It was so much more e
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by wenc 2y ago
Veritassium did a recent video on Kary Mullis and PCR. It's one of the most accessible videos on PCR I've ever come across (I have no background in biology), and also an interesting history of Kary Mullis. https://www.y
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by wenc 2y ago
Right, and Singapore has the CPF system which entails mandatory contributions from employee and employer. This is supposed to be preventative of poverty in older age. So the 99 year lease isn’t an issue in practice. We have social security
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by wenc 2y ago
I wonder if relying on home equity as an appreciating asset the cause of a lot of our problems in the US? A 99 year lease is a kind of estate duty that restarts the opportunity clock each generation. This way the kids will inherit less and
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by wenc 2y ago
I get it. I lived part of my life in Southern Ontario and knew a bunch of people from Waterloo and surrounding areas — absolutely brilliant mechanical minds. (Farmers truly make great engineers — in fact many famous American engineers trace
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by wenc 2y ago
This is it. It’s proximity. Let’s say you’re interested in transformers. In a big city, you could go to a meetup, talk to different people working on this stuff at a production level (maybe there’s even some guy who works on it at Google),
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by wenc 2y ago
Tokyo seems to have done this. It’s not cheap by any means, but rent seems relatively affordable relative to pay (and very cheap compared to expensive cities in North America). I wonder if part of the reason is that housing is not an invest
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by wenc 2y ago
I would love to, but I come from a place where intellectual pursuits are not valued, so I would lose out on that front if I moved back. I’m the type who needs to always be learning. So I would always need to be in a big city. Alain Bertaud,
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by wenc 2y ago
Why not ignore the hype, and just quietly use what works? I don’t use anything other than ChatGPT 4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5v2. That’s it. I’ve derived great value from just these two. I even get wisdom from them too. I use them to analyze ne
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by wenc 2y ago
By the way, Wikipedia did change the world. Some of the most important inventions are the ones we don’t notice.
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by wenc 2y ago
There is a passport app that lets you clear US customs much more quickly: (no pre-approval needed, only US/Canada citizens are eligible at present) https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-contr.
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by wenc 2y ago
I think you’re on to something. I find the sentiment around LLMs (which is at the early adoption stage) to be unnecessarily hostile. (beyond normal HN skepticism) But it can be simultaneously true that LLMs add a lot of value to some tasks
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At present, LLMs work well with smaller chunks of code at time. Check out these tips for using Aider (a CLI based LLM code assisntant) https://aider.chat/docs/usage/tips.html It can ingest the entire codebase (up

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