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meltyness··on Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
Seems like it simply supports the DoJ's case that they're acting as a trust, if they simply bought a $625M competitor to completely dissolve its product.
meltyness··on Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
Google since 2012 still the kid playing soccer that's been told to run around and kick people in the shins except it's 18 now and it's not cute anymore, and now it's kicked a ref.

They are dogfooding, which is why trying to adopt their products has been a case study in getting screwed.

- GCal spam anyone, who hasn't been coming to unwanted meetings?

- How about 4-5 redundant messaging services?

meltyness··on Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
That there's still shreds of evidence for transformational improvements to the dreadfully arcane, inefficient, proprietary machines that are currently "the best".

Personally, my favorite is the Deutsch-Josza algorithm which illustrates a task which can be trivially understood, and provides exponential speedup over any classical algorithm that I can fathom to perform the same task.

Consider there was something like a half-century delay between the discovery of the photoelectric effect and the invention of the triode.

What's most striking to me is that these inherently optical phenomena apparently haven't been well-investigated for how they can provide speed-up to graphics processing.

meltyness··on Coinbase Launches Base
Perhaps this is the new university, we're not a post-idea economy, and once unleashed, commodity software is immutable.

Like the calculus, the crypto banks will unleash their ideas and vanish leaving only what is understood good and true.

meltyness··on Optical Transformers
It doesn't train, weights are pre-programmed and it executes.
meltyness··on Optical Transformers
Funny, in this light, GPT-3 accelerator is like strapping a cache of the entire internet and knowledge of humanity to your board.
meltyness··on Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down
Perhaps it would be appropriate to stop the hug of death on the whole country, and instead link to a working source with complete information.
meltyness··on Google claims breakthrough in quantum computer error correction
Science! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05434-1
meltyness··on AI Becomes Silicon Valley’s Next Buzzy Bandwagon as Crypto Boom Fizzles
It's butter all the way down. Also isn't wall street as far as you can get from Silicon Valley while still being in the US?

Anyone calling out "clear flaws" as any serious drawback (I didn't click the link but I assume he hit the audience with the 7% drawdown narrative some nitwit at BB concocted) probably hasn't even done enough investigative journalism to, I don't know, try using the damned thing?

meltyness··on Are clouds having their on-prem moment?
Article doesn't mention emerging trust and DLP issues with freely-available LLMs processing and aggregating deepest desires, and whole documents ostensibly sent for refinement, summary, or other natural transformations. If your employees are using it to make IP, best to keep a tight grip on it if you can. Sevenfold for regulated industries.

Of course, it's not like everyone crawled and indexed the web to keep things like that from search engines.

meltyness··on Reddit should have to identify users discussing piracy, film studios tell court
Anyone with an MVNO should have to publicly identify how they intend to offer better service than the underlying provider and any collusion or mismanagement that deliberately degrades connected devices.
meltyness··on OODA Loop
This is not untrue, but a more applicable interpretation of this conceptual framework might go as follows:

In an AAR[0] operators explain risks, causes, and limitations of the system. This provides a formal structured language for describing how, precisely, supporting systems can be improved and how they impact all specific aspects of operator interaction.

Since the operator is viewed simply as a networked control-system in this case, the cognitive path from structure, supporting physical system, and then physical quantities needing improvement is unmistakably clear, as is required in successful planning, acquisitions, operations, and maintenance.[1]

Essentially it makes subjective experience concrete, and is prophylactic against bikeshedding/blame-gaming.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After-action_review

[1] https://youtu.be/ir0FAa8P2MU?t=1340

meltyness··on Ask HN: Why is Hacker News loading so slowly?
Does it perform poorly on all of the browsers, computers, connections, and VPNs you have access to? If so, you may have figured out how to slow down time!
meltyness··on Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
The links are simply a copy of a primary source for the correct legal stipulations, and are hence adjacent to a wholistic view.

You also seem to have confidently misread the situation, because OP does not indicate his specific current visa, since his spouse's visa may be that of a lawful permanent resident.

meltyness··on Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
I'll admit that I'm not brushed-up, so I brushed up.

DoDI 1304.26[0] describes department-specific requirements, and points back to USC 10 for the legal requirements. USC10 S504(b) lays out the specific requirements, namely "... lawfully admitted for permanent residence[2] ..." and in-addition, as you point out, there exists program-exceptions performed or maintained by the SecDef. A report by the Deparment of Homeland Security suggests that some immigrant visas meet this criteria[3]. There's also a pretty long list of spouse-visas that constitute LPR[4].

So, it's still possible. A recruiter would know more, or at least know someone who knows more. Where there's a will, there's a way. Notice these are all primary sources, with a favor towards the authoritative information. If you're a stickler though, you could pull the PDFs direct from congress, but that's as much fun as reversing a box of punch cards.

[0] DoDI 1304.26 Encl. 3, 2(b) https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/do...

[1] USC10 504(b) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/504

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840...

[3] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/2022_0405_pl...

[4] https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/lawful-permanent-...

meltyness··on Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
Consider joining the military!

- You can get naturalized. https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...

- It's the U.S. Military, so pretty good record on the whole. Maybe if you look the other way on Vietnam, Abu Ghraib, Blackwater, misbehaved politicians and their silly e-mail servers, and the fact that it can kind of be ugly business.

- Free college, if you have kids you can confer it to them.

- It's a job, dollar-amount-wise pay won't be competitive, but it's non-zero, and yields non-cash benefits such as the VA loan, aforementioned GI bill, and a litany of other benefits from both state and federal government. https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/benefits_book/2020_Feder...

- May be able to select your own job, and get a standard technical career education in that trade.

- Sense of duty, discipline, world-class paralegal-type education/MBA-type organizational-business operations exposure, physical-health-type education and training. (MBAs aren't too popular around here, but the frustrating language they use to discuss things is pervasive and hence useful). In all likelihood, you'll skip away with a lot of soft-skills, a stronger body, a wallet, a retirement fund, and a diverse set of friends. As the Military is bound to law, every action must be assessed in terms of law, and all activities are governed by law. Well-meaning contributors over hundreds of years have written law, orders, doctrine, policy, manual, and regulation often in blood, you get to pick that all up.

- Huge community of invested contributors, VFW/American Legion admission, common ground with many Americans as the DoD is the world's largest employer.

- There's options to potentially serve locally such as Guard or Reserve, you might reach out to local recruiters from different branches to find out if that's an option.

You can check out the service-sites for more details, or maybe walk in to a recruiter's station and see if they're like, there.

meltyness··on Ask HN: What is the most barebone back end solution?
Containers are always the answer, except I don't know if you can even get orchestration for cheaper than a t2.micro, and if your service and audience are small enough, might as well just run it on a micro.
meltyness··on Microsoft is forcibly removing internet explorer from PCs
Invoke-WebRequest still depends on some of the internals too probably, but who knows?
meltyness··on Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files
GmailFS was another early implementation.
meltyness··on Cobalt is suddenly abundant
Agreed, auto fuel is more abundant than ever. Consider EVs, Ethanol, LNG, hybrids doubling and tripling efficiency.
meltyness··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Presumably because it's an iterative and intricate process to tease the desired response out of these systems.

Given SQL queries are software, I'm sure you've heard of software engineering.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34521149

meltyness··on Bitcoin's Ordinals NFTs Break Usage Records, but Cause Controversy
It's only poetic justice that they happen to also be the most worthless thing transactable.
meltyness··on Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling that everyone around you is stupid?
You're a "wunderkind" and you should simply accept your own greatness!

...but seriously as a high-achiever, surely you can find the half-hour in the work day where everyone else is screwing-off?

Sniff-out the lighter side, and solicit perspective from different parts of the productivity spectrum.

meltyness··on Watchdog and West Yorkshire police raid crypto ATM operators in UK first
I thought the future was here, and it is, but for some reason it's on sale somewhere between not at all, and a 24% markup.

Apparently lucrative, or maybe not. I'm not sure how to read that if that's reflective of their costs, wishful thinking, preying on the inattentive, or all of the above.

meltyness··on Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
tears up your degree for your comments being against "professional ethics"
meltyness··on India’s government wants total control of the internet
In the same vein, YouTube and the rest of big media (to virtually no fanfare or protest) blocked The RT for their supposed ties -- which would be fine except that RT's ties were covert. Sanctions are sanctions, but is RT to simply stop paying taxes? This is like wholesale embargo, jamming, and further insulates the Russian government from the reality of their actions.

I expect the high road from my country's communications sector on freedom of speech, and even though RT has always sucked, this behavior is distasteful.

Obviously the war is an abomination, but I'd prefer that in the interim, "platform" corporations stay the hell out of the 4D-chess.

meltyness··on Bigscreen Beyond – Small VR Headset
- Wired

- 90 FOV

No thanks! Compelling though, if your use-case is viewing 2D content on virtual screens -- the metaverse app Bigscreen makes, a virtual environment for sharing 2D content.

meltyness··on Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement
No neural network is safe from frivolous lawsuits.

... this is cheaper than imagining new business models, hiring engineers, and building infrastructure, right?

meltyness··on FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
It's more like berries.

Holly bushes grow berries that you shouldn't eat.

Should government destroy all holly bushes? No. All berries? Certainly not.

Speech is a natural right and software is speech, so it can't be meaningfully viewed any other way, unless you're mindlessly parroting representative government deliberations.

meltyness··on Ask HN: What do you expect the future of tech to look like in the next decade?
We're entering an era of rapid subversion in tech. What the banks thought were deep moats are quickly being filled-in. Imagine being told that, by surface-area, Intel and AMD would both become virtually meaningless, from 2014 to 2022.

As the current players jockey to get next-generation model use-cases monetized, a pocket will emerge for players whose moat doesn't depend on keeping that data hidden... governments at all levels are supported in better reporting data to the public.

Advertising money is going to begin to migrate to the crypto economy, models like Fountain seem an obvious end, since there are already virtual moats simply waiting for infrastructure like this to be built, and eyeballs to be thusly magnetized.

Qualcomm-Meta merger, becomes the adult in the room and forks Android fostering a vibrant ecosystem to support any incumbent competitors. VR practical-interface to worky-type-stuff.

Non-transistor, room-temperature substrate with pm-node scale for statistical modeling compute units invented.

Starlink available to a handset as an alternative to the cellular network. At least one competitor.

Neural data compression standards substantially reduce bandwidth usage and fidelity across streaming media.

Big wave of streaming media disintermediation, akin to the Twit-trot.

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