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They get a special, non immigrant work visa. If they want to apply for green card they subsequently need to apply for H-1B.

This is the similar mindset in sport athletes. On a good day, a strong driver could beat Verstappen, or a chess player could beat Carlsen. Over the course of a tournament, or a sea…

That is true for the older generation (immigrating to US pre 1990-ish). The newer generation immigrating to US has a very different mindset now, and they embrace American values as…

Which people? If you are software engineers or AI researchers, sure. Otherwise, it probably won't matter to you.

I'd say it usually comes from the difficulty in hiring. Extremely difficult to convince someone to leave FAANG / quant firms to work in a no name startup with very high chance of f…

Yes, it was lucky that he was tutored my a Fields medalist. But he did the hard work to get himself tutored: sitting in an algebraic geometry class (that saw attendances dropping f…

I'm not sure if this is intimidating. A draft implementation could be done without too much difficulty: https://gist.github.com/ll931110/985a4ec711c6711b120846be05e...

Traders learn bps on the first day of their job, similar to you learn version control on your first day of your SWE intern. What's the difference?

How can he make friends with other kids? Partying, dancing, playing baseball, going to date night, etc.? It's clear that he's not interested in those, and forcing him to do so only…

You give the red card. Period. Nowadays, thanks to VAR, the controversial cases can be reviewed on the replay and referees have ample of time to make the call.

Wondering how much details you have considered on using Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform for dimensionality reduction on ANN search? e.g. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/pubs…

If you fake injuries, or fall in the penalty area, you might get a yellow / red card. So no cheaties here, especially with VAR now in place.

MIT has an expectation that students would cover their programming skills via internships or outside jobs, and thus they focus on teaching CS which is quite hard to pick up on your…

Computer Science is not about learning to make software, although it is usually a byproduct, as strong understanding of fundamental allows you to design software correctly from the…

I remembered Alphasheets was acquired by Google a couple of years ago for doing similar thing (they programmed in Haskell which is really cool) https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/alpha…

Yes it is small, but you want to incentivize that, because someone smart enough will make it happen. Or you can be smart enough to do both.

What is the differentiation of DuckDB compared to previous OLAP databases such as Snowflake or Singlestore?

Video illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP2yJqGQ2FU

As the old say, the devil lies in details. Writing a global control is no means an easy task, as 1. You need to recognize the opportunities exist in the first place. 2. You need a …

For people looking for alternatives, Kalshi (YC W19) is a regulated exchange on event contracts. It offers some markets similar to PredictIt (and more).

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149038

Seconded this. I interviewed at MemSQL in 2013 as an intern, and that (plus other algo based questions) get me really hooked to MemSQL.