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Re:New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:08AM (#49698240)
Work permit in 10 days (With qualifying job offer), not permanent residency.
As another comment here points out, Fable likely had multiple translations, academic literature about the text, and maybe the original as well, in its training set. So even if only the original Greek was given to it as input it probably leveraged prior art when translating it.
Re:Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:13PM (#48593357)
On Wednesday, June 17th the Senate passed the Saving the OOI Act with unanimous consent. This bill prohibits dismantling the OOI. The bill had not yet passed the house.
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @06:08PM (#48577620)
Many countries have tax treaties with the US, and there’s also the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), which excludes up to 132.9k of foreign income; so many US citizens abroad will indeed pay no US income taxes.
Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:26PM (#47895328)
They moved a few months ago to have separate instant and thinking models. 5.3 is the latest instant, and 5.5 is a reasoning model.
Re:DeepSeek v4 on Friday April 24, 2026 @10:10AM (#47890553)
Have you also tried the Pro versions of ChatGPT and Gemini (Deep Think)?