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Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas

Posted by ilarum on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:33PM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-proposes-new-six-figure-fee-for-h1-b-visas-a0da2d01

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Levels – Atlas of the Bay Area

Posted by ilarum on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:50PM
from the levels.fyi dept.

https://www.levels.fyi/atlas

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OpenAI Trial – Greg Brockman's Journal

Posted by ilarum on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @06:47PM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-openai-trial-greg-brockman-diary-journal-6950270e

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Today's GitHub Incident – Issue with Pull Requests

Posted by ilarum on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:31AM
from the githubstatus.com dept.

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/f5pb5d5mr9yh

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SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

Posted by ilarum on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:29PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/Pathos0925/SatoshiGuesser

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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:08AM (#39165892)

why would a cell carrier be involved in setting up a wifi apple watch

Re:America Forgot About IBM Watson. Is ChatGPT Next? on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:29AM (#35841720)

Your link indicates that the founders get back full control once OpenAI makes a ton of money.

Re:Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies? on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:23AM (#35198258)

What does "profess of practice and tear it up pre-tenure" mean?

What’s Wrong with US Broadband?

Posted by ilarum on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:29AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23460070/internet-bill-broadband-survey-data-consumer-reports-cost

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Re:Japan to reopen to independent travelers and lift daily arrival cap on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:37PM (#32944308)

Does this mean tourists don't need a visa for Japan anymore? Including people with traditionally "weaker" passports like Uganda, India, etc.? The article linked elsewhere in the comments is not clear on this.

VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley

Posted by ilarum on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:43PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/vmware-twitter-cut-pay-for-remote-workers-fleeing-bay-area

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US Visa Processing Delays Called Worst Since 9/11

Posted by ilarum on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:06AM
from the old.reddit.com dept.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PassportPorn/comments/x11jdg/500_days_to_get_an_us_turist_visa/

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Citing a rare paper by von Neumann

Posted by ilarum on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:58AM
from the fsaad.mit.edu dept.

http://fsaad.mit.edu/randomseed/citing-a-rare-paper-by-von-neumann-various-techniques-used-in-connection-with-random-digits/

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Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? (2020)

Posted by ilarum on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:43AM
from the nber.org dept.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28279

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Re:Ask HN: How can this happen without the phone covertly listening? on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:42AM (#31070407)

Technically, the scenario described could happen entirely offline: voice recognition, transcription, then match for autocomplete (not that I am claiming this is what happened).

CBRE: Toronto is the third-largest tech hub in North America, behind NYC and SV

Posted by ilarum on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:00AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/technology/toronto-tech-boom.html

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MaskerAid iOS App

Posted by ilarum on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:42AM
from the caseyliss.com dept.

https://www.caseyliss.com/2022/3/3/maskeraid

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Bean Machine: Composable, Fast Probabilistic Inference on PyTorch

Posted by ilarum on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:40PM
from the research.facebook.com dept.

https://research.facebook.com/blog/2021/12/introducing-bean-machine-a-probabilistic-programming-platform-built-on-pytorch/

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How Exxon Duped New York Times' “The Daily”

Posted by ilarum on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:05AM
from the heated.world dept.

https://heated.world/p/how-exxon-duped-the-daily

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Facebook skirts Apple App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators

Posted by ilarum on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:25PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761620/facebook-apple-app-store-fees-subscription-links-creators

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Re:Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:53AM (#29039176)

Yes, I recommend it. Beat Saber and Thrill of the Fight are great.

Ask Delphi

Posted by ilarum on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:45AM
from the delphi.allenai.org dept.

https://delphi.allenai.org/

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Ask Delphi

Posted by ilarum on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:53PM
from the delphi.allenai.org dept.

https://delphi.allenai.org/

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Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill

Posted by ilarum on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:44AM
from the thepodswap.com dept.

https://www.thepodswap.com/

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Volkswagen is being investigated for its ‘Voltswagen’ stunt

Posted by ilarum on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:26PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/29/22409940/volkswagen-voltswagen-sec-probe-investigation-april-fools

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Landlords are waiting for rent payments – and some can’t hold on much longer

Posted by ilarum on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:06PM
from the latimes.com dept.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-05/los-angeles-landlords-struggle-covid-19-rent-accumulates

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Fake app on App Store steals Bitcoin

Posted by ilarum on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:22PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/30/trezor-scam-bitcoin-1-million/

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Public Register of Authentic Identity and Travel Documents Online

Posted by ilarum on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:17AM
from the consilium.europa.eu dept.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/search-by-document-country.html

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Facebook is not worth $33B (2010)

Posted by ilarum on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:34AM
from the signalvnoise.com dept.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st... on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:45PM (#25231487)

You don't need to leave the United States to renew your passport. Your country's embassy in the US can do it for you.