> The government handed universities free reign to hand out as many visa as they liked, and they handed out millions.
The government defines the terms for and issues student visas, not universities. Students have to apply for a visa themselves and there are distinct substantive requirements for being granted one, including having a study place, being a genuine student, having sufficient financial resources to support yourself etc. The government (through DIBP), not the universities, make the final call on whether a student visa is granted. Many visa applications are rejected. See Section 3 of https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/stud... , which was in 2023 before the recent migration policy tightenings, where the outside-Australian grant rate for eg India is less than 70%.
> And the unspoken deal is that you're not buying an education, you're buying residency in Australia because a large percentage of these students never go home again.
As other commenters have pointed out, there is a cap on permanent residency visas issued for reasons other than family reunification and that cap is substantially lower than the number of temporary visas issued. Any international student graduate would need to compete for a permanent residency visa by way of obtaining enough points for an invitation to apply through one of the permanent residency streams. These typically require a high level of education, local work experience, stable and permanent income amongst other things. The current estimates are that around 40% of international students obtain permanent residency within 10 years of graduation, so the majority of international student graduates either leave Australia or "hop" between temporary visas (which the government has for some time put mechanisms in place to prevent).
> Absolutely out of control population growth.
12 month rolling average of population growth has been steady at around 1.5% for the past 10 years, with the brief exceptions of the COVID period where it was negative and 2023, where it was 2.5% , largely due to the fact that many people who had delayed migration plans during the COVID years now actually acted on them and short term population growth rates due to migration around the world were also at high levels. Those levels have now largely mean reverted, partly due to policy, partly due to there no longer being a backlog of demand and partly due to economic circumstances which have reduced the incentive to migrate.
> Growth - through population growth, through "international students" - governments absolutely love it because it hides their bad economic management,
There is no evidence to suggest that population growth is an intended policy to "hide" bad economic management. Increasing immigration was the only responsible thing to do in 2022 and 2023 because the number of working age adults had shrunk and the excess of demand during those years after effectively zero or negative interest rates meant that there was a need to fill that demand with new workforce. Part of that comes from persons who start out studying and move into employment.
> And the government has staunchly - ridiculously - stated for years that international students do not impact housing. Yeah right - they don't live anywhere.
International students are barely competing for the same housing stock as long-term residents or citizens. International students typically live in rental shared accommodation, not in the detached homes for sale that your average Australian would be aiming for. Of course, international students have to live somewhere your comments overstates the impact that this actually has on the housing market.
> And they don't invest in the infrastructure to support the millions of people added to the population
Governments are investing in "the infrastructure". Billions are spent on further developing public transportation systems, roads etc according to established city plans.
> The entire game is rigged for rich people to get rich and everyone else to shove over and make room because there's a lot more people coming.
On the contrary to "more people coming" - Immigration has slowed down significantly in almost every developed country. In future years, it is likely that Australia will struggle to meet its targets for economic based immigration because the age cohorts in the sending countries are getting proportionately smaller and there is also less demand to migrate in general.
This is misleading.
Outside the first generation, the Canadian parent must have spent 3 years cumulatively in Canada prior to the birth, otherwise the child will not be a citizen. That's not a threshold you're likely to meet with a few holiday trips here and there.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...
Almost every country in the west is tightening it's system. In the UK claiming ILR will take a significantly longer period of lawful residence, and a shorter time will require you to meet a high income threshold. It is nearly impossible to get PR in Canada now unless you are fluent in both English and French and have a PhD or several years of canadian work experience. The bar has also gone up in Australia too.
The reason why this doesn't seem to move the needle on the anti-immigration vote is because the folks on that side can always just move the goalposts and be the "true" anti-immigrant party. I believe these days Reform UK wants cancel all ILRs and start actively deporting long term residents who don't meet an ever raising bar. Its madness.
- US starts a digital services trade war with the EU. It starts out with tariffs on digital services provided to the USA. EU responds in kind. Google Cloud, AWS and Azure lose a lot of clients over this, but they mitigate the damage by restructuring their business to avoid the tariffs. The tariffs don't achieve any policy change in the EU and eventually settle on a tolerable level.
- Significantly more restrictions and tightening on the US Visa Waiver Programme, with a small chance that it is rescinded altogether. VWP beneficiary countries threaten to retaliate in kind, but never do, because US tourism is too valuable.
- China continues to overtake the USA in growth in tech and digital services related exports. FVEY gets very nervous about this, but in practice nothing is done because of strong consumer demand.
- Coreweave faces solvency issues and numerous AI companies fundraising are forced to do their next raise at a down round.
- AI job loss is revealed to not actually be real. The cause of unemployment really is finally realized to be economic uncertainty caused by high inflation, interest rates and international trade policy uncertainty. Potential digital services tariffs and AI boom collapse make the situation much worse.
- Significantly more momentum behind the HIRE Act, with a small chance that it passes. If it does, tech giants close their EU/UK/Canada/Australia offices and move the roles to India.
- Russia / Ukraine "peace deal" is signed, but will be broken by Russia based on some false flag. Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine unfortunately continues, but doesn't progress.
- MAGA aligned actors interfere in the election of another country.
- USA conducts a "special operation" in Venezuela.
- Weaponized AI generated disinformation and fake audio/video/images starts to become more common. A major news story will break based on AI generated disinformation. It will be disproven quickly, but not before it has had a chance to spread.
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Temporarily. Immigration will be easier in US (TN)/Canada /Australia. Not an EU national (yet).
Technologies: Deep learning, though I'm seeking something very specific, see below.
Résumé/CV: https://sspilsbury.com/hire
Email: [email protected]
Some papers I'm a first author of include:
- Compositional Generalization in Grounded Language Learning via Induced Model Sparsity (https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-srw.19/)
- Meta-learning from demonstrations improves Compositional Generalization (https://openreview.net/forum?id=hb3Et9tJSC9).
Some open research problems which might be relevant to what you are working on:
- Much improved sample efficiency for language-interactive robots or agents (don't need to train every single combination of different aspects)
- Compositional path synthesis
- Compositional particle or protein synthesis (eg, composing two separate subgraphs into a single graph by way of following some learned rules)
- Understanding why transformers can and can't do different kinds of compositional generalization
- Improved sample efficiency and generalization on many different language tasks in different language domains (for example, grammatical error correction, machine translation, semantic parsing, entity and relationship extraction).
One hard requirement is that we must be able to publish the research results of my internship such that it can be included in my thesis.
The key term here is "reside". We'll get back to this in a bit.
> Professional athletes pay taxes to every state where they play a game.
You are confusing tax-at-source with residence based taxation. Which is fair enough because many countries try to do both.
For the purposes of these next few paragraphs, lets say that country X is your country of residence for tax purposes and country Y is where you happen to be performing some work temporarily.
Source-based taxation means that if you are paid from a source in country X (or the income you make has a sufficiently strong connection to country X), then you pay tax to country X on that income. Typically the tax is withheld by the payor as opposed to the payee needing to file a tax return. This is what applies to your example of professional sportspeople. There's a very clear link - you play the sport in country X, you get paid by the competition in country X and you pay some tax to country X. This income might also be taxable in your country of residence, but that's a different issue where tax treaties and paid-foreign-tax deductions come into play.
With remote work for a foreign employer getting paid into a foreign bank account where the work doesn't have much connection to the country, the link is less clear. For short stays, many countries will not consider this to be locally sourced income. See this example from the Australian Tax Office which answers this very question (https://www.ato.gov.au/General/COVID-19/Support-for-individu...). Note that in this case, you are still only paying tax on locally sourced income and not worldwide income.
Then there is the question of "tax residence". Different countries have different rules about this and residence is not "exclusive" (so you can be multiple-resident if you're unfortunate in how you set up your affairs). Tax residence in most places happens after a fixed period of stay in the country (typically 183 days) and/or if you have "residence ties" to that country. "residence ties" is typically a multi-factor balancing test, which includes things like owning real estate, supporting a spouse and dependents who continue to live in that country, having a fixed address in that country, having your essential social connections (club memberships, service subscriptions etc) run out of that country, nationality etc. Short non-successive trips to a country don't usually create residence ties. Most countries follow this model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Source_...). Then there's Eritrea, Hungary, Myanmar, Tajikistan, the United States for which citizenship automatically counts as tax residence, but usually there's offsetting procedures and tax treaties to avoid double taxation even if there might be double filing.
Then there's the "working on a tourist visa" question. This is unfortunately a significantly more murky area, especially when it comes to remote work. A good rule of thumb is that coming to a country for the purpose of remote work and not for the purposes permitted under a tourist visa or visa waiver is possibly over the line, but replying to some emails, attending a few meetings via call, fixing a bug here or there while you're mainly on holiday is likely to be fine. Of course the safest bet is not to do any work at all, but if we were to apply some common sense here, it would be absurd that you get an entry ban for the apparent crime of replying to an urgent email from your boss or colleague while on holiday.
Then there's the question of payroll taxes and unemployment/health insurance contributions to be paid by your employer. I don't know very much about this, but I think a starting point in the analysis would have to be whether your foreign corporate employer is subject to any sort of personal or tax jurisdiction by the country that you're in at all. Maybe someone else will fill in on this one.
Xcode 13.3.1 apparently fixes one bug in one commandline tool and the total download size is 12.7GB.I understand that the packages are signed, but it should be possible to figure out what the user has on their system (eg, by hashes) and download only new (signed) objects in the package manifest. This is how ostree does it, for example (https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/).I don't understand why...
Did anybody read this part?
I see a lot of comments along the lines of "well we're at war with you" or "you'll get your access back once Ukraine stops being bombed", with the justification that anyone living in Russia has the duty to "rise up" and stop the war locally. To be these responses seem thoroughly un-nuanced and flippant. Its absolutely true that to stop the war, you need to get rid of Putin, but its not clear that there's a connection between dropping clients and getting rid of Putin. In fact this is probably counterproductive and strengthen's Putin's grip on the population even further.
The usual mechanism given is "if we annoy the people enough, they'll rise up on the streets and demand change". First, this assumes that if you annoy people, they'll transfer their anger to the regime. This is only true for a subgroup of affected people; the rest will just be angry at the sanctioning party and direct their anger through the regime into even stronger pro-war support. But for the people who might be motivated to protest, its not clear whether or not their actions will be effective. Because we're talking about a dictatorship, individual action carries both high personal risk and is unlikely to be very effective. There are exceptions to this rule, for example, Marina Ovsyannikova, but ordinary people going to the streets and holding up signs is only likely to end up with more people in jail (and potentially more people conscripted into the army). There is also the objection that mass-protest will make a difference, which, perhaps it will, but that requires co-ordination and a critical mass.
The second thing to say here (relevant to what I quoted from OP) is that Mailchimp is infrastructure which is in use by the local resistance. By blanket cutting-off Russia, you're also hindering the local resistance as well. If one wants to take a principled stand, its probably fine to cut off regular businesses that have nothing to do with it (with the caveat that you might just make them angry at you), but throwing out the baby with the bathwater and cutting off the local resistance is just completely counterproductive. Due to the inability to make payments outside the country, their only options for replacement infrastructure are local, which are more likely to be under state influence and censorship. So now their only options are to shut down and stop organizing the resistance to the regime, or engage in self-censorship, which might as well just be shutting down.
> One annoyance is that the graphs don't render if they're slightly off-screen (and they render slowly/fade-in or something) so it can be somewhat annoying to scroll back/forth between graphic examples.
Yeah. This was an engineering tradeoff - there's a limit on the number of WebGL contexts (15 for Firefox, for instance) that can be running at any time so I had to turn off rendering of the visualizations when offscreen.
If anyone knows a better way to approach this, please let me know!
> There are a few grammatical errors (missing word, missing comma) that are forgivable but I find that any imprecision in language is a big detriment for a student trying to understand an explanation. I tend to get hung up on those since, not knowing the material, I can't resolve ambiguities with context. Since subtleties are important in math it would be worthwhile to go over the explanations again with a fine-toothed comb to ensure there are no typos or amphiboly.
Yeah, this is a pet peeve of mine for sure. I am not very precise when it comes to written prose.
I was thinking of airtasking out a grammar check, since I'm pretty awful at catching my own mistakes here. I might just do that.
> The visuals aren't always clear. For example, volumes don't show edges so it's hard to make out that you're seeing a volume rather than an irregular area (and which volume you're seeing). Also I think a caption to each image could be useful, to describe how the shape demonstrates the concept. Something like "this visual represents a shear transformation of the matrix described above", just to be really explicit and clear.
Great idea. I've added it to my list at https://github.com/smspillaz/intuitive-math/issues/8
I'm receiving lots of great links in the comments here, so it'd be great to cross link similar resources on this page too.
Other sites do this, so it should be possible, though it would require me to change the react component that renders the sidebar (I'm using Atlaskit, but that doesn't have support for mobile responsive rendering, sadly).
Great feedback! I had been thinking of doing something like this but I was waiting on actual readers to mention it. I'll see if I can get to it this weekend.
> I really like the visual representation of elementary row operations, but the intersection of the three planes is off their edges, so isn't actually shown.
Yeah, good point. In the last visualization we have a vector pointing to the intersection, perhaps a similar sort of thing can be leveraged there.
> I found a bug (Chrome 65.0.3325.181, Windows): The scroll position is kept when you switch sections, so you have to manually scroll up to the top.
Thanks for the report! I think someone else mentioned this already and I filed a ticket on the github repository.
The gap which I'm trying to fill here is that 3b1b goes over the higher level intuitions but tends to skip over some of the details at times (which is fair enough, they're a pain to demonstrate through video and animation). The idea I had here was to have worked examples as well.
In that sense, the risk to oneself is so great that only a privileged few in developing countries who wanted to relocate would actually have the resources to overcome them. So for many people, relocating might legally be a choice, but it would be practically impossible.
Realistically, migration is only an option for you if you (1) have a job offer from a company based in the place you intend to migrate, (2) have sufficient funds + skills to cover yourself until you can find a job, (3) have family who can support you and lend you their networks until you can find employment, (4) have sufficient funds to start your own business. Incidentally, those criteria also form categories of US visas (H1-B/TN-1/E-3/L-1, O-1, Family Reunion, EB-5), though, they impose more stringent requirements than economics would.
I don't believe it is an offence to vote informally but even if it was the anonyminity of the ballot woult make it impossible to enforce.
In the last Federal Election the overall informal vote share was about 5.92%. In some electorates it was above 10% [1].
The AEC doesn't distinguish between votes that were intentionally invalid and votes that were unintentionally invalid. I used to work as an electoral officer and in my experience the latter usually far outweighed the former. I saw very few if any ballots that were totally blank, about 10-15 where the person tried to make a statement of some sort and the rest were people who did not understand the instructions and number every box.
As far as I can tell, elections in Australia are seen as something you don't really ignore despite your individual disdain for politics.
[0] http://www.aec.gov.au/voting/informal_voting/
[1] http://www.aec.gov.au/voting/informal_voting/division.htm