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kappion Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

CS new grads from Top10 are finding it tough to get jobs. There is lot of supply of smart CS grads within US. No need to hire H1Bs in the current economic situation which is different from late 90s when H1B program started.

kappion The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy

This is propaganda. CS new grads from Top10 are finding it tough to get jobs. There is lot of supply of smart CS grads within US. No need to hire H1Bs in the current economic situation which is different from late 90s when H1B program started.

kappion Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

How did the doctor diagnose allergy to laser? So you didn't do catract surgery? Catract surgery can be done without using laser.

kappion Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

Stanford has become legacy + LGBTQ only for undergrads. Even their math departments are filled with only them!

kappion OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025

I think you haven't gone thru AMC8, AMC10, AIME competitions. If you are so confident, try giving an unsolved math problem outside the high school math competitions.

kappion OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025

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kappion H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That's equal to 82% of our graduating class who are guaranteed jobs even before any Americans walk across the stage for their diploma.

kappion I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

why is ycombinator promoting immigration thru H1B when so many US born CS grads are finding it hard to get job. In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That's equal to 82% of our graduating class who are guaranteed jobs even before any Americans walk across the stage for their diploma. https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-it...

kappion The Rise of the Japanese Toilet

most bidets starts leaking after 6-12 months. It is a flood hazard if the hose breaks.

kappion Trump reportedly prepared to accept 'palace in the sky' as gift from Qatar

Wow who could have guessed this story from @jonkarl is a lie?

Here's the actual story of Trump renovating a plane that Qatar once owned, because Boeing has failed to deliver a new air force one https://x.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1921590297940701539

kappion How Kerala got rich

Looks like this is one sided political propaganda article. Googling shows real picture.

Unemployment is at 40%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_Kerala

Kerala is in the grip of a surging drug crisis https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/kerala-is-in...

Kerala rooting on central govt to solve state's Rs 26,000 crore monthly expenditure crisis https://keralakaumudi.com/en/news/news.php?id=1498119&u=kera...

kappion Ask HN: LinkedIn still the way to find jobs?

why is Ycombinator not funding a Linkedin competitor! Everybody is complaining about linkedin but no alternative. ycombinator should be one funding disruptive startups that take on established players, but instead funding 100 similar startups doing the same thing.

kappion Supreme Court Review Sought to Revoke H-1B Spouses' Work Permit Rule

It has become another loop hole, to hire for low wages and hit the diversity goals. Time to review this rule.

kappion Apple shareholders vote to keep its diversity policies

Funds hold 67.73% of Apple (AAPL) stock and they just rubber stamp managment decisions. Rise of passive index funds have made it easy for management, they are passive managers. When is Tim Cook getting fired?

kappion $6k Complete hardware and software setup for running DeepSeek-R1 locally

Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:

kappion 280K Indian international students in US majority doing CS

possible solution is to give H1B to the top 85k applicants in the order of salary. This will prevent employers favoring H1B because of low salary and will give chance to those who really deserve.

kappion 280K Indian international students in US majority doing CS

Oversupply of CS grads is another reason for unemployment and wage deflation of software engineers. Employers want more H1B when undergrad US citizen students from top universities are finding tough to get a job!

Top 25 https://x.com/deedydas/status/1857615852809650542

kappion Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

one possible option to prevent ghost job posting for visa is to force employers to share the hiring month, salary, qualification and annonymized resume of the H1B/GC employer with all those they interviewed or applied. This will give closure to those applicants that didn't get the job.

kappion Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

In tech, ghost job listings maybe as high as 50%. Another reason for ghost job listing is to meet the requirements for visa processing.

kappion Indus Valley script from 3300 to 1900 BC cracked using cryptography [video]

https://www.academia.edu/78867798/Deciphering_Indus_script_a...

Detailed video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-M8IoAlaGI

kappion Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible

correct, it is integer DCT. Lot of techniques adopted from the integer transform of H.264. That's what I meant, not the floating point DCT proposed in 70s.

kappion Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible

DCT is now replaced by Hadamard Transform which can be implemented by additions/subtractions and don't have the drift problem of DCT. HT was considered before DCT, but during that time DCT was picked because of better perceptual quality. Later during H.264 standardization, HT replaced DCT and is now used in all video codecs instead of DCT.

kappion After 1 year, does Tesla Vision Parking work without parking sensors? [video]

Even after 1 year, Tesla Vision Parking not working without parking sensors. Removal of parking sensors was a mistake. How did they remove an existing feature without testing?

kappion Justin Trudeau Accuses India of a Killing on Canadian Soil

Canada has a history of sheltering Khalistani terrorists. =================================

Canada repeating the same mistake - In 1982 India had urged Canada when @JustinTrudeau's father Pierre Trudeau was PM, to hand over Babbar Khalsa terrorist Talwinder Parmar but Trudeau Sr didnt.

In 1985 Khalistani terrorists placed a bomb inside Air India plane Kanishka. 329 people were killed in mid air explosion.

Today Trudeau Jr, Instead of acknowledging presence of Anti-India extremists & terrorists in Canada, Choose to Shelter them and accuse India w/o evidence. https://twitter.com/MeghUpdates/status/1703968941125882258

kappion Huawei new phone with Chinese 7nm SoC

Huwaeri announces their newest phone with 100% Chinese components to time with US secretary's visit

kappion Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes

Instead of Tesla trying FSD with vision only, they should try with more sensors and charge more for the extra hardware. They cannot beat laws of physics by just using vision.

kappion Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions

https://twitter.com/floates0x/status/1688727233521979392 NEW and IMPORTANT : Study performed at Lanzhou University heavily indicate that successful synthesis of the LK-99 superconductor requires annealing in an oxygen atmosphere. They are suggesting that the final synthesis occurs in an oxygen atmosphere rather than in vacuum.

The original three author LK99 paper and nearly every subsequent attempt at replication involved annealing in the suggested vacuum of 10^-3 torr.

This paper indicates that the superconductivity aspects of the material are greatly enhanced if heated in normal atmosphere.

Authors are Kun Tao, Rongrong Chen, Lei Yang, Jin Gao, Desheng Xue and Chenglong Jia, all from aforementioned Lanzhou University

Paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03218

kappion Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions

very detailed analysis of LK-99 https://twitter.com/TDebant/status/1688675638146727936

kappion Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)

Looking at Q2 is misleading. QTL revenue has increased from 4.591B in 2019 to 6.320B in 2021. https://investor.qualcomm.com/segments/qtl. Qualcomm is heavily represented in lot of industry standards. Every "if condition" is patented and counted as part of any standards. Standards group decisions are highly political and not completely based on technical merits. With Qualcommm political power, they are able to include many of their proposals in standards which end up getting them royalty.

kappion Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

Vanguard and Blackrock always votes with management and sadly lot of times with bad management. This is the hidden cost of passive investment. They don't do anything.