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New comment by aesbetic in "Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures"

aesbetic — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:17:18 +0000

We have “laws” and routinely conduct “experiments” which are kind of unheard of in CS.

New comment by aesbetic in "Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures"

aesbetic — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:54:48 +0000

In the first lecture, Abelson says Computer Science is neither a science nor is it really about computers. Considering the current ML paradigm, maybe CS has finally earned its name as a science.

New comment by aesbetic in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

aesbetic — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:19:27 +0000

Bruh they are literally called “AI glasses”. If it succeeds, it’s a success for AI.

New comment by aesbetic in "OpenAI and Broadcom to deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators"

aesbetic — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:10:07 +0000

I wonder how much they can innovate on the chip design frontier by using internal models. They’re certainly incentivized to work on this but what’s funny is Nvidia’s investment will probably be paying for a part of this.

New comment by aesbetic in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

aesbetic — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:50:21 +0000

Its a proclamation, not an executive order. This is important to keep in mind because Congress granted explicit statutory authorization to the President in the Immigration and Nationality Act 212(f) and is unlikely to be cut down by the courts for this reason:

"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Also interestingly, it seems to only explicitly impose restrictions on entry into the US. But most visa holders are already in the country, and atleast according to this proclamation, they'd be unaffected.

New comment by aesbetic in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

aesbetic — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:18:57 +0000

I don't see your point, the section describes a restriction on "entry into the United States". Most H1b visa holders are already in the US so this doesn't apply to them.

New comment by aesbetic in "Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone"

aesbetic — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:06:08 +0000

Mission Planner is an alright GCS but awful for configuration. Use this instead https://github.com/ArduPilot/MethodicConfigurator.

And if you're looking for other ground controls, you could try out QGroundControl or Mavproxy (terminal based).

New comment by aesbetic in "Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'"

aesbetic — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:14:20 +0000

This is more a bad look for Intel than anything truly exciting since they refuse to produce any details lol

New comment by aesbetic in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

aesbetic — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:34:03 +0000

Thank you for responding so quickly.

I asked this question in the first place because I heard/read that an EB1A application is a little more likely to be accepted if you already possess an O-1 visa. The reasoning behind this being the similarity in the eligibility requirements for the O-1 and EB1A applications make them more “compatible”.

What do you think of this?

New comment by aesbetic in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

aesbetic — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:11:51 +0000

Should I apply for an H1B or an O1 visa if the end goal is to self-petition an EB-1A green card application?

New comment by aesbetic in "OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal"

aesbetic — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:36:50 +0000

Yea you’re right. I viewed the comment on mobile where “codex” was wrapped to a new line.

Now I know I should be careful examining code not formatted in a code block.

New comment by aesbetic in "IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anytime soon"

aesbetic — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:45:49 +0000

I know popular sentiment is writing compilers is hard but not simple ones like this one without optimizations. Basic stages like lexing, parsing, building AST, and code gen aren’t conceptually difficult, just a lot code to churn out.

Though I’ll admit LLMs have been weirdly good at regex.