That's OK.

They have no idea my sub-region of California produces the entire GDP of their country.

> You don’t even need a visa to leave

Either unable to critically read or extraordinarily pedantic. Classic HN.

There is simply no visa that allows skilled labor to come to the US, work a temporary job for a multinational that's paying them in their home country, and leave.

The closest thing apparently is the "B-1 in lieu of H-1B"[1] and guess what? Another commenter posted this FT article that accuses them of abusing this B-1 visa [2].

Traveling for work is a huge pain in the ass, doubly so for this sort of temporary work assignment, and triply so if it's to the USA.

I've always been told to use a tourist or family reunification visa. For example, if China cracked down on this, they could easily put 10,000+ Americans in jail for a similar "visa abuse". They obviously would not bite the hand of foreign direct investment like this though.

I think it's informative to interpret the law - especially in the age of Congressional gridlock - as 300 years of terrible legacy code papered over the Herculean efforts of ops teams (the government bureaucracy). When that ops team starts arbitrarily treating the oceans of gray zones to their whims, to reward friends and punish enemies, you start the long trek to serfdom...

[1] https://www.wsmimmigration.com/us-immigration/temporary-work...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/c677b9aa-2e89-4feb-a56f-f3c8452b3...

Because he's Saquon Barkley. Other than your lead + maybe 1 or 2 others, everyone else is pretty interchangable. At least Saquon is interesting.

How is possible investors got that money without employees getting it? If Google paid Windsurf the entity, then surely Windsurf must have had to equally distribute the 1.2B. And there's no way investors had 100x liquidation preferences or whatever.

Did Google just directly pay the VCs? Or purchase only the VC shares?

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> the core insight: predict in representation space, not pixels

We've been doing this since 2014? Not only that, others have been doing it at a similar scale. e.g. Nvidia's world foundation models (although those are generative).

> zero-shot generalization (aka the money shot)

This is easily beaten by flow-matching imitation learning models like what Pi has.

> accidentally solved robotics

They're doing 65% success on very simple tasks.

The research is good. This article however misses a lot of other work in the literature. I would recommend you don't read it as an authoritative source.

Hmm

The prevailing wisdom is that American dominates tech simply because American companies are better. While that's true, I argue that a huge portion of this comes instead from the monopolistic winner-take-all dynamics of tech not found in other industries. Despite the American car manufacturers being significantly worse, they still exist. The European tech industry is significantly worse, and they're almost nowhere to be found in tech. The Chinese tech industry is worse in many ways as well, yet shielded by the Great Firewall, they've found themselves with cloud hyperscalers, frontier AI models, global consumer businesses, etc.

Once upon a time, this mattered less, but as American values diverge from the rest of the liberal democracies, the the effect American tech has on our political discourse and economies are becoming a matter of national security.

This is from the perspective of someone who works in the American tech industry but is not American, and has spent a fair amount of time in China.

As an opinion piece, I'm not sure my arguments are entirely correct, but I think they're worth thinking about.

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Just that it would happen.

Every time something like this comes out, his supporters mass flag the article no matter how relevant it is to tech. Browsing /active is the only way to see some of these.

In their defense, if every atrocity and grift this administration committed were allowed free and fair voting on HN, it would completely clog the front page.

Daily reminder to use /active instead of /

Basically the solve rate was much lower without the use of a Bluetooth sensor, and they did a bunch of other things that made the result less impressive. Still a long way to go here.

Reproducing ML Robotics papers requires the exact robot/environment/objects/etc -> people fudge their numbers and have strawman implementation of benchmarks.

LLMs are so expensive to train + the datasets are non-public -> Meta trained on the test set for Llama4 (and we wouldn't have known if not for some forum leak).

In some way it's no different than startups or salesmen overpromising - it's just lying for personal gain. The truth usually wins in the end though.

Here is a quick list of submissions that are currently on the top 10 of /active that are not on the default front page at all.

“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43714203

-flagged- US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715022

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711706

This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716939

Encryption Is Not a Crime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716138

These submissions are interesting to me and IMO are all related to tech/science (yes, even the Harvard one - fewer talented foreign students leads to less innovation). I understand the reasoning for hiding these - most are political or opinionated and lead to possibly inflammatory debate. But I trust my own best judgement for what is worth consuming and personally don't want any algorithm deciding for me (other than a simple function of f(upvotes, time_elapsed)).

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