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Speculative decoding does not trade off accuracy. You reject the speculated tokens if the original model does not accept them, kind of like branch prediction. All these providers and third parties benchmark each other's solutions, so if there is a drop in accuracy, someone will report it. Their sequence length is 8k.


And not just flights, all government offices that have any security prohibit any knives. I used to have a swiss knife at most times on me, and I went to the social security office to get a card (one of the first gov. offices I visited in the US). They wouldn't allow it, but also wouldn't hold it for you. I had to go out and hide it in the bushes like an idiot.


Don't say that to a CISF guy. They get really mad. I once interned at a national lab and there was a snafu due to which I couldn't get in. So I had to call my advisor from the main entrance, and I told him that the watchman isn't letting me in. The security guy overheard it and threw a fit about how he isn't a watchman but a central gov. employee.


Absolutely. In Indian hierarchy one can blast watchmen for not doing their work properly and CISF can blast a passenger for not doing their work properly. So they are indeed powerful. One can see that in their swagger. They are there to serve government not the passengers.


Hate flying through India. They make TSA look like nice guys. Apparently, you can't carry vapes in carry-on and you can't check them in either due to batteries. So you can't take vapes at all, cigarettes are fine though. I have a two piece vape, so I put the liquid bit in check-in and the bottom battery in carry on. And he still confiscated it. Got into an argument of how it's just a battery and that why stop there; after-all everything can be used to make a bomb. He got mad that I said the b word. I let him have the battery as I didn't want to miss the flight.


Vape batteries tend to be low quality and are notorious for having thermal runaway incidents.

https://tobaccoreporter.com/2024/09/10/vapes-major-culprit-i...


Not necessarily. You need farmers and scientists. Can't do a descending sort by salary.


Wasn't Trump's proposal few years ago "95th percentile salary for their profession"? So you still have room for farmers and scientists provided that they are exceptional (or at least exceptionally well paid) farmers and scientists.


Who defines “profession” though? Is “farmer” all encompassing, or is “chicken farmer” different from “cattle farmer”? Is “battery chicken farmer” different to “free range chicken farmer”? Do I need to be top 5% US-wide or just the city/state I would be hired in?


I don't disagree there's a lot of complications in the actual implementation, but this approach is a better-than-status-quo way to achieve some fairness IMO. Currently the US Dept of Labor has a system of determining the fair wage that should be paid to a certain job description at a certain geographic location. In the green card process this is called "prevailing wage determination". Why not use it for H1b too?


“Prevailing wage determination” is already a part of h1b process, but it is easily gamed.


The executive can't do anything. It has to be passed by Congress. Congress hasn't passed anything in 30+ years.


Not a laywer. Withdrawing and reapplying after changing the app, or responding to the RFE are both valid options. The only thing that is not useful is appealing a rejection. The appeals rarely work and are a waste of money and time. There was also an executive order about O1 which was supposed to lead to rulemaking that would make O1 and EB1 easier for AI (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...). I don't know if anything came of this, but look into whether any rulemaking is happening and apply after a final rule is published, assuming you are doing AI. (Everyone is doing AI, btw).


Agreed. The motion/appeals process takes a long time so it's just not a realistic option for most people. Whether to withdraw and reapply or respond to the RFE will depend on your qualifications (apart from your acceptance into and participation in YC); we've taken both approaches when we've received a kitchen-sink RFE and obtained approvals doing both. The recent guidance focuses on the EB1A but an be applied to the O-1 and has expanded arguments that we can make.


Not a lawyer. Visas and green card applications are orthogonal. Do your EB2-NIW however you like - either yourself or with the help of a law firm. It has no bearing on anything else. You'll get the green card when your number is up (somewhere in the next 5 years).


If your goal is time bound (say a few years), the asylum path may work. It will eventually run out though when you get your hearing in court. Asylum applications are overwhelmingly rejected. The legal path, at least theoretically, has a higher probability* of leading to permanent residence.

*Except for Indians.


Most can, although you probably don't want it. Updates on linux are already infinitely better than windows. That's not the question to ask. You should ask if a laptop goes to sleep on linux, will it wake up ? Nobody knows.


I have never heard or never had myself any problems with sleep on Linux laptops and i'm using Linux(Arch, Debian, Lubuntu) as my only driver for past 10 years


That's been my experience with Debian. I used to have problems with that stuff, but those went away years ago.


Well, on Thinkpad (which, unlike many, is actually intended to support Linux users) you have to specifically charge something in BIOS to make it work, so one at least has to be aware. Also, I have some old Asus lying around, which after some update started having a lot of trouble with both going to sleep and waking up. Never figured out what it was, I didn't really need it anymore, so now it's just lying somewhere in the closet, maybe will use it for something someday.

So, no, "no problems" is a bit of overselling it.


>You should ask if a laptop goes to sleep on linux, will it wake up ? Nobody knows.

I've only been using Linux for 20 years so can you explain what you mean by this?


Modern sleep (s0ix) is a mess on linux. Laptops will either not sleep, or sleep but not wake up, or drain the battery while they are asleep, or peripherals won't work after they wake up, or monitors won't light up, or things won't be where you left them on the monitor, or wifi or bluetooth won't work after resume, or they'll get stuck in a low frequency mode, ....


Modern sleep also drains your battery and heats up your laptop on Windows too (but not most of the other problems). I miss the days when you could put a sleeping laptop in a bag, but now, on Windows, you have to either re-enable hibernation (for however long they allow that), or fully shut down. Modern sleep was a mistake.


Would you believe I've had all of these problems in Windows on a Surface Pro? Modern sleep was a mistake.


If you have never had such issues (not had them and fixed them, that doesn't count), consider yourself lucky...


Or the issue that currently annoys the hell out of me: if I disconnect my laptop from the docking station and reconnect it, will it continue running or will it spontaneously restart (Dell laptop and docking station, Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland)?


And power management. Battery life is much worse on Linux


Always, always, always enable automatic security updates only every os on every install.


If they are infinitely better why wouldn't I want them? Sorry that's confusing.


You can opt for security only automatic updates which a lot of server admins do. However, if you are running something in production, you don't want to risk any breakage due to an automatic update. This is independent of the operating system.


This. Security-only updates are the only ones I allow automatically. Broader updates are too risky to allow to happen without supervision. I think this is independent of the operating system being used.


>I am very curious what exactly this means? Is it the number of pages or forms you had to fill out? People you had to talk too?

Captcha games are going to become an olympic sport.


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