I doubt. Whether what he did was right or not, it needed a lot of careful planning — not something everyone could do. The CEOs are safe.
You might be surprised. The CEO of Blackstone was just killed a few weeks ago.
Readit Newscodybontecou commented on CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years ft.com/content/d8da9877-a... · Posted by u/petethomas
Now we just need text to speech so we can truly interact with our computers hands free.
codybontecou commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
Re-entry permit is granted for 2 years and the only requirement is that you apply for it while in country. Usual processing time nowadays is around a year so in effect you need to apply once every 3 years for it. They have the option of sending it to a us embassy abroad for pick up but we have always had it sent to a friends address in US and picked it up while visiting US.
You didn't have any issues re-entering the US prior to picking up the permit from your friend's address?
codybontecou commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
There's no requirement that a green card holder spend 6 months in the U.S. during the year. You and your wife can and should travel freely. And you could live outside the U.S. for several years and still keep your green card. If you decide to move to Portugal for a period of time, for example, you should consult an attorney but the solution to protect your green card status (for at least 5 years) is to get a document called a reentry permit, which is easy to get.
Interesting. Thank you for the response. If this is true, that's amazing!
Do you know where the 6-month requirement (rumor?) is from? Reading over https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter... section C states
"...there are two ways outlined in the statute in which the continuity of residence can be broken:
The applicant is absent from the United States for more than 6 months but less than 1 year; or The applicant is absent from the United States for 1 year or more."
Is this only for citizenship/naturalization and not to maintain a green card?
codybontecou commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
Hey Mr. Roberts!
I'm a US citizen and my wife has a green card. We like to travel extensively, but feel limited by the need to be in the US for at least 6 months out of the year.
In an ideal world, we could get a digital nomad visa in Portugal and my wife and I could live and work there while we wait out some of the chaos that seems to be occurring in the US.
But, we're not sure if we can live/work in Europe while simultaneously fulfilling the green card requirements. Do you know if there's an exception for cases like this?
It seems like you have a decent local stack in place.
Unfortunately these systems feel leagues behind Claude Clode and the current SOTA agentic coding. But they're great for referencing simple search like syntax.
Where I've found the most success with local models is with image generation, text-to-speech, and text-to-text translations.
Vercel isn't a competitor to Nuxt. Vercel benefits from allowing any frontend framework to be deployed on their service.
All you have to look at is Svelte, which Vercel hired all the developer of, and that turned out to be a great thing. Svelte and SvelteKit are better than ever and nothing they have done since has shown to be forced by Vercel.
Vercel benefits from moving as much of the logic to the server (their paid services) as possible.
codybontecou commented on Local-first software (2019) inkandswitch.com/essay/lo... · Posted by u/gasull
Cool to see principles behind this, although I think it’s definitely geared towards the consumer space. Shameless self plug, but related: we’re doing this for industrial assets/industrial data currently (www.sentineldevices.com), where the entire training, analysis and decision-making process happens on customer equipment. We don’t even have any servers they can send data to, our model is explicitly geared on everything happening on-device (so the network principle the article discussed I found really interesting). This is to support use cases in SCADA/industrial automation where you just can’t bring data to the outside world. There’s imo a huge customer base and set of use cases that are just casually ignored by data/AI companies because actually providing a service where the customer/user is is too hard, and they’d prefer to have the data come to them while keeping vendor lock-in. The funny part is, in discussions with customers we actually have to lean in and be very clear on “no this is local, there’s no external connectivity” piece, because they really don’t hear that anywhere and sometimes we have to walk them through it step by step to help them understand that everything is happening locally. It also tends to break the brains of software vendors. I hope local-first software starts taking hold more in the consumer space so we can see people start getting used to it in the industrial space.
An exciting space and I'm glad you and your team are working in it.
I looked over your careers page and see all of your positions are non-remote. Is this because of limitations of working on local-first software require you to be in-person? Or is this primarily a management issue?
codybontecou commented on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System worksonmymachine.substack... · Posted by u/Stwerner
> Regardless of how good a model gets
I don't think this is true.
My Claude Code can:
- open a browser, debug a ui, or navigate to any website
- write a script to interact with any type of accessible api
All without MCP.
Within a year I expect there to be legitimate "computer use" agents. I expect agent sdks to take over llm apis as defacto abstractions for models, and MCP will have limited use isolated to certain platforms - but with that caveat that an MCP-equipped agent performs worse than a native computer-use agent.
They are kind of the same thing...
These are just tools Anthropic provides for you. Just like the tools a non-Anthropic service provides through their MCP server.
A community-led effort of tool creation via MCP will surely be faster and more powerful than waiting for in-house implementations.
codybontecou commented on The Effect of Noise on Sleep empirical.health/blog/eff... · Posted by u/brandonb
I’ve spent years “fixing” my sleep. Things I recommend:
* a sleep tracker. I love AutoSleep - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autosleep-track-sleep-on-watch...
* Any kind of white noise. I use an air purifier at home, and a little pocket size white noise machine when I travel.
* find and eliminate any noises in your home. Computers, fridges, squeaky doors, etc.
* find and eliminate any lights. Especially stupid power and status LEDs. Bedroom should be pitch black at night. Electrical tape works well for this.
* Blackout curtains
* cheap eye mask
* Magnesium Glycate supplement
* Earplugs- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0015TBGR6
* And finally, a recent addition that I’ve fallen in love with is sleep ear buds: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT9GBFQ2
Although, I would wait on getting sleep ear buds, Anker just announced a new model with ANC and a similar price.
Appreciate the list. How do you eliminate fridge noise (besides replacing the fridge entirely)?