harshalizee (u/harshalizee)

harshalizee commented on The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/bilsbie

throaway123213 · 15 days ago

It becomes a problem when the population of the developing nations outnumber the developed 100 to one. And im not talking about those inside the USA, im talking about worldwide. Id love to let them all in. Ive been to third world countries and I can't fault any individual for doing what they can to leave. But the current system can't support a borderless world.

harshalizee · 15 days ago

So you want talented individuals to come in to prop up the economy for decades with their output, but forbid them trying to establish a normal family life in the country?

harshalizee commented on The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/bilsbie

rayiner · 16 days ago

The bigger problem with the H1B system is family reunification. 65,000 H1B visas a year is not that many. But because H1B is a path to citizenship in practice, just one skilled worker eventually will bring in many more family members who aren’t filtered for skills.

When we came to the U.S. in 1989–on my dad’s H1 visa—there were under 10,000 Bangladeshis in the country. Today, there are 270,000. Those aren’t 270,000 highly skilled and highly motivated workers. They’re here based on chain migration from handful of original skilled workers.

harshalizee · 15 days ago

To be clear, ANY US Citizen or Permanant Resident can eventually bring in some families after an arduous and long process.

This is a non-existent issue with H1-B.

The current wait times for an H1-B from the Rest of the World(ROW) is around 10+ years to be a citizen. For India/China/Mexico, it's around 12-27 years to become a Permanent Resident if they applied for their I-140 before 2020. If they applied after 2020, it's currently estimated at 34-75 years!

harshalizee commented on Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal ft.com/content/064bbca0-1... · Posted by u/busymom0

harshalizee · a month ago

Oracle is the one to look out for if/when the bubble bursts. Most of the big tech will be fine, albeit hurting for a while. For Oracle, this might be existential.

harshalizee commented on GitHub: Git operation failures githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp

sre2025 · a month ago

Why are there outages everywhere all the time now? AWS, Azure, GitHub, Cloudflare, etc. Is this the result of "vibe coding"? Because before "vibe coding", I don't remember having this many outages around the clock. Just saying.

harshalizee · a month ago

Could also be the hack and slash layoffs are starting to show its results. Removing crucial personnel, teams spread thin, combined with low morale industrywide and you've got the perfect recipe for disaster.

harshalizee commented on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year' 9to5mac.com/2025/11/14/ti... · Posted by u/achow

verelo · a month ago

You forget, the camera gets better every year!

I've had an iphone for 15 years. I mean, it's fine...i just wish there was incentive for durability and sustainability v's replace it every 12-24 months. I guess sustainability concerns at Apple ends at ensuring their stock price is sustainable.

harshalizee · a month ago

What do you do with your phones that it doesn't last more than 24 months? I've had only two iPhones for almost 11 years. An iphone 6s and currently an iPhone 13 mini there entire time. They're solidly reliable

harshalizee commented on Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/fortran77

tkcranny · a month ago

I’ve spent a lot of time with both, and hands down the wired one is far more flakey. Granted I think that’s more a Mazda software issue, but a solid 10% of the time I get “CarPlay failed” and the only way to fix it is to turn the car on and off. Never once had an issue with wireless in a Hyundai.

harshalizee · a month ago

Have you tried cleaning out the lint in your phone's port? For me, that was it and my Mazda CX-5 connects fine every single time after I did that.

harshalizee commented on AI Broke Interviews yusufaytas.com/ai-broke-i... · Posted by u/yusufaytas

Esophagus4 · 2 months ago

I agree with the article. Sadly, I have seen candidates cheating, and have hired those I suspected were cheating in hindsight.

It is a horrific drag on the team to have the wrong engineer in a seat.

If we can’t sus out who is cheating and who is legitimate, then the only answer is that we as a field have to move towards “hire fast, fire fast.”

Right now, we generally fire slow. But we can’t have the wrong engineer in a seat for six months while you go though a PIP and performance cycle waiting for a yearly layoff. Management and HR need to get comfortable with firing people in 3 weeks as opposed to 6 months. You need more frequent one-off decisions based on an individual’s contributions and potential.

If you can’t fix the interview process, you need more PIP culture.

harshalizee · 2 months ago

Unless your firm is offering a solid paycheck and a 6 month severance package a la Netflix, no rational candidate is going to bet on a place that'll boot you in 3 weeks because they felt "the vibes are off". You'll be self selecting for only the most desperate candidates in the market trying to get a job.

harshalizee commented on Show HN: Are You a Good Estimator? estimator.dylancastillo.c... · Posted by u/dcastm

harshalizee · 2 months ago

Fun test. 4/10

I never realized how absolutely massive a blue whale can be!

harshalizee commented on Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals olshansky.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/Olshansky

alephnerd · 2 months ago

The Amazon culture that exists today is nowhere comparable to the culture that existed 5-7 years ago.

A lot of the Amazonians who had a "mission first" mindset at the mid- and upper-level rungs of engineering and product management all ended up become leadership or executive management at other companies, or founding their own companies.

That said, it is important to highlight the mindset that did help Amazon during it's golden era.

harshalizee · 2 months ago

5-7 years isn't that long ago and it was just as terrible back then. Yeah, the same "leaders" now have infected other tech companies with their culture and are actively ruining the industry.

harshalizee commented on 'We need the smartest people': Nvidia, OpenAI CEOs react to H-1B visa fee cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidi... · Posted by u/rntn

Gabriel54 · 3 months ago

I am looking here [0] and I see that almost 20,000 O visas were issued at foreign posts in 2024, and it looks like several thousand E visas in the first priority category were issued. I agree with you that for most people, currently, the way it works is that they get an H1-B and then wait for their turn to apply for EB-1 (if they are from a country subject to quotas), but it is incorrect to say that consulates do not issues O or EB-1 visas. Why this is the case I have no idea, perhaps it is easier for companies to file for H1-B?

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

harshalizee · 3 months ago

E-1/2/3 visas are treaty investor visas. These are pay to play visas.

We're talking about EB-1/2/3 which are not visas.

O-1 is a real visa, but also really expensive and limited to niche conditions, also not what we're talking about here.