true The annual limit for new H-1B visas is 65,000, plus an additional 20,000 for foreign professionals with a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution: Annual cap: The annual cap for H-1B visas is 65,000. Additional visas: An additional 20,000 visas are available for foreign professionals with a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution. Exemptions: Some H-1B workers are exempt from the cap, including those who work at or are petitioned for by: An institution of higher education An affiliated or related nonprofit entity A nonprofit research organization A government research organization The cap was reached for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 on December 2, 2024.

a million? Why doesn't the US have laws like Europe, which protect citizens from eager foreigners, if qualified citizens are already available. I know the Musk argument: The H1Bs are brighter than those we already have. Really? Is the US educational system is that bad?

and where are you from? Legitimate question. We in the US are very stressed with being policeman for the world. You really want to go without that? Another legitamate question. Maybe the whiners and haters should have their way. Let Russia get Europe, let Netanyacreep get Arabia, the list goes on and on, amd you, sir, won't know what you have, until it's gone. Stability comes at a high price. So does honesty. So does security. This is a tech discussion board, sure. But it looks more abd more like Suckerberg every day. Whining, silver spoon in mouth entitlement types. Could you survive on your own? For how long? Can you forage for wild foods without poisoning yourself? Grow your own food? Build your own fire? Make peace with hostile adversaries? There you go- a to-do list for 2025. Happy new year.

zeitgeist We were all on the same page

how paranoid. Go for a walk

the truth will emerge soon about covid origins and more. Were we lied to? Daily. But it was mostly a parental kind of lying, they mostly were concerned "for our own good" - the truth could wait, and now it is almost time for the unveiling of the truth.

100% spot on. I was in so Cal at the time, a member of a club with many programmers. Their view of the tech industry was realistic. FUD - fear, uncertainty, despair - was used to force upgrades, hire more IT, get updated hardware. This snowball just kept rolling downhill, increasing in size. Programming once was parsimonious, very fast and efficient, but then, we got layers and layers of middlemen surveillance, ad tech, and now, so called AI ... and of course if we continue on the current AI trajectory, we will cook the whole planet. Not very intelligent.

Why exactly are our alphabet soup agencies so inept? Is it because backdoors were built into Windows, and Bill Gates gave the source code to China? Or is it govt DEI wfh'ers who are too busy giving their puppies bubble baths on company time?

Maybe it's a new kind of cookie technology. Just vacuum up smartphone signals and user IDs for better ad targeting?

It's not like the AI is intelligent. So, 1. Customer calls the AI phone bot number. 2. Customer wastes hours of time, gets nowhere. 3. Customer cancels credit card listed with Klarna, so that Klarna can't get its cut. 4. Last remaining Klarna employee outsources to an AI firm fix existing AI. 5. Return to 1.

One of the selling points of globalism is that programmers can be in time zones around the world, around the clock, at least it was. But what do you call a CEO whose lips are moving?

they both make great cheese too

I recall the time very well. Just prior to that, a Princeton PhD gave a talk in LA about how inefficient and wasteful NASA was. It was a pivotal time when private enterprise was allowed to flourish. Before that, it was a NASA monopoly. Sure, there are plenty of failures in early development. I know this very well after having dropped money on a bunch of EV companies. Almost all of them failed. The best ideas usually don't make it the first time, but the way our stock market works, it's not really "investment" when it comes to speculative technology. Those of us with a gambling instinct pile on, and the end result is that you get a lot of bright young people who get trained, then experience failure, then do something better. It's the American Way. But jeez Louise, this forum has degenerated into narcissism. Get rid of the upvotes and down votes. The whole world is becoming Facebook. I'll spend my time elsewhere. Have a good day. And go for a walk.

problem solvers are living and working in Western countries now? Could "brain drain" be part of the problem here? Would a kind of X prize for solving the problem have potential? For those who are too young to know, the X prize for affordable space launches kick started exponential growth in launch technology. Maybe do something analogous here with smog prevention. Okay, the weather is cold. So, add some layers of clothing. Switch to cleaner fuels. No cow dung burning, no crop stubble burning either - making rules is the easy part. Enforcing them is another. It's a one of a kind culture there. Here in Colorado, we also have an air pollution problem, mostly in the Denver area. One approach to alleviate automobile exhaust was to give away vouchers for ebikes, to help get some cars off the road. But even in a rich area like Denver, mass transit is very glitchy, and just try building a N-S commuter rail line... that will take another decade at least. The way I see it, state and govt should decentralize from the area, and populate areas outside of the "hot zone" - maybe something similar would work for Dehli? But it won't be easier there, than it is here. And it's really really hard here, too.

Use cases? How about military targeting? It's been used for that, for years now.