I am planning to move to San Francisco to join the startup ecosystem. Regarding the H-1B visa, what does the current process and timeline look like for a new applicant? Given the lottery constraints, are there specific 'red flags' or common mistakes I should avoid when looking for a sponsor?
The issue right now is that if you are sponsored for an H-1B while outside the U.S., the sponsoring employer will be subject to the additional $100K payment and this of course will dissuade most potential employers.
As I mentioned on my X account, from my point of view, the TOON format shouldn't be utilized just like JSON (constructing data structures in .toon format to send to the LLM).
I believe TOON is a real game changer when used as an intermediary between the IDE/chat and the LLM. That hasn't been implemented yet, but it is undoubtedly the next step toward the project's mass adoption.
There will surely be news regarding this in the coming weeks :)
Large Language Models increasingly rely on structured data for inference and function calling. However, standard formats like JSON introduce significant verbosity that inflates token usage and inference costs. This analysis presents a formal mathematical comparison between TOON and JSON to evaluate whether TOON achieves quantifiable efficiency gains by eliminating structural redundancy.
Under the assumptions described below (compact JSON, canonical TOON, ASCII keys and punctuation, shallow to moderate nesting, and mostly unquoted TOON strings), TOON's structural overhead is lower than compact JSON for the structure families analyzed here, except arrays of arrays.
I wanted to share a small project I built called Hacker5News. It’s a simple web app using Axum that fetches and displays just the top 5 stories from Hacker News.
I made this because, between work and studying, I rarely have time to keep up with all the news and discussions. Seeing hundreds of new posts every day can be overwhelming, so I wanted a way to quickly catch up on the most important stories without the anxiety of missing out.
The app is open source and super easy to run. It opens in your browser and shows a clean, distraction-free list of the current top 5 articles.
Would love any feedback or suggestions!
Thanks for checking it out.
I am planning to move to San Francisco to join the startup ecosystem. Regarding the H-1B visa, what does the current process and timeline look like for a new applicant? Given the lottery constraints, are there specific 'red flags' or common mistakes I should avoid when looking for a sponsor?
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