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Minisforum machines are excellent in that regard. Sturdy little bricks with price and performance.

I did that for while, but recently switched to Bazzite. It's a much smoother experience.

"Mr. Google, the best filing clerk in the firm. Filing & Office Management: A Constructive Monthly Magazine on Business Methods. July 1921."

https://x.com/dennistenen/status/1017125225484505090

Specifically, he believed he should share in his country's suffering.

The author doesn't get the most common problem with perfectionism. "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." Perfectionists often give up entirely, because of some perceived deficiency, instead of powering through to the end.

Of course, keep practicing to get better. Nobody says otherwise. But don't stop practicing just because you can't get it right every time. It's the ALL or NOTHING attitude that's the problem, where getting past failure requires SOMETHING in the pursuit of the ALL.

I've seen a bunch of his interviews now and his message is pretty controlled, actually. It all boils down to: (a) I don't know, wasn't aware, and (b) I messed up / lost focus. These appearances seem to play a therapeutic (instead of legal or financial) role for SBF (bad idea, obviously). Yesterday (12/12) he was still talking about returning in a "senior executive role" to help in the bankruptcy. He is also convinced FTX USA and FTX Japan were fully solvent and that they still have a future. Fascinating.

This is from 2019. In March of 2022 Google won the case. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22973282/google-wins-cour...

Neither owns the copyright, and therefore cannot claim infringement. The irony is that Rap Genius began by publishing lyrics without permission.

Wouldn't it be more meaningful to normalize these by student population? UT Austin has like 50k students to 6k at Dartmouth. Normalized, you would have .06 startups per student at Dartmouth and .01 at Texas. Many of the smaller elite schools would rise way up the ranking.

Serious question: the burn off in crypto should theoretically help with fiat inflation, correct? The Fed prints, and crypto evaporates.

True, but the financial incentives of many (most?) companies doesn't align with public benefits (see pollution, plastics, diet etc.) Why is social media singled out in our demands for them to act morally good, instead of just profitable?

I have several major problems with this explanation (often endemic in the discussion more generally):

1. Shannon's original paper relates "the capacity [of a channel] to transmit information" as well as the potential of a system (e.g. the English language) to generate information. In other words, your pipe needs to be able to accommodate the potential volume coming from the source ("the entropy of the source determines the channel capacity"). The amount of information in a message or the amount of surprise, as the author has it, should not be confused with the amount of potential information.

2. Instead of "system" and "channel" the author uses the word "variable" which I find misleading. Channel (like a telegraph cable) and system (the English language) are specifically relevant to Shannon's discussion.

3. The discussion of "surprise," as the author has it, is misleading. Shannon is writing his paper in conversation with Hartley and Nyquist---all three specifically attempting to bracket out the subjective psychological factors such as surprise, in order to describe the capacity for information transmission in terms of quantitative measures, based on "physical considerations alone" (Hartley). Surprise reintroduces a subjective, relative, psychological understanding of information the original authors wanted to avoid.

Alternatively, you can lease a car like Nissan Leaf for the same $200 monthly. This price point makes no sense, except perhaps in the case of the company wanting to save face instead of turning off the service entirely. What percentage of owners do you think will opt in?

This is not a good analogy for the same reason the Holocaust is not a good analogy for other things not involving the massive loss of human life.

Fair enough. I'll use "low pressure" and "low friction" next time.

See my comment above. An elevated (or submerged) tube with rails (or a track) inside cannot be less expensive than those rails or track elevated (or submerged) alone. I get the pipeline metaphor, but a pipeline with infrastructure inside is just infrastructure + pipeline. So instead of a train system the proposal has always been to build a train system inside a pipeline, which has to be more expensive than either. We have no indication of cost savings here.

The dramatically reduced costs of infrastructure for constructing mounted tubes on pylons, with each section being a fungible, mass produced item, makes rail obsolete.

This makes no sense. The "mounted tubes on pylons" contain rails inside and therefore are MORE not less expensive than just "rails mounted on pylons," which we already have. A more complex rail does not make simple rail obsolete. Nor does it beat it on fungibility, cost, or mass production. Where are you getting these "dramatically reduced costs"?

Hyperloop sounds like a bunch of hype. High speed trains are a thing already, as are MagLev trains, as are trains that go through tunnels, called the subway. The lack of their success in the US market has little to do with the technology itself and more to do with politics.

The addition of vacuum tunnels does little to alleviate the administrative / financial challenges of our struggling train systems. Vacuum has few practical upsides and a lot of downsides such as safety, reliability, and cost. It boggles the mind as to how investors are falling for this idea.

But perhaps marketing and branding are where Musk/Bronson's talents lie when it comes to high-speed rail? Please tell me otherwise, as I would love to see better rail infrastructure in the US.

If some other car company would step up to the plate and try to complete with similar tech but offering higher reliability, I would go for a test drive immediately.

VW's commitment to the electric market with ID3 and ID4 is a big deal, given that the success of their Golf/Touareg platforms. VW/Audi fit and finish are second to none, along with their size and ability to compete at the entry-level price point.

"East Africans are crushingly dominant in marathon running." To be more precise, East Africans from East Africa. The effect of biology dissipates in East African communities living abroad.

Please review your basic understanding of race as per my comments above. If you still think there are five races or whatever, you are living way in the past century.

Or, it might be evidence of systematic racism. Would it surprise you that the genetic bouquet associated with people of color would also correlate with a long history of racism, which includes poverty and denial of education?

I suggest going back to school on your basic terms. Skin color taxonomies such as "white" and "black" are weak proxies for genetic diversity. Races are not taught this way anymore. This article in Scientific American puts it well in summarizing that "the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning."^1 "Ashkenazi Jews ... have higher IQ scores than whites" is a nonsensical statement from that perspective. You are mixing categories of ancestry and skin color. The authors of Bell Curve made the same basic mistake and were rightly skewered for it.

1. https://www-scientificamerican-com/article/race-is-a-social-...

How would you lower the barrier to entry into something like Facebook or Amazon? Or Google trips for that matter? Or in this example, Hipmunk?

In the academic data science-y world, the transition has passed the hump. In other words, where I was reluctant to switch a few years ago because some of my basic tooling was still in the 2 land, today the critical mass of important libraries has been ported and updated. Most of the cutting-edge docs and tutorials (Google's GPT2 for example) default to python3.

I am not American. And the meaning of the English language does not change with your culture, which, I might add, does not get transmitted in writing. I am responding to your words only. Eat concrete is crass and violent. You can hand wave all you want. Try conversing without ad hominem labels and insinuations.

This whole discussion thread has really made me disappointed with the HN community. Almost every reply is expressed in the same, alt-right terms ("SJWs", "free-speech", and mock outrage, as evidenced by the outsize number of f-bombs). Inexplicably, the scapegoat throughout seems to be a woman.

Take stock of your anger. Our industry is dominated by men, in a culture that has repeatedly shown to be hostile to minorities of all kinds, women, and people of color. Is this the best you can do? Even if this particular incident is unjust in your opinion, you are certainly not the victim here. At most you are asked to moderate your already dominating voices, slightly.

I never saw nearly as much engagement with posts that document actual abuses of financial or professional hierarchies: systemic rape, discrimination, harassment. But god forbid someone got reprimanded for being a bigot in public (or whatever this story is about). Conferences are well documented source of toxicity in our profession. The means to remedy the problem may be clumsy, but instead of punching down, try understanding what these policies mean to address and suggest something constructive.

"SJWs" "need to eat some concrete"? You sound like a wannabe skinhead teen. Your veiled calls to violence should have nothing to do with / have no place in coding culture.

I'd love a car that has analog controls for several basic functions and a secure place to attach my phone, in line of my vision.

We need something like "tenant rights" for online marketplaces in addition to legal protections similar to what happens with evictions. This will not be solved voluntarily by the "landlords."

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