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outrun86on HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip

“Ok hear me out, a laptop but without the screen”

outrun86on 62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

It’s in the article I linked.

outrun86on 62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

Sure, we’re all free to form opinions on who to trust.

If the claim is that Trump is simply throwing trade with Canada for no reason whatsoever, i.e. he’s simply an unhinged madman, that’s certainly a politically popular narrative. I’ve provided pointers to reasonable evidence for pressuring a neighbouring state to get its security issues under control, and based on years of hearing about that stuff it seems rational to me. You’re free to disagree, friend.

outrun86on 62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

I think the heart of the issue is inflow through Canadian ports, as well as complex money laundering and trafficking schemes between Canada, China and Mexico. You can check the article I posted above for more info. There’s also some info about this in the Whitehouse press release I linked below. So it’s not strictly a border crossing problem.

outrun86on 62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

I follow what’s happening with Canadian drugs / money laundering pretty closely. The article I linked isn’t a random newsletter site, it’s from one of Canada’s top investigative journalists. Here’s the official white house statement from the Whitehouse website. I’ve heard Trump reference this multiple times:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-pr...

outrun86on 62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

Canadian here, who is also not a Trump fan. It is true that Canada has extremely lax border controls and there are complex organized crime networks that exploit this inside of and through Canada.

The US security establishment is aware of this, as is the Canadian security establishment. The 1% fentanyl headline is indeed widely reported, it’s also a red herring. The simple answer is Canada doesn’t really look, so not much is seen. More info here, by one of Canada’s best investigative journalists:

https://www.thebureau.news/p/trade-based-money-laundering-is...

IMO Trump is, as the official white house press release says, trying to put pressure on Canada to address this. Are tariffs the best way to do that? A valid question, for sure. Does he have other, possibly irrational, motivations? Also an excellent question.

But I see much Canadian and US commentary that assumes there is nothing rational about this at all, and that there is no Canadian border/security issues, and I would say that’s incorrect.

outrun86on Intel admits AI deceases productivity (Misreported!)

Sorry everyone, this misreports the actual study, and I can’t seem to withdraw the submission…

Here is the actual study, which says the opposite:

https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2024/client-computing/ai...

outrun86on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

The point that this is too graphic for children stands, but this is a metaphor for Samaria and Jerusalem. This is stated explicitly in the text.

outrun86on I Stayed

It is, in fact, being written. It’s called the modern West.

outrun86on Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021)

Distill.pub was one effort to modernize publishing in CS. Chris Olah wrote some thoughts [1] about why he didn’t feel it was tenable. Seems like the primary challenge was the additional effort and skill involved in crafting rich-content/interactive material.

[1] https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/

outrun86on Porsche Design System v3

I’ve owned two, both daily driven. I’d consider them reliable.

outrun86on Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory

Bishop’s Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning is one example that has tremendous depth and much clearer notation. Deep Learning by Goodfellow et al. is another example, albeit with less depth than Bishop.

I’m glad you’re enjoying the book. The approach is ideal for a very small subset of the ML population, no doubt that was their intention. I’m just weighing in that it’s entirely possible to cover this material with rigour yet much simpler notation. Even as someone who could parse this I’d go with other options.

outrun86on Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory

I’m just wrapping up a PhD in ML. The notation here is unnecessarily complex IMO. Notation can make things easier, or it can make things more difficult, depending on a number of factors.

outrun86on Spain tech job market is facing a hiring freeze

In the linked Paul Graham comment, he is not wholly supportive of remote work. The comparison is that communism, like remote work, can appear to work, but he attributes this to the fact that it sprung from a healthy foundation (his example is in-person work). If anything, Graham leans toward in-person work in this tweet.

outrun86on Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

Found on an ancient tablet as the work of Schmidhuber et al. but ok

outrun86on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

Was high speed carving a couple of years ago. Blew a turn and rag dolled. Broke 2 vertebrae in my neck and two in my back. Fractured the back of my skull. Speed + impact can get intense.

outrun86on Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?

“I have a very specific set of skills”

outrun86on Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change

Tangent: is this a “breakthrough” or standard issue causal inference?