> using data from sites like StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, etc
Congrats! That is inspiring you kept the passion for this for over 14 years. I’m assuming your data needs changed over this timespan so how did you end up getting this data? APIs, scraping, something else?
No, it doesn't. That info from the website is a gross mischaracterization and seemingly an attempt at self-promotion. It's like saying that your building has walls and a ceiling and is therefore in the same league as Notre Dame de Paris and the Taj Mahal.
As an example, some of Corinthian's colleges (Heald College) were accredited by WASC. . . until they declared bankruptcy in the face of multiple fraud investigations and a $30 million fine.
The accreditation is an extremely low bar. In my view it is so low it is harmful because it totally fails to distinguish legitimate schools from shady ones. Accredited colleges run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous.
That's not to say the school that this article is from is bad. I don't really know anything about this school. But the fact that they tout mere accreditation as putting them on par with Stanford and that they can't correctly name the University of California, Berkeley does not inspire confidence. The fact that it is nonprofit is a plus, though, as the worst of the crap-but-accredited schools are for-profit ones.
I assumed Micro Center went out of business like Fry's[1] but I happened to drive by one of their locations[2] and was pleasantly surprised to see its parking lot full with folks going in and out of the store. I need to go back and relive my childhood memory of walking down the aisle seeing motherboards in the flesh.
Their location in southern Ohio is also always super busy. I've never had to stand in the checkout line for less than five minutes, and they always have at least half of the registers staffed.
It's a good business. One of what seems to be an ever-dwindling number of legitimately good businesses in the US. I think that's actually a huge part of the appeal.
Micro Center has always been an extremely well-run company that doesn’t resemble many of their failed competitors.
You’d be surprised at how many sections of the store are competitive with online pricing, and last I checked they do price match as long as it’s a live website and not a static screenshot or printout.
If you have one near you it’s the absolute best way to score a graphics card during shortages or at a new product launch at a reasonable price without dealing with scalpers and floods of customers trying to buy limited stock in websites. Just be willing to show up mildly early in the morning and that’s about it. They check ID to make sure you haven’t bought a card from them in the last 30 days to stop scalpers and only sell them in store.
Their 3D printing and maker supplies are also excellent especially considering it’s a real brick and mortar store. It’s pretty cool to be able to do things like buying a replacement hotend without waiting for a shipment and without paying a price premium.
Their store brand (Inland) SSDs are my go-to, they’re an anmazing price/performance value, and their Inland brand in general went from being a joke 20 years ago to being a serious competitor. Their Inland 3D printing filament brand is also very respectable.
That said, Micro Center isn’t going to beat Amazon on value with all the random 6 letter brands from China for various “cheap product where perceived quality is generally equivalent” products.
Since you’re bringing up nostalgia I will also point out that people who have been used to buying stuff on Amazon probably don’t realize that Best Buy is extremely competitive both online and in-store. People blow money on Amazon Prime when Best Buy will ship you lots of electronics overnight for free without a membership (or you can pick up the same day in store obviously). Best Buy is another company that’s extremely well-managed unlike a lot of its failing big box store brethren.
Fry’s always seemed like they were way over their skis in expansion. There were… 4 fry’s in Dallas metro at one point, each of which was much larger than the single micro center.
Meanwhile, Microcenter seems very slow and deliberate with expanding. Likely much less risk.
> Windows ML is the built-in AI inferencing runtime optimized for on-device model inference...lets both new and experienced developers build AI-powered apps
This sounds equivalent to Apple's announcement last week about opening up access for any developer to tap into the on-device large language model at the core of Apple Intelligence[1]
No matter the device, this is a win-win for developers making & consumers getting privacy-focused apps
It would be great to have the vector database run on the edge / on-device for offline-first and be privacy-focused. https://objectbox.io/ does this but i would like to see AWS and others offer this as well.
I am already using Qdrant very heavily for code dev (RAG) and I don't see that changing any time soon because its the primary choice for the tools I use and it works well
My link isn't a study it's a layman's terms explanation, but there are lots of studies. Your link mentions a meta analysis of 7 studies concluding that up to 90% is genetic.
Yes environmental factors are there too, otherwise it would be 100%, but there's enough evidence pointing to genetics that it is really disappointing when people try to find spurious links to false causes instead.
> I couldn’t help but notice that there’s near-universal confusion about what “heritable” means. Partly, that’s because it’s a subtle concept. But it also seems relevant that almost all explanations of heritability are very, very confusing.
For example, they say speaking Turkish isn’t heritable but speaking English is. Weird!
> Heritability can be high even when genes have no direct causal effect. It can be low even when there is a strong direct effect. It changes when the environment changes. It even changes based on how you group people together. It can be larger than 100% or even undefined.
Autism speaks is a spiritually evil organization and the fact that you unironically linked them implies that you wish to wage cognitive warfare against all autistic people. Autistic people will respond by making sure you reincarnate as a durian fruit.
Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262
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