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The Schaum's book of most interest to the original poster (Abigail Rabieh)is the following:

Schaum's 3000 Solved Problems in Linear Algebra by Seymour Lipschutz. Below is a precis:

"Master linear algebra with Schaum's--the high-performance solved-problem guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams! Students love Schaum's Solved Problem Guides because they produce results. Each year, thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable guides. Get the edge on your classmates. Use Schaum's! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, use this book to: Brush up before tests; Study quickly and more effectively; Learn the best strategies for solving tough problems in step-by-step detail; Get the big picture without spending hours pouring over long textbooks. Review what you've learned in class by solving thousands of relevant problems that test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's Solved Problem Guides let you practice at your own pace and remind you of all the important problem-solving techniques you need to remember--fast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams. Inside you will find: 3000 solved problems with complete solutions--the largest selection of solved problems yet published on linear algebra; A superb index to help you quickly locate the types of problems you want to solve; Problems like those you'll find on your exams; Techniques for choosing the correct approach to problems; Guidance on choosing the quickest, most efficient solution. If you want top grades and thorough understanding of linear algebra, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! Chapters include: Vectors in R" and C." Matrix Algebra. Systems of Linear Equations. Square Matrices.Determinants. Algebraic Structures. Vector Spaces and Subspaces. Linear Dependence, Basis, Dimension. Mappings. Linear Mappings. Spaces of Linear Mappings. Matrices and Linear Mappings. Change of Basis, Similarity. Inner Product Spaces, Orthogonality. Polynomials over a Field. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Diagonalization. Canonical Forms. Linear Functionals and the Dual Space. Bilinear, Quadratic, and Hermitian Forms. Linear Operators on Inner Product Spaces. Applications to Geometry and Calculus."
Is it me or these days major tech non profits feels marginally less of an advocate of privacy related matters compared EU as a whole? TBH I think GNU failed to make any sort of progress in terms of privacy because their ideology was always on the extremist side. And all the rest of the NGO's kept compromising to meet demands of big tech. Then you have the EU, who will just slap fines without compromising at all.

Moreover lobbying runs US govt. Tech non profits are financed largely by megacorps so they won't necessarily bite the hand that feed them.
> or at least line of sight to the machine for this?

Correct, and not just line of sight, but static line of sight. The potential scenario here is something like if there is a desk phone on someone's desk visible from the window that you want to monitor (and you also manage to successfully install custom firmware on the phone).
> Having also attended both public and ivy league schools in STEM from undergrad to PhD levels I can say from what I have seen there is a huge lack in mathematics education.

I respect your experience. I want to say, though, that I teach at a small liberal arts college and everyone here puts a great deal of energy into teaching. So there is an alternative.

> leads to a huge loss of talent from the practice and art of mathematics

Yes, it is a terrible thing.
Research 10+ years ago found that activity lights on many network cards and switches at 10BaseT could reveal actual network traffic.

Very quickly, major device manufacturers switched to buffered activity LEDs and the attack became useless.

I remember at one point modems switched from flickering with actual traffic to just slow blinking with activity.
> But why did Conan Doyle light on cocaine specifically as Holmes’ drug of choice?

The article doesn't seem to actually answer this question. It talks about cocaine's anaesthetic use but doesn't explain why Holmes was using it. Was he using it as a nootropic similar to kids who use modafinil or amphetamine to study for tests? Or did he use it for the euphoric effects? "For the rest of his career, Sherlock confined himself to shag tobacco and black coffee..." makes it sound like Holmes was rationally using cocaine as a nootropic to help him solve cases.
thank you for this comment this turned my day around
I don't think Mozilla is in the right to decide whether advertising should exist or not. Firefox provides a fair choice - you can install adblocking solutions and mess with your content view of the web as much as necessary. But there is still value in improving the ethics of advertising that other people see.
It's all done by hand! Thumbnails are compressed using go-avif when they're created.
Microsoft has setup an independent business unit and a data center in Germany. From all cloud companies, Microsoft is likely the best prepared for the US untethering, because of their B2B background.

https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2020/09/30/our-commitment-...
I don't sync anything browser related between my devices, sadly. This isn't as much of an issue with the current travel landscape, but I've a new m1max and the last omicron wave seems to be starting to recede globally, so I'm going to have to find a solution.

I might just manually copy the profile directory to my laptop when I leave, and copy the newer one back to my desktop when I get home. Mutex! TBH I can really only be using one browser at a given time so "sync" seems like overkill as long as I've only two hands and two eyeballs.
I suppose I should have specified "paid advertising". I personally don't see self-promotion as an issue.
It's beginning to look like the problem is not what the autopilot can not do, but what it decides to do.

With all this swerving into nearby cars and obstacles, I wouldn't be surprised if people soon start speaking of Tesla's assisted driving as assisted crashing.
> they would have shipped an ad blocking and anti-tracking tech in their browser by default.

In theory they do - the Tracking Protection thingy is on by default last I checked. I guess dirty money's hard to resist.
The biggest risk when adding new fibre to existing pole lines is actually during the installation process. When new cables are lashed to communications strand, the 45 pound cable lasher causes the strand to swing back and forth quite significantly, making the tops of nearby poles swing several feet or more. As a result, insulators that are old and of certain types that may develop cracks can break off during lashing. Direct or even indirect contact with a 7.2kV or 16.8kV primary by communications workers can be deadly, and is a real risk of this kind of work.
Oh, come on.

I did raise a stink over closed-source DRM, I raised a stink not just over Firefox adding it, I raised a stink over the entire web standards process. I have raised stinks about telemetry and advertising within Firefox. I've raised stinks about Pocket being purchased and not Open Sourced, and then integrated into the browser by default. I've raised stink about a lot of things.

Nevertheless, it is still objectively true that Mozilla Firefox is the best mainstream browser right now for privacy, and anyone who argues otherwise is either not looking at the bigger picture or hasn't done much research into how companies do the majority of their tracking online. The privacy problems that Mozilla has had have objectively less impact on people's everyday privacy than Chromium's hobbled extension support. The ability to turn on anti-fingerprinting features uplifted from Tor is more important than whether or not Google search is enabled by default. Container-extensions are more practically impactful on everyday privacy than Pocket is.

I am literally complaining about and criticizing Mozilla right now, and yet the immediate reaction is to jump on the one positive thing I said and act like I'm somehow ignoring Mozilla's other issues. I'm not ignoring those issues, but the "Mozilla is corrupt and no better than Google" meme is similarly completely ridiculous. Every single other browser on the market including DeGoogled Chromium and Safari are hobbled in ways that make them worse for privacy, and overall Mozilla still as a company has a better track record on fighting for privacy and building privacy-preserving tools than Google/Microsoft/Brave -- at least it has a better track record in the ways that matter.

It is so frustrating to try and have a constructive conversation about real missteps that Mozilla is making when people view anything less than a complete condemnation of the company like that means they're being put on a pedestal. Mozilla isn't perfect, and it's clumsy and sometimes does outright bad stuff, and that is still consistent with them being one of the better corporate privacy advocates on the Internet.
Prio is very awesome. It’s homomorphic encryption that allows for aggregate statistics and an auditable, and potentially vetoable, queries. No one can run a query and get valid data back unless all parties agree.

When I was at Mozilla I was wanting to use Prio as a privacy layer for federated learning, and audience interest statistics for advertising. Looks like someone finally listened.

Congrats team.
> Everything in a book was put there on purpose.

> there's some reason the author chose one thing over another.

Like the significance of the number 42?

Sometimes you just put in pig because it was the first thing the author thought of. Not everything has hidden meaning.

Over-analyzing something happens quite a bit. Sometimes it's just there, for no particular reason.
You said presumably, though the article gives specific numbers. Can you elaborate on what numbers or analysis would be reasonable as to not fall into the fallacy you also call out?
I have a VR headset and I can't imagine that they can become mainstream with the current technology. It's just to much of a hassle to actually use it, and quite uncomfortable to use it for a longer time. To me it almost feels like a chore to play a VR game.

If the "metaverse" wants to really happen, the devices need to become much much more lightweight, like a normal pair of glasses almost.
Good point. I mean “typical” as in, entirely expected within a nontrivial portion of the population. Where absolutely nobody would be surprised that you’re making this much.

Is it typical for the general population to make a million a year? No, but it is entirely typical for investment bankers and quants at hedge funds. To say that is atypical of the average worker in America — well, of course, but that isn’t a very meaningful statement when you’re specifically discussing people in investment firms. And that’s what this article is about — the subset of the population for which this is entirely normal and expected.
They're not fooling me. These whitewashes should be ignored, and the name should simply always be prepended by the name under which the entity is generally known. Otherwise the likes of Blackwater get to pretend they are Xe or Academi or some other nice clean corporate identity.

Google gets a little bit of leeway because their holding really acts as a holding but in the case of Facebook it is just so you don't immediately associate the name 'Meta' with something vile and ugly.

'Facebook partners with Mozilla' has a different ring to it.
Google is piggybacking cost-free on the ID verification efforts of phone carriers, so for whatever it's worth, this is a free solution — from Google's standpoint.

From a user standpoint, I know of no service that will perform ID verification for 'free' and certify that verification onto a third-party verification request. (Credit card verification, or mail-you-a-postcard verification, doesn't count, as there's no ID check.)

I believe this ends up having to be a government service, where the post office is obliged to certify third-party verification requests presented to it (for private parties, corporations, and/or government divisions), and this service is offered for free at personal-use volumes and for one postage stamp per request at for-profit volumes.

It's still possible a B-corp or non-profit could decide to offer this as a public service, but that would take a billion-dollar endowment and would duplicate the USPS frameworks already in place to check IDs and verify mailing addresses for Informed Delivery at every post office in the country, so I wouldn't bet on anyone taking on that cost without payment.
>It called for the all elected representatives in disagreement to step down, and for the organizers of the protest to be installed as a ruling committee for the country until such time as they saw fit.

This is fake news that is not supported by your link.

>Federal Government are to uphold and enforce all Canadian and International Human Rights Laws that are clearly laid out in the MOU or “RESIGN their lawful positions of authority Immediately”.

What part of that is batty? They are demanding that the federal government change policy or resign. I can demand my governor support LGBTQ rights or resign. What is the difference. I can demand all I want and it doesn't cross to overthrow or revolution unless violence is involved.

>and that they be given a committee to rule the country.

This again is nonsense and unsupported. There is no ruling committee. The only committee mentioned has no powers whatsoever. The Only federal government requirement for the Committee is to appoint some people and share the schedule for lifting the bans with the Committee.
The fox and the weasel partnered on chicken preserving policy for the henhouse.
I know what recursion means thank you so much.
If you get $100 income, get a 20% tax on that, and then get another 20% tax on... not $80 but on the /previous/ $100, you are paying recursive taxes.
Thats what the old "CSG" was (replaced by something else but in the same 'spirit'), in france. You are being taxed on amount you already been taxed on.
What's the problem with buying a sim online for 10 bucks?
Considering one of the biggest issues that plagued the Later Roman empire was the inability to pay it's legionnaires either via coin or freshly conquered land, it's a substantial factor to it's rise and decline.

But to me it feels orthogonal to the benefits of increased state capacity, trade, and standardized coinage that helped provide the Roman Empire it's economic benefits. Yes much was built by slaves, but other empires also had slaves. So what was the comparative advantage of Rome?
The thing is: there will also be an asymmetry regarding who can afford a quantum computer that actually serves a purpose, at least for the first decade.
The fact that it’s not even an option really makes me scratch my head. There’s a decent amount of people who would like to throw some money their way to support Firefox specifically. Maybe not a ton, but certainly enough to warrant the option for people to do so.
No it frustrates me when something so obvious needs to be announced 50 million times as if it's some revelatory discovery.

Here a list of games that are unintentionally turing complete:

Dwarf Fortress
OpenTTD
Terraria
Minecraft
Minesweeper
LittleBigPlanet
Baba is You
Factorio
Cities: Skylines
Opus Magnum
Portal 2
Geometry Dash

You can come up with approximately 10 analogy blog posts for each game... written, of course, from a different blog with each post presenting the analogy as if it's some amazing idea. Then of course post it on hackernews and flood the front page with this stuff.
That's quite relatable. I've been doing a whole lot of pro-bono hauling of generators/ sound systems to the middle of nowhere lately.

I will say that as my kids got older and I got better, going out and playing for a little cash made it slightly easier to feel okay leaving the house.

Additionally, I've played with a lot of "Dad" bands, where Thursday night or whatever is how the guys get out and have a couple of drinks and socialize-- as an older guy who has raised kiddos and been through a couple hard relationships, one of the more rewarding things about this practice has been being able to have those social relationships with other guys.

And while I like your term "passion", I think that "practice" might be the better thing. In the same sense that one might be a doctor or a plumber or a lawyer. Or in the sense that we might do yoga or meditate.

I didn't start playing piano until my late 20s, and I don't think I will ever get to where I can play Brahms or anything, but that instrument by itself seems deep enough to explore for a long, long time.

My only point where I am just starting to depart from what you're saying here is that I am finding that, as I get older and find myself more and more invested in this practice I feel like I need to get myself out into the world more. Like, I just bought some genelecs last month, and I have a pair of AKG 414 coming today. Over the last couple of years I've accumulated an octatrack and asome modular synth stuff, a pedal steel guitar setuo, a double bass amp, a PA... all that's paid for itself. But as my kids have left, I also find myself spending about 2-3 hours a day playing trumpet and another couple hours messing around with recordings.

I feel like if I am going to spend that much time on stuff, I ought to at least explore how to share it with other folks.
For crying out loud, since you seem to be being willfully obtuse on this, he suggested a game with a thriving multiplayer experience which is where the original poster found this particular game to be lacking.
Librewolf[0] is probably the best alternative, drop-in replacement for firefox in terms of privacy. It's essentially (base firefox + privacy patches + privacy policies and configs), and available on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, and more.

edit: Expect though that some parts of the web won't work with it since WebGL and DRM are disabled.

[0] https://librewolf.net/
This was also my first thought! Everything old is new again.
Indeed, the more upset they are the more likely it is that a solution really works.
Amazon is taking away paid Covid-19 leave for unvaccinated workers
Agreed in general but for bots it anecdotally seems to be the case. For example Massan was blatantly viewbotting for a long time but he wasn't banned for several months at least (I don't remember the time).
Yes, that is exactly what they're doing. One example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-yellen-biden-price-in...

It's exactly as obvious as you think. E.g. Supply and labor input costs go up 5%, and they raise prices 10%. Wherever convenient they will say "We're sorry to raise prices etc." and then during earnings calls the CEO will say "We're expecting upward price adjustments to increase our net margins in Q4". You know, a euphemism for "we're raising prices and that means more profit"

Corporations, especially the the huge conglomerates with adequate pricing power etc. drive inflation, not suffer from it. The elephant in the room today is that the classic economic model that suggests "oh but another company will come with lower prices and re-balance things" is simply unrealistic. Good luck elbowing in on P&G or Unilever for shelf space in supermarkets, commercial contracts, etc..

The other trick everyone is probably about to see is that when the supply chain crisis recedes and inflation comes down, that the consumer prices curiously remain high. Maybe market forces may claw them back over years, but in the meantime it will just be another incremental wealth transfer from mass-market consumers -> concentrated corporate profits.

The corporations will also kick and scream to avoid raising wages for their employees spending more on their own products, while simultaneously giving huge payouts to executives and investors through share buybacks with their newly minted profits.

It's not even interesting to theorize about anymore. It's boring and obvious. Maybe this is what dystopia is?
I definitely would if it meant I wouldn't have to see a single ad ever again. I'm at the point in my life where trading money for not seeing ads is very appealing to me. Between Hulu, Youtube Premium, Spotify, etc. I pay an absurd amount of money every year to not see ads. I'd definitely do the same if a browser could hide any and all ads from me, and the sum I'd pay is a lot more than $100 year.
Expecting advertisers to stop advertising on the Internet is like expecting all the billboards on the highway to blow down.

Better to work on things like size limits and board-per-mile maximums with the billboard manufacturers.
This is our bias seeping in. On HN, I’m willing to bet a substantial proportion of people are willing to pay for an anti-ad/tracking browser for privacy reasons. But there will be no value for the outside world.

I think us “nerds” dramatically overvalue how important privacy is to the general public right now. Even ignoring the developing world, most people will agree that tracking is bad, but most will continue to use legacy browsers because they don’t think it’s 100/year bad. And the growing population of young and tech savvy people who are one Google away from installing uBlock Origin will not pay for your product either.

Not to mention —- even the proportion of HN readers can take other measures to approximate anti tracking anyways. uBlock Origin + Pihole + a good VPN is enough for even most of us (personally, it is enough for me).
Going by this definition of public domain, I don’t see how this could be the case:

> The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply[0]

Think of it this way. Imagine I wrote some code, and when I ran it it generated a piece of art. Surely I would have IP rights over the artwork? Otherwise you could make the same argument about art made with a somehow automatic paintbrush I built.

I hope I’m not talking at cross-purposes here and using a completely different definition of “public domain” was was intended, apologies if this is the case.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
Use privacy.com to generate a debit card with a limit of $1 if you ever need to. But i understand it’s also the principle of the thing and you might not want to even give a fake card with a $1 limit.
> Imagine that you are a gay person living in a country that kills gay people by law. If gay people are frequenting websites that indicate they like to hang out at a particular bar, this gives authorities more than enough to target that group while still not using your personal data directly.

1. what’s stopping current governments doing exactly that right now?

2. how much of the market do you think fits that scenario?

3. what’s stopping people in that scenario trying to protect themselves via the usual methods independent of whatever browser they choose?
My kids' (16 & 11) cord-blood and tissue were frozen with a similar service at birth.

I saw your pricing and was a bit shocked that it's 3x what I pay on an annualized basis. However, my rate seems to have been grandfathered in - the other service has also updated their pricing to match yours.

1. Is there anything particularly different from the competition that you offer?

2. Is there a reason for such a steep price increase? (While I understand the monthly payments, a 3x multiple over 16 years seems pretty steep. You, like the service we used, offer ~20 year storage commitment. Should I be preparing to pay 10 times as much if we want to preserve it for the 20-40 year age span?)