skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you (also) need a real language to cement your understanding of the subject.

That's why I'd like to use a language that I already know instead of learning a new one while also learning new material.
Any suggestions on what to learn in Linear Algebra after Gilbert Strang’s 18.06SC?

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011...

My goal is to learn the math behind machine learning.
Epic's only interest in it appears to be to pad out their litigation. I expect they'll lose interest in it if they can bribe and sue their way into making it easier to get gambling in the hands of pre-teens.
Many states will issue "non-driver ID cards" (examples below), which are typically cheaper than a drivers license, but which still involve the same level of proving who you are before you can get one (involving showing passport/birth certificate/bills/whatever)

Because these are relatively uncommon, they will lead to extra scrutiny and hassle in many situations (buying alcohol, showing ID at airport security, etc).

The US does not have federal level ID cards, although the federal government has used funding for state programs as a cudgel to make states comply with standards for how they verify who you are before issuing you an ID ("Real ID").

Examples of non-driver IDs:

- New York: https://dmv.ny.gov/non-driver-id-card

- Massachusetts: https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-for-a-massachusetts-identi...

- District of Columbia: https://dmv.dc.gov/service/non-driver-identification-cards
It also keeps them from polluting git status
Curious where he is going next. Anyone on the inside know?
A subsidized Kindle + Library Genesis is a potent combination.
AI job hiring outperforms human hiring, but humans don't want to use it
Lots of confounding factors. Increased dependence on phones during lockdowns, increased distracted driving? Out of practice driving and commuting? More post-Covid people behind the wheel with impaired attention?
I feel you're trying to say something with your short comment.

In the Wikipedia entry on The QT Company, he is (still) mentioned as the current CTO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qt_Company
Social safety net like what?

I just moved to Canada

Health care is free and I am covered on my visa

Medication / dentist is not but my company has private health insurance so I am covered for that too

Education for kids is free too

Public transport sucks but that is because I am in a small city

Europe is better connected and I’ve heard their public health care is better, but I doubt it would be too different

I don’t know at what else the social safety net in Europe would be better

Unless people want to leave miserably, they need to pay rent and food everywhere (heck, you even have food stamp in the states)

Keep in mind things tend to be cheaper in the US than in Europe
China's vice premier Liu He advocates technology and government cooperation
I won’t spoil the article, but the advice is great. I’ll give number 4 a try. But the hobbies page of Wikipedia is too long and unorganized for my tastes.

Anyone have any cool hobbies?
Yeah, the best solution is NoScript. It's not too painful as you tune your whitelist. It sucks, but it's better than the frigging popups. Even works well in Firefox for Android, which is a game changer.
Agreed! I would have used ML faminly languages. Of course, that implies learning ML before reading the book whereas C is definitely known by more developers as it’s been in all of our courses
The samples look like the are "aliased". Is there a way to specify in the font description that the font should be rendered only on pixel boundaries?

I suppose that would preclude certain font sizes ... that would be okay if I knew which font sizes gave me pixel-aligned results.
Any interesting point, though at the moment I can't get past Whitman, whose crime occurred almost 60 years ago.

So is that one remembers the side with fewer names?
You only have a megaphone when your post gets amplified by ‘the algorithm’ and widely shown.
What Happened with Crypto?
I hate the whole cryptocurrency thing more than most people, but tether may just not be a scam, at least in the legal sense.

Holding their reserves in something other than cash is the way they can make money. The community will consider it betrayal because it essentially relies on the existing system they loath. But other than that, there isn’t too much wrong with it.

That may also point at a reason why they would want to keep this private, which otherwise seems suspicious.

That doesn’t mean people won’t lose all or some of their money with them. Some of these holdings may not be as liquid as needed in a full-on bank run, and they, like all stablecoins, suffer from the mismatch of having no upside by definition but some downside risk.
Is there currently any music streaming service with an officially supported API?
Ironically, Oracle employees are recently the primary maintainers of JFS in Linux.
Good suggestion.

I had to look up some govt pdfs and tables recently and the government sites hosting the files hardly ever show up on the first page on Google anymore. It's a sad story.
> Why not just run it in proper hedge fund or similar and rake even more money?

Because hedge funds sometimes collapse, and Tether's original premise was that being something that couldn't happen. It's why they promised every $1 worth of USDT corresponded to $1 USD in a bank account, prominently on their website, for several years after that stopped being true.
> "I've left one thought bubble and joined another”

As is usually the case.
> I think Spotify is basically the best thing ever for indie artists.

Funny, I know a couple who think that Spotify is the worst thing to happen. Streaming, especially at Spotify's rates, might as well be piracy. The income's no different.
>The app has become increasingly buggy

They've got some seriously weird bugs going on in the backend with their catalog too. I can open an artist's page and it looks like all the songs I liked are gone. So I add some and then find out I've now got a bunch of doubles. So while I've "liked" one instance of a song, it's not longer the "official" one? Then recently the audio and artwork for one liked song changed to someone else's remix of it!

The original song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6dPgd8QtZKozuh725mZbXw

The shitty cover or whatever that replaced the original in my liked songs: https://open.spotify.com/track/2dJol6YvFoNs8WMRzn8HEp

It didn't affect just me either, my spouse had the same song swapped in her playlists too. How tf does that even happen?
Or just use DuckDuckGo instead of google.
No, there's big yield in lending stablecoins to fund very risky investments. The big yield reflects the big chance that the investment goes to $0.
If I’m not mistaken the device I bought to play music in my living room uses libspotify. It’s a closed source device from a manufacturer that never open source stuff. So now I’ll probably end with a glorified cdplayer.
Funniest reveal definitely that it's fully backed and no-one can understand why tether fought tooth and nail to hide it
That's google's personalisation. I like freaking ppl out when I just ask them to google a famous politician's name and compare the results. Some times they get similar results on WiFi and very different on mobile data afterwards.

Bringing awareness
> The issue is with how the eink display is not fundamentally not suitable for a format that relies on scrolling more than reflowing.

I'm trying to understand your meaning of "format that relies on scrolling". How can this be the case since pdf was designed for printers?

"A PDF file is actually a PostScript file which has already been interpreted by a RIP and made into clearly defined objects.

Postscript is a file format supported by almost all high-end printers and many business-class laser printers. With these printers, you can simply send a postscript file to them over USB—no drivers required—and they’ll print it perfectly.

"
I've been running in danger mode of RAID6 on a 15 drive NAS here at my home for the better part of 5 years now, and I have had zero issues. The server is also running Arch and I run package updates every two weeks or so. Maybe I am just lucky.
The DIN norms set 150cd/m² as absolute minimum. In a well-lit office you’ll want 400cd/m² as standard setting for #ffffff

At the same time, #000000 may not be above 2 cd/m² at the absolute most if a pure black and a pure white pixel are shown right next to each other.
Here are some links from my favourite reference website:

Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning (mml-book.github.io)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750789

Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf] (mml-book.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293132

Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016) (ibm.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15146746
As a private company, don't all of the mentioned platforms have the option to just boycott the state entirely? Just say no Texas IP addresses will receive access, as to not trigger any frivolous lawsuits. I imagine if any single one of the mentioned 50M user companies threatened to pull out like this there would be such massive public outcry that this law would be immediately reversed.
And for those that say that Texans are a large part of the userbase, I'll just mention that the EU(and others) Require various forms of "censorship" (hate speech, calls to violence...) So really it's most of the world, vs just Texas on this.
The standard rumor is that it is largely Chinese real estate bonds from companies like Evergrande.
what is an iris site:*.edu

At least for me...

First listing (eye): https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215826/http:/...

Second listing (flower): http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/iris.php
Yeah go be poor in Europe, see how fun that is

My brother got a job in London long ago, only thing he could do is rent a bedroom in a shared house

Compared to renting a house in Canada with similar wage
I don’t think that’s true, that’s based on one LinkedIn post that had some extenuating visa issues. Also hiring is still open for E5+ ML and E6+ generally.
The hard truth of scaling a free browser extension to 500 users – self-funded
At least 1.3 billion people live in poverty, much more than 10%.
It's interesting on how they tout implementing very basic usability features like these:

- multi-select in some (admittedly non-standard and treeview-like) listbox... How did such a "feature" require 7 years to implement?

- switching between dark and light themes with a single button... Doesn't every UI library implement this as default by now?

Also, refactoring file I/O completely so that it abstracts away path separators, which, apparently are a real headache? I mean, yeah, other toolkits have had these abstractions for years. Or they could just convert everything to forward slashes which also works on every OS...

When reading changelogs like these, I keep wondering how Gimp (and to some extent Gtk) has been able to work as well as it does for so many years
If any young entrepreneurs are reading this, one of the few things I'd actually pay for is a web browser that worked like reader mode, but all the time.
Another useful extension is Dark Background And Light Text https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou... . It's a one-button toggle to turn most text and backgrounds into colors you prefer. Great when you run across one of these accursed low-contrast sites.
finance is huge on secrecy, because the moats are often non-existent and often strategies can be replicated trivially.

ask your own pension fund to show terms of every deal they make with your own money. they'll tell you to take a hike, and tether isn't any different here.
The 'free floating' crypto is relatively clear - it goes up and down based on demand/speculation, and you can play the game.

But these stablecoin, NFT and other smartiepants are clearly making promices they cannot keep
didn't they just redeem a few billion dollars?
Lighthouse disagrees, Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
To an outsider, it seems that one of these cases is true and is the reason why Tether is so resistant to releasing this info:

* The currency is not fully backed.

* The currency is backed by crypo, commercial paper, or some other backing that is not as secure as hard currency.

Either way the "1 Tether -> 1 Dollar" is either a full on lie or a very sly truth.
> As a private company, don't all of the mentioned platforms have the option to just boycott the state entirely?

According to the author of this article, no.

"I haven’t even gotten to the bit that says that you can’t “censor” based on geographic location. That portion can basically be read to be forcing social media companies to stay in Texas. Because if you block all of your Texas users, they can all sue you, claiming that you’re “censoring” them based on their geographic location."

I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure that argument would actually work in court, but it might?
Padlet: Everything you need, nothing you don't
Often you can prune parameters as well. You might be able to cut that down by a factor of 10 without any noticeable loss in accuracy.
I turn that horribly under-designed feature off. When the option is “wake-the-baby” loud or no alert, I choose the latter.
Do you convert articles and listen to them?
The "honest" yield of on-chain lending protocols has decreased significantly through the year since it mostly came from lending to leverage traders. For example, USDC yield on Aave is down to ~2.8%, I think Compound's stable yield has been down to <1% for a while.

There are other sources of yield, such as Gemini Earn (6.5%), which lend to larger trading firms. Those feel riskier since they're more exposed to systemic collapse in crypto and lock up your dollars with a long withdraw delay.

Then there are the ponzi yields (10-40%), like the recently collapsed UST and the soon-to-collapse USDD and USDN. I think it's obvious why those are a bad idea.
I find data.table code as obscure as base R if not more so. Purported brevity (always illustrated only on very simple problems) doesn't compensate me enough for the obscurity.

I could get used to it, I'm sure. I could also get used to doing everything in base R, pandas, or Clojure. Doesn't mean it's a good use of my time.

I get the sense from how some people blog that basic "filter + group by + summarize" type pipelines on giant datasets are all they really do. data.table may be a great choice for that kind of thing. But I use dplyr as a tool of thought. I can solve complex, novel data processing and analytics problems in dplyr more precisely and efficiently than I can explain in words. Instead of having an idea and then having to think about how to code it, the ideas translate into dplyr in an obvious and automatic way.

All that said, data.table's authors have worked much harder to provide advanced functionality, most notably non-equijoins, that it looks like the tidyverse may never catch up to. So if you need that kind of thing a lot, you need data.table or maybe DuckDB.
> mid-range phone

I said "phones", without qualification. So while your factoid is interesting, it has little to do with what I wrote.
This existed and it was called Opera. It had the ability to replace the style sheet on a site with a custom version, one of which was a high contrast reader mode. Opera split into two, and the current version doesn’t have this feature but maybe Vivaldi still does?
Do you know why I believe them? Because of this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kholod?wprov=sfla1

The Russians/Soviets flew hypersonic missile prototypes before the millennium (at hypersonic speeds) - and NASA verified it. I see no reasons they can't do it again.

The rest of your response is not relevant.

And besides, if the Russians really lied about these tests conducted within US AWACS range, they'd be called out. That they haven't is tacit confirmation.
Non-destructive editing next please.

Non-destructive editing next please.

Non-destructive editing next please.

It's been the main thing holding gimp back for decades. Even if it's just the run of the mill "layer styles" and "adjustment layers".

Always good to see a basic UI pass but we've had PhotoGIMP forever.

Thank you.
These lectures are fantastic after you've mastered the basics of linear algebra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLq1hEq3UY (convex optimization, by a very experienced and often funny lecturer)
And Tutanota, Protonmail or Posteo instead of Gmail.
Both are great products, here's my biased (obviously) way of choosing between them:

- Appwrite is really focused on a simplistic experience. If you check out our SDK documentation, we try to keep everything dead simple.

- Supabase allows more verbose control over their PostgreSQL instance, i.e. you're actually writing SQL and interacting through a SQL console. This might be your cup of tea. They also use Deno for their cloud function equivalent, which is cool if you love Deno.

I would say Supabase is more opinionated, we try to give more options. Neither is necessarily better, there are pros and cons that you can decide on.

Other than that, Appwrite does some things that I find special.

Appwrite is simple to self-host. Like really simple. Like a single line of Docker command simple:

docker run -it --rm \
--volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
--volume "$(pwd)"/appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw \
--entrypoint="install" \
appwrite/appwrite:latest

This gives you the full Appwrite experience for local/dev environments and you only need a few more environment variables to be production-ready.

We try to make Appwrite agnostic to your tech stack. You can use or disable any of the services when self-hosting, saving resources on your precious servers. You can integrate with frontend, backend, or both, or just use a single service, like our function runtimes.

We support a ton of SDKs, and we're always adding more. Our vibrant community makes this possible.

We have a lot of languages supported for Appwrite Functions, not just Deno ;) We have lots of storage adaptors you can choose from, or local storage if you want to keep all your data. We will support MANY databases (you can contribute your own, too).

I hope that helps, it really is down to personal preference, developing on the platforms feels very different. Try both!
You could either make another super simple level, or show them in the first level, but make it slow motion and highlight what's happening.

Maybe the most important is getting some people to play it next to you and ask them if they understood. I had to rewind the video a few times to get the ideas, but then I suffer attention issues (ADHD).

I'll tell you a little more of what I experienced. First sight, so many colored blocks, where is the center of attention? I built a model of the rules of the game, it's a gem swapping game! So all those blocks are there for me to control. Oh, a block is throwing rays, did it just explode? Wait, there is some text in the middle, couldn't read it because my attention was on the suroundings. Now I had to rewind many times to read the text and pay attention to the details, so I could modify my first sight model.

The only way around this is cleaning up the level and leave a single mechanic and effect at a time. I like the bottom text that constantly replays the instructions. Maybe add a 3-2-1-Go! at the very beginning to warm up attention on the middle text.
The law forbids that, saying that

> A social media platform may not censor a user, a user’s expression, or a user’s ability to receive the expression of another person based on…a user’s geographic location in this state or any part of this state.

Removing their ability to use the platform would be geographic censorship under the law.
Okay, the source of information here is completely wrong.

Here's the actual source of documents in the case [1]: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketI...

The most recent filing is the court's order granting Intervenor-Respondent Coindesk's Motion to File a Sur-Reply, which is a very procedural element.

Backing up: usually, in court cases, when there's an argument to do something, one party writes a brief, the opposing party writes its brief, and then the first party rebuts the opposing party's brief. Opposing party usually doesn't get a chance to rebut again. This order is letting the opposing party get that chance, and it was done because the first party made new arguments in its reply brief that it's not procedurally allowed to.

The court hasn't rejected Tether's bid to conceal the reserve records... it hasn't reached that point in the case yet. From the current posture of the case, I would guess that it's feeling more sympathetic towards Coindesk than towards Tether, but that really doesn't mean much in terms of what the actual ruling will be.

[1] Any news organization that doesn't provide a link to the actual docket when discussing cases should be considered irresponsible.
Tether failing (which seems inevitable at this point) will cause the entire crypto ecosystem to implode.
Note the licensing note in the repository[1] of the APCA™ index the author’s company[2] promotes:

> The files currently in this repository are presently considered pre-release, and as such do not have a permanent license attached. In this repositiory, all files present are under a time-barred beta license, and intended for use with web-based content only, and not for any other use without written permission.

The non-pre-release stuff[3] offered to W3C is better but still seems to be intended to end up non-FOSS:

> Files in this repository are licensed to the W3/AGWG under their cooperative agreement for use with WCAG accessibility guidelines for web-based content only, and not for any other use.

Similarly, the online calculators[4,5] referenced in the author’s posts (not this one) are

> PROPRIETARY AND NOT LICENSED FOR THIRD PARTY USE.

(The question being, of course, how much of this is copyrightable at all and to what extent these terms are just sowing legal FUD.)

[1] https://github.com/Myndex/SAPC-APCA/

[2] https://www.myndex.com/CVD/

[3] https://github.com/Myndex/apca-w3/

[4] https://www.myndex.com/APCA/

[5] https://www.myndex.com/BPCA/
Sure, then it would be the same thing just with ML (which I pers. would prefer to C, but yeah). Pseudocode to explain the idea would be ideal, then you can work through the book in a familiar language.

C is fine, it's just not ideal for me to learn C which I have no use for and learn a new skill at the same time.
You are making it sound like they shut down their API. They didn't, they just stopped maintaining an already deprecated project and asked developers to switch to the new ones.

The other streaming services also have APIs like that. I'm not saying they are extremely powerful and you can do everything with them but they exist:

Apple Music: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/

Spotify: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/
100 Copyright Claims in 10 Minutes
same here. I don't even get mad anymore, just instantly close the page. This includes the cookie popup as well on mobile.
If it's Gmail then it's Google's inbox, they're just letting you use it.
The most recent “transparency report”[0] for their reserves seems to suggest the near majority of it (35B) is backed by US treasury bills.

They are also counting debt by other corporations in their “cash and bank deposits” classification (24B).

Is the goal here to establish whether this is factual, or is it to determine what comprises these in greater detail?

[0] https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/4hiNJsZ98LlZqCJHKz...
Ok thanks, that's interesting. It sounds strange, but I can see how this isn't much of an argument against constitutions after all.
I use last.fm connected to my Spotify.