skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be difficult to do if the person had worked themselves into a situation where they have unreasonably high debt burdens (e.g. $200K+) but no career to speak of, so it's not a magic bullet.

There is a way: income-driven repayment plans. There are several flavors, but you pay ~10% of (your_income - 1.5 x federal_poverty_wage). The poverty guideline depends on household size (info here: https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert...). Most loans are eligible.

Any balance that is left after 20 years is forgiven. It’s a lot harder to default on these loans, and it’s the best way out for people with an insurmountable amount of debt. Actually, it’s probably the best repayment plan for most people, and there has been talk about making them the default plan.

However, you may have to pay taxes in the forgiven amount. There are some edge cases where you could pay more over the life of the loan if your income increases dramatically, but it’s unlikely.

More info: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-d...
>American Express never forgets. 20+ years after declaring bankruptcy and I'm still not able to get an AmEx card, because they have their own records. (I have an 820+ FICO score.)

I can confirm this.

I'm 30+ years out from getting a couple thousand written off by Amex and 20+ years out from bankruptcy (a single "debtor" who was the plaintiff in a lawsuit against me, and during which no loans or credit cards were defaulted on) and American Express still won't do business with me, even after being their employee (and having to pay back every penny that was written off before they'd issue me a corporate card) for several years.

I'd also note that American Express does not report payment histories on their charge products to the credit bureaus. But they do have a very long memory.

Edit: I'd note that I still had a 700+ credit score within the 10 year window after bankruptcy, and my score is in the mid 800s.
I've got a FreePBX 2.8 server (yes, 11 years old) that's been running my home phones for the last decade+. It runs CentOS 5.5, on a fanless Intel Atom CPU with 1GB of RAM.

I've hacked on it quite a bit, customizing some bits here and there. Learned a lot about SIP, UDP, Asterisk, a bit of PHP, Linux, apache, etc over the years. Been a lot of fun! Along the way at some point I swapped an SSD in to make it fully solid state.

I know one day I should "upgrade" it but the damn thing is so reliable. It will probably outlive me if I had to wager.
I'm not talking about moral standard when I talk about the first sentence. I'm talking about data. And this data is flawless.

They shouldn't be allowed to manipulate people, but that doesn't discredit the results.

The same way it would be very bad for us to put normal, average people in control of jetliner cockpits as a scientific test to see if they can fly them properly with guidance. But if that managed to happen, the data would still be valuable.

I wouldn't call sending one-off emails to people to be manipulation.
You'd still see the activity of that machine in AWS CloudTrail logs.

From [1]: "CloudTrail records two types of events: Management events capturing control plane actions on resources such as creating or deleting Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, and data events capturing data plane actions within a resource, such as reading or writing an Amazon S3 object.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/features/
It's more secure because you're minimizing the attack surface. The jailed process has no binaries an attacker can use to further exploit the system, not even a shell. It means that there's a minimal to non-existent /etc directory, meaning there is less information about the server and the network it's on. It also means there are fewer places to hide modules to persist, because you control so much of the tree.

Going further, you can place the few executable files you need in a read-only filesystem, so attackers can't copy their own payloads in, further restricting what they can do. You can continue that process with firewall rules that are much more restrictive than what you could use with a more general purpose server, such as blocking any traffic that isn't to or from port 80/443. You can also virtualize the network of a jail, so an attacker wouldn't even get information about the network's layout from a compromised jail.
same! i remember _why being a fan of the language, which got me to check it out, though ultimately it didn't offer enough over ruby to get me to really invest in learning it.
Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications. I think if they decided to be honest, and call it a "pandemic of the overewight" early on, you would have seen a lot of people using their time off to walk around the block. By ignoring the data, they increased fear, and probably increased people gaining weight by locking themselves in their homes all day.
Hi Steve,

I've opened the issue: https://github.com/IoLanguage/io/issues/460

My very uninformed feeling is it might have to do with some C "trickery" too advanced for GraalVM.

Thank you for your work and time.
Sure https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/cur...
>Disk caching makes the system much faster and more responsive! There are no downsides, except for confusing newbies. It does not take memory away from applications in any way, ever!

>You can't disable disk caching.

I guess I'm lucky I've never been confused by this. All the RAM monitors I've been using (KSysGuard and conky) must be reporting RAM usage accurately.
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This isn't correct, because "an" is only used in front of words that begin with a vowel sound (in the dialect of English used).

> The form an is used before words starting with a vowel sound, regardless of whether the word begins with a vowel letter. This avoids the glottal stop (momentary silent pause) that would otherwise be required between a and a following vowel sound. Where the next word begins with a consonant sound, a is used. Examples: a box; an apple; an SSO (pronounced "es-es-oh"); an MP3 (pronounced "em-pee-three"); a HEPA filter (here, HEPA is an acronym, a series of letters pronounced as a word rather than as individual letters); an hour (the h is silent); a one-armed bandit (pronounced "won..."); an heir (pronounced "air"); an herb in American English (where the h is silent), but a herb in British English; "a unionized worker" but "an ionized particle".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Distinction_b...

For example, "womb" starts with the same sound as "wumao", but we say "a womb" instead of "an womb". For the same reason, we say "a wumao" instead of "an wumao".
Yes, I get negative reactions all the time. It's typically by people who have been brainwashed into thinking average tech workers are the cause of all present day maladies. High housing prices? Software engineers' fault. Data privacy violations? Software engineers' fault. They also seem to believe that all tech workers are conspicuous spenders, all driving Tesla Plaids and wearing flashy clothes.

At first I was annoyed by people like this. Then I realized that they're generally not worth giving a second thought. It's just a bunch of jealous jerks who think anyone who does well in life is a "rich techie asshole" ruining their community. I hear it particularly from folks who consciously chose paths in life with a high probability of failure with no backup plan. Sorry that your dream of being a rock legend didn't pan out, Nick, but don't take it out on me.
Please, consider that the world is more than the US and that other countries have successful ethanol programs that are not the American corn scam
I wouldn’t hazard a guess about the exact number, but spies being given diplomatic cover (and diplomats spying) has been the norm for centuries. A huge chunk of Cold War spy craft was about diplomatic personnel trying to evade their followers in order to meet with their contacts without exposing them.
Agreed, maybe something expressed in human learnable non-code procedural notation.
Even if you don't, the value will probably increase by about 25% in that time.
One could argue that US' cultural focus on its flavor of freedom is partly at fault for why GP characterizes it as Jurassic Park. In the movie, the characters had ample freedom to go wherever they wanted (even jumping over electric fences), but at the same time, that same freedom made it easy for them to run into predators. The ease with which a loose predator could find a person in the movie can be likened to the ease of getting into financial trouble in the US. Student debt is notoriously unforgiving, both in terms of raw dollar amount and bankruptcy rules, and the way the US healthcare is structured means there's an unusually high rate of medical bankruptcies compared to other rich countries. The US also leads the charts in average credit card debt. The US also doesn't have as strong social nets for unemployment and parental leave among other things (and for better or worse, there's an undeniable strong relationship between the american notion of freedom and the comparative lack of government-run social net programs).

To continue with the dinosaur park analogy, you could then look at a country like Canada as an alternative zoological park, where you must sacrifice a bit of freedom by staying within designated lanes, but in return you don't run into situations where medical debt beasts can bite your head off in the first place.
It takes real effort to run most of the LAMP stack as root. If you don't understand Unix permissions it's not easy. Apache, mysql, (and therefore php) all run by default as a low-privileged user. I have plenty of real world experience and haven't seen apache or mysql run as root outside of embedded devices, and even that was maybe a handful of times.
People used to work 12+ hour days, six days a week. Farmers still do, in some cases. It's all about expectations, really.

There have been times in my life that I didn't use vacation because I didn't have enough money to take a vacation that I thought would be fun. In four years of medical residency (aka junior doctor), I think I took three weeks off? I could never take more than one week off at a time, or the month would not count toward my educational requirements. So, why take a week off to sit at the house doing nothing?

I have a lot more time off now, as a fully qualified specialist, but I'm hostage to her schedule for trips, I have to pick my vacation weeks (and yes, I have to take a full week or nothing) a full year in advance, and COVID restrictions have well and truly fucked the kind of travel we did pre-2020. I had two weeks off in September, a reservation made a year before in the hopes that all of this would have been over by then, and I did little things around the house. Frankly, I would just as soon have been at work. The biggest benefit I got was sleeping in, which is nice, but I've been waking up at 5:30 for nearly twenty years, so "sleeping in" is 7 at the latest, and I usually don't make it that far.
I’d have gone with bq myself
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I mean most art is like this.

Most “common” art isn’t going to fetch millions, but a select few do. NFTs aren’t any different.

As for “off brand minters,” some people care a lot about provenance. I don’t and you might not, but that’s also why we don’t buy art worth millions of dollars. But some people do care, just like how some people care about collecting stamps or playing basketball. Some people like different things and obviously if you don’t like a particular thing, you’re not going to “get it.”
The US has relatively generous bankruptcy laws

Or we could just fix the system so that people don't need to use bankruptcy in the first place.

The only people who benefit from the "there's always bankruptcy" attitude is lawyers.
I bought a bunch of picture books for children which are for counting.
Repetition is also a key, I try to read the books every day before sleep.
Well fq too!
Minimizing AWS permissions to just the set you need can be a royal pain in the ass. Many of the canned AWS-managed example policies end up giving either ANY action on a resource, or grant a handful of actions on ANY resource, (e.g. grant S3:* on some bucket, which inadvertently lets you delete the bucket too)

Simply reading the docs and attempting to divine the right subset of permissions can be nearly impossible. Usually you must guess, then exercise the software until it fails, then look in CloudTrail to see which permissions got denied, then try a new covering set, and repeat until nothing breaks. To say this is frustrating would be an understatement.
If you just want to watch videos you can also stream straight to a video player.

I think there’s also an application designed to let you find your streams to do so without visiting the twitch website although I haven’t used that.
I wasn’t finger pointing. I was just making the same point you did. :)

Knuckles Chaotix was originally penned to be Sonic 4 but I think it was always planned to be a Mega Drive release. There were a couple of failed attempts at bringing Sonic to the Saturn (the engine of one of them lives on in Saturns “Sonic Jam”) but in the end it was pushed to the Dreamcast as Sonic Adventure (and apparently influenced much of the hardware design of the DC too). There are some leaked demos of Sonic for the Saturn though.

Also I think it’s a stretch to say the Mega Drive was a failure in Japan (the US market was the only market that sold the Mega Drive as “Genesis” and that was due to someone else having the IP for the name “Mega Drive”). It was successful in Japan too. But America and Europe were undoubtedly massive markets too.

I do have both the 32x and Mega CD (as well as several versions of the Mega Drive / Genesis). The 32x wasn’t intended to be a taster for the Saturn (as you stated) but rather a device to prolong the life of the Genesis because of how successful it was. In reality it is hard to see how the 32x wasn’t undermining the Saturns market share (even Sega Japan knew this at the time and weren’t happy about it). But I honestly think the Saturn would have flopped in the west regardless because Sony outplayed Sega at every element of the PlayStation. Sony knew this too; one of the leads on the PlayStation project would often have lunch with the leads for the Saturn and Sony would taunt Sega saying how it’s only a matter of time (there’s extracts of their conversations online but it’s in Japanese).

That all said, it’s worth noting that the Saturn wasn’t a complete flop in Japan. It wasn’t massive but it did sell better than in the west and saw much more titles from more studios too.

The Master System did rather well in Europe. Better than in North America. But the real location the Master System excelled in was South America. Games were still being made relatively recently for that device. In fact there are a number of Sonics ported to the Master System exclusively for the South American audience (such as Sonic Spinball, which was previously a Mega Drive exclusive).
> "an" is only used in front of words that begin with a vowel sound

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

> For example, "womb" starts with the same sound as "wumao"

No, it doesn't. "Oops" starts with the same sound as "wumao". "Womb" has a /w/ sound before that. There is no /w/ in 五毛.

What did you think I meant by saying "the initial W doesn't represent a sound"?
Something like ping every 30 seconds and say goodbye to the socket if we don't receive 2 seems work reasonably well.

And it also prevent most idle killing base tcp disconnect from happening.

And even if some network is so dumb that decides to kill it under 30s, it is a non issue as that network won't be even usable in normal means. (How do you download any big file if it always disconnect instantly?)
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The problem I'm highlighting is not that I, the programmer, am forgetting it, but that it can change depending on context without the specific line changing.

Go's type inference can take:

x, err := 1, someNilStruct

And have that mean either "err is now a nil struct type" or "err is now a non-nil interface". Which of those things it does depends on the types of existing variables in scope or function signatures.

On the other hand, in rust if I type "let err = rhs", that will _always_ introduce a new variable named err that is the same type no matter what lines of code are above me.

The interaction there in go is due to poor interactions between features other than zero types I think, so I don't see dropping all zero types as solving it.

I also don't think zero types are analogous to rust enums, but rather to rust's default trait (which I do vastly prefer over zero types).
What if I told you VS code search is ripgrep? Pretty much every coding focused editor has built-in ability to view grep results, then click on the result to jump to the file location. It's 1980's UI technology.
Feldman's book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is fantastic. Succinct, myth-busting, and very readable.
Omicron Has 80% Lower Risk of Hospitalization, New Study Shows
It was a dead market. Everyone wanted 3D because that’s what they saw at the arcades so that’s where Sega’s developers were already skilled at. Plus that’s what was already appearing on PCs.
Am I the only one that thinks it's backwards that student loans can't be discharged? It should be one of the only kinds of loans you can discharge. Why would you as a nation want to saddle your youngest most ambitious and most valuable people?
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Is there a set of measures/activities holding up better to scrutiny that you could recommend?
Curious, what are the mean things? Feel free to email them if you don't want a big thread.
It is really important to note that this is a preprint, but it matches what is being anecdotally reported. Still, take it with a really good pinch of salt, but it's much better then the alternative world in which it had 80% higher change of hospitalization or death.
> There are no 'nice to haves'

That's an assumption, there's a lot of assumptions flying around right now. The simple answer is we don't know.

Often there are a lot of design tradeoffs, bcrosby was likely questioning whether all events going into that specific queue were strictly necessary for matchmaking. We don't even know that this was actually the problem.

So far, no professional post-mortem, or root cause analysis has been released.

There are certainly ways one can setup these type of services so they dynamically scale correctly, but since the architecture they are using isn't fully disclosed its difficult to say anything with certainty and this type of guesswork is entirely unproductive.
Can you provide a source for that assertion? It sounds unlikely to be true, but I'd like to know if it's true.
That depend on the plane and all kinds of external circumstances as well as how it is programmed etc. etc.

But I can assure you even modern passenger plane on autopilot do not avoid crashes with other planes, buildings or ground (mountains etc.)
It also wont start or land a plane.

In a worst case scenario the autopilot would crash the plane immediately because it was give the task to fly into something and in best case scenario the plane flies according to the programmed route and corrects for wind and all that and if nothing is in the way it eventually runs out of fuel and crashes.
AFAIK it would not even slow down and certainly it would not do an emergency landing.
A new generation of talented young musicians compete in the world's most prestigious pipe organ competition.
~1730% (1.0 out of the 18.3 on the calculator is the principal).
It obviously has real value. People are spending a lot of money on them.

Every time I see a discussion about NFTs, it seems people assume that other people value things the same way as them. It’s a major cognitive bias called naïve realism.

People value things differently then you. I literally pay more money for things made by bands I like, for example.
Let’s compare two large organisations: NASA and SpaceX. According to astronauts who have worked for both, it takes a year to get a simple UI change implemented when working for NASA, and it takes one day when working for SpaceX. The difference is bureaucracy. Not the amount of actual work that needs to get done.
Half of those services will happily share all of that person’s data when handed a warrant. Some don’t even require that much.

On the flipside, a snooper will always have to do a monumental and maybe impossible amount of work to break a one-time pad by chipping away at the security that surrounds it.

What makes security tech fundamentally different? Why should it be easy to break? A warrant lets someone search my belongings; it does not compel me to give law enforcement the information they are seeking.
> Please provide two examples from the Bible of clear and explicit claims about it's "author"

Not the op but here are some claims made by the Bible about its origin.

2 Tim 3:16
"All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness"

2 peter 1:20-21
"20 For you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were moved by holy spirit."

Exodus 34:27
"27 Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “You are to write down these words, because in accordance with these words, I am making a covenant with you and with Israel.”

The Bible does mention that it's been written under divine inspiration at God's request. By the hand of men, but motivated and helped by holy spirit, as the scriptures say.

If interested, have a look at some of the frequently asked questions about the Bible that the Bible answers itself. This website uses only the Bible itself to answer questions about the Bible, which is a refreshing take.

jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/about-the-bible

I'm sure you'll find it informative.
Yea and you'll hear the guys on TWiV saying it too. But it's not quite that simple. It works out that way in the short term if the virus kills you right away, but there is not quite as much evolutionary pressure if the virus spreads during its presymptomatic period, as is the case with SARS-CoV-2.

And there's the fact that Omicron mutated a whole lot without spreading (it doesn't share a lineage with Delta) which makes me think that this naive form of evolutionary pressure cannot be responsible for its reduced lethality.
7. Energy per capita has dropped by something like 20% from its peak in the 90s.

Germany is a great example that these renewable policies can't sustain an industrial lifestyle. Germany is something of a cautionary tale; adopting Germany's policies will make people worse off.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany
Awesome, thanks for this info
SpaceX seems to do just fine?
I don't think 五 ("wu", which means "five") is pronounced the same way as the "oo" in "oops", at least in Mandarin Chinese. I hear the "w" very clearly in this counting video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eLP3FuuEVs

I think there is a lot of irony in this subthread, since it is responding to a comment about derailing the discussion by distracting from the main topic as a strategy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29655271. Intentional or not, this subthread shows just how effective this strategy can be.