skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cap when PLUS loans are not available is $57,500.

The impact on prices is not just the direct, but the general understanding that private educational loans also could not be discharged in bankruptcy that was created by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. Courts have started to push back against that but there are only a handful of precedents.
Digital physics seems so obviously the correct approach from a philosophical perspective, it's a shame it blows up the math.

Real numbers are the most ironically named thing ever, and infinity is a thought experiment - not a real thing. Any model of the universe based on such constructs should be heavily suspect outside the range of established observations, and taking predicted limit behavior seriously is just foolish.
Well that's just one one specific connection that sprang to mind. Also I think OP was exaggerating a bit generally ("PRETTY MUCH any other strip hotel") and I think the 10 mins is definitely an exaggeration unless you're going to an adjacent hotel.

But are you really saying that you've been to Vegas dozens of times and you didn't know the hotels were connected like this?
there's nothing like pure merit if you are talking about not-ideal backgrounds. those folks are already heavily disadvantaged. Making it "merit" is just compounding their disadvantage while advantaging those already with advantages.
The myth of pure meritocracy lives on usually perpetuated by those blind to their own privileges.
Sean Carroll, following Everett, puts it in the most concise form: (i) systems are described by wave functions, (ii) wave functions obey the Schrödinger equation [1]. "Many-worlds", universes, observations, observers, and so on become just entia multiplicanda [2], superfluities.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOgalPdfHxM, one set of rules in quantum mechanics at 36:00; at 1:13:14 where does the energy come from? energy of the set of all universes is conserved.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
ok agreed

I actually had chosen opensuse for my own employer for almost 20 years (holy cow, but yeah from about 99 to about 2018) and then switched to Centos due to my feeling that the engineering at Suse had gone down the toilet.

I don't know if Suse got better in the last few years but obviously Centos 7 was an unlucky time to decide to commit to the next 20 years of Centos future.

But opensuse was great for most of that time, and at it's worst, better than Centos now. Suse at least haven't tried to pull either RedHat or Ubuntu shenanigans. They're looking pretty good now!
Yes, but it's real. Which is something that is far more valuable than what exists on the rest of social medias today.
I believe that was the posters original point, because the lenders have no more risk it means that the market solution has been put out of balance, and the current situation is arguably a logical consequence of that imbalance.
That's not even close to the same thing. Stack overflow posters don't hallucinate solutions, and in all but the most obscure questions, the selected answer will have been reviewed dozens of times over.

With ChatGPT you get exactly what it gives you which must be trusted as a source of truth. That's bad.
VanMoof, the e-bike darling, skids off track: sales paused, execs depart
I have been using this and other resources to learn linear and logistic regression .
Common sense is horseshit. You know what was common sense in the 1600s? A gentleman is clean, so he doesn't need to wash his hands between cutting open a corpse and delivering a baby, and oh gee why do so many women get awful infections after childbirth?

Common sense is the rallying cry of people who cannot backup their claim by other means.
it's all sshfs.. afaik they're looking into changing that. i don't have the i/o issues but always backup any files in the vm as they tend to get lost at some point.
at a certain point it may be less work to make linux macos like than to make macos linux like.
> For example, Meta has made multiple public statements about federation.

These are worth nothing, though?

The skepticism is informed by looking at the history of the company, not just what they're saying right now.

FWIW, I do think they will federate eventually. I don't think they'll do so because they want user accounts to actually move around, etc, etc. Strategically, it's valuable to keep a handle on the Fediverse, since they're big enough to exert control over it should they so choose, and they can be better positioned to do so if they start from a position of being federated.
Kinda weird? That's a nice way to say "total bogus". It strikes me that the CPI is practically propaganda at this point, a way to placate the citizens by saying "oh look inflation is fine", distracting them from the mega-hyper asset price inflation that has been happening over the past 40 years.

Suppose it kind of makes sense, since the rich control the country, and they are the ones directly benefitting from the asset price inflation.
Thanks for the downvotes Thunderbird white knights but I have the bug reports to back up my saltiness:

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335310 Closed Bug 335310 Opened 18 years ago Closed 16 years ago Suggest Multi-line Message List display (great in vertical view)

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945 Bug 213945 Opened 20 years ago Closed 4 months ago
Mail/message listing/thread pane needs more organization in 3 vertical pane view (column wrapping, etc) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=307013

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307070 Open Bug 307070 Opened 18 years ago Updated 1 month ago
Request for Outlook-style AutoPreview feature to see first few lines of messages

As the guy who made a close to pixel perfect office2003 theme for Tbird back in the 00's this feature has sentimental value to me and am very happy this has finally landed.
As a single datapoint, in 1983 MIT tuition hit $10K -- highest in the nation according to a cartoon in the paper. It's currently $60K (total cost estimated $80K) so 7X is about right.

However there's another way to look at it: over the summer I would earn over $10K so roughly covered my tuition. Admittedly that was at the high end of summer job compensation due to the AI boom, but gives you a rough idea of where that tuition fee fit. I finished school with no debt.

These days I doubt anyone is getting $50K for a summer job.
you are right basically -- with the caveat that "business has shown the ability to be responsible with money" while individuals fail at this for a large variety of reasons. However, in many societies past and elsewhere, not every single individual adult has to manage money like a business. Zoom out a bit and you might imagine that government now treats corporations as a person, and persons like they have to behave like a business.
It is very much supported. Top left, click on your name, 'Add account', and go from there. I think in the backend the accounts might be associated for security/abuse purposes, but Instagram actively wants you to be able to have more than one account.

I'd imagine it would be a lot harder to avoid being 'thirsty on main' without these features.

Just checked, and signed up with a random second account. They add the phone number from the previous account you were on by default, and mention copying your other non-public information over from the previous account you were signed in to.
Wait, did you think I was writing that the programs care?

I'm sorry, I didn't think that was a distinction that needed to be made.
A painful example in this context is the Philips P2000T home computer.

It was hugely popular in The Netherlands in the early 1980s, but not so much in other countries. Because the market was so small, there were nearly no commercial games. Almost all games for it were written by hobbyists, and were copied freely, using Mini-Cassette tapes.

I have been working on an emulator for it, but it seems near impossible to redistribute the original games. Most of the games do not have a copyright message, and it is often not clear who the original author was. Ironically, these games were _meant_ to be copied, but as of 1993 this is now prohibited by law, and (as far as I understand it) I can only make copies for my own use.

Note that there is a GitHub repository [1] that preserves a lot of games and information about the machine, but I wonder if this is even legal?

(An even bigger problem I face is redistribution of the P2305 Basic Interpreter ROM, which is copyrighted by both Philips and Microsoft. If anyone at Microsoft is reading this -- could you please assist me in getting a license to reverse engineer and ship the original Basic ROM with my emulator?)

[1] https://github.com/p2000t
I think you may be missing something as well. The exchange rate is not the same to buy it.

M1000 costs $11.99, so it’s not an exact conversion of 100:1 when you’re paying cash for Mana.
15 years is much longer than 0, that’s a silly thing to say.
Even if it released no carbon it’s still an environmentally destructive practice and weakens ecosystems that we rely on for food. It also does release carbon, I’m glad we are closer to knowing how much carbon - however I hope things like this don’t get upvoted as a bit of “See what’s the issue?” from people adjacent to climate skepticism.
> Makes sense when you have student loans backed by the federal government. If an 18 year old with no money and no credit history gets accepted into a qualifying university, she will be able to receive a loan

This is the exact problem. Whoever makes the loan has an incentive for eternally increasing prices.
I doubt facebook will want to show ads where they don't have any control over the context that they are shown in due to the insane difficulty of dealing with brand safety once you do that. This is almost certainly a big reason reddit never tried to support advertising in 3rd party clients.
where does that exact figure come from?
Exactly! Passions are good hobbies. Many people who take their passion and turn it to make it their source of income regret the decision because it sours the passion —it become a job.
Ask HN: Assembly as a First Programming Language?
I came across this book[1] and was intrigued by the premise. Has anyone learned assembly as a first programming language or known anyone who has?

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8
Not really; the "lottery" includes all the stupid smaller games too.
The education needed for a functioning society should be delivered by the end of high school. A few generations ago it was delivered by the end of 8th grade.

And yes, college sports on the whole does pay for itself. Those stadiums are built by donated money, and revenue from ticket sales. Yes taken in isolation there are a lot of sports that don't make money, but they are subsidized by those that do (chiefly football and basketball). Sports stadiums are not the reason tuition has inflated by 700%. They are two separate pools of money. If you got rid of sports entirely it would not affect the finances of the academic side of the university at all.
There is this thing that I like to call 'the cult of stupid' where people are somehow proud of their lack of knowledge and they are not afraid of putting it out there. They tend to laugh when asked pointed questions because in their world 'truth' has no value, it's all about belief. One family member of mine wears healing crystals because they keep her cancer free. It's really sad and it irks me that given the excellent educational opportunities we have that so many people choose willingly not to avail themselves of those opportunities. But they do have opinions on all that stuff that you need to work at to learn.
> Red Hat does not maintain all of the code in RHEL - they repackage and patch everything taken from other developers.

This is false. Red Hat does maintain code that is shipped by default with RHEL. It should be noted though, the number of packages that are part of default RHEL installation is small. Also upstream first policy basically means, any proposed patch must first be merged in upstream before being backported to rhel. If that does not make them maintainers, I don't know what will. Being sole author and maintainer are not the same thing.
If they are going to do it and not back out then they should just put it into a irrevocable clause in their terms of service and promise to delete all user data and send all advertising revenue generated from the user to the user on request if they fail to fulfill their legally binding promise.

If they are committed to it then the clause has no effect. If they do back out and the customer feels betrayed and they feel like Meta lied to them to get them to signup then they can demand Meta to remove their presence and pay the amount Meta made off of them by tricking them.

Simple and clean solution with aligned incentives. If Meta does not intend to back out then they have nothing to lose.
> You can increase Google's stock price by $x by serving better ads or implementing the next killer YouTube feature, but those things will eventually cease to exist, and your name will most likely not be tied to that any longer than you're alive.

Humans overall will eventually cease to exist. All of us will be forgotten within a few generations, even if we have children. Motherhood/fatherhood is not the "real end game of life." You might believe so, but many others do not. Why are their points of view less valid than your own?

You continue to push the framing of this being bad for married couples. But again, it's simply better for unmarried women. Why should they be forced to suffer because we want artificially higher wages or because you have this idea that we need more babies?
And both religious created a way to indirectly pay interest by turning it into a business partnership.

i.e. when you are helping someone (a friend, relative) you don't pay interest. But when it's a business loaning the money that desire to help doesn't exist, and it becomes a business partnership instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism specifically: "Heter iska". And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murabaha for Muslims (I think there are other forms as well). A copy of a Heter Iska: http://www.jlaw.com/Forms/iska_d.html
I'm aware of the Marshall plan. Parent's comment could have been read as "continues to fund the EU" which I don't think is a thing other than the usual, trade, etc.

Thanks for sharing the link to the ECSC, it's been a while since I read about that. I wouldn't say though that the US founded the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union), at least not in the literal sense of the word.
> Meta has no incentive to add Mastodon/ActivityPub integration ever.

Given regulatory issues with data sharing between different Meta properties they have a massive incentive to add activitypub support. It would be an easy way to appease to the regulators.
I remember RMS saying the GPL doesn't restrict how you USE the software. It just adds the responsibility of providing source code to the users.

If it doesn't allow some uses, I don't think it is free software.

restricting availability of binaries might be ok with free software.

I don't know.
Using bookmarks males it even better though, as they appear above the other suggestions. I've been adding quite a lot of websites I visit to bookmarks just because of this. It's also awesome because I can search for the name of the bookmark, so for instance on ProtonMail where I have more than one account (yes I use the webmail, I'm sorry) I can just search for "personal mail" or "work mail" and I get the URL that sends me to the inbox _in the correct account_ which is pretty awesome.
UK battles hacking wave as ransomware gang claims ‘biggest ever’ NHS breach
These are real problems but not insurmountable. I think the author does an excellent job of laying out the problem and has pretty decent solutions in mind.

I caution strongly against the proposed solution to fail CI if zombie flags are detected. CI should ONLY fail if there are changes in the branch that cause the failure. Detecting zombie flags (eg, this branch contains a flag which has been turned on and untouched for 90 days) is setting a CI time bomb. Find another way to alert developers of the zombie instead of failing good code at CI time.
Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly.

Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplace politics score poorly.

What's up with the sad CNC machinists and happy heavy equipment operators, though? Is it the sunlight?
Really a big thanks to him from all of research community. With ease of LXD one could have different distros, package versions etc.
It's been pretty difficult to scale Mastodon to even hundreds of thousands of users per instance when the users are following others across thousands of instances. Scaling that up to 30 million users is not easy. And you can tell the initial launch was rushed based on the limited app-only roll out, minimal features, and broken website. It's plausible that they will work on features and user growth first.
The fact that default risk and time value of money exist are immutable, irrespective of whether you think that's evil. Modern Islamic banks in Sharia jurisdictions still recoup that risk and time value through various means, irrespective of whether you call that interest. (Some forms of "Islamic mortgages" charge you "rent" based on LIBOR/SOFR, which is just interest with extra steps.)
Define well educated populace.

Does this mean ability to read, write, and do arithmetic? Does this mean the ability to speak and read Latin with an understanding of the classics and the Bible? The ability to fix a car and build an engine? Program a computer?

One could argue that a university does very little to make a populace more educated, since they can already read, write and do basic math (or should be able to) to get into school. Is taking psychology making one better educated? Maybe? Maybe not.
There's more paths to discharging than bankruptcy.

Somebody I know had a medical emergency while in their repayment period. They were unable to work and went on to disability insurance, and eventually had their loans forgiven. I think they had to be on disability for a certain period of time (measured in years, iirc) before they were discharged.

Eventually, they recovered sufficiently to be able to return to the work force debt-free. I'm not sure if the hurdle for loan forgiveness ought to be "you have to basically die", but it's at least that high for now.

There's also the well-known "public servant" path. I'm sure there's some ironic joke to be made comparing the two.
Linux competes not only on the desktop with Windows and Mac OS, but also on the server and cloud environments, and also in embedded environments. It is highly scalable to many use cases. No, we don't expect to use Linux right off the shelf. As the full presentation noted we would create a carefully curated profile to go on the airplane. And that work to curate and manage it, and producing certification evidence of correctness -- is definitely not free.
The frontend uses Karax, which is my favorite frontend/SPA library in any language. It is an absolute joy to use, even if it's a bit rough around the edges.

https://github.com/karaxnim/karax
What's funny about it is that the situation was critical a long time ago. In

http://www.seobook.com/blog

you'll see the story of how Google went downhill annotated by many comments from my evil twin. People didn't have the sophistication of ChatGPT but we were already talking about the "dead internet" theory long before it. Spamming the web with huge amounts of mad lib, database and junk content was widespread in 2008, around 2011 people whose philosophy was

https://www.bluehatseo.com/seo-empire-part-1/

were mostly giving up and switching to scams involving paying for ads. Back then we were were writing PHP scripts (Eli, the guy who ran that blog got into so much trouble because he posted a neural network in PHP that could break CAPTCHAs.)

Google really let the search results go to hell and be insensitive to whatever you do to promote your page because they don't want you to invest in content (either quality or quantity) or link building (either quality or quantity) they just want you to buy the #1 spot and if you can't afford that the #2 spot and so on.
The tricky requirement that ends up existing and torpedoing attempts to clean up feature flags is a requirement for long-term holdback.

e.g. "Test was successful so it's rolling out to all users, minus a 0.5% holdback population for the next 2 years"

This then forces the team to maintain the two paths for the long-term, ensuring the team might get re-orged / re-prioritize their projects sometime a year later making the cleanup really hard to eventually enforce.
Do you brush your teeth with bottled water? Do your kids?
Here's an even more problematic example:

1. Author publishes a dozen novels over the first 20 years of his/her career. All of them are good, but none of them sell well.

2. Author does not pay the copyright renewal fees because they are too expensive. Anyone can now copy those books and pay nothing.

3. Author's next book is well-received. The author is hailed as a genius and there is suddenly a ton of interest in the author's earlier works.

4. Everyone but the author makes money on the author's older works.

Edit: The point here is that when a work is successful, which is rare, it is unfair for everyone other than the author, who is most responsible for the work, to profit from it.
I think I'm trying to say that you're as likely to get abolition as you are a term of copyright shorter than has ever existed in the US, so why not shoot for the moon?
It's a combination of loans. The idea is let's say I have 100 identical loans I made (in reality, there are averages). Further, we agree 5-15% are likely to default. I'm going to get paid 85-95% of the interest + principle. But I want that money now. You want to invest in future cashflow, so I want to sell you a loan. Buying one from me is kinda risky, you may get back 100% or 0% of the interest + principle you expect. So instead I sell all 100 as a lump sum, and you and 99 other people each get 1%.

But, CDOs go a step further. You may have more or less risk tolerance. So we chop it up. You can buy something that gets paid back if 70% of the loans are good, or only if over 70% or over 80%, or even over 90%. The less likely you are to get paid back, the more you make.

So the person who absolutely wants to get paid back gets a small interest rate. The person who only gets paid back if literally every loan pays off gets a much higher rate.

In 2008, what happened is all those people buying the "very safe" 75-85% failure rate sections also were getting wiped out.
Too late now, next we have to discuss the reliability of various religious texts and the existence of God.
The main reason correction is needed is a matter of economic and national strength. Increasingly we see students opt out of college because the cost benefit to them doesn’t make any sense.

You can argue that those people will learn skilled trades or online but university has always been and will continue to play an important role in economic output in the US. When only those in the highest tax bracket can afford college it exacerbates instability and undermines the economy.
There is https://www.myabandonware.com and http://www.abandonia.com/en/game/. It's been a while since I have used abandonia. But I use myabandonware.com regularly. It is not perfect I suppose, but I get most of my childhood favourites here.

Croc 2 - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/croc-2-cj0. The only 3D colour videogame we had in our school's computer lab.

Claw - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/claw-a39

The thing - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-thing-bfm