skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me explain. If a Russian mobile provider would ask customers to pay $45 starting next month, then majority of users would say: "No thanks, I don't really need mobile data that much. Also by law you must provide us with free access to VK (social network) anyway so it makes no sense to pay you $45 for this". But is US, customers are paying and do not complain, because for them it is not that big price. This is what I meant by "customers are ok".

Yes, mobile providers market is not a free market, as there are small number of companies both in US and in Russia. But the price they charge customers is different in these countries despite they use similar equipment which probably has the same cost. So the difference in prices can be explained by what people in different countries consider "cheap" and "expensive". The provider charges as much as possible, but less than a customer would consider "too expensive".

And the same thing is about housing prices, they do not really correlate with expenses to build them. It takes the same amount of money to build an apartment in Moscow and in a small city in Siberia, but the price for the buyer will be very different.
Damn, I'm curious now
The current odds on Manifold, a prediction market which uses imaginary internet money (not crypto, real imaginary internet money), are currently 53% for the end of the year.

Easy way to double your imaginary internet money if you're confident of the real answer.

https://manifold.markets/tb/will-metas-threads-successfully-...
I think it is not the "novelty wearing off", but rather people being disappointed with the decrease in quality. I have been paying for the GPT-4 version for months, but recently, I find myself using it less and less, as the usefulness of many answers is just not there any more. Keeping longer conversations also has become more frustrating (more forgetting/hallucinations). Haven't tried out the API yet, I now heard multiple times it's supposed to be better.
I’m a newbie, what’s a CDO?
https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/earthquake-activity-in-fa...
Exactly. Relying on emulation is totally fine. The problem is that it's also illegal. If classic media goes "out of print," there needs to be a practical way to access it that isn't a crime. Old books have libraries and used book stores, but old games that only work with emulators have no legal avenues at all.
Copyright is a monopoly, and it should be scrutinized as such.

It does provide some much-needed to protections for rights holders, but it provides very little protection for consumers. Fair use is something at least, but doesn’t help when rights holders engage in predatory practices that only serve to harm consumers (e.g. the hell that is video streaming today)

Idk what a better copyright law would look like, but I do know that we can do better, and believe it can be done in a way that benefits everyone fairly.
I mean, there's a point where the blame lies on every single developer and business person involved with these projects.

You don't pour years of manpower and creativity into a game like this and then .... not even save a single .ZIP file to your personal HD.

It just casts such a nihilistic ephemeral shadow on all of this.
I would also add that a lot of loans end up rolled up into a package, which you are given no forbearance.
It is:
https://www.asustor.com/en/product?p_id=80

https://www.servethehome.com/asustor-flashstor-12-pro-fs6712...
Fair point well made!
>It just takes longer to train a physician because there are human lives at stake.

Airbags?

Our electrical infrastructure?

Our plumbing?

Please, there are plenty of of industries that have lives at stake and we don't have a cartel controlling the supply of people. The issue is that we don't have enough Physician(By design), so they need to operate independently. Any other industry has multiple layers of qualified people checking to make sure things are safe.

I kind of dream of a world where you'd have 1 physician and a physician manager and a physician director all looking at your paperwork. Instead you get 1 total.
This isn't a high school, you don't need to try to recruit here :)
I don't think it is true that Avi Loeb "believes" it. I believe he believes it is possible.

When a meteor hits Earth's atmosphere it heats up and if it contains metal the metal can melt and condense into "spherules". Right? What's so alien about that?
From my understanding, .NET Fx 1.x and .NET Fx 2.0 will likely "always" be supported on Windows. Both Fx 3.x and Fx 4.x have no trouble "pretending" to be 2.0 in a backwards compatible way and 1.x is small enough that Windows just still bundles it in about the same way that Windows still bundles the VB6 runtime.

If you want the most "ultra-portable" executable for .NET Framework, you could choose 1.1 or 2.0. Picking 1.1 in 2023 is about as silly as picking VB6, it also won't feel just about anything like modern .NET. 2.0 feels a lot more like modern .NET (especially because that's when Generics and Generic Collections first exist), but also not really something I'd recommend in 2023. (But in theory targeting .NET Fx 2.0 gets you ultra-portable all the way back to Windows 98.)
Independent of how many discrete groups we invent, there is a broader range of times of local solar noon in the lower 48 states than in Europe.

So what I mean is that, because integers are easy to work with, and we've arbitrarily settled on 24 hours in a day, and given time zones exist, the number of them in the lower 48 US states (4 plus Arizona's situation) is pretty far from wild. China's decision is much more of a stretch.
They don't need to deprecate the connection. Power users that care about privacy will be on Mastodon. Casual users that follow them and don't care because they want a polished experience will remain on Threads.

Meta can have its cake and eat it to by being happy with owning the vast majority of the Fediverse. As a bonus, this appeases regulators.
Can we agree to disagree ?
Ah, perhaps you are inclined to stop reading when you come across open parenthesis?
I suspect GP is referring to the fact that the US has the one of the worst health outcomes per dollar spent vs peer countries [1] [2].

If "better health outcomes per dollar" is not "what you want" -- how come?

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare...
[2] https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/wh...
Sufficient Resolution
> can't join the drunken sexfest that is modern military service

Wait, what did I miss?
> Mastodon is sitting at around 1.5M users,

I've seen a stat of over 13m users: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount
Years ago I got to know a startup that effectively reverse-engineered the punchcard-like code necessary to run about half of the massive textile looms used in factories all over the world. Instead of needing to use the ancient systems / software that the loom ran, they built software that could effectively treat the loom as a printer.

It took them a while to find the right business model, but now they partner with huge brands to offer them textile customization AT SCALE, which previously was pretty much unheard of. - https://www.unmade.com/
Let's be honest about what Threads has.

1. A lot of Instagram users who had an extremely low barrier to entry, which could mean a low intention to post.

2. Little organic content.

3. Influencers and bots wanting to be "First!".

4. The people hyping it are almost exclusively using it to hate on Musk. Not Twitter, but Musk. Very few people are actually excited about giving Meta more data.

I don't user any of this garbage so I don't know or care. But I think it's entirely reasonable to acknowledge that the people on Mastadon want to post and use it, and that bots basically have no interest. It's small, but actually organic content.
It is a really nice looking product but I wish they would set down a firmer plan for how they are going to charge for it.
Passion doesn't pay the bills. It's good to be passionate about something, but many passions are not marketable.

Many have drowned in student debt following their passions, but this wouldn't be so in many countries that have university education fully covered or significantly subsidized by taxes.
Apple supplier Foxconn pulls out of $19.5B India chip project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation

You take a bunch of loans and bundle them together and securitize the bundle to sell to the public. Mortgage CDOs crashed the global economy in 2007-8.
They have a lot of users, but do they have a lot of interesting people? Being from Europe threads is not a thing for me, but my “SoMe network” is pretty solid on Mastodon. Most of the people I want to read “tweets” from left Twitter sometime last year, well, many are now both on Twitter and Mastodon. Anyway, despite its tiny user bass compared to Twitter, almost every single person or organisation that I followed on Twitter is on Mastodon, and while that’s anecdotal, I do think that the users Meta cares about aren’t necessarily those 70 million.

I suspect it’s a tough balancing act. One where you need the interesting accounts as well as the masses, because you can’t have the masses without interesting things and you can’t have advertisement revenue without the masses.

I don’t actually think Threads has too much to worry about from Mastodon. Personally I think something “better” is needed before we get any real Twitter replacement, but I can see why Meta would want to keep the door open. So that if they can’t get the “interesting” accounts to join, they can still get the content from those accounts by linking up to Mastodon. Well, that or maybe Meta is actually gearing up to become the SoMe that doesn’t lock its platforms down. The EU is likely not going to stop by forcing messaging apps to speak with each other after all, and there is obviously a lot of value in being the “phone book” of the world.
I've read through ISLR once and will likely go through it again at some point, this is a great text.
The interest rates would be so high that it wouldn't make sense for a promising student to take that loan. If you're a loan company and someone comes to you asking for $100,000, and they have no credit and no family with assets, even with a 4.0 GPA and perfect SATs, they are still a huge risk.
Can your tapes self replicate? /s

The goal of replacing memory cards is dumb, the tech that enables the storage is a foundational step forward in bio engineering.
I watched the university I was in for graduate school add all sorts of campus buildings, luxury apartments, and new administrative titles and hierarchies. Handing out massive contracts is a good job, but it's all borne on the students backs, and most of that stuff was not necessary for a good education.

They do a lot of catering to student egos too to get them in the door - "ooh, you're so special and wonderful, we're going to help you make it with our programs", knowing full well that most of the degrees were garbage.
Article reminded me that Phil Spencer from Microsoft Gaming about two years ago did advocate for legal emulation[1] to preserve games. He seemed to be pretty passionate about it, does anyone know if they're still pursuing this or lobbying for it? Microsoft got to have at least some weight.

[1]https://www.axios.com/2021/11/17/microsoft-old-games-preserv...
> Social science is non-replicable because the parameters are too fuzzy. (People are more diverse than electrons).

This isn't true at all. It's quite easy to create well-defined survey questions and experiments. It's entirely replicable.

The main problems with social sciences are that they have historically been perfectly fine publishing studies based on statistically tiny numbers of participants, as well as assuming findings from tiny groups such as university undergrad test subjects could be extrapolated to all of humanity.

These problems are eminently solvable with stricter statistical standards, and much greater cross-cultural research. It's just research becomes that much more expensive.
> Won't someone think of the millionaire heart surgeons in the 1%? They obviously needed free rides back when they started, it's why they're only single digit millionaires!

> Starving the people you want to provide your medical treatment isn't the brightest strategy

Gosh, it's almost like I pre-empted the latter complaint with the note that you've responded to above...

Expanding the number of doctors, and lowering doctor pay and workload, and lowering the cost of becoming a doctor will produce better health outcomes for everyone. Yes, some people will stand to lose from this, just like the current bloat of worthless administrators and billing clerks and other paper-pushers will stand to lose from a cleanup of the system.

I don't care about their well-being.

> I love when someone says "seems to work". In the strict sense, that only ever means "does something". Not necessarily "does what someone wants"... and never "does what I want".

> When it works for those other countries, does it "do what you want"? Because it doesn't "do what I want" at all.

This exact criticism can be levied on the current US system.
> It's really rough out there, and my degree program doesn't even begin to cover fundamental CS concepts like P/NP-completeness, DFAs, etc

Then it's presumably not a CS degree...?
That is a legit useful tip. Thanks.
it's over for me as a web dev
Cyclocosmia Ricketti
Your friend spent the cost of a new house on education, lol. There's only one country where I hear of things like this...
Agree! I don't have an original AT, but that string appears nowhere in the ROM images I found. There is also a fairly accurate web-based emulator, and it doesn't print this message:

https://www.pcjs.org/machines/pcx86/ibm/5170/cga/

I also doubt that IBM had anything to do with the development of Concurrent DOS, which AFAIK was based on earlier multitasking versions of CP/M. It's highly unlikely that IBM worked together with DR on a "secret" 16-bit protected mode OS, only to throw it away and then start over with OS/2, this time in collaboration with Microsoft.
For those not in the know, this is an actual thing that was happening a few years back.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-s...
They have made a concerted effort to build up the groundwork - UI elements that make no sense if you aren't federating and the sign-up prompt explictly mentioning Mastodon. Hell, you've got engineers and management over there still talking about it as if it'll happen.

But you should probably treat it like you should treat phone manufacturers saying the next software update will solve all of the problems - you can only review what you have now, not what'll come in the future.
Collateralized Debt Obligation, sort of like a bond that's composed from many loans on something you can repossess, like houses or boats. They're notorious because they were involved in the 2008 financial crisis.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cdo.asp

Or if you prefer the Big Short explanation:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EEXTqtH-Oo4
oh, well I stand corrected then. I contributed to ownCloud many years ago and at that time CLAs were required.
You can use F6 to focus the address bar. With it focused F6 will return focus to web content.
Which I find really weird, they take this stance against education but businesses don’t have to deal with such predatory loans - in fact govt loans for businesses tend to have low interest rates, or forgiven like the PPP loans.

Why do we take anti-individual stances, but pro-business stances? Is that a byproduct of capitalism, or am I misreading the world?
DriveThruRPG search:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=ALKEBU-LAN
Ask HN: Archiving Solutions for a Cloud-Based Large File Repository
I have been asked to handle some issues around a Dropbox team folder that is about 80gigs in data 75,000 files on 9,000 folders that often has sync conflict issues, or situations where files get moved around and causes headaches for the team.

The main problem is that every once in a while, when a new device gets attached to the Dropbox folder, something happens where a copy of that folder gets created for reasons unknown. The last time this happened, I got a mass deletion alert from Dropbox which ended up being a situation where the Dropbox folder owner changed the location of the folder on his local hard drive and that operation appears to have synced the move operation, where the files disappeared and reappeared for the team.

Anyway, I think you get the idea.

I think I resolved by using the admin console to set "online-only mode" and "Don't sync automatically" as default for that team folder, to prevent deletion/moving of files.
I also communicated to the team to start using the Dropbox Badge feature to minimize sync conflicts with files that are in use.

This got me thinking that I might want to do some file archiving to local backup where files that are before a certain date, could be moved into an archive folder that could be accessed by the team using another method. I was thinking this could reduce any overhead Dropbox might be experiencing due to the repository's size and amount of files.

Before I made this change, I used Macrium Reflect to back up the Account holder's system drive that contains his Dropbox folder (With Online-Only Set off), and Carbonite as an offsite back solution. But I'm thinking I need to have some other backup solution for the Dropbox folder now that files won't be synced automatically by default.

This person is a one man show that has a few employees so he doesn't want to add any locally managed devices to make this happen.

I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this before and what strategy have you used to:

1. Make solid backups of Dropbox data that is set to online-only syncing
2. Minimize syncing overhead by archiving
3. or if you have another idea.
This says that the average private highschool tuition is $15,645.

In 2003, the average private highschool tuition was $8,412 (Snyder, Dillow, & Hoffman, 2008), or $14,079 (in today's dollars).

Please correct me if I've made some mistake, but plugging those numbers in shows that the annualized real increase in price is 0.5% per year over 20 years.
how does this compare to llama-index
Some things to know about Mastodon
People making this argument tend to want 'better health outcomes for millionaires/healthy white collar people', either because they are one, or they think they will be one.
Now can they fix the URLbar so that focussing it doesn't weirdly select all. So frustrating when I want to edit a URL.
There are a lot of ways to make money. Picking a job based on money is a good way to be absolutely miserable. My parents pushed me towards making money my entire life and there is nothing I regret more than following that advice. Every day I wake up dreading going to work and it seeps into every aspect of my life.
I really like UTM for VM that I just need to shell into. It's not as complete as something like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion, but it does what I need.

The only thing I'd like to have is some sort of background daemon, so my VM don't stop if I accidentally close the UTM window.
I was just asking colleagues at work in response to the supreme court ruling on the student debt forgiveness stuff whether or not they experienced yearly tuition increases every single year they were enrolled--straight monotonic increase. I got many yes emoji's tagged onto that post so I knew I wasn't the only one. I can only imagine that treadmill never stopped for people.
If you remember Flipboard, Evan Doll was in the iOS team and also taught the CS183 at Stanford. As per his LinkedIn as soon as he left, the same month he cofounded Flipboard although the app was released 1 year later.

I have a few coworkers from my team that cofounded companies and they too have 1-2 month gap after they quit and they all got funding :)
And how will they get to this educator of last resort? The per child transportation and tuition costs for this educator of last resort will far exceed the amount of the voucher.
There are no new social networks. It's just human society wiring itself through Internet. And Internet is also an existing network. I mean, we all stand on the shoulder of giants.

This doesn't mean that Meta leveraging Instagram to create a Twitter replacement is not a significant step.
I mean yeah, theoretically. It's nonsense though. Just count the number of individual contributors vs managers at a director level and it quickly becomes apparent that one of the parallel tracks is much, much larger than the other.
> Price controls are one of the few things that economists on both sides of the political aisle agree do not work, and/or have unintended consequences which are worse than the problem they attempt to resolve.

Australia effectively has price controls on both health and tertiary education. It isn’t perfect but it is hardly terrible.

I know the US pharmaceutical industry hates it - the Australian government uses its monopsony power to limit drug prices and hence drug company profits - and is forever lobbying the US government to use trade negotiations to pressure to undermine it (but hasn’t yet succeeded)

Universities can charge as much as they want - but if they want students to have full eligibility for government student loans and government tuition subsidies, there is a maximum they can charge. Students want that full eligibility, so for the majority of places they stick to the maximum
There's definitely a mindset thing going on here.

It reminds me of how old television shows (like Doctor Who) are often missing good chunks of the early runs because they recorded over the tapes. Television was seen as ephemeral and if they never intended to broadcast it again then there was no need to store thousands of feet of tapes for episodes that (they believed) would never be wanted again.

I can imagine something similar happening with video games—they put in the work, shipped the product, and didn't think what they had done was important enough to preserve for posterity, because who actually thinks that about their own work?
Oh no I get that, but two comments above inciampati was suggesting that we will end up in a situation where some variable will have to have an infinite value. Like, famously, with the ultraviolet crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe

Detecting (something about) the particle through gravity would at best remove the interference, not create an \infty somewhere in the model, implying that the model is self inconsistent.
this is why emulation should be allowed forever
In 2020 Nvidia + AMD sold 41.5 million desktop GPUs.[1] That doesn't add up at all with 16.7 million desktop PCs.

[1] Second graphic: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-maintains-lead-as-s...
I’ve had timelines/tweets fail to load, but a refresh fixed it quickly. If this was a consistent problem did you consider opening an issue to see if they could improve the website?
Once I got the hang of Elixir/Erlang it was just such a weight off my shoulders, honestly. Programming without entire classes of bugs is so much nicer.
> the CDOs are probably tranched, so there will be some portions that are safe

The mortgage CDO's where tranched in 2008 also.
No, the EU has interest protecting its users and industry

The US is a failing economy with half of the world starting to detach from the USD

The US already starting to tinker with Copyright laws in order to boost and be leader in AI.. this is a red flag

This is another attempt for the US to save its economy

EU should do like the US and Asia, protect its industry
I made the decision a few years back to not allow notifications on my phone and it has improved my quality of life quite a bit.

There are simply too many things in my life that need doing that having one more thing competing for attention just isn't worth it.