skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re wrong about MWI in that it’s a more elegant interpretation because it adds nothing extra to the wave equation and treats the universe as fundamentally quantum with no arbitrary dividing lines for classically scaled objects.

That's how it's often presented, but this is wrong. In fact, it does add something to the theory, and that's a measure of how many "worlds" there are after a quantum measurement, which helps translate the wave function values into testable probabilities (the Born rule).

In the CI, after a measurement, the wave function collapses into a single value, leaving the single world in a single classical state, with some probability that's equal to the modulus of the wave function amplitude of that state (or is there some squaring involved as well?).

In the MWI, after a measurement, different versions of the observer observe different states, and the number of versions of the observer observing each state corresponds to the modulus of the wave function amplitude of that state. Then, via simple probability, we can say this count corresponds to the actual probability that any one version of the observer will notice one particular state, even though in the actual multiverse all of the states actually happen.

As you can see, the two interpretations require the same amount of extra postulates above and beyond the wave function itself. Also, the MWI has to somehow define a formal notion of an observer/a classical world, which runs into questions of scale just as much as the measurement postulate of CI.
Voyager for Lemmy
From 1991 to 2013, federal student loan issuances increased from $20 billion to over $100 billion (in 2013 dollars). And federal tax expenditures related to education increased from $2.5 billion to over $30 billion.

Growing tuitions are a predictable consequence of the federal government subsidizing higher education systems that they don't control (unlike state funding of state universities). The feds should impose price controls on any institution that receives federal funding (including from federal student loans): https://prospect.org/education/case-for-higher-education-pri.... Otherwise, costs will predictably skyrocket.
For the layman, what exactly is going to theoretically "explode" if spacetime is continuous?
https://www.jetpack.io/devbox converts a simple json config into a nix dev environment.
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright
What happens if you compare with real estate prices?
Private high school costs have also gone up astronomically and there are no federal loans for them.

[0] https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-private-school
There are new social networks, such as Subreply:

https://subreply.com/
Rebels Using Mastodon to Fight the Empire's Enslavement
It's also not unusual to write 24:00 when that's the end time for something.
I don't care about proving it to you at all. There's thousands of bodybuilding ressources on the net if you're really interested, and the website I linked show a lof of before / after pictures.

And in reality it's not better than any other one that focuses on the big 6. What I like wit LG is that the idea is to be "very focused on what really matters" which is compound motions and reaching failure points. Personally I got results with 3x40 min workout per week, which is very small. And it's not just the workout, you have to follow a precise (natural) diet.
I couldn't tell from the article or the chart: is that sticker price of tuition or actual paid price? Because those 2 things are _very_ different. It is true that in either case, tuition has outpaced inflation, but I'm skeptical that actual paid tuition has increased by _that_ much.
>> Why on earth publishers continue to release paper only books in 2023 is beyond me.

Because digital books are horrible. A have a self of work-related books full of reference images (military equipment). I budget about 100/month for book purchases as many of them are 200+ each. There is no plausible replacement. Just ask anyone who collects painting or movie posters. A digital file is no replacement for a reference copy on a shelf.

One book that I purchased new only two years ago for <100$ is now out of print and apparently going for 500+ on ebay/amazon.
This is why legislation isn't one sentence long and we also have judges.
I'm two weeks late, but you could do something like

python -c 'import csv, json, sys; [print(json.dumps(r)) for r in csv.DictReader(sys.stdin)]' | jq -s .

to stream the csv rows instead of reading the whole file into ram.
No, it should be non-transferable (but commissionable, so that companies can still own copyright if they paid employees to generate works), have a fixed short term (say, 20 years), and should be voided when the copyright holder expires before the copyright itself expires.
This is the laboratory of democracy. States pass a patchwork of laws which get challenged in the courts. Law is revised and the process repeats. Eventually we understand it well enough to pass similar laws everywhere or even nationally.
Most of the 'service' industry is subsidized by cheap foreign labor. Harder for Schools and Hospitals to hire illegal/unskilled workers.
A world-class education system where you can leave the $200k in debt and never exceed $100k in income.

We're at a point where going into college for non-STEM degree can (and likely will be) one of the biggest mistakes of your life.
Eh, this isn't really my experience these days.

Here is Disney+ stream vs a Disc 1:1 copy:

https://nicko88.com/misc/compare/Ant%20Man%20Quantumania/

https://nicko88.com/misc/compare/Avatar%20The%20Way%20of%20W...

Streaming looks only slightly marginally worse IMO.
I've never really seen this explicitly stated anywhere, so maybe this is some super idiosyncratic idea on my part, but it's always seemed to me that one of the key pieces of OO is the use of polymorphism as a sort of syntactic/conceptual sugar around function indirection, that many people seem to have an easier time understanding and reasoning about.
Make your own VPN – WireGuard, IPv6 and ad-blocking included
90 mg... that is beyond gobsmacking
Corporations would love it. Disney isn't going to forget to renew a copyright. Many solo authors or their heirs would.
I copied the boot and OS partitions to a SSD and swapped it in in 2018. It's nice enough. This machine actually has something like 25TB storage total. I'll probably have to swap that 2018 SDD out soon since SSD don't have indefinite lifespans like the occasional lucky HDD.
Hadn't seen this, looks very cool! The static analysis piece seems difficult, but even considering that I've been a little surprised not to see more attempts.
Stating that inflation is at 194% can be misleading - it all depends on which products you include in your calculation. It might be more meaningful to differentiate between predictable and measured inflation. Predictable inflation should be defined as the increase in the money supply, while measured inflation could refer to the currently published figures.
Inflation is lumpy. This is the localized rate of inflation in the higher education industry. As another commenter pointed out, TVs have a much more favorable rate.
> lenders that are taking on too much risk

The lenders are taking no risks since these loans cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. There are also very large late fees and penalties that can triple (or more) the amount owed.
Related: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-administrati...

I always thought the issue was in admin body count. However, just picking the largest universities in Germany and US on wikipedia we see:

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Academic staff: 5,565
Administrative staff: 8,208
Students: 51,606

Michigan State University
Academic staff: 5,703
Administrative staff: 7,365
Students: 49,809

Those look pretty comparable, so what is going on?
Interesting:

> Whether orphaned software and video games ("Abandonware") fall under the audiovisual works definition is a matter debated by scholars.[14]

[14] Maier, Henrike (2015). "Games as Cultural Heritage Copyright Challenges for Preserving (Orphan) Video Games in the EU" http://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Maier_JIPITEC-... (PDF). JIPITEC. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. p. 120. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
Prior Linux knowledge still applies and is required, it is just managed differently.

Another language won't change much.

Debian reliability is outside of core packages a myth and Debian has no way to properly migrate configuration. Every major update is a wild rollercoaster ride were things might break in the middle.
> I haven't played much with xen though, KVM is kind of the defacto, but iirc AWS uses a modified Xen.

AWS switched to KVM, and even a lot of AWS systems that report themselves as Xen are running as KVM with a compat shim to say it's Xen.
A better method to analyze college cost is to look at expected lifetime income gain for a college degree vs not having one. If it's significantly net positive, then college is a good investment.

Since 1980, that has gone up a lot. This method is
What "lenders," and what "market" are you talking about? 92% of all student debt was issued by the federal government. As a matter of social policy, the government does not meaningfully consider credit risk when issuing student loans.
Because we understand newtons laws of motion and the sun and earth seem to, with extreme certainty, follow such laws, and by evaluating those laws forward into the future we see the orbits will continue such that the sun rises. It's not magic.

What rules and predictions can reliably describe how much machine learning will advance over time?
To your point, I replaced an LSTM that required ~$100k of infrastructure with XGBoost that required no more infrastructure (we created and used the model at query time on existing infrastructure we already had for query loads) and only lost about 2% accuracy (LSTM: 98%, XGBoost: 96%). This was two years ago and it's still in use.
Who cares what they want? I don't. Culture should belong to us, not them.

Copyright exists to allow them to turn a tidy profit so they're properly incentivized. It's not there to enable their delusions of control nor their perpetual rent seeking. They've already turned their profit, now it's time for the works to enter the public domain. Nobody cares whether they like it or not, it's human culture and it belongs to us all.
Are you about to use GPT4ALL[^1] or anything else? If you're going with the second option, then please share any link to such resources... I'd be interested.

And, to share with you something: I saw somewhere a tool (maybe it was GPT4ALL itself) that had the ability to expose a OpenAI-compatible local API on localhost:8080... Ah, yes. Here it is. Actually, there are two. They are described as possible backends for Bavarder (that's a free access to multiple online models, API key is not required): https://bavarder.codeberg.page/help/local/

[^1]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/blob/main/gpt4all-backen...
Same question. I have been using multipass on my Mac (M1), and so far so good. The current limitation of multipass is that it only runs Ubuntu VMs. Also, setting up fixed IPs for multiple VMs is a bit tricky (if possible at all, I don't remember right now).

I have a bash script that uses multipass to setup a few VMs... but still it feels "primitive" compared to what I was using when I had an intel Mac (I was using Vagrant, but the Vagrant experience on M1 is awful: I have tried it with VMWare and it's not very stable in my experience).
Huh, that happens to you? I live in Seattle but I still have an Idaho number. Almost all of my spam calls come from Idaho. It's especially funny because my iPhone includes the approximate area of the calling number and Idaho only has one area code. So the calls come from numbers in towns I have never visited.
The first I had heard about this was from libertarians complaining about the government backing causing the tuition increase.

This was among a debate where people were asking for more federal and state funding.

Its crazy to see this point become so mainstream. I suppose it was inevitable if it was the truth.
> It looked cool, and I was getting kinda sick of Zsh being slow in big Git repositories.

Sorry, what? If your zsh is slow in a big git repository, that's on you, not zsh. I honestly have a hard time taking anything else in this article seriously after reading that.

edit: the article is good. I was being harsh. Nix is horrible, and yet I refuse to use anything else.
Struggle finding medical stores at night?
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Have you ever faced problem finding medical stores at night in India on your google maps ?

At those moments do you feel you wish someone could just deliver medicines at your doorstep ASAP ?

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> Fascinating that this could start in the ostensible haven of libertarianism.

You're confusing Massachusetts with New Hampshire.
Yeah, but:

OS/2 286's backwards compatibility was miserably limited. Xenix selling the networking and C compiler separately was a business decision, not a way to make anything easier for the developers. Running "just one app" was also a business decision. And contrast that Xenix stability with umpteen million other 1980's and 90's computers which did one job, with no network...but ran crash-tastic MS-DOS.
Social networks can keep storing EU user data in the US under new agreement
>Copyright should adapt to modern world. Currently, what happens are a bunch of laws made by politicians under strong lobby from giant corporations.

I mean, by what you said, copyright did, just not how we wanted it to.
They launched approximately 2 months ago. I tried them previously but other than the fancy interface. I found it comparable to open source models.

They claim that there model is comparable or superior in some cases to GPT3.5-Turbo which I have yet to find. Mostly, they raised the round on the founding team.

You can find the previous conversation here:

Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35798744
Claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458625
First $100: I built a site that allows people to list their favorite movies and TV shows and then get notifications when they became available to stream on Netflix. Monetization was through referral links (to Amazon or iTunes I think)

First $1,000: I built a Shopify app. My original goal was just to play around with a new language I was learning but to my surprise it started to get some traction and grew substantially.
What would such an experiment look like? If it makes it easier, perhaps an experiment that's even harder (or much, much harder) to realize but easier to explain.
It is free money for lenders because backed by the Govt AND protected against bankruptcy. It is Free money for colleges because they know they will get paid regardless.

Remove this "free money guarantee" and watch how market corrects itself. When students can file for bankruptcy and/or the debt is not guaranteed by Govt, lenders would now use the same criteria they use to issue credit cards to 18 year olds. Hint: It's tough to get your 1st credit card if you have no credit history in the US and most lenders will not even entertain that idea. Some will do if you put in a collateral like $500 of actual cash deposit to guard against the default risk.

When lenders stop lending or get strict, colleges will have to consider how quickly and by how much they keep raising costs.
And these are exactly the people that companies target.

I live in a country that is not pro business so a lot of scummy things that make money for companies is banned. Amazon is still trying though.
You're confused. Colleges and universities have made (poor) decisions that have increased their cost, ostensibly to attract enrollment because of all the tuition/fee dollars out there for the taking.

If those tuition/fee dollars dry up, then that money isn't out there floating around to chase after with poor decisions.

However, all the previous poor decisions were still made, and they're still paying for all the extra buildings and gardens and resort spa dorms thinking they'd have time to pay them off. Not to mention the absurd increases in (non-faculty) staff levels... those people might be looking at unemployment.

But, and this is the most important point: allowing bankruptcy is never a bail out. It's the acceptance of reality. Yeh, "loan forgiveness" is sort of screwed up, but why has bankruptcy been denied these people? Why is education debt such an important kind of lending that we must make an exception for it and allow the lender to do what we allow no other lenders to do?
How long until a slasher film features teens sitting around VR gaming while, unbeknownst to them in their tidy VR living room, Freddy Krueger is having a field day.

That jump-scare when the one teen lifts up their headset to see Freddy inches away.
This is really interesting, but has it outpaced inflation ? Did not see that skimming the site.
Canvas is just a pixel buffer. Even with sufficient caching SVG would be slower because there’s more work to do with parsing, etc.
Well, for most other distro you also Google around and back someone together all the time, we just got used to it.
Fascinating, thank you

Recently here on HN someone posted a quote saying something like “if you shine light at something for a long enough time, don’t be surprised if you end up getting a plant”

It was about how the environment seems to reorganize in certain ways to use up energy (the latest Veritasium video about entropy also talks about this)
Government lending and a lack of price controls are the ultimate root cause. The government extends near-unlimited credit to student borrowers that goes way beyond their credit-worthiness, academic performance, graduation rates for the school, prospects for employment based on field of study, etc. And universities have clued into the fact that students who can pay any price, will pay any price. The ceiling of what students will pay, if they have sufficient access to credit, to join or maintain their status in the middle class is very very high. So universities hike the price year after year with little resistance because the availability of government borrowing takes the sting out and shifts the pain years or decades into the future of those students' lives.

I think some major force is needed to counter-act the runaway price growth without cutting off borrowing for students from low-income families. I think university prices should be capped by law at the inflation rate.

Think rent control for tuition.
lima is nice. just beware that os updates can accidentially nuke the vm. got to try out utm sometime.
Eh I think the impact of the federal government on undergraduate costs is largely overstated. The limits for dependent students, which is most undergrads, is really small over 4 years.

https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/subsidized...

You can only borrow $31k over 4 years. That isn't a lot at all.
> It's hard to write a law that says "offered for sale for a sensible price, in form the buyer desires, and without excessive hoops to jump through"

No it isn't.

"If the work is not offered in a manner that can be purchased reasonably in a manner conforming to industry standards unless (1) it is A (2) it is not A but is B..."

Have you ever read a law?
Proper solution is government to stop guaranteeing the loans and to allow people to put them in bankruptcy.

Prices will collapse to what people are willing to pay in real time, or save up for.
I have plenty of newer computers in the shared keyboard/mouse span of monitors in my array of desktop computers. It's just that they run newer software and newer software is worse software. Things have been mostly downhill in linux UI since "convergence" with mobile, IBM/Red Hat's dumbing down of Gtk, and the take-over of containers over actually running applications on your OS.
Mostly no. It will be better in some scenarios.

1. If you are bandwidth limited the high bitrate version should be a bit more efficient than the higher resolution (as it isn't wasting space on details that will be lost in the downscaling).

2. For videos that are uploaded in 1080p it will be the best quality available.

So it does seem like a pretty niche benefit. Maybe if you have a 1080p phone it can be worth it for the reduced resource usage and better battery life? But with many channels starting to upload in 4k it does seem like a very minor improvement in most cases.
This theory makes sense but since the loan is essentially risk free, why are private student loan interest rates roughly 10%?
Isn't that a strange way to do things, as it's not a licence?

That EULA document is for end users, so has no bearing upon non-end-users of the software. For example, developers.

So, developers should be able to fork the repo, change that EULA file to something else (or even just remove it), then do what they want with it.
This is the fun of posting my work publicly. Someone will pick it apart, and then it's a challenge to see if I can address the concerns.

I knew my first attempt was quick-and-dirty. It took a few minutes to improve that a lot, a few hours to track down numerous other issues (mostly involving title-casing exceptions, and adding more terms to that script which should either not be titlecased (e.g., "DNA", or which are mixed-case (e.g., iPhone), or which are ambiguous and should be treated differently in different cases (e.g., "us", which might be a first-person plural pronoun, or an abbreviation for "United States").

For the latter, I determined that "US" appearing either immediately after "the" or at the start of a title was virtually always the United States sense of the string. I've enshrined that in `titlecase`, though there are probably some other terms that tend to occur before or after the term which could be used to further disambiguate, say, "US Congress", "US Senate", or "US Law", for example. The additional gain from those is small.

If I were writing an AI then it might incorporate those weights, but this is just a simple sed script...
Where does it say that?

Btw private school looks quite affordable. I used to think my neighbor was rich, they were, but for only $20k/yr you can send 2 kids to private school? That is cheaper than daycare.
that's what happened last time we went around this merry-go-round, back in January or so. Those keys were working for many months.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/10b0krt/comment/...
Yep, everything in this article is right on my money in my experience.
It's unfortunate, but to me this feels like half of the root of the problem.

One half is easy access to loans, the other half is student debt relief programs.

Between the two, colleges know they can charge absurd prices and pocket the money.

It's awful, and I wish someone was doing something to stop this. It cannot go like this forever.
I will say it again:

Private high school costs have also gone up astronomically and there are no federal loans for them.

[0] https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-private-school
Heaven forbid businesses pay for open source software. Paying for closed-in-every-way SaaS is fine though.
They could easily limit the loan size...
On the contrary for me, playing around with nix and nixos is how I procrastinate everything. It's incredibly effective.
The loans:

1) Increased demand.

2) Increased what the market could bear.

The result is Economic 101. There are no surprises here.

p.s. Note: Roughly the same applies to mortgages. The idea that more affordable mortgages (i.e., 30 yr) was going to make homes more affordable, is comical at best. With a relatively fixed supply, increasing demand is only going to have one effect on price. And the solution? The 40 yr or 50 yr mortgage.

Round and round we go.
omad=one meal a day

It is a form of time restricted eating/fasting that is being researched of late for it's positive effects on health and longevity.