skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the limit directly from the government. Depending on what you’re studying for, that might end up being lower than what you actually need.

For instance, when I was in college (undergrad) I took the maximum, but it wasn’t enough for me to pay tuition, rent, etc. Also those loans don’t pay during the summer, so you’ve to budget for that as well. My part time job tended to cut hours because there’s a high influx of kids who also want summer jobs, which meant less money overall for me. I ended up taking some more loans from Wells Fargo to make ends meet.

In hindsight, I should have got a better job instead of retail - some sort of office job. But I didn’t have a car, so I was limited in how far I could go.
"So much time" has been like half a day, much of which is in the middle of a work day? No, I genuinely haven't had the time to sit down and read this in detail. Do I need to detail what's going on in my life here?
> stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar

Yes, please.
I have a separate address bar and search bar in Firefox, and it still insists on searching DDG for local hosts names when I type them in the address bar. Stop doing this. (The solution for now is to type http://localname/ )
I'm a man and I don't feel particularly lost.

For all that this article had to say, (and it said a lot without saying much), I see us needing two things: Good brothers and good women. We need each other. We really do.

We could probably use some more fraternal organizations. I don't expect your typical Twitch subscriber to join the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes, but can you imagine the mental health benefit for a lonely young man to join a supportive yet diverse group of peers?
I tend to agree. I was trying to follow the guide on how to install NixOS with root-on-zfs[0]. I’ve followed it before with my own tweaks just fine, but recently it was updated to include some random guy’s modules that automate a couple steps. They’re mostly shallow abstractions on first-party NixOS modules, but following it was such a pain. I’ve been putting off reverse engineering the guy’s code so I can understand exactly what it’s doing. Apart from the code quality, it would probably be a lot easier to see what was going on in a typed language, with a debugger. Hopefully one day it gets there.

[0]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Nix...
Society is better off as a whole with a well educated populace. We shouldn't optimize for college only for kids who can learn to program or whatever.

Most other developed nations manage to send every smart kid to college for ten thousand dollars per kid or less. Once again, it is only the US that thinks it is a special butterfly that can't somehow manage to give kids college. Sure, most European colleges don't spend one billion tax dollars on a football stadium, but that is also a good thing.

And no, those sports complexes largely DON'T pay their own way. A significant amount of college sports don't make much money, and don't give it back to the campus as a whole, and that's WITH literal free labor of NCAA athletes.
Haha, read all the feedback you got now x hours later:

- so many improvements to pick up, in all directions

- now you have an endless list of todos :)

regards
The same incentive you'd have to do something for someone without receiving payment - a desire to help. I'd imagine the fact that people in that time had stronger familial ties to others in their village also helped increase payback rates.
Assuming many worlds, and many here means: enormous amounts, far exceeding the number of particles in the universe, is everything but parsimonious. There happens to be a model that fits some data, but that's it. It's a grotesque assumption to avoid a conflict in a man-made theory. It's a funny thought, but no more than that.

There's also nothing special about observing. Our consciousness isn't super-natural, so the idea is in desperate need of some other underpinning.

And probabilities: if this is one of many, many worlds, the distribution of events as we can observe them is heavily skewed. The next observations should follow a radically different pattern, unless you also assume that each split influences the probabilities of future events.
The government actually can do, and often does, policy with racially disparate impacts. Disparate impact is not a Constitutional limit on government discrimination, its a judicially-created rule in the application of certain statutory anti-discrimination laws.

(And the disparate impact rule is politically and legally unpopular with the same faction that currently dominates the Supreme Court and whose members on the Court have shown an unusual willingness to discard precedent, so its quite likely it won’t be a limit on discriminatiom under those statutes much longer, either.)
I guess no one you care about has a relentless abusive stalker ex.

Or is a schoolteacher who wants to post their opinions freely on Facebook to their old friends.

And those are “mainstream” folks, without even starting on people who are possibly subject to religious persecution in their physical communities, people considering a gender transition, etc.
Agreed, this article doesn't add any real insight over the references it cites, it just regurgitates the math.
Ask HN: What does a newbie need to know in order to avoid AWS cost disasters?
I am about to use some AWS services for the first time and I am a bit worried about the disasters that happen because of the pay-for-what-you-use business modal, a simple loop can cause you a 5 figure bill.

So I am asking about the necessary things I should know as a beginner AWS user to avoid such problems.

Also, any other info/advice to reduce costs is welcome.

The services I will be using are S3, Elemental MediaConvert, and CloudFront.

For video streaming.
The homes near me that have been converted can contain at least a half dozen businesses.
DVD vs BluRay sales probably say something in support of this opinion too.
Speaking truth to power is rarely easy. Some leaders can take genuine feedback others cannot. Until you have a good pulse on the situation, is it really surprising most people default to inauthentic critiques?
> getting a team to prioritise cleanup is difficult

This is the limitation that breaks every development practice people come up with.

That idea of formalizing the cleanup and requiring it for deployment is very interesting. It may be possible to extend it to other contexts.
That is not as clear cut as you make it. There have been rulings in the last several years that have allowed some private loans to be discharged in bankruptcy proceedings.

> In January 2020, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York discharged over $200,000 of student loan debt for one borrower. Then, in August 2020, a ruling by the 10th circuit federal appeals court based in Denver, Colorado eliminated $200,000 for a Colorado couple who held 11 private student loan accounts. And in September 2020, a judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ruled to enforce a prior bankruptcy discharge of a borrower’s $400,000 of federal student loans that a servicer had failed to carry out.

> These decisions could serve as a precedent for future bankruptcy cases involving student loans, says John Rao, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center.

> "A lot of people, even some of the lawyers who represent consumers, thought for years that you really shouldn’t even try because there's not a chance you’ll win, but I think everyone is looking at it now with sort of a fresh look," Rao says.[0]

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/stude...
For building packages, don't you kind of need it to be lazy? I don't want to compile and install all of nixpkgs.
It’s easy to miss the connection between printing money and the affect of printing money since there is always a time period between cause and affect. The example of comcast raising hour bill is immediate. Well comparatively.

Eventually and hopefully people will wise up.
Sure, I can totally believe that Threads is a dystopian wasteland of vapid influencer "content" and no content of interest.

But if the theory is that you need Mastodon to bring in the interesting content because their 100M userbase can't or won't produce that content, the federation would be needed indefinitely. It won't be that federating with Mastodon for a year bootstraps their own content production. If people writing interesting things aren't willing to go to a platform with 100M users now, they won't be willing to do it in an year either.
My dad had an original IBM AT at work, back in '85 or '86, and I don't remember seeing that message. I rebooted the machine several times. It was sure built like a tank though. And I loved that keyboard, even as a kid.
Faster Vector Search with HNSW-FINGER [paper summary video]
HNSW-FINGER presents a clever technique to approximate distances by projecting the query and candidate nodes onto the center node being explored! The video covers all sorts of details around how this is computed and the memory cost of doing so, as well as the experimental results!

Have any questions? Ask below :)
That's the beginning math, but definitely not "the math behind LLMs". That includes probability theory, metric theory, topology, and more. But most people don't even acknowledge this, but then again, unless you're deep in a subject you don't really know the complexities of that subject. Red flags should go off whenever anyone says "it's just <x>" or calls something simple. It's like the professor saying the proof is trivial, when that's the hardest part of the entire problem.
Who are you, or anyone else, to decide what is and isn't "culturally relevant"?
Thrash, black, doom, death, power, nwobhm, a little bit of the various *cores, a billion permutations and fusions between all the above.
a counterpoint to this narrative: grants/scholarships have been rising rapidly, so actual net tuition prices are surprisingly flat in recent years.

> Between 2006-07 and 2019-20, COA [cost of attendance] increased by around 27% at both types of institutions, but declined by 7-8% in the few years after that. The recent decline occurred because colleges posted similar nominal COA increases as in the past, but inflation was higher. Overall, COA increased by almost 20% over those 16 years at both types of institutions.

> But average net prices rose at a considerably more modest pace. Between 2006-07 and 2019-20, average net price increased by 13% and 7% at public and private four-year institutions, respectively. Those increases reversed in the post-COVID years. Overall, average net prices are largely unchanged, adjusted for inflation, compared to 2006-07.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/college-prices-arent-skyr...

in the past 15 years in particular, the big story of college pricing is that it has become more progressive, i.e. more expensive for those with higher incomes.
Yeah it's weird explaining it to my kid:

"When dad was your age, TVs cost a heck of a lot of money, had terrible resolution, took several grown men to carry, and were almost as deep as they were tall"

"Last year I carried home a larger TV with 40x the number of pixels by myself, and paid for it with one day's work"
The UK lost the records of around 4M (of 6.5M) 1st World War personnel during the London blitz in 1940. The remaining records are available via the UK Records Office, despite being fire damaged. [Edit] They are also available online via https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1219/

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14567
> Mana (Ṁ) is Manifold's play money. Use it to create and bet in questions.
Mana can't be converted into cash, but can be purchased and donated to charity at a ratio of Ṁ100 : $1.

Am I missing something here or are they saying "I'm allowed" to buy my own Mana in order to donate 1% of what I purchased to charity? Doesn't make much sense, or I'm not understanding it at all. I'm betting all my Mana on the latter.
I agree, Firefox address bar is miles ahead of any other browser. I just hope they don't mess it up in the name of UX
What GitHub Copilot Lacks: Fine-Tuning on Your Private Code
You can but transparency is a good thing, and if you see it you can fix it before your manager chides you.
It basically means that you don't have to wire up the router yourself, the framework is going to infer the routes from the filesystem, details ofc framework dependent.

Hugo and NextJS are similar in this regard, as are many more static site generators
I'm a huge 5/3/1 fan and have been thinking of building my own version of this!

Would you be open to contributions, instead? I'd love to at least add some design to the front-end
If I write in my journal it is copyrighted. I may not wish for you to have a copy of my journal. The law should then require me to let you take a copy of it despite me not wanting you to have it?
BUT, if you look at the codon table, precisely because it's base-4 and not base-3, many base flips are silent when coded.

By using base-4, there's enough space to permit lossiness of the coding itself - given the number of amino acids and the 3-NT encoding.

So you really aren't optimizing JUST for nucleotide encoding, but you're also optimizing in concert with 3-nt/AA, and 20AA codes.

So if you have to optimize for information density and fidelity, given X-nucleotides, Y nucleotides/AA, and Z AAs, and sample as much chemical and physical diversity in those AAs life has settled upon:
X=4, Y=3, Z=20.

If we went with X=3, you might need Y=4 to get the same kind of fidelity, but that cranks up your energy costs by 30% (from 3 to 4 NT per AA).
People may check out Threads and reject it. Sure.

This is why Meta didn't do Threads in all the years it could, while Twitter was around. Because Instagram users wanted Instagram, and they had it, they didn't want Twitter.

But now with Twitter in a downward spiral, we have Twitter users looking for alternatives. That is a separate force at play. And now consider that a subset of Instagram users are also Twitter users. This subset, I believe, represents a good chunk of those 100 million users that downloaded the app and signed in.

And because Twitter sucks now and with uncontrollable debt, legacy code and mismanagement will suck more and more over time, this force of users trying to move somewhere will stick around.

This is why Meta is moving into this space now.

As for it being a single network in two apps, sure. For now. This is just the bootstrap process. Some Threads users will be new to Instagram, they'd have signed up for Instagram to use Threads. I'd be one of those. So we'll see how things develop.

As for the marketing clarity of making it a separate app, instead of a tab in Instagram, sure. But this is about narratives, about stories. The story is "here's this Twitter clone". Most Instagram users won't care and you don't want to disturb them by changing the Instagram app. That'd be bad for them, bad for business. But leveraging the authentication and network in a separate app fashioned after Twitter is a pretty smart move for the overlap of people who DO want Twitter and have Instagram.

In time, the apps may merge. But this will only happen if Meta has evidence that the overlap between the two groups is large enough so that merging the apps won't be disruptive to too many users.
You need a second phone number to do that correct? As I recall, there are very strict protections and verifications in place by big social networks to prevent bot and spam accounts.

Is this actually allowed by the TOS? For individuals, not brands, to have multiple accounts?
That would have likely been a mixture of direct loans (which have the current 31k limit for undergrad) and private loans.
Company touting specific AI technique says specific technique is the future of AI
Not to pile on, but to agree with the sibling comment: Dolphin (the GameCube and Wii emulator) is insanely good. It seems like Sunshine has weird issues but I've never had a negative experience with anything else and it works out of the box everywhere, even on Linux.

As a tangent just because of how impressed I was, I installed Dolphin on Linux via a Apt (I believe) and it just worked. I already had the GameCube USB adapter drivers installed and those just worked out of the box. I don't know how drivers work for selectively compiling with them from the kernel tree, but it appeared that they were part of the main kernel tree and they were just there for me.
Does this suffer from the classic Wordle edge case bug of not showing green and yellow for a duplicate letter in a wrong and right position?
colima pretty much solves dev experience for docker and k8s on mac, esp. for apple silicons (m1/m2), where you can build multi-arch containers with ease.

Some interesting caveats:

* By default, system packages don't persist, as the default alpine distribution runs on tmpfs and doesn't have a overlay. This is a reasonable default, as it keeps the default VM storage small.

* If you want to have additional system packages, you can turn on a ubuntu overlay that supports additional systemd services just fine. Of course, storage would balloon to a few GBs from a few hundred MBs.

Edit: typos.

BTW, the result of docker build is immediately available to the k8s (k3s) cluster without any insecure registry and/or side loading/caching steps, thanks to the seamless buildkit integration.
As I recall it, even 1.0 was always referred to as .NET Framework. There was a million .NET "brands" from Microsoft when .NET Framework launched. .NET was the overall "initiative" and .NET Framework was only one in that "portfolio". Then Microsoft got bored with most of the other ".NET brands" and .NET Framework was last .NET standing. It wasn't until 2.0 or so that I recall people felt safe calling .NET Framework just ".NET" without feeling confused about other .NET branded things. Microsoft's own branding advice never dropped "Framework" from .NET Framework even deep into the 4.x timeframe so long divorced from "the initiative" and no other remaining uses of .NET as a brand.
When was the last time you saw one of these megacorps moving towards decentralization rather than away from it? I can't think of a single example. It seems fair to be skeptical.
> the MWI has to somehow define a formal notion of an observer/a classical world

Yes: in MWI, those things don't exist. The world is quantum all the way up and all the way down, observers are simply (other) quantum system that get to interact with the quantum system under the consideration. An observation, then, is simply an interaction between two quantum systems and follows all the usual rules so instead of the wave-function collapse leaving you with the observed system in pure state X and the observer is in pure state Y, you get a huge superposition of "the observed system in pure state Xi, the observer is in pure state Yi" states in the end. Those substates, in a sense, are multiple worlds.
> But the point of this thought experiment is not "if all social media vanished, we would be totally unaffected" — that's obviously not true.

This all started with:

> "Even if every single social network vanished tomorrow, we would still have a space where anyone can say whatever they want and instantly distribute it to every corner of the Earth"

I'm glad for the clarification. I think what confuses this is continuing to make claims like:

> Sharing a tweet in a blog post or an email is not fundamentally different than doing it with another tweet. The goal is human interaction, not a particular set of features.

The difference is in the outcome, and can be summed up with one word: reach. And I agree, human interaction is the goal. Features are just things that help humans achieve that goal. But features also modulate what is possible, and how effectively that goal will be reached. Features matter insomuch as they enable outcomes, and not all outcomes are equal across the various ways you could imagine a set of features.

If you believe that publicly sharing a tweet on a platform filled with people who are there to read other tweets - is not different than me sending you a personal email, I don't think there's any way for us to get on the same page.

And I guess I don't understand the point of what you're arguing at this point, because while sure, the Internet continues to exist, it would seem odd to say something like: "Well, the town got blown away by a tornado, but reality still exists, so nothing has really changed".

At this point let's just agree to disagree and move on, since I don't think we're really arguing about the same things.
His grades do not warrant the gamble on the expense, either mine or his. He's very artistically inclined, rather than academically.
Apparently you missed being social. Having worked with a number of vets it's absolutely true.

Here, in case you missed this too:

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/11/19/36...
This is what I do for work. Most of the pages I go to are not on the open internet. And I usually want to go to a wiki page I’ve been to before or to a book mark.
If I actually want to search i use the search box. But for me the url bar is for editing and finding urls.
This seems fine to me. If someone has no assets and no reasonable prospects to pay back $100,000 of debt, then saddling them with $100,000 of debt is a bad idea.

Additionally, discharging student loans in bankruptcy should absolutely not be a way to get off scot-free, it's meant as an escape valve. If your options are the terrible downsides of declaring bankruptcy and the terrible downsides of a life in extreme debt, neither option is great, but having the choice is useful.
I toyed with it a bit and was delighted to get it running. Only to discover getting even basic networking going is another mission in itself.

Light is cool but for many tasks that level of Spartan is overkill

If I’m investing time in light it might as well be wasm tech
I honestly don't know what you are trying to say here. Government debt has been discharged before. Look into the number of cities that have declared bankruptcy. (That is, you don't even have to look at failed nation states. Plenty of places in the US have done this.)

That is, no amount of lending is ever risk free. To pretend that you can hedge all risk out of a loan is the problem. It doesn't matter who issues it. It doesn't matter why they issued it.

So, to put the question back to you, why would you feel there is no risk in lending to students to go to college?
Students will stop attending at some point. Kind of like people will stop paying markups on cars. Or it will become so unattainable that the middle class will protest rising costs.
Unless you travel all the time, there’s no reason your weather app needs anything more than one (or two if your workplace is very far from home) static city/town/zip code. And most people don’t travel all the time.
Culture is everything produced by humans. Doesn't matter if it's "relevant" or not.
I am beginning to believe that the root cause of tuition costs in the US exceeding inflation is based much more on FOMO on the benefits of college education rather than federal government guarantees on student loans.

My claim is that buyers (parents+children) of college degrees are maybe not behaving rationally with respect to cost.

High-cost schools position themselves as offering a "better" outcome or opportunity to students. I'm really conflicted about this viewpoint. I have two children in high school with one a rising senior. So my family is discussing colleges and college costs somewhat regularly. We have visited a small number of state schools and a small number of smaller private universities and colleges. The smaller schools do a VERY good job of selling extra opportunities easily available to students. My experience is that opportunities can be found by a motivated college student at any institution but the small private schools seem to make it almost hard for a student to NOT be involved in meaningful outside-of-the-classroom options.