skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define robbery. Taking the US as an illustrative example: How about legalising corruption in politics through Citizens United and having laws systemically rewritten to favor the rich? Or the government subsequently effectively pumping investors portfolios with the poor's money through QE (especially using the slap in the face "too big to fall" justification which essentially says the wealthy are more important to the economy than the poor)? How about raising taxes on the poor by not adjusting tax brackets for inflation while corporate taxes have trended down? How about Exxon making record profits by getting government subsidies and further subsidising its own profits by making the world poorer with its pollution?

Paying taxes is not a voluntary choice. Subjecting yourself to inflation is not a voluntary choice. Having your environment polluted is not a voluntary choice. You have no political alternative to this system, no vote you can make to say no to it. The rich taking from the poor is only not considered robbery since the wealthy both (legally) bribe the lawmakers and are the lawmakers. Just look at Clarence Thomas. Only the poor taking from the rich is robbery.

The semantics of what constitutes robbery aside, the world is experiencing a totally unsustainable concentration of wealth which will eventually cause markets for goods & services, consumerism, and the engine of world economics to collapse toppling the entire wealth pyramid. On top of that, global warming and the fact that oil supply seems to be plateauing (So we can't kick the true costs of energy down the road again) is suddenly going to make being poor much more expensive. At some point sheer practicality will prevail and redistribution to the poor will need to happen, and if it doesn't happen voluntarily, it is likely to result in an eventual revolution. If a revolution happens, it's likely that suddenly lawmakers will change the semantic definition of robbery.
From earlier this year, before the latest breach:

T-Mobile’s $150 Million Security Plan Isn’t Cutting It

https://www.wired.com/story/tmobile-data-breach-again/

"The mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems."
Run another instance of it on a different tld only for positive news, and I will sign up!
It is possible for a statement to be technically correct, but practically incorrect. Words have different definitions and meanings in different contexts. If you try to force a meaning from one context into another context, you have made an error in your language use.

If you take a look at the dictionary, which is a documentation of the practical use of words, you will see that to talk of chemicals in food is entirely coherent. Words do not have absolute definitions, they are defined by their usage in the real language.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/chemica....
I'm always on the hunt for more articles to read.

Scarcity is just a given in a scarce world. The perception of shortages on the other hand acts similar to static versus dynamic friction. Once things get moving they become less sticky.

Most of the issues originate in one industry, that says it doesn't pick winners and losers, but consistently does at the tax-payer's expense. They also have a very sordid history as a private institution and to date have never met their chartered mandate. I've read a lot about the history of the Fed.

The supply chain issues rely on cheap labor and cheap transportation that were optimized in many respects for single points of failure due to cost savings. If your an authoritarian regime you usually have both. I've worked as a System's Engineer, and we always look for these in any system for improved resilience in the design.

The lack of silicon processing is a special case, and underlies the complexity of manufacturer; the same issue affected both electronics and automobile shortages. The methods of manufacturing are much more specialized and fault intolerant in the former (because only 1 company supplies the dependencies, ASML) than the latter (paper).
> If it becomes more shit, people will migrate, and it will slowly die.

You might be surprised how vendor lock-in can prevent many projects from migrating in the future. If you’ve not yet migrated, it would be wise to stay away from Microsoft-GitHub-only features.
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Where are Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns? And where are all the non US banks, such as e.g. Credit Suisse? They would make the other numbers in this graph dwindle ..
Unless you tax land. Nobody manufactures that for profit but profit handsomely from it they do.
I like this list a lot! But I'd also add that a lot of the cheap knockoff "gas station knife" kind of pens write just fine.

I suspect a lot of FP users are in it for the same reason as me. I'm not writing tens of pages a week, I use them for occasionally taking a few notes, in a really pretentious way just to be extra, partly as a protest against the trend of not having any hobbies besides eating and scrolling. It's like a living history project every time you use one!

My penmanship is already terrible, I don't expect to dance over the page effortlessly, I'd need probably years of practice to not need to constantly think about each movement, no matter what the pen is.

So to me, choosing a $10 pen by what looks cool is totally valid as long as there's enough reviews to be mostly sure it won't leak or just not work at all or something.

Even low end ones provide a lot of value if you just want to write without anything too 21st century ruining the low tech aesthetic, and it only costs $15 or so to get into.

Just be sure to get a modern pressurized pen as a backup if you don't spring for the nice fountain!!
I feel like this is treating obesity as a scientific problem, and not a mental one. It's absolutely, one hundred percent the latter.

Losing weight is easy. Eat less calories than you burn. If you don't know what that is, assume 1500ish.

I know this, but still have had huge phases of gaining and losing weight in my life. And it was never because I'm so dumb as not to know why or how to fix it, but because fatty foods become some type of 'good part' in an otherwise uneventful day. Or because you're so exhausted fast food is all that's for dinner.

We've got to figure out how to fix the mental parts. With the rise of social media and the recently published 'loneliness epidemic', I suspect this will get worse before it gets better.
The absolute best feature is selecting the LEAST significant articles. Way more whimsey! +1
Are we in the same thread?
The idea is that Rust is to Firefox what C is to Unix. It is a general purpose language, but one that is specifically designed to address the kind of problem you have when writing a web browser.

It was a Mozilla side project, but with Servo, totally in line with its mission of making a good web browser. I'd even say it was a necessary long term plan. Chrome was the better, more modern browser, and Firefox needed fundamental improvements like these to compete. If anything, I think they should have spent more energy on Rust and Servo, not less.
Taxing land would increase rent and therefore increase food prices.
Borking things like google maps and email based on windows phone user agent when it works fine if you change the user agent.
The main problem is the vilification of beans, potatoes, corn, peanuts, and apple juice.
>"At any rate, the C++/Rust part can be a distraction"

that was exactly my point.

>"interesting point here is the technique of encoding program state in the type system."

It is "interesting" but there is nothing new about it.
The first is a necessary step for the latter. There's a reason pundits have been talking about a multi-polar world for 20 years.

No country is currently strong enough to cement its position the way the US had, but the move away from the dollar will hurt the US a lot, by limiting the Fed and increasing inflation. It also enables other countries to have a foreign policy more antagonistic to the US, it takes away a good chunk of leverage.
The NHS doesn’t run as a separate entity to the government of the day. The health crisis is caused by their policies, not its underpinning political thesis?
> It is not hard to eat relatively health, if you have time or money.
This is the most important sentence. I would also say `s/or/and/g`

When counting calories and spreading eating out through the day, diet planning, food preparation and eating can easily become an almost full time job.
Well it's obviously more difficult to sanction the most powerful country in the world than a much poorer country like Russia. And there is much less reason to do so when you aren't being threatened yourself.

It seems to me completely normal that the US was less sanctioned by "the West" when they invaded Iraq than how Russia was sanctioned when they invaded Europe.
As the father of a “high functioning” autistic daughter that was only correctly diagnosed as an adult, I wish I had been as aware as this dad when my girl was a young teen. A whole lot of pain and grief for her and for us would have been avoided. I urge everyone to read this and to consider whether a loved one of yours might not be autistic and perhaps getting an accurate diagnosis.
Yeah, I saw something similar in a reply to another comment. I don't think it would be quite as bad as that because it's not just completing the phrase in a vacuum though, but in the context of the prompt. So if the prompt was "where was GW born", then "in Virginia" would be much more likely than "in 1732". But I do understand that there would often be multiple ways to word the same thing, or multiple correct answers to the same prompt.

In the case of multiple wordings of the same thing, I wonder if there could be a way to determine closeness of responses, and consider them together when calculating confidence. As a simple example, if responses have the same rare words (like 1732) and differs only in the sentence order or the more common words ("in", etc.) used, those would be more similar than ones that used different rare words. So perhaps that could be accounted for.

As for multiple correct answers to the same prompt, I think that's fine. The confidence of a response might be low because it's one correct answer of many, or because the model has no idea and it's taking a wild-ass guess. But the user asking the question probably has an idea of whether what's being asked is very common knowledge or something obscure or controversial. At least much of the time. And even if the metric wasn't perfect, I still feel it could be useful.

Of course this is all the rambling of someone who doesn't really know anything about this stuff. You could just say I'm spitting out some likely tokens I guess; consider the confidence low.
100% agree with this.

I just got out a bad relationship and I’ve gained 7kg.

You need to be in a really good place mentally to make all the good decisions and fight all the advertising.
Good question. I gave a small description of it on about page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/about

> For each article ChatGPT estimates:

> Magnitude: how big was the effect;

> Scale: how many people the event affected;

> Potential: how likely is it that the event will cause bigger events;

> Credibility: how credible is the source.

Then I do `Credibility * cbrt(Magnitude * Scale * Potential)`

cbrt = cubic root

Maybe the formula could be improved but I was satisfied with the result, so kept it that way.
lazygit (sadly on GitHub: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) offers a wonderful TUI for Git that has helped me on a number of occasions visualize Git when needed. The bonus of the TUI is that it works well with upterm/tmate for pair programming.
Kilian Weinberger's 1st lecture on YouTube.

1956 (or 57) the perceptron was made. The public mood was ecstatic. Generals were dreaming of robot armies, finance world was dreaming of automation, and the whole world was dreaming.

1964 (or 66?) a bestselling book was AI Winter. It explained in everyday English how the whole thing was a farce (at that time). Funding dried up. It wasn't sexy to say AI anymore. So people started saying ML. For funding they were doing ML and not AI.

Nowadays it is a top down vs bottom up approach. One is AI and the other is ML (i don't know which, it doesn't matter)
Wow, what a set of terrible handwaving advices that will produce zero results. Here is the proper list:

1. The only way to lose weight is to eat at a calories deficit. Calculate the number of calories you need using this app/site/whatever, than make sure to eat at a devicit tracking all your eating with this app. EDIT: This does not mean it is not important to eat well and clean, but that eating well alone is not going to make you lose weight if you are eating too many calories.

2. Engage in strength training at least 2 times per week, better 3. It is impossible to revert eating too much with exercise because the calories used during exercise are very easy to eat back just with a few slices of bread. However resistance training helps to create more muscles and less fat in the event you are still getting weight, and if you are losing weight will protect from losing muscles. There will be also methabolic benefits.

3. To speedup the weight loss, assuming you are eating at a deficit, you may add some cardio activity, this also helps to lower blood pressure, glucose levels and so forth.

4. When eating don't use cheat days: if your daily deficit is for instance 400 calories, and in your cheat day you eat back 400*6 of the deficit created during the other six days, you will not lose any fat.

5. Weight every day and store the weight into an app that can draw a graph for you, such as Google Fit, MyFitnessPal or whatever. You need a constant warning in case you are not losing weight but are gaining it.
Diligently counting my calories and trying to keep within a certain threshold helps. The app I use is MyNetDiary and the free version is generous, although I purchased the premium version to support it.
I also, included a disclaimer that people don't need to buy my program in order to overcome anxiety. I assumed it was clear in the article, but I guess not, so I added that too. Hope it helps :)
I'd rather have both in one :)

neverssl strikes a pretty good balance
Just eat low-carb or carnivore. It's the easiest way.
I'm not that old yet, in my mid-30s, and still during my lifetime I've seen an incredible amount of corporate-consolidation in multiple countries. It's happening in multiple societies, across multiple different industries: food, media, banking/finance, tech, auto manufacturers, etc.

Last time I looked into some companies from my home country that were part of daily life in my childhood I see that most have been acquired by a larger corporation, or became corporations with multiple mergers themselves.

It's been happening pretty fast the past 20 years.
This is great!
You’re going to get a lot of ‘I want weekly’, ‘I want categories’, ‘I want settings for this and that’ here, obviously up to you to decide if it’s a good fit but I’d assume that a simple feed without much settings is good enough for most people.

From my side the only thing I wished to have once I clicked on the first link is if there were links to de-paywalled websites (I guess Pocket works for that, or webarchive).
Wonder how far the US is ready to go to keep that tool functioning. Will we soon see it sabotage the EUR ?

USD is such a fundamental leverage for the us diplomacy, i don’t think they’ll let it go without a fight. The end of USD hegemony would also probably mean the greatest economy crash since the 1920s…
I’m not familar with all the recent banks that are failing but is it a result of consolidation during the 2007 crisis?

Seems really strange visually at least
The new AMD models that are coming out later this year seem very promising in that regard, but no reviews are out as of yet.
Wow... this article is bad. As someone already pointed out it is a rehashed version of what happened in late March[0].

I'm impressed "Security Intelligence" even ran a story like this with such conviction. Though, it seems that the goal of the article was to promote the HeavyAI page.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35291354
It's more like "top world news". It's a nice project OP! I'm just ranting about terminology.

"Significant" has a very personal context. Things that affects significance to me are things like: proximity to my home/work, my hobbies, my age, my financial situation, etc.

For example, if my neighbourhood's crime rate had gone up by 100%, I'd want to see that amongst the top news of the day.
You ploted the size on a log scale and claim "the recent failures dont look quite so crazy anymore?" Is this a joke?
Microsoft GitHub gets the ability retain your entire Git history too for training, including the bits you may have force pushed away. Scanning other code forges wouldn’t give access to the ‘complete’ history of a project.
Cuba comes first to my mind.

Here is a good list involving dozens of countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...
Photographic film is complicated. Having cheap and readily available amounts of it is amazing — it gives us one pre-made component so that we can focus all our energy on hacking a camera.

This project is very cool because not only does it leverage pre-made film, but also that often overlooked marvel the pre-made electric motor is in there too.

The electric motor was such a marvel when it was first available commercially that you would buy one separately and then gather together a smorgasbord of different machines which you could use with your motor. If you told these people at the time that motors would become ubiquitous to the extent that individual devices would have their own, permanently attached, dedicated motors they would have been astonished.

Finally, if you don’t have access to a 3D printer but want to build your own camera, the classic example is the 24mm frame matchbox pinhole — little more than two film cans with an exposure chamber in between.

http://www.matchboxpinhole.com/winder.html
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You are wrong.

Yuan is still only 3% of global currency reserve, behind dollar (60%) and euro (20%). https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88926. up from 2% in 2017...

China is Russia's ally in the war, and even Russians don't even want yuan - it has been selling renminbi since the beginning of this year https://asiatimes.com/2023/04/rmb-based-trade-hasnt-worked-o....

de-dollarization is mainly happening with China, and it's only because Chinese economy is crashing fast (50% real estate price cut in matter of months, 100k+ housing inventory for sale in major tier 1 cities, 80% factory order decline from foreign companies), and it needs to have access to dollar to pay back its huge debt - 400% debt to gdp, and Guizhou just became the first Chinese province to declare bankruptcy last month.
The NHS is bound to the UK's government economical policies, the main economical policy of the UK since Thatcher is neoliberalism (including Blair's Labour embracing The Third Way of social-democracy); the current Tory government has only been applying those principles ever more. The NHS as a concept is socialist, its implementation depends on taxes which depends on the UK's fiscal policy which in turn is neoliberalist as fuck. Hence the crumbling of NHS as a concept, it is not attainable in a neoliberal economical environment with its business-over-society ideology.
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I gained most of my weight in my 20s. I lost most of it in my 30s.

Lose weight swiftly in 4 simple (but not easy) steps:

1. Cut out sugar and anything that has sugar or sweeteners as an ingredient.

2. Cut out all fruit juices. Eat all the fruit you want instead.

3. Warm up every day. A quick 10 minute routine upon waking up. Not enough to feel tired or sore - just enough to feel strong and agile.

4. Walk 4 miles every day. That's around 10k steps.

I know a woman who lost 50 pounds this way in one year. I've lost 15 pounds in 2 months. It works if you can stick to it.
I'd anecdotally heard some reference to kits of that kind being around somewhat before my time but I'd not have been able to link the name 'Gilbert' to it if my life depended on it.

I think by the '60s things had tightened somewhat. Low level radioactive sources were still available in school labs (so were 'risky' chemicals and large amounts of Hg long since banned—also making black powder was still a core subject and we made and tested it and were expected to know its chemical equation).

But by say(?) the mid '50s those x-ray foot measuring devices in shoe shops had been banned. I recall seeing one in a shoe shop when I was a young kid that had been relegated to a corner and being very miffed that I couldn't measure my feet in it (it had some sort of viewer to look through and a diagram on the outside showing a foot skeleton versus shoe size or such and that took my fancy).
then just don't count calories, don't plan diets.
just prepare your food and eat. it takes around 2 hours.
at the end this is one of the most important activities because you care about your fuel.
I really appreciate his mentioning of FOSS communications as well. It’s unacceptable how many projects are locked solely into Discord or Slack.
> eat less

It is quite literally this simple, but the weight-loss industry keeps growing. So many billions of dollars spent to redirect the answer for people. Some people will have a harder time mentally coping due to genetics, but at the end of the day, this is the answer.
I didn’t mean to call all GPT-4 output gibberish, just this commercial script.

But now that you mention it, if a person started speaking unconsciously with no meaning connected to their words and no intent behind their communications, we would call it gibberish. I think it’s possible that these LLMs only produce gibberish, extremely well formed, useful and coherent gibberish masquerading as communication. After all, language is a vehicle for communication and I don’t know what is doing the communicating in this case.
If quadrupling a country's money does not cause runaway inflation, then there is something deeply wrong going on
ChatGPT 4.0 will make all forms of coffee holders obsolete in 6 months anyway.
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Android custom ROM community still uses it. I bet it’s the ISO size that makes it preferable.
My point is it isn't very useful if half the types are 'a