skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sincerely held belief" is the rub.

If I don't like Windows, and think maybe I could get out of it if I claim that it's against my religion, that's not a "sincerely held belief". It may be a sincerely held preference, but that's not the same thing.

If I have sincerely held beliefs that, say, closed-source software is immoral, and therefore it's morally wrong for me to use it, that's at least arguably religious.

The problem is to tell the two apart, especially when someone in the first category knows that they have to sound like they're in the second in order to pull it off.

Still, my point stands: Just wanting something, even wanting it strongly, and finding a way to wrap that in religious language, does not qualify for "freedom of religion" protection.
A better title, for sure. 1) gives the name of the body, 2) doesn't imply it's near us -- "inner solar system" is still pretty dang far, and 3) gives a better idea what it will be about, namely how this asteroid is still around.
Yeah I do the same. It seems to permeate into everything, even positives.

UK announcing research into x: comments will probably be negative and about how it’s a boondoggle.

UK company doing exciting stuff like fusion or quantum: comments will probably be negative and about how it’s a boondoggle.

It’s tiring.

Edit:

That being said it does lead to hilarious moments where I’ll read the Guardian and see a headline like “The NHS won’t make it to Christmas (for real this time) but it doesn’t matter because we’ll all be dead by then because of Brexit” and then I’ll see the Express in my corner shop with a headline like “Brexit HERO Boris makes Ursula von der Leyen CRY when he announced new BRITISH MOON BASE”
Both the 3DS and Wii U can be easily hacked to play pirated games without purchasing any additional hardware, there's numerous guides on how to do this that are a simple google search away, and the entire game catalogue has been dumped by game preservation groups like no-intro. As long as the consoles still work, all of their games can continue to be played even if Nintendo no longer sells them.
Not just that it doesn't integrate well with external tools. Cmake works better here.

We had a googler at our company switch everything to bazel and it just slowed everyone down.

There really is something about Google engineers, this sort of subtle arrogance that the Google way is superior to everything else is existence. Maybe I'm the ass hole but I wonder if anyone can relate?
This is the way. On her off-time she can play Castle Frankenstein.
Unfortunately, no. It's even worse within the video game industry. I'm not just talking Doom 4, er, Doom (2016). The upcoming sequel to 2014's Lords of The Fallen? Well that's called Lords of The Fallen. They didn't even get 2 game in before repeating the exact same name.
I do own a boat and I totally agree that many are paying over $1k because “it’s a truck!”.

I don’t own a truck. My boat wouldn’t fit on a trailer towed by a 150 anyway. I just think that the core market for that model is tradesmen or apprentices. Secondary market is the fools that think it’s cool to have a 10mpg truck for just having a trucks sake.

If you own a truck and have legit towing, hauling, or other “truck” business then it makes sense to own one rather than rent one. Like you said though, if it’s just one or twice a year - go rent one.
Except the furniture is Ikea
Do central bankers and other policy elites have no truck with financial elites? What does it mean when stimulus is injected into markets for the purpose of 'stabilizing' them? Are they not concerned with financial markets? This seems to be the directly stated objective of many economic policies.

Is this a conspiracy theory or a simple observation of incentives?
I was buying a piece of tenderloin in Costco once a week. In a short time the average price went from about $150 to $200. I could still afford it but something in me cringe so I stopped buying it. That is in Canada
holographic principle?
Silicon Valley’s Latest Fascination Is Exploring ‘DMT Hyperspace’
You're working with black box technologies beyond comprehensibility (which is its own problem), but at least you know the ingredients that went in the data stew and what the shenanigans people have been up to are.
The real problem for the oppression and deaths is the totalitarianism, rather than whether it's coming from the left of right. Both left and right-wing dictatorship have the capacity and opportunity for incredible cruelty. Healthy human rights-respecting democracies do not, regardless of their economic policies. Although extreme poverty can also be deadly and could be considered a form of oppression. There are good reasons why workers in capitalist countries fought hard for workers' rights 100 years ago.
It's democratizing for those with an idea but without the skill to convince investors to hire the juniors to implement it. It's a problem for employment numbers and macro-scale ratios of working to non-working adults.
Multi-party constituencies; which entails either many more representatives, or much larger constituencies, both of which are a problem.

STV (ranked preference); STV usually means multi-member constituencies.

AV/Instant Runoff; that's what I favour. It doesn't require huge constituencies or lots of representatives. It's not really PR though.

What I find objectionable about party-list is that the parties choose the candidates, so you can't have independents. The parties also rank the candidates, so you vote for the party, not the candidate. And the party machine can bury a disfavoured candidate at the bottom of their list. I want voters to be able to remove a useless representative that the party wants to keep, without actually assassinating him; you can't do that with party list.
It's not really an active conspiracy. It's just the rich pursuing their own interests. When the workers or poor pursue their interests too effectively, the rich in positions of power make them take their medicine. But when the rich do it too effectively, well, that's just the free market and you can't do anything about that.
Generate JavaScript code using natural language and choose which syntax use!
Only if the https server cert wasn't compromised at the same time as the ssh key. For all we know, this entire announcement of "we have a new key" could be staged.
Voting for party B only punishes party A if it increases the chance that A loses an election to B.

Which seems like a no-brainer, but I found most of my erstwhile fellow citizens voting not for B but for B, C, D, ad infinitum.

Because parties B - Z are now tiny parties, they get no momentum, and nobody votes for them... because nobody else votes for them.

Leaving a huge voting block for A, who happily keeps ruling regardless of being unpopular with all but 30% of the population.

Better to have two parties that are balanced on a knife edge, and they have to perform or they lose.
The Rise of Low Liberalism
"rich" and "poor" are just holdovers from conquerer and conquered. Just because the mandate that one group acknowledge the other's right to create value by fiat (e.g. by stamping Caesar's face into a coin) is no longer delivered by guys with swords doesn't make it not a conspiracy by one group to keep another group in its place.
cheaper erotica making young people even less likely to date is probably a real danger. I already tried to supplement my dirty-novels sideline with chatgpt output, alas it's more moral than I.
I agree. On top of the interference by unions, when payouts do happen, it's at the taxpayers expense.

Police should carry insurance against malpractice. When malpractice is carried out, the policeman (or union's) insurance should pay, not the taxpayer.

Let the God, aka invisible hand of capitalism, aka the greed of insurance companies, sort them out.
You think inflation can't happen in non-capitalistic economies?
Deciphering Quanta
Wasmer's one in theory works in the browser but I've yet to have it work. You have to polyfill some stuff like Buffer and even then you run into some annoying runtime Wasm errors.
> the lower class suffers by far the most

This is a tautology. The lower class is defined that way. If they didn't suffer the most, they wouldn't be lower class.
Food prices were rising a lot in 2021 already. Here's a study that links Brexit consequences to food price increases. https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2022/l-Decem...
I used bazel for a few internal repositories written in Rust and it's amazing .... until you hit an issue.

Edge cases in Bazel are about as documented as any random fish you might find in a crack at the bottom of the ocean. And the most hilarious thing to deal with is "yeah this was written for a Google project, that other use case didn't apply to our project".

When eventually after the Xth issue I was told "why don't you just fork this standard package" (it was for typescript support inside the Rust repo) I was like "f*** bazel" and never touched it again.

It's amazing when it works. If it doesn't you're f******.
> Increased prices and price gouging are not the same thing

Considering that's the explicit context of this comment thread, obviously, the difference is exactly what we're talking about here.

> I don't know enough about the food industry to be able to say which of these is happening, in which sector or country, but these are much more complex issues that the knee jerk reactions here imply.

That's what I mean about sparing a company's feelings. You have no material objections, but it's important we not use the word "gouging" for companies whose profits are rising considerably faster than inflation and it's consumers being hurt. Tone policing is the least important (and least interesting) part of this conversation.
The reality is very difficult to assess, but there are some clear markers: NHS waiting times have increased, and there is an unprecedented series of strikes by NHS staff some of whom are badly underpaid and all of whom have been exhausted by the pandemic.

Food bank use is clearly rising.

Royal Mail international shipping was down for at least a week due to ransomware: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/23/royal-mail-restores-global... ; they are in general badly managed, but few delivery companies are ever loved.

Crime is not necessarily exploding, but confidence in the police is rather low. A Metropolitan police officer was jailed for 71 counts of sexual assault earlier this year, having done quite a lot to raise the crime rate all by himself.

We are not yet back to early 80s tent cities.
We already have food stamps.
what he says, is but the way in which he conveys the meaning

the rich by this point aren't any group of people, but a section of the system.

the system is structural, not-alive. he is choosing to regard the system like rungs on a ladder. each rung is a social class.

the point I'm making is that he's describing the "ladder", referring to structural/systemic aspects of our civilization, not the "persons" standing on each rung which is the meaning you chose to focus on.

our society really is arranged in tiers or classes regardless of you accept it or not (but again, this is a way to understand it; there may be others)

in the UK the so-called "rich" (to answer your question) would be people with legal noble titles.

in Smerica this class of people is not explicit. I guess the older European system (which inspired American ones) at least is explicit about the fact that the royals and their nobles are "the rich" class. I countries with continuing monarchies, like the UK, they really have a noble title and registration. they're "better than you" by legal definition because of choices their parents and older ancestors made (or were forced to make)
And I'm saying you're wrong, they don't and I'm willing to bet that the courts will agree :)
Profit margin increased by 230 base points that represents a 14% higher margin.

130 basepoints if you use GAAP measures so only ~7% higher margin then but clearly unilever doesn't just have higher costs but is also increasing their margin.
The sort of associative engine lying inside the state of the art AIs has redefined the scope of what a "solution seeker" can be in most of the fields in which the LLMs have some chance of outputing a meaningful outcome for any given question. So currently, right now indeed you're already a more capable, more resourceful, more experienced software engineer than you were a month ago, it is just an untapped potential yet, because it is behind a paywall or a wall of excesive requests banning the access to chatGPT or even Bing (because they have limited the number of interactions with the AI, hence you have a harder time going deeper in the analysis).

But for the time being, you, nobody else is going to be replaced, but augmented, but many organizations, if not all, aren't ready for this kind of newer, improved professional capabilities, hence almost nobody is really "understanding" you can do more, a lot more now, than a month ago. Harder problems, deeper, better solutions for increasingly more complex problems (as the AIs get trained by our interactions with them).
I have used it to write Nim and Zig code (both not too popular languages).

I also asked it to write using non existent but plausible sounding APIs, and it flat out says "As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I have no knowledge ...."

Ae you talking about GPT4 or the default ChatGPT?
Less helpful for holders of credit card debt as their costs increase alongside their APR…
I'm a PM who is relatively technical, but I haven't written more than a few lines of code (stuff like minor modifications to my Shopify site) in a decade.

I saw a bunch of people talking about how GPT helped them code stuff on Twitter, so I thought I'd give it a try. Right now I'm building a sort of simple, mock version of the type of software that integrates with my company's APIs. I've successfully managed to create a simple web application that creates a new object, hits my company's API endpoint to create a corresponding object on our software, allows me to upload a document locally and then allows me to upload that document to our software via API as well. It's all a little messy and clearly not production-ready, but it works. It would've taken me probably a few months on nights and weekends do this (mostly refreshing myself on JS and Python). Instead I've done it in <24h (would've been shorter except for GPT-4's message limit).

I'm sometimes able to spot and fix GPT's bugs, but even when I'm not, it walks me through adding more logging and successfully debugs issues. Sometimes it takes a few tries and a little direction as to what I suspect the issue is, but so far it's fixed everything that's come up. I don't think this would be doable for a totally non-technical person, but I do think it'll get there pretty soon.

I'm just absolutely blown away.
I’ll admit to using the words framework and library interchangeably when referring to React in my day to day, but what distinguishes React from frameworks to me is the fact it doesn’t tie itself to a particular rendering context, i.e. it is flexible and unopininated and relies on wrappers and rendering libraries to actually function.
This was my fist experience with blaze too. First it was, wtf is this shit, and theze blaze-bin/etc folders. Then after I left Google I realized how much I miss it. No Make is not a replacement, or ninja.
Kãn / k-ä-n, A like in “father”
The race for bigger NNs will never stop.
'Liberalism is increasingly popular among non-elites. Whilst such voters think ideologically, their conceptual understanding is limited and they embrace populist methods, failing to understand the limits of liberal-democratic politics.

Whilst low liberalism reflects traditional liberal concerns and buttresses liberal democracy, low liberals embrace certain authoritarian and radical left positions, such as draconian measures against MPs and extreme anti-Israel stances.

Low liberalism shares the populist tendency to pathologize the views of opponents, dismissing conservatives as stupid and/or greedy. Relatedly, low liberalism can stray into dark territory, embracing the shadowy and conspirational.

Low liberals fail to understand the limits of liberal-democratic politics. They promote the politicization of once apolitical spheres and regard the state as a partisan organ, contrasting with traditional liberalism’s vision of a neutral state.

More broadly, online versions of liberalism and conservatism have developed in reaction to one another, entailing an arms race which disfigures liberal democracy. We should worry about the end point.'
For some reason when I hear people saying this I just picture them as thinking of the poor as having a mortgage on their second summer home or something like that.
I like having 2 drives. This seems to only have a slot for one drive? It doesn't take too long until you end up with TBs of stuff.
One thing someone could try is giving it a few examples of how to score a wordle guess, to see if it figures out the pattern.
I'm a heavy user of Google Chat at work. Whenever I encounter a space with in-line threading, I ask the others if we can switch to the topical structure (with separate threads grouped together and brought to the bottom for new messages, but no in-line replies). Usually everyone agrees.

If in-line replies become the only option, I'll have the choice of wasting countless time to dig through past replies, or just stop checking chat altogether.
In the image space, dreambooth full-model tunes can handle multiple concepts and tend to be easier to get hard/complex things like a person’s likeness correct. I’ve found that LoRA tunes struggle to be accepted by people as producing their own face compared to full dreambooth models tuned on the same inputs, most likely because we are very sensitive to facial differences of faces we are very familiar with. I haven’t seen this effect for styles or other kinds of concepts, where people are a little less sensitive about the fidelity. LoRA is much easier to train, easier to compose, and can have the base model swapped out in many cases though so if it’s good enough for the concept you are trying to add to the model it’s often worth the subtle quality loss.
I am positive there are plenty of undergrads who are probably going to try to get chatgpt to write up an entire app they can sell so they don't have to try and find a job in a recession. I imagine you could get this entire process automated from the prompts to the app store submissions, maybe you could have 10,000 junk apps each giving you maybe a dollar a month in return before long, that would be a good take for passive work after you set up your automation environment.
I’m a severe mouth breather. Both literally and figuratively.
The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
Yeah there's quite a bit of disconnect between who Framework imagines their market is and who I think gets excited at the phrase "modular laptop". We care about things like real non-chiclet keyboards, full size arrow keys, mouse buttons. What is the point in buying a Framework when the laptop I already own has as much connectivity as a Framework laptop's entire selection of modules, all at the same time? Framework should've offered things you can't get anywhere else, like a module that's just four USB 2.0 ports in a stack, or a module that's actually a fold-out bluetooth mouse.
In the US, most employees are at-will and work without that kind of employment contract.
There's a good case to be made that Putin was the richest man in the world. Nobody's sure what he's worth, but it's quite likely it was more than the $200B Arnault has. And Putin is singularly responsible for a good chunk of the inflation.

So blaming it on the rich might be appropriate, but not in the way that it's usually meant.
Trying to be positive in an ocean of poo, making your own tortillas is cheap, fast, kinda fun to do with kids and you can augment them for extra flavour. You can even batch prepare them in advance as long as they're not in contact with air.

Many of those are the same. Pizza dough : once a month take 30 minutes preparing 10 rolls and in the freezer.

And as a bonus, less chemicals in your system.
I'm old enough, and have been in the profession long enough to recall "software engineering" as a new term attempting to make the profession sound fancier. When I started we were programmers. We wrote programs. Sometimes we were also called "coders" though that wasn't understood outside the profession, where "programmer" was. Then the term "software developer" came along, and we were all "developers." Now, when I'm talking about my team of "engineers" I'm speaking of all my programmers. They create software, with all the design, authoring of code, and wielding of infrastructure that entails. Does that make the actual practice "engineering?"

Let's resort to definitions, with apologies.

Engineering

> Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings.[1]

That certainly doesn't make Software Engineers what are traditionally thought of as "engineers." So... on to Software Engineering:

Software Engineering

> Software engineering [is] the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation and maintenance of software and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering and computer science to software. [2]

That description does not fit what most of us do when we write or create software. Perhaps it should. We'd be better off in many cases. But programmers are often closer to gardeners than engineers in that we approach solving problems through empirical processes, testing and verifying as we go. TDD is an admission of the need to do just that. So is Scrum (empirical process control). There absolutely are cases where algorithm optimization using the latest research must be applied just so. There absolutely are cases where applying gradient descent and convolutional neural nets in specific fashions applies. Most of us are gardeners growing our systems, or carpenters building out a feature, though. Programmers. Software engineer makes it sound loftier, just like sanitation engineer makes trash collection sound loftier.

I will absolutely concede that I still use the "engineer" terminology on a day to day basis, my opinion on the internet notwithstanding. But it is a label that is weakly applied for fashion and connotation, rather than for its distinct meaning, and I suppose that is what I tilt at here on HN. Apologies for the pedantry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_engineering_branches
> OpenAI keeps talking about "safety" as the most important goal. If we define it to mean "open-source" then they will be pushed into a corner.

Oh no, anything but a corner!

Why would they care?
This is one reason why I don't mainline a Linux desktop anymore. It's just too much sysadmin work to stay on top of it, in addition to all of the desktop issues.

When even the creator of the Linux kernel has a very lax approach to security, and so the culture of Linux is the same way - I consider it an issue.
Whatever you do, hire a tester. A good tester trusts no one and nothing.

If you are writing a whole article on not trusting yourself, and never even mention the idea of engaging with someone dedicated to finding problems, then I can’t take you seriously.
That's really writing a web server in socat. Still cheating, since I'm using gawk extensions, but here's an awk webserver that's mostly [g]awk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085459
Are they? (Not sarcastic, I'm not native and I wouldn't pronounce them all that similar at first sight)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35281026
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”
I can think of other societies whose solution is more humane than 'drive up unemployment and make remaining workers so afraid they stop purchasing'.