skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if a lot of people rebind the underscore character to a more convenient key?

I create bindings using Karabiner (Mac) for all symbols so that I don’t have to press Shift or leave the home position.

Underscore is “s comma”.
> I don't see the problem as long as the actual lawyer can intervene when necessary.

There was no actual lawyer, they planned to do it without notifying the judge, having a defendant “represent themselves” with a hidden earpiece. They'd already issued an AI-drafted subpoena to the citing officer (which is almost certainly a blunder aside from any rule violations; officers not showing when a ticket is scheduled for court is one of the main reasons people win ticket contests, there is almost never a reason the defense would want to assure their appearance.)
Ah, reading back, I think you misinterpreted my use of the word "random". It was intended to highlight how easy it was for me to locate a high quality article on the topic that even I hadn't previously seen before.

As such, while it was found randomly - I still read/assess its content for you as being well-referenced, as one would expect in the good spirit of conversation. But no big loss, if it turns out you won't engage in good spirit.
> Those of us who don't work for Meta or Twitter will continue to keep a weather eye out for fascism and those who carry water for it.

What 'fascism' exactly? I don't think you know what that word means or even explain what that word is.
They are <https://automatisch.io/>, as indicated above.
Because revenue is hard to fake, while a lot of the other metrics are easy. For example, a manager could cut costs via layoffs, get their bonus because the profitability increases in the short term and then they would leave to the next company. The old company may die as it has lost talent, knowledge and motivation in the long run. Doing these kind of tricks with revenue is much harder to pull off.
They're not saying "we've solved all problems" or "we understand everything". They're saying "all parties are working towards the same thing".

For example, "Acme Sulphur Dioxide Corp" may not have the same goals as scientists, governments, or the general population.
I always found lawyers to be interesting… they are not responsible for you. They help guide you and argue for your case. But if they mess up, that doesn’t send them to jail. You can fire them or report them. But that’s it. You’re still screwed.

Really the only one in the court working for you, is yourself. So ideally we’d make it easier to represent yourself. As long as your capable of doing such.

I quite like this idea, since ChatGPT could be setup to work for you. Provide you with 100% of the possible resolutions to your case and you can pick the one you want to go with. And if your argument is wrong it’s your fault. They can suggest or recommend a specific one or something. Same as a lawyer would.
> Recording court proceedings is already a big no in many countries around the world.

You certainly can't have someone able to challenge the official record of what happened.
I hate camelCase and Pascal Case.

You want arguments? Even though they're post rationalizations of what I like best?

OK, well first I hate to type caps, then I hate CAPS, so more than one in a word is unbearable. ThenIThinkItsHardToRead.
Finally I like that we have a visible symbol to mean space that's still visible. Who is going to use it if we programmers don't?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
https://www.ulano.com/rubylith
The relationship to bitcoin besides being created by bitcoiners is that it uses Schnorr Signatures for the secp256k1 curve - the same curve as bitcoin.

https://bips.xyz/340

A Nostr account is identified by a public key, you follow accounts by following public keys and the ability to post as an account is controlled by the corresponding private key.
Blocks have been one of Ruby’s main language features and is heavily used, but I wonder, where did it originate from?
Can DRIZZLE help to achieve higher resolution? Though with hundreds of photos this will imply a lot of work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_(image_processing)
Oh, I didn't think of that, clever.

EtA: The attraction of a New Type plus trait impl is that is re-usable. You could imagine (particularly if it was stable which your approach isn't yet) packaging up several speed-ups like this in a crate, enabling people to get faster arithmetic where they can afford any accuracy trade off without them needing to know anything about SIMD and without (like the C or C++ compiler flags) affecting unrelated code where accuracy may be critical.
> Let me introduce you to wild idea that language is just tool and has nothing to do really with the country/culture

This is a wild idea because it's false. It's hard to be a part of any culture if you don't speak the language. All you've said is that knowing a language doesn't make you part of a culture, which nobody would disagree with in the first place
TLS does a good job at this, and I'm not assuming it's compromised. But it's complex to setup correctly, and I'd rather avoid the need to transmit sensitive data everytime I access my credentials, and entrust my most critical information with a 3rd party, all to support a service that shouldn't exist to begin with.

Password managers are currently a necessary evil, so if you must use them, use an offline one, and sync across devices via any other secure mechanism.
It's also brought up for "regular old pollution". Neighbouring countries of Germany are pushing for Germany to stop polluting the atmosphere with coal. South Korean associations are making efforts in China to stop them from building incinerators on their east coast, outside of Beijing.

You probably are just not living in an area of concern.
I actually have a toy language that uses emojis for keywords, allows me to reduce tokenizing to basically "split by whitespace, split into runs of characters of the same class (every character is its own class except for [A-Za-z0-9_-] which make up a single class), then post-process tokens for finer distinctions". Strings are somewhat more painful, but using \q instead of \" to escape the double quotes helps.
No, they didn't try "that". "That" is having a lawyer in some basic case do it. The supreme court idea was never going happen and they knew it.
The same i would mean if i said "non-japanese ", only applied to france.
I love the standard, in fact we have implemented it in the new beta version of Codeanywhere
it has broke my mind
The way you write feels like English isn't your first language. Sorry if I'm wrong, French is my native language. But in case you had to learn English, you need to understand that you had the time, resources and intelligence to learn it to a very proficient degree. This isn't true for everyone. The parents you're calling obese and ignorant, they might be a bit like you in that they don't want to use their time to learn something they don't really have to and rather spend time with their children. Older folks usually had very poor English education at school if any and consumed zero English media, unlike a kid today with access to the Internet.

Also in many countries, teachers and hospital workers, amongst other professions, are government workers. You calling them usually lazy people is insulting and ignorant.
If the trades are being cancelled, are they going to correct the chart data? Right now it looks very misleading on the daily[0], weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly etc for large caps that trade quite steadily otherwise. I do understand that this would be a challenging effort as that data already flowed to and was stored by all the broker-dealers, but I think it should be done.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jdmgkdyei9xqz0/mcd.png?dl=0
Paper will last, a 100 or so years is not that hard to achieve, honestly. A bank I worked for had documents dating 140 years and they were just in a box most of the time. They handled it carefully, kept proper moisture in the room, but that was mostly it.

What about the original photo film? Isn't that the ultimate backup in such situation? There will be an option of potentially scanning it with better equipment or skill in future. Like it's done nowadays firm classic analogue movies.

I've recently read a great story of a son of a local artist who found a box of photographic film left behind his relative 80 years ago and it was "relatively well preserved, just sitting there in a box".

This reminds me: please let me know if you found a tape backup solution that is feasible for a small homelab!
I have seen your article. This bit caught my attention:

> All files are dated back to 24 February 2022.

If a coincidence, pretty interesting.
Both of those examples sound correct to me, yes. Dialects are usually used in particular geographical areas, there is no contradiction there.
> As long as any char doesn't have a special meaning (e.g. in Agda "(", ";", "," etc have special meanings) you can use it in an identifier. The trade-off is that

I would say the trade off is variable names like “a+b” themselves. I fail to see any reason why would I want something like that, like even in Math where the grammar is very hand-wavy to accommodate human parsing you would be insane to write that (though to be fair, math does have their own share of problem with identifiers, enumerating all the letters in different alphabets is not a sustainable solution)
Yes, he is a bastard but the US should also not have a prison system as it is - 24 light and solitary confinement just being one thing wrong with it.
> only the rich would then have access to actual lawyers
They fire them in the dead of night after cutting off all credentials silently. And hope the Dev didn't have any local code.
>And then every other week in a moment of brief clarity, some of them wonder why nothing works, from mail delivery over construction to even just holding an election.

Berlin has plenty of issues. But I don't think the points you raised here are meaningfully connected with people's language skills.
Funny enough I have zero problem with exploring other planets. My problem is when we start messing around with the only one we have without truly understanding every possible outcome. And having one country do it while it affects everyone.
So you support Mexico's stance then? I was asking for an opinion.
pdm is almost a drop-in replacement for Poetry, while being much faster on solving dependencies; look for "A Review: Pipenv vs. Poetry vs. PDM" if interested, or try it on your project.
I personally like the underscore because it is always the same combination while Caps are combinations all over the place and you have to choose the most convenient shift key, left or right.
> It's strange that the article doesn't even name it: inositol hexakisphosphate, a.k.a phytic acid

That actually seems pretty large as ions go. Compared to inorganic ones at least.
Right - it might be like self-driving cars: incredible progress, but the remaining task to get them to actually drive safely might be impossible.
You’re completely right. I’m slowly changing password on every important account.

But I had sensitive notes too, so IF my details got leaked then I am ruined either way.
I'm not seeing any probabilistic models either.
Looking at this from the Ruby world, cargo appears to be mostly a clone of the bundler model (with a sprinkle of rake folded in) which has existed for a looooong while ;)

It's quite funny to see languages fumbling on dependency management and somehow "refusing" to look at how bundler operates, then stumbling on a very close solution and then community rejoices at their package management being the best thing since slice bread.
> a terribly dystopian idea in my opinion, as only the rich would then have access to actual lawyers

assuming you mean "actual" lawyers in terms of competency + ability, that's literally the case today - no?
It's a different sort of thing I'm after when I'm querying ChatGPT. I use ChatGPT if I have writers block and need it to draft a certain kind of email for me, but I can't believe a single thing it says so its usefulness is quite limited. Beyond that, it's a very good toy for me right now, but I'm sure it'll only improve from here.
“Hard COPs”, not “Hard Cops”. Is this HN's auto-capitalizing?
"robbing Peter to pay Paul" is an idiom used to express that causing one person harm to benefit another is not a good thing. When an investor forces a company to lay off staff, merge with another, sell off divisions, etc... (all actions TCI has done) people within those companies get laid off, their jobs change, wages stagnate, etc... and this is purely for a fund's enrichment. For me it doesn't matter if that fund is then donating to charity because I don't think charitable use of a fraction of profits justifies harmful tactics used to raise that money. That'll just have to be a difference of opinion between us.

If you want to move the goalposts from TCI to activist investors that try to improve a company, then that is a different thing as profit is not the primary motive of those changes. There are activist investors who simply do not invest in companies they do not agree with and in other companies try to address issues with how the company runs, pay gaps, tax compliance, workplace conditions, etc... This is actually trying to improve the company and the lives of the employees, at a possible cost to the company and investors, so very different from just trying to improve a company's profits. Ethical capitalism is a bit of an oxymoron but there is definitely an ethical spectrum of actions within capitalism. Not all actions are equal.
As someone in Central Europe, the idea of a "starter" house is pretty weird, but I guess the topic has been beaten like a dead horse. People buy a house once they can afford it, and that's usually not the case before 30 or 45. Exceptions exist in regions where houses are abnormally cheap, but I have exactly zero friends or family who have ever lived in a second house.
Whatever it is, it's getting better.

And lots of people would rather have a glorified assistant than nothing.
I see article here which directly criticizes the whole approach while giving counterexamples for original (2006 version) of the paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610125

Have the authors made any attempt to address this criticism?
Depends on the parser. See e.g. [0] for Elm's take on it: it already had special logic for differentiating "(.)" and "( . )".

[0] https://elm-lang.org/news/0.9
Losing the case doesn't mean you won't pay the ticket.
Why bother responding to this question if you haven't actually used it? that's like not reading the article before commenting and surely you're better than that, right?
How is this site allowed to be live?

Yandex source is cool. But there are a lot of leaks with people private data

The US authorities move mountains for TornadoCash, Z-Library, etc... why leave this one?
Ask HN: How do Layoffs happen under “for-cause” employment laws?
It's a dark time for the tech industry with lots of layoffs happening.

I'd like to understand how layoffs can happen in states/countries with "for-cause" termination. While "at-will" employment laws permit corporations to easily fire employees, how do they happen in areas with "for-cause" employment laws?

Furthermore, it seems that these layoffs are happening in nations with "at-will" employment laws. This website[1] shows that companies in Canada are also firing employees. I thought all nations other than USA had "for-cause" employment laws?

[1] https://layoffstracker.com/
So, as a user, what should I do now?
It's literally what it's for though?

And from what I see, stuff like RetroArch can be run on normal console even without Dev Mode nowadays. Heck, you can play NES games directly in Edge browser without any shenanigans.
This was a new type of training session in that gym. One of those affected was a 26 year old, the two others ~40. I don't get why you feel the need to make up causes.

Most of what I read points out that it's more likely to happen to untrained individuals. It may be because they start to hard over multiple days, but that's not going against what I've said multiple times: that it's a high risk for untrained individuals jumping into high intensity training. _That's_ my point.
It seems to me you're the only one conflating things? Grandparent didn't say anything about getting out of having a trial, or about needing lawyers. They're talking about how people with money can use it to avoid spending time in jail, and gave a perfectly valid example of someone rich doing exactly that.
Time does not exist it is only concept
COBOL has used the hyphen a.k.a. dash as the word separator in identifiers.

Then IBM PL/I (in 1964, when it was still named NPL) has replaced it with the underscore, to avoid the confusion with minus.

All the other programming languages that use underscores have taken this usage from PL/I.

Most LISP variants have continued to follow the COBOL practice, because they also have avoided the use of the minus sign as an operator.

Because ASCII includes only a single ambiguous HYPHEN/MINUS sign, as long as programs are restricted to be written in ASCII it is difficult to use the same sign both as an operator as a word separator. If U+2212 were used for the minus sign and U+002D for hyphen, with a typeface that differentiates them, the hyphen could replace the underscore, but that would not change anything for typing as they would still be two distinct keys.

For easier typing, I use a Dvorak variant, where -/_ is on the home row. Whoever uses the underscore more frequently than the minus may revert which of them is obtained with shift and which without shift.
of course, it doesn't have to. And france has dealt with immigration in the past quite successfully, with newcomers melting their identity completely as to become almost undistinguishable from the french one after just a few generations.

For some reasons it doesn't seem to having worked that way in the last decades (and it would be really interesting to know why).
Stop putting words in my mouth.
I hacked my editor to make _ look like a small hyphen, and - look like an extra-large em-dash. Then I can work with snake_case underneath, with the pleasing aesthetic of kebab-case. And (for the robot control stuff I work on), negation is an extremely significant operator so I like having it stand out.

Screenshots at https://visibot.com/post/kebab-case

This is for a custom language & IDE, but someday I'll get around to making VSCode do the same.
Shameless plug...

I recently open-sourced a small BI app to query a database in english.
It only support Postgres for now (and it's far from perfect..)

https://github.com/BenderV/olympe
Quick corrections:

1. N3 isn’t that easy. You need to learn 600 kanji, plus reading and grammar. It takes over 1000 hours of focused study [1]. It’s a stretch to call it “basic” or “very easy”.

2. There’s no double taxation for US citizens living in Japan, thanks to the foreign tax credit [2].

[1] https://cotoacademy.com/study-hours-needed-pass-jlpt-compari...

[2] https://brighttax.com/blog/the-american-foreign-tax-credit-e...
I am curious what your "independent research" has turned up on the subject.
Id argue there isnt an equivilency between an LLM and direct dumping the data straight into a book, theres a significant layer of abstraction there from my understanding. It is entirely legal for you to read HN and paraphrase what you learned in a book, which id argue is a much more fair argument.
This is not "open source". HN needs a rule on headlines that make false announcements.
It was a question, I re-clarified.

In other words, do you think it was right for Mexico to stop this, or do you disagree with their actions?
Sure, but you get to push your encoder settings far less than you otherwise could. You always end up with either significantly bigger files or significantly lower quality.
As a linguist, the evidence is simply that your wife (or whoever) simply did not get enough exposure to language she understood, at the level she was at. Unless someone has a true learning disability, the only way one doesn't learn the language is because they weren't able to get the right input. And I say that without any blame - for whatever reason it was, that is the cause.
What exactly are you objecting to when it comes to billionaires, though? The nominal wealth? The relative wealth? Whichever metric, where is the point where it goes into "immoral" territory and what is the justification for choosing that point over another?
People always forget that there's plenty of land and you don't need to engage in greenfield really. You just need to build up. Keeping the ecosystems intact is much more important than keeping around a poorly insulated tinderbox of a home that was built in 3 weeks by unskilled laborers in 1935 around until the end of time. Ecosystems take thousands of years sometimes to develop all of their organic connectivity that we routinely destroy in no time at all.
> because the need for a surgeon in an important event in their life is somehow "wrong"

Most countries try to guarantee access to a surgeon when one is needed.
"Confluent falsely claims its CLI is now open source"
I had the same thought, but I guess if you're paying someone for legal counsel then they need to be held responsible for the service they are giving, however they give it. That's qualitatively different from buying a legal textbook and advising yourself from it, since you are the one deriving counsel to yourself from generally available information.
Great! Now we just need a data analyst to know which questions to ask!
Maybe I'm missing something, but besides reducing the Earth's temperature, vulcano eruptions have also caused famines, because reduced solar light impacts crop yield.

We have much better agricultural technology now, but:

1. Is there even any research saying we can counteract the reduction in solar light by "planting smarter"?

2. Agricultural technology is very unevenly distributed. If solar light gets reduced globally, Europe and US might be fine, but Africa, Asia, and South America could still face catastrophic reduction of crop yield.

I don't want say that it's a stupid idea, but boy, surely sounds like it is.
And of course entire countries are being wiped out due to global (20% US, 11% China, 7% Russia) CO2 emissions
This plan, which consists of multiple stages: https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/january-2023-flights
Singapore does this in a sense.

In order to qualify for new, heavily subsidized public housing (so called "Build to Order" - BTO) you need to be married and below the household income threshold (which is actually very high - $170,000 for a couple).

Well the problem is demand massively outstrips supply, especially in highly desirable developments.

So what do they do? They have a lottery. And because of the way Singapore lets you sell public housing at market rates after a period of time, it's a literal lottery - you can usually flip your unit for double after 5 years.

So what happens? Lotteries are massively oversubscribed. Sometimes 10 to 1. And people have every incentive to enter the lottery because it's cheap ($50) but the pay out is huge.

So as a result, plenty of young couple fail the lottery 3, 4, 5 times and then move to the resale market where prices are much higher.

So instead of allowing the market to allocate housing based on who is willing to pay (with the proceeds going to the government who can use the money for other things), the price is kept low and allocation is based on a lottery.

I'm not sure it's much better?
The difference is that in large swaths of the US, taking away their license is not that different from house arrest.

Breaking the speed limit by 10mph is completely unenforced. I've yet to be on the highway without someone going 20 over, and no enforcement.
The official record taken word for word by the stenographer? Why would you need to challenge that? Are you implying something that's more than one in a million?