skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between a lawyer who will take a case and a lawyer who can handle a case.

I agree 100%. One thing I do is look for similar cases and contact the lawyer on the winning side.

The "formulas" do save you money, though. Would you rather pay 5k for them to use an existing template slightly edited, or 25k to write a complaint from scratch? It depends on the case, there is no right answer.

You can also literally just look up a lawyer's cases on PACER and see how they write, see if they've won, and use your judgement as to whether they're an effective advocate. If you're dealing with a big case, this is absolutely worth doing.
I generally recommend against `source ./bin/activate` for virtualenvs — it's convenient if you're using a single shell session interactively, but it plays quite poorly with the Unix process model of environment variables being inherited from parent processes to child processes.

Instead, I recommend just running the other executables in the bin directory. `./bin/python` will drop you into a Python REPL with all the packages installed in that virtualenv available. Your IDE should let you specify what Python interpreter to use for running tests and other integrations; give it the path to that Python executable and everything should Just Work. Likewise, if your package uses setuptools entrypoints, they'll be installed into the bin directory too, and you can just run them with no further configuration.

For what it's worth, Rust (for one) works pretty much the same way. The only difference is that Rust doesn't have a concept of dependencies installed system-wide, they're always handled per-project like venvs. As a result, they don't have decades of stale tutorials online telling people to do the wrong thing.
What does "10,000x-100,000x as challenging" mean? If the songbook cost him one week, this will cost him at least 200 years? I love a good hyperbole, but this is just disparaging.
Totally agree. I'm sick of hearing about how consumers need to cut back while businesses can continue to consume and waste. Would consumers cutting down usage help? Sure. But it's impact is so tiny that it couldn't possibly help the underlying problem. At best it kicks the can down the road.
re "Had a complaint filed against me personally earlier this year." - unfortunately, the fact that the plaintiff's lawyer painted that picture is what's expected, and required of him. He advocates for his client, in the best way possible. Painting the most favourable picture for his client goes with that.
Exactly.

This is equivalent to the "we have to convert to electric cars because of climate change!" which will also barely make a dent in carbon emissions (unlike, say, converting the world to nuclear power plants).
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In my country everything is organised on Facebook. I play blood bowl, all non-naf events are organised of Facebook. I have friends I play board games with. All organised on Facebook. We have league specific chats on messenger and so on.

To be fair. I only follow blood bowl related sites and only have friends that I like and see in the real world on Facebook. So it’s actually not a bad experience for me at all, but I obviously don’t like the ethics of the company.

But the reason all this happens on Facebook is simple. Facebook is the only platform everyone is in. We could chat on discord, but half the group doesn’t use that, and unlike Facebook where you’ve got other reasons to be there as well (for most people) getting everyone to install an app for 1 purpose, typically means they won’t use it much after a week.

I sometimes wonder why no one build something facebooky with the only other thing everyone has, email.

But I don’t think there will ever be another social media platform that everyone just joins.
Google maps likes to wait until you 5m away from a turn before telling you you must cross 4 lanes to turn right
Reminds me of this https://github.com/amark/gun
Does Facebook or Google's S-1 have similar caveats? I mean people have live streamed their shootings on the platform, and frequently it takes Facebook hours to take down (to use the same language) unethical content.
I wrote this article you might like: https://github.com/jeremyong/cpp_nn_in_a_weekend/blob/master...

No dependencies. Just straight C++. The code is heavily annotated, doesn't use any matrix libraries or anything, and gets 92% accuracy or something without any fancy techniques on the MNIST handwritten digits database.
I don't know, I think we are all smart. Every single one of us. There are a few exceptions, but nearly all human beings on this planet are truly "smart" compared to all other known, non-human beings.

Unless this is one of those "everything's weird and 'normal' is particularly weird" arguments.

If so I agree that "everything's stupid and therefore it's especially stupid to think anything could be 'smart'"
If they get a choice with no silent default yes, but if the default is set for them and they have to go into preferences to change it the results are almost completely reversed.

This is why Apple Maps is so heavily used on iOS. Most people don't know or don't care. In the first year after the launch of Apple Maps it hit over 65% of maps usage on iPhones in the UK, even though back then the UK maps were awful.
Does anyone know for sure if there is a way to pay to get your business to show up? It seems so unnatural it must be an advert. While zoomed out on my city it just shows icons for hospitals and pizza hut.
This would be a problem if his job were to prove that his client is innocent. But it is.

Instead, the job is to argue that the prosecutor is not able to prove that guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to advocate for his client's best interest, which possibly even includes the client admitting guilt in exchange for a lesser sentence.
80% of doctors don't suck.

It's not that lawyers suck, per se. It's that you're dealing with an adversary, and if you get a 50th percentile lawyer to go against a 90th percentile lawyer, well, you could still win if you've got a good case, but it's certainly not as likely as the reverse. In many cases you get what you pay for.
What's the probability you live in an odd numbered house?
Scala is mostly immutable and OOP+FP works very well with it.

Also, just because an object is immutable doesn't mean that every method is going to return a new instance of that object. For an example, a 'sum' method on a list of integers object would return an integer, not a list.
The Singularity: When Will We Transition to a Dictatorship of Robots?
GOP functions aren't available after ExitBootServices() has been called, so the kernel doesn't get to take advantage of Blit() - the assumption is that the kernel will have a native driver for the hardware. Additionally, you can't really use off-screen graphics RAM in the EFI environment because GOP doesn't tell you how much video RAM is actually available, only the size of the framebuffer. You can guess which PCI device is associated with the framebuffer and look at the size of the BAR, but you have no way of knowing which addresses the EFI driver is using for its own purposes. Apple have enough control over their platform that they could possibly make this work, but it's tough when you're dealing with a vendor-provided driver on an add-in card.
> California can solve its consumer water problems with a couple of desalinization plants

From the article:

California has 11 desalination plants, and another 10 are being planned
That's cool. I didn't go as far as snooping around, but I noticed there also was no cookie banner.
A fair amount of GPL work is done by researchers in public universities
Yacy is about as useful as searching the internet with grep. You can search "Facebook" and the first 20 pages are foreign spam blogs that have the word facebook on them.
Can't he fake the source IP address by sending raw packets? Are they sanitized in any way?
Cash at hand is generally also not considered an asset. Because you're paying interest on it.

It's usually raised using deposits. Unless I'm missing something
It's because GDPR made things a law, not just a best practice. It does need to be considered, and it's worth making sure people remember it.
Costs to flush out and decontaminate the pipes would not be insurmountable. That along with different liquids have different demands on pipes, pressure, chemical reactions (corrosion) and then the viscosity factors. Maybe that pipes suited for oil are not suitable for water carrying, or not as ideal.
When we get to the point where we won't need as much oil, it will be because of drastic population decline, and hence, we won't need as much water either. Exponential growth cannot continue forever.
Facebook threatens to block Australians from sharing news
As opposed to 100% of people locking themselves away? The reality is people won’t do what you’re asking. The evidence is in the infection curve. We have to manage the society/neighbors we have not the people we wish we had. Further, a few months later everyone can come out and play.
Not sure why you'd be shocked, it's a solid language for enterprise services like Apple offers, and their other languages - C/C++, Objective-C, Swift - aren't very kind for web services.

Great use case for Go though, especially its concurrency features for web crawlers. I reckon Scala could work too, although it's a lot more complicated / clever.
I thought this was going to be https://www.factual.com/blog/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-mak...
I really like the explanation of the png file format. I'm not sure I'll ever use this knowledge, but I was happy to learn it.
Not really, there is a difference of scale to consider.
Best sellers are unpredictable from one page to the next, unexpected surprises abound but the general plot is highly predictable.
Literary novels typically have very mundane, thoroughly predictable narratives, what is unexpected is the way in which it is delivered or the comments the narrator may make along the way.

The original author refers to fiction [which] entertains readers by baffling and eluding their expectations about what, specifically, will happen next. Which I believe is closer to the way popular fiction operates than to literary fiction.
If they're struggling, are they that relevant any more in swinging elections?
Color or Not
Automated Browser Testing with Opera and Selenium in Python
Twitter almost always tells me I'm "rate limited" (can't remember the exact wording), even though it's usually the first and only time I've clicked on a twitter link in weeks or months.

edit: And FWIW, I'm not someone who blocks scripts/otherwise cripples my browser either. I don't even run an ad blocker.
The most pretentious people I ever met are scientists. Mathematicians, specifically.

You are being unfair. Show offs are found everywhere, and all in all docs are not particularly worse than many others such as scientists, economists, CEOs, whatever...
> Before this started happening, I frequently hit errors that required refreshing the page once.

Hey I face that too. I have to refresh the page to load it sometimes.

Do you block/hide cookies?
On the other hand, my university was in the habit of using the best professors to teach the intro / first year courses. Because those are the courses where you tend to lose the most of your students.
The most FOSS hostile company in the world acquiring the last properly open source browser does not sound good.
Well I, like many people. was very surprised money is created that way. And your fictional town doesn’t seem to work much like anywhere else. All the banks seem to be doing fine just fine. Houses usually go up in value not down so when someone defaults on a loan the bank makes money rather than loses it. With the exception of the credit crunch (where we all just gave the banks our hard earned money instead)
But if they have IP considerations or trade secrets to protect, they wouldn't contribute them to any other open source project either. This way, they can at least upstream everything, which doesn't fall under these restrictions.
> Main point is that "200 year supply" is not all that impressive. Demand growth can dominate that rapidly.

Sure. But if we keep exponentially increasing energy usage, at some point we'll boil the oceans. And long before that we would have wrecked the earths ecosystem. So I'm assuming that the exponential increase in energy usage will stop at some point.

The 120000 year figure I arrived at in my previous post included a factor of 100 increase over current usage. Even if we add another factor of 100 increase (a total of a factor of 10000 increase over current usage!), we'd still have fuel for 1200 years, surely more than enough to get fusion working.

> When coal was first becoming a mainstream fuel in the US, reserves were estimated as sufficient for 1 million years. Current estimates are for about 100-250 years (latter from BP's Annual Statistical Review for 2019). Demand increased somewhat, and consequences emerged. Now 150 years into the million we're phasing out coal as quickly as possible.

Sure, but ~200 years ago our understanding of geology was quite rudimentary compared to today. And yes, starting from more or less zero we did exponentially increase usage for a couple of centuries. I don't think it's realistic to continue at the same exponential rate for several centuries more, regardless of where the energy comes from (maybe in the far future if humanity starts to look at interstellar travel we would have a usage for such truly stupendous amounts of energy).

Furthermore, we're not phasing out coal because we're running out of it, but due to climate/pollution/economics. From a climate perspective, it unfortunately seems we have more than enough coal left to wreck the climate if we would burn all of it.

> Breeders, thorium (a breeder fuel), and uranium seawater extraction are possible but have proved challenging or limited to date.

The main reason is economics. Uranium is currently just so cheap that it doesn't make economic sense to deploy breeder reactors and reprocessing yet. And without volume deployment, they remain expensive and underdeveloped compared to the current once-through cycle. However, there is no question whether the technology works. It does.

Earlier in the nuclear age (say 1950-1970 or so), uranium was believed to be scarce, isotope enrichment by gas diffusion was very expensive and energy consuming, and we believed the world would soon be powered by atomic energy. So a lot of effort was made to develop breeder reactor and reprocessing technology. However, all of this turned out to be incorrect. Uranium turned out to be quite plentiful, centrifuges made enrichment a lot cheaper, and nuclear power expansion ground to a standstill.

But the earlier R&D showed that the technology is viable, so if uranium prices would start to drastically increase, the option to deploy breeders at scale still exists.
But not any sort of actual one--do you imagine that "unofficial" has a technical meaning of greater significance than that Debian people don't care for proprietary binary blobs?
Yes. It only has images and css.
https://i.imgur.com/MDzq4MB.png
Why is it 'massive'? I don't think it is. Compared to say C++, or programming in python where the language is smallish but the libraries considerable, I can't see why you say that.
I've always considered Ladytron his second act.
I recall back in the XPI extension days it was possible to host your extension on your own website and have Firefox offer to automagically install it as if it were from the normal add-on site. I believe Chrome also did this for a short while in the early days, too. Surely even with the severely gutted and locked down WebExtensions they have now, it would still be possible to do this again and independently provide your own add-on, or even host an alternative add-on store along the lines of what F-Droid does for Android.

You can put all the scary security warnings you want to scare off the unknowledgeable masses, but at least you'll provide some vector to allow niche users with niche requirements to add and trust a niche repository of their niche add-ons.
If we're fantasizing: ban cows, or at least eating them. Increase the health of ourselves and our children.
Can you give some examples of this mismanagement?
> Git repositories can only grow in size, and that is not only an acceptable condition, but also one of the reasons to use it.

That is so backwards I can't take the guy seriously.
This is what happen in Japan. In Japan phones' camera must ring shutter sound on taking photo that's annoying on many situations meanwhile bad people use dedicated spycam that's silent of course.
I love your writing style and attitude. Craving more.
I do use the trackpad (on an X1 Extreme), and it is indeed the one thing about this laptop that's not as good as a Macbook.

I love everything else. Better keyboard, spill resistant (I already spilled an entire cup of tea over it with no ill effects whatsoever; you can't do that with a Macbook), very solid build quality.

My only complaint are:

* trackpad not quite as good as Apple (though not terrible)

* ctrl and fn key are the wrong way around (why?!)

* specific for the X1E (at least with a 4k OLED screen): it drains the battery like crazy. The Carbon isn't as overpowered as the Extreme, so that's probably a solid choice if you want to be mobile, but my Extreme frequently has only 2 hours of battery life.
I like to think I've gotten over myself pretty fast and will now freely admit that I know nothing and suck at everything.

Tongue-in-cheek of course, there's no need to downplay your own abilities and knowledge. But if anything, I'm no longer feeling like I'm missing out in the rat race. I'm missing out on the whole AI / machine learning thing but that's all right because it just doesn't pique my interest.
The pieces are starting to fall in place for a decent virtual first development experience.

I don't expect my recent laptop purchase, which was a combination of form for comfort, form for clients to see, and perf for working to last more than 3 years. At a $2500 purchase (most expensive damn laptop I've ever got) I'm aware that half that price or less would get everything but the perf.

So if a cloud solution was good enough, I have about $400 a year to spend on it.

It's about $.5 an hour to match perf on EC2, but we should consider:

- I only need the top perf for minutes at a time. A lot of work could be browser based, but browsers cant do the heavy lifting

- I also have a desktop, which I use more than the laptop, is significantly cheaper and higher perf. Its most useful to me if both envs are the same.
even if it was true, it's still the 34th position over 36 countries

The richest country in the World is 34th

I think you have a problem there, no matter how much you try to find excuses for it

> Metodology
Membership in the OECD was used as a proxy for similar nations to the U.S. The group was narrowed to OECD members with 50 years of high-quality data, minus the U.S. It includes: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
We used to do a mix of Ocado and our local grocer - Ocado for dry and frozen goods and cleaning. Have switched cleaning to Splosh though, as much lower waste https://www.splosh.com/.
Guess the important question is if ALT + W,I,N works!
The "I" in "ITU" does not stand for "ANSI". (-:

* https://itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.416

As M. Kochkov will attest, supporting 24-bit RGB (or even 32-bit ARGB) colour involves (a) recognizing and processing the new (sic!) control sequences from the 1990s, and (b) actually supporting having the display hardware in a non-palettized true colour mode (as opposed to using a 256-colour palettized mode and pretending).

The definition of a framebuffer virtual terminal is, rather, that the display hardware is in its graphics mode rather than its text mode. (This was the norm for some architectures, which didn't even have text mode display hardware. But the MDA/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA on the IBM PC and compatibles did.) The operating system, that is providing the virtual terminal, draws the glyphs by manipulating pixels, rather than relying upon "character generation" hardware to do it in the video output stage of the adapter.
80%+ of prostitutes suck. hurhurhur
I wrote a small script to do that with 2D SVGs, there's nothing difficult about doing it in 3D.
And Google doesn't own those buildings nor the architectural design.
> I'd argue that they generally aren't... except that, over time, cities may grow until they are right next to the airport again. And then new airports get constructed - usually far away.

That sounds backwards. Airports get built as close as possible to the cities they serve. For newer airports that ends up being some distance away because they need to avoid existing homes.

> You distribution center needs ready access to transportation, it doesn't have to be next to your consumers. We are not delivering packages to their destinations with planes, after all. Usually trucks do that.

The point of the plane is to save on trucking time though, so you want a distribution center fairly close to population centers.
You can dislike google and facebook, and feel that they need to be regulated, and still not support objectively bad laws.

> Imagine how much quality investigative journalism could've been funded with just the money Google spent developing messaging apps.

If you want to tax big tech companies because you feel the end result of doing so is good, then do that. Tax them. Don't create some hairbrained scheme to allow a media conglomerate to extort them. Especially when it won't actually help investigative journalism. The law is crafted to support an entrenched tabloid, not local and investigative journalism, which is what's suffering the most. This law funnels money from tech companies to rupert murdoch. That's not a win. The fox news guy doesn't need a bailout, he's doing okay on his own.

> Accept Google's terms or go out of business.

What are these "terms"? Aa far as I can tell they're "get traffic for free". What am I missing? Your counter seems to be that Google posts the headline so that, you know, you can pick what to click, and that somehow having the headline means that I won't click on the link. I don't get it.
Do you have a timeline of how AppleBot has evolved?
> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working

lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle

Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup above; the idea is awesome and Github Codespaces is too but there are just too many limitations and having a real, ever-running Linux vps everywhere, even on your phone is just magic and even when you write strategy papers...