skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Attorneys are a fairly tight group in general that rely on peer opinion to get jobs.

Nobody is going speak about about Judge A because the political machinery and peer pressure are very powerful. When Judge B rats out Judge A, all of the sudden those appellate court opportunities or various other lucrative appointments suddenly are out of reach.

Judicial elections are a good way to get bad judges out and mediocre or better judges get to mostly do their thing. The places where the broader political environment is corrupt are no more corrupt than if judges were appointed. There’s the benefit with an election that the local party leaders can just opt to not support a bad judge versus making a decision to oppose him.

If any change were to be made, I think making the clerks protected civil service employees would probably blunt the judges power, particularly if cousin Rufus get appointed to be county judge because he’s drinking too much at the law firm.
Or Kimchi if you're into Korean food.
I brew my own kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, and occasionally kombucha. Of those kefir is the most demonstrably effective, all of them are cheap.

The only effective probiotics I've found are very expensive, costing around $120/mo.
As a human, I had a hard time seeing the green pylons when watching the video. Local to me pylons are always bright orange and easy to see. My brain is not looking for dark colored narrow barriers so it doesn’t surprise me that FSD doesn’t see them either. I imagine I’d have a hard time driving those roads in bad weather or at night and maybe even under the lighting during the video.
What's your age? I know several people between 55-60 that got hired at FAAMG companies
Not sure if it helps, but I can tell you what I would personally do if I was in your exact situation.

I would live cheaply, I would exercise and train and buy the requisite gear, and then at the next opportunity I would go hike the PCT.

I really want to do it, but with “settling down” on the horizon it looks unlikely that I’ll ever be able to do so.

Maybe you wouldn’t say “hike the PCT” but perhaps you can put yourself in my shoes for a moment and think - what would I regret not being able to do assuming I am settling down 5 or 10 years from now?

If I hadn’t already done so, my answer would have been “backpack around the world.”

I’m sure there are lots of big experiences you could devote some time to, that would in themselves give you the opportunity to gain clarity on what you want.
Cahokia comes to mind.
Did you know that coops are perfectly legal in the US? You can start a competitor to Amazon that is employee owned. If Bezos isn't adding any value, you should easily out-compete Amazon, given how loyal the employees will be.
The "scary slide" is towards megacorps owning our lives, not the EU's very late effort to slow it down.
Lately I’ve had an increased desire to learn things. Usually I’d be gaming or watching tv shows, now there’s so many shows to catch up on because I apparently like learning. Maybe I was depressed — I don’t know.
The context is good error messages; what you’re saying is that DWYM (do what you mean) is even better than a good error message. That’s sometimes true and can help beginners. But it also means more special cases and magic, which can make a language hard to learn in a different way. Python and Ruby are almost at the opposite ends of that trade-off, so it shouldn’t be surprising that a Ruby person doesn’t like Python’s solution.

Also, and this is really off-topic, I also completely disagree that the names of built-in functions are off limits in a program, or should effectively be keywords. I'm not saying it's particularly wise to name a variable "print" or something. But should I learn by heart the names of all built in functions before naming any variable? Should I refactor my program whenever a new one is added? Resolving those kinds of conflicts is what scoping is for, and it works.
We can take it. See ya!
Imagine how it feels from the perspective of the person constrained by an illegal court order.
Well said. I agree up to one point, I know that beta software is also tested on public roads in the industry, but only by trained drivers. As of some project I did in the past, I was drivenin in such a car, when I got a lift by a collegue to the meetings. It was about 15 years ago. From outside it was an old model, but inside the electronics where all new.
You can't compare roller coasters to pharmaceuticals because enjoyment is subjective, but medicine isn't.
They’ll move to a more respectful EU-based replacement. The core functionality of Facebook (blog-like pages & messaging) is not rocket science.
Look at local medical schools and their faculty lists. Universities as well.

Basically write what you wrote and ask if they are the right person or know someone in that area of research.
Calling the office or faxes work better than e-mail. I suspect a text is a lower tier than e-mail.
X windows system before Xorg. Xorg looks like a Gnome-ification of the X Window System.
Public key infrastructure.
That's funny, both because they won't actually ever do this, and because even in the alternate universe where they do, nobody cares. FB/Meta is living on borrowed time and lack the depth of wealth Microsoft had when they were in this situation.

What makes this situation unique is Facebook is no longer able to innovate, both on its own or through acquiring innovators due to antitrust concerns. What comes next is an increase in rent seeking behavior, while fleecing the existing users and identifying whales.
Perhaps, though, there should be some minimum bar before we allow testing on public roads. The Tesla FSD beta videos I've seen thus far are truly alarming. The system is nowhere near ready for testing in the real world, where it poses significant danger to many innocent bystanders.
Recommendations for apps to track sleep ? Preferably without subscription but just a one time payment. Petty Apple does not provide a sleep tracking app.
Do you have an easy to make recipe?
Maybe I’m missing something but I scanned the front page there… why is it called “resistbot”? This seems like more participation in the democratic process so I’m not quite sure what they are resisting.
Why would you scold someone for wearing a mask improperly when you know everyone's about to remove their masks completely as soon as the snacks come out? What's the point of that?
Why do you think previous related threads "kill the discussion"? If anything, more background information and context should be a good thing, no?
I'm mostly with you for the immediate future. So even if cars driving themselves to our offices to write code for 8 hours is in the cards I'd be curious to hear more tactical informed guesses. What would an intermediate stage look like?

Would the demand for junior developers evaporate if more experiences people can 10x daily LoC productivity? Or the other way around? Would languages with higher level abstractions (e.g. comparable to Scala if not Haskell) win or something like JS dominate?
Exactly! I expect to see nothing but negativity here regarding this.

Making intelligence out of silicon isn't easy. Let the computers learn this way during the transition period, and finally we can remove human drivers from the road.

More than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on U.S. roadways. And Tesla makes the safest cars:

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the main independent organization that conducts crash tests on vehicles in the US, released the result of its latest tests on the Tesla Model Y and confirmed that it achieved the highest possible safety rating.
Just to help pulling his figure back to humanity a little bit, here's some letters that he wrote, about his fetish for dirty farts. Not that there's anything wrong with it, just that Joyce was a real human with humanly desires after all.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/02/james-joyces-...
Canada has even more provincial control than the US, so we are even more mystified about what this convoy actually wants (the whole convoy thing started up here, and a large majority of us are deeply annoyed.) Everything representing a "vaccine mandate" is implemented at the provincial level, with the exception of border controls.

Their original gripe was about lifting the order that unvaccinated truckers needed to test and isolate on re-entering Canada. Which was then made a moot point, since the US introduced a rule that says that truckers entering the US must be vaccinated.

Since then the group organizing the trucker protest has published a "memorandum of understanding" that demands that the entire government dissolve itself and hand over power to the truckers[1]. It is a wild document that seems to be a written request for a coup.

[1]https://canada-unity.com/mou/
No one ever thought about it. Russian billionaires and their children live in EU and get residence in EU countries, what economic blockade?
..." I can't imagine how gut bacteria affect moods"...

But you can imagine looking at a picture and feeling hungry.

In addition to our fast new electrical nervous system for rapid response
there is the older slower endocrine system from when we were just bags of chemicals coordinating with concentration gradients (still are, but were).

visual -> brain -> signals gut -> gut makes molecules to get ready -> molecules detected report to brain -> you drool

Moods depend on the chemical balance of small molecules
bacteria eat sleep and poop small small molecules.

To consider that after billions of years of coexisting we, both multi cell & single cell, have not adapted to responding each others's small molecules is unthinkable
/R/Antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification
this is cool and all but it’s not even close to AGI. it’s a sophisticated gimmick.

to go meta, I don’t believe that our way of approaching AI in general is going to get us to AGI.

Why?
Assume for a second that we could build something that could solve ANY problem.
What would happen next?
What does an intelligent human with zero emotions do? Nothing.

Fear of dying and the hardwired desire to pass on our genes (or to contribute something to society - which is just another way of shooting for immortality) is what drives us.

I predict that true AGI cannot come before a machine that has feelings, that is sentient.

We already have machines that do that. They’re called humans. It’s very arrogant of us thinking we can recreate in silicon what nature has evolved over eons. Not saying it’s not gonna happen - but not with the current approaches.

Also, a dog that speaks mediocre english? please. this is insulting to dogs and shows out tendency to anthropomorphize everything.
Von der Leyen keeps her SMS correspondence with Pfizer management secret, but my correspondence with my girlfriend somehow has to become public record (via anti-encryption laws and the resulting data leaks).
> this doesn't handle AMBERing of repeated letters correctly

Sigh... this game has ruined 5 letter words for me. Saw it and immediately thought "how's that for an opener?"
I'm not debating with anyone. I'm just sharing a personal experience.
This book gets recommended a lot probably because it relates to the Holocaust, but it's worth pointing out that "Man’s Search for Meaning" describes itself as "a story". It's not a philosophical book. If you want, you can learn about the development of human thought over time. There is an entire history of philosophy.

"Siddhartha" or "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" might also relate to the meaning of life but they are also not philosophy books. They might be great books but you might be looking for something completely different.
Probiotic and gut biome research is all over the place.

It’s possible to find some studies showing correlations, but it’s harder to find successful replications of those studies.

Some probiotics have been shown to temporarily alter gut flora, but it usually reverts after the probiotic is stopped. Dietary and activity changes are generally good at improving the biome.

It doesn’t help that one of the commercial guy biome measuring companies basically turned out to be fraudulent a few years ago. Even some of the public efforts to measure correlations are suspect or bunk because they relied on these services.
Ask HN: Inspiring hacker talks and presentations?
Hey HN, I had a great time working yesterday to the sweet tunes of Alan Kay's OOPSLA talk "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY) -- it really got the creative juices flowing. I love that kind of stuff. Douglas Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos" is another good hacker classic -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY.

I'm seeking more content in that wheelhouse. What are your favorite hacker talks or presos?
I don't think the parent was arguing necessarily that its wrong for parents to want their children to be taught certain things or a certain way. I think the argument being put forth was that most parents don't have what it takes to teach their kids. Let's say you take your kid out of school because you don't like what he's being taught in history class or whatever. Okay, well do you have what it takes to teach your kid music, art, geometry, calc, English, physics, biology, chemistry, etc. Most people I would say don't have that kind of broad capacity.

So what happens is parents start forming homeschool support groups, they pool resources, divide responsibilities based on expertise and knowledge, and eventually recreate the concept of a school from scratch. I guess it can then eventually undergo the same moral fracture and the cycle repeats.
In addition to the fact that we shouldn't be testing this stuff on public roads, it's baffling to me that anyone wants to use this in it's current state. To me this seems so much more stressful than driving the car myself. Having to maintain constant vigilance of what's going on around me as with normal driving, but with the additional complexity of having to keep second guessing what that car is going to do about it as well seems so much worse to me than just driving the car.
Any type of these that’s good for listening to audiobooks in bed? I find in ear headphones to be easily uncomfortable when you’re lying on your side.
Not only that but a career public school teacher in many places can retire with a nice pension, private school teachers don't. Even if you look at some of the best private high schools in the country the teacher salary just isn't great.

The only way it makes sense financially to teach at a private school is if you have kids you want to go there. Many schools will do reduced or even free tuition for teachers' kids. It's relatively common for private school teachers to either be early retirees from a more lucrative field or have a spouse that works.

That said, many private school teachers do it because they have more flexibility in designing a curriculum, are much less likely to encounter disruptive students, etc. Private schools also don't actually do 180 days. So it is a more enjoyable job day to day for sure.
Primary source: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-platform...

Which is a lot more dry and clear than what has been posted. We could all seek to be more emotionally disengaged if we want to have actual debates.

One of the things stated, for example is that the bill will not stand up in a court of law; and MEPs were displeased at the “moral blackmail” of the bill: basically “you don’t want to protect children? You must hate children!”

EDIT: what’s with all the low effort euro-skepticism in this thread? Surely we can do better.
Be aware that I haven't done this before, but I imagine it would go like this:

1. Figure out which field of science you are interested in
2. Find a couple of universities that teach this field of science or you think have someone specialising in that on staff
3. Go through their list of researchers
4. Pick one out and send them an email. Or if you cannot find a mail address, send an old school letter to the university
Had a look, and it was worth it! Will consider using for sure
You have the option to do all of these things.

I went back to school in the evenings when I was your age after being unfulfilled in my career. Turns out part-time education is full of people ranging from 20-somethings who chose the wrong career when they weren't working, to 50-somethings who just want to do something else.

I'm 40, most of my friends are mid 30s. When festival season comes around in the Netherlands, you can be damn sure people my age are going out there. Heck, we're the generation that started that when we were teens. Sure, I can't stay up until 6 in the morning anymore, but that doesn't stop us from going out until 3 am and hopping from bar to bar. I'll take the weekend recovering over not being able to go out anymore :)

You're not that old. The option isn't the problem, it sounds like your lack of desire is it. My best advice is take some time off, maybe a year since you've got the reserves, read some philosophy, slow down, figure out what matters to you.
Of course he cares. That’s how he makes money.

Had he had a show no one cares about, he wouldn’t get as listeners and as many advertisers.

But there’s another side to promoting such speech, which is taking responsibility for it when it makes some people and advertisers reject him.

Spotify and Rogan try to only take the upside without the downside.
on the internet everyone is a dog that speaks mediocre english. especially AI bots!
Then generate power at a coal or natural gas power plant. Until we get further along with renewables, the total environmental impact of replacing everything with electric today probably isn’t worth it.

Example: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...

I remember having a heated discussion with someone about this at work, and it came down to where you were charging that Tesla and if you had rooftop solar (not even discussing the environmental impact of mfg + shipping + installation + support + useable lifetime of the solar panels, home batteries, and support accessories).

And at the end of the day, moving around a 5000# Tesla or 6500# F150 Lightning takes a lot more power in any form than a 3400# Civic / Camry.
Google Quietly Ditching Stadia
Not necessarily.

Amtrak is currently investing in dual-mode locomotives: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/amtrak-sie...

My understanding of how these work is that when not connected to wires directly, a diesel generator supplies electricity instead. So partial wiring is possible with these. Amtrak has some additional constraints (they can't run diesels under the Hudson River) but to some extent a lot of freight operators have similar restrictions but deal with them differently; due to ventilation concerns, most Western mountain tunnels only permit one train in them at any given time, and the crews have to carry respirators and oxygen in case the trains stall inside the tunnel.

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Britain also has trains that do this running with a program of incremental electrification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_802

Once the electrification is complete, the equipment can be converted to full electric operation simply by unplugging the diesel generators.
Not really. This index.php is just a wrapper as it will refer their .js/.php which you have no control of. To use it fully you'll have to write those as well, at which point you can just start from scratch on your own terms.
Didn't Meta just claim that they were all in favour of government regulations? Now they're whining and crying they have to follow the law. Good riddance to bad rubbish if they go through with it. Now if only we could get them to leave Canada.
You can always ask the servers at the brewery and they'll usually know onhand. Lactose is used to get a creamy texture - if you're able to easily see through the beer, it's not going to have lactose, and if I'm unsure I just take an enzyme pill to be safe.
Unfortunately, GPT-3, CoPilot, AlphaCode, etc., also excel more at the creative part (helped out by their enormous training database, which saves you from doing the Google search to match your high-level description to examples), but they're still dogshit at editing, because that is the part that actually requires a detailed understanding of the text. So the princess is still in the next castle.
Does it at least specify hashes for files from CDN?
This wouldn't be his first foray into making "controversial" videos based on sciency-sounding nonsense. Look no further than his "299792 km wire loop" video, and at least a dozen video replies debunking it.
The Surprising History of the Comic Book
You should give something like FlashForth a try if you want something different.
Obviously. I’m saying that your soviet paratrooper roll training isn’t going to save your head in a bike crash, I know because I’ve done a whole lot of both. Biking to work is the place where you’re most likely to be hit by a car, and thus not be able to roll and not be protected by a backpack.

Hey I’m not telling you what to do, only pointing out that assuming you have control over physics in an accident is a pretty bad assumption, and that telling new riders that a few falls prepares them for non-helmet riding is dangerous advice because it’s not true.

I don’t know where you live, but we all know the Netherlands is famous for having some of the best bike infrastructure in the world, and also for low helmet use. Still, the chances of TBI in an accident in the Netherlands is 2x higher without a helmet than with. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neur.2020.0010

In the US, helmet efficacy has been demonstrated repeatedly. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29677686/

You do you, I’m just saying from my perspective, and from actual experience, the single best thing I can do to prevent a serious debilitating bike injury is wear a helmet. It’s by no stretch of the imagination the only thing I can do, and I like some of your other advice you gave. I just think if you care about slippery surfaces enough to lower your seat, or care about cars enough to wear a reflective vest, a helmet sure seems like a good idea.
My go to for this is Agent Ransack.
IMO most of Yandex/Ozon revenue is in Russia, so you a betting both on a company and on a ruble. Semrush, on the other hand, has most of its revenue outside of Russia (i think).
What's your thought on TreeMap (ordered by key)? What problems can be best solved by TreeMap? Why do people use HashMap instead of TreeMap?
"One of them, Morganella, was significantly increased in a microbial survey of the 181 people in the study who _later_ developed depression."

they would have been diagnosed with depression first leading to increase in morganella, if it was the other way around? agree this could be correlation, but I guess thats why they say that the field is still in its infancy.
We love cars, trucks, NIMBYism, and the petroleum industry way too much to ever build sensible trains in the US.
you forgot, kill people
I've gotten quite good at using Inkscape to design my own app icons. What really helped me understand it better was reading The Book of Inkscape [1].

[1] https://nostarch.com/inkscape2E
> They can be easily crushed or broken by the slightest touch. Because of this, helictites are rarely seen within arm's reach in tourist caves.

Wonderful bit of Gitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-esque comedy.
Precisely. If finding their email address was too much for you, how likely are you to vote?
Is it really surprising that ADSL2, which was apparently designed to work "up to 5000 meters" of copper, can work over 2 meters of wet string? Wet salty string being 1/2500th as conductive as copper wire doesn't seem too far fetched.