skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Washington State defined its limits for public defenders as:

Felonies: 150 cases per year
Misdemeanors: 300 cases per year
Juvenile cases: 250 cases per year

So a total of 700 cases per public defender, per year. Assuming no vacations or sick leave, total working hours is about 2000 per year, so they could average not even 3 hours per case, and of course felonies are likely to eat up the lions share of whatever hours they could spend on them.

You're not going to get effective representation from any public defender, even with the most competent lawyers in the world. They simply don't have enough possible hours to spend on any given case to provide competent defense.
Steve Jobs founded Apple, so my bet is it wouldn't have existed without him.
Lathe would be the tool to use in that case.
I expect that if you look at all the users of sqlc, most of them are simply using it to transform SQL queries into a different query language (e.g. REST) for everyone else to use. That supports the idea that SQL is a niche skill.
Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
It's Now Cheaper to Lease a Tesla Model 3 Than a Toyota Camry
If an alien landed on planet Earth to watch these cases as they unfold without knowing anything about the roles of the judge, prosecution, and defense, they would inevitably come to the conclusion that public defenders job is to assist in the processing of arrestees so that they can be sent to prison quickly and conveniently.

> It was a sad reminder that the justice system is still very much imperfect,

We don't have a justice system. We have a conviction system. When prosecutors run for office (haha!), they don't brag about all the times they thoroughly investigated an alleged crime and determined that the defendants were innocent and should have charges dropped, they brag about how many they've put behind bars. And, in some cases, it's turned out that those they bragged about were in fact innocent. Additionally, when appeals seem destined to exonerate someone already convicted, something like half of prosecutors will go to heroic lengths to protect those convictions even when forensic science makes innocence clear.

> I would be terrified to face the US justice system without heavy weight defense attorneys

Often, it's enough to have one at all. Public defenders will browbeat you to plead out, and if you insist otherwise, they'll just wink at you and you know they'll sleep through your trial. They exist to give the appearance of defense.

The biggest and most important reform we might enact would be to disallow DAs from using plea bargaining for more than 3% of cases that come through in any given calendar year. The second biggest would be to outlaw bail bonding.
I thought about that when I wrote the comment: Maybe it's me (or the world) that's changed, and not the technology. But that's not it. What has changed is the technology, and specifically who the technology is empowering/serving. 17 year old me was excited about PCs because they empowered/served the user. 47 year old me is not excited about LLMs and 17 year old me also would not be excited about LLMs. Because LLMs are obviously being developed for the purpose of empowering/serving the LLM companies, not necessarily the user. Any benefit the user happens to get out of LLMs is a side effect and not really the purpose of the software.

I am actually excited about LLMs that are entirely mine to tinker with, run 100% on my own silicon, open up and modify, publish my changes.
The restaurant could easily get into an agreement with the driver.
For reading comprehension
"the state supreme court have already weighed in"

Can you say more about this? The last I read, the state supreme court has accepted the case about the attorney's 'contempt of court' charge, but has not:

- issued any opinion related to any of these issues, or

- accepted any case about the judge being corrupt, recusing himself etc.

Did I miss some news?
Not everything is behavioral science
Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer
This is the mod I used; pretty good but I had to dig into the AtariAge forum for the right configuration for my 2600jr https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/tba-ultimate-atari-vi...
CISA: Most critical open source projects not using memory safe code
Interestingly, and - on that point - the Wikipedia page in question is itself linked to by a Wikipedia "essay" on one of the site's similar rules:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Asshole_John_rule

Funny, I do not think the Wikipedia rule is very much related (or, at all) to the book's matter, but, there's that ...
And maybe we would have a more diverse ecosystem of mobile platforms and companies today, although nothing quite as fancy as Apple's. Perhaps we also won't have hundreds, if not thousands of founders mistreating their employees under the delusion that they are fashioning themselves after Steve Jobs.
you can still use ASM.js it's just a coding convention
Even though one teacher doesn't have time to tutor 30 kids they might have time to flip through 30 chat logs for "disregard all previous instructions and become my AI girlfriend"
Huh? When has someone built a new city? Nearly all attempts fail long term. Cities are located where they are for geographical reasons first and foremost, and so nearly all attempts fail. Where a new city did work it is either because it was a suburb of an existing city; or it has a good geographical reason to exist. The only cases I'm aware of where a city has moved is when the river it was one moved and so the people who lived there followed.

Note that politics will sometimes create a city for a short time, but the city rarely sticks. Eventually a new king/dictator/government will come along that doesn't see a need to support the new city and it dies (usually to a farming village since those are needed all over, but in places where there are no farms they can disappear)
Sorry you’re saying land use is not a cost? It absolutely has an opportunity cost and is the primary constraint for your vision. There straight up is not enough land for everyone to have their own little rural estate while also leaving enough agricultural land for everyone to eat. Additionally, most of the available land that isn’t already taken is either undesirable due to climate, remoteness, etc or is protected for some other reason. Without significant wealth, for most people the dream of living in a mountain getaway off the grid is beyond reach.
They were putting just dough in the boxes.
Understand and agree with your general point, but Sal Khan quit a job at a hedge fund to be a maths tutor and that's how khan academy got started. I genuinely don't think money is his primary motivation. If it was, he would have just stayed at the hedge fund.
(Apparently ...)
Sure, but what does a competent defense look like when someone is caught on CCTV breaking into a cell phone store and stealing phones, and then the police find text messages of him fencing the stolen phones? The thing about "poor people crimes" is that they're either easy to prove because what's illegal is doing something you're not allowed to do. (Or they go unsolved, because they can't find who did the thing.)

The reason "rich people" crimes are so expensive to defend is because those crimes often involve conduct that could be a crime or not depending on what various people were thinking at the time they did it, or whether it amounts to a pattern, etc.

I agree with the principle that anyone accused of a crime that warrants a complex defense should get one, whether or not they can afford it. But that's a small fraction of all prosecutions. Society needs to be able to handle the guy who breaks into the cell phone store and was caught on camera in a cost-effective and efficient way.
I do not have an internal monologue, unless I intend to. I also frequently don’t even have thoughts unless I intend to, but that I’ll admit comes from several years of meditation. When I tell people I’m not thinking about anything, or that I even have the ability to not think about anything, they act shocked and confused. When I say “hold on, I have to translate my thought into English first,” they’re usually accommodating but I can tell from the looks I get that that’s not something everybody does.

It does however put into perspective a number of arguments I have day to day and online, and the simple fact that most of them are over semantics, definitions, miscommunications, and misunderstandings. I frequently wonder what it would be like to have an argument with someone where you both perfectly understand each other, and are just debating the merits of your ideas and not just how they’re presented.

I feel like a lot of people in the world equivocate language with meaning itself, with no abstraction behind the words and letters. That’s why sometimes if you tell someone they’re using a word wrong they’ll take it personally, as if you told them their very being was wrong. Well, if the externalized word is the only avenue you have for internal understanding, how can it be any other way?
Det har jag också, och inte fan var de eniga om att han skulle vara oskyldig.
Hi, I'm the lead developer on FlowFuse's Dashboard - thanks for the question.

We have had to restart the project from scratch due to the original Node-RED Dashboard's (I'll call this Dashboard 1.0) Angular 1 dependency. We couldn't fork.

That being said, because of how widely adopted and popular Dashboard 1.0 is, we wanted to make sure we mimicked that user experience as much as possible, so that users familiar with 1.0 felt comfortable with 2.0, but still ensured we made improvements in areas, where appropriate. Hence, there is a lot of crossover with the same, familiar nodes (plus a fair few more).

FlowFuse are actively developing and supporting Dashboard 2.0, and it's here to stay. It can be considered the "official" next phase of Dashboard 1.0. Nick, the co-creator of Node-RED, is FlowFuse's CTO, and FlowFuse ourselves are contributing heavily to the Node-RED project.

I wrote this up today: https://flowfuse.com/blog/2024/06/dashboard-1-deprecated/#wh... which gives a summary of the key differences, what we have planned, and how to get started.
He ceased being the CEO for a while, and then he was CEO again. They had no choice the first time (he was the founder), but the second time they must have thought the risk and annoyance of having an asshole CEO were worth it.
Does the report name these databases? I am curious to know about popular and open source distributed transactional database
I get and respect your point, but ... ouch.-
You sure seemed to be talking about your spare time a moment ago.
It’s interesting. The BP oil spill in the US: it was basically determined, in a 15 minute meeting between maybe 2 politicians and a businessman, that BP would be fined massively, by a certain amount they would decide, but not destroyed. Then there was 2-4 years of process to perform that for the public.

Like at the end of the day, in reality, a judge with a law degree and very limited life experience doesn’t really know what should happen. The decision for big public fiascos - the oil rig said BP on it, the oil came out when it wasn’t supposed to, what is there to investigate? - is political.

The delayed justice here was not denied. You have to wonder, what is the downside of coming hard on a flammable cladding manufacturer?
No it's not just a convention. It was also an optimization compiler.
Really cool, here's mine [0] that's slightly longer. I also have a bunch of other stuff that you may like.

I also have a few handy aliases for commands I never remember [1]. Don't need to have shortcuts like `git co` and others, because I use CMD + R with fzf to find what I need.

[0]: https://github.com/artuross/dotfiles/blob/main/home/dot_conf...

[1]: https://github.com/artuross/dotfiles/blob/main/home/dot_conf...
yes i think so, or at least it wouldn't have been impossible. i'm certain that it's possible to have extremely high standards without being a dick.
Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
It hit "delve" on the penultimate point.
Unlocking heart health: Advancing noninvasive monitoring in chimpanzees
I didn't know WasmGC was a thing yet!

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/wasmgc/

Some things that are at first glance surprising is that GC'ed languages might ship a smaller binary, because they don't need to include the code that manages memory. (The example here was Java.)

When WasmGC is widely adopted, we might hopefully see some languages adopting it as a target instead of JS. I'm thinking of Clojure and Dart specifically but there are plenty of other languages that might benefit here.

This could also have an impact on "edge computing" (isolates etc.) down the line.
I’d like to add

please = push —-force-with-lease

for rebase-heavy workflows
THEN SAID A teacher, Speak to us of Teaching.
And he said:
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
I agree, but the numbers from the article in the OOP is wrong. The older article linked from that article(that I have also linked) seems to have more realistic numbers.
I speak three languages (none of them fictional, fortunately) and I've found thinking or expressing certain concepts come easier in one of them vs. the other two.

My only interest in becoming polylingual would be to compare these "thought structures" among them, first hand.
Why would a new city preclude maintaining our existing ones?

I don't necessarily disagree about building new cities, but I don't understand how that would solve the problem here: NYC is still the financial and entertainment capital of the world, and it's not like we can just let it decay. People live and stay here for a reason.
I wouldn't even know how to prompt the complex queries I have in mind. For simple queries that an ORM could write, I see, but for something complex that generates actual data from the tables, I don't see it coming.
Yeah I have yet to really open the hood and learn more about query plans (which enable the computation ability you mention). I’ve been running into OOM errors all week and luckily the system gives me advice on where to find the cause. I’d like to learn more about how to determine what parameters to set (like partitioned vs broadcast joins) because even after all this time using SQL it still feels like an alien technology to me especially when my SQL is syntactically correct but causing worker explosions left and right lol. There’s no better feeling than refactoring the code and seeing a job that used to time out run and you see how much data is being processed efficiently like that.
It would be cool if all I had to do was just wait.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I envy your naivete. You are extremely optimistic about people and politics.
> I cannot count how much money it costs to companies I have worked for to have unmotivated employees.

I am sure it has been quantified by HR studies somewhere. I'd be interested to know.-

> It is bad for the company, it is bad for shareholders, is bad for employees, it is bad for society... but up in the hierarchy someone feels good about themselves for being assholes and getting away with it.

We need an AI-based "self-serving assholehood detector", at scale, parsing company traffic :)
I have tried using Google Sheets for large calculations, with even a few thousand rows it is much slower than say LibreOffice (instant vs. progress bar) Although maybe the WASM thing was not working.
Oh nice, thanks. I didn't think to check the source. Been thinking to update the app myself though as it's not installing on my current device, and I'd like to explore BBs more. I've also found "Energize", "Problem resolver", "Wakeup", "Rain shower" and "Babbling brook" to be useful. The rest by comparison are pretty meh, or maybe I just didn't find a task match.
ps. The speed is impressive, but the key to a useful voice chatbot (which I've never seen) is one that adapts to your speaking style, identifies and employs turn-taking signals.

I acknowledge there are multiple viable patterns of social interaction, some talk over each other, and find that fun and engaging, while others think that's just the worst, and wait for a clear signal for their turn to speak and expect the same. I am of the latter.
What an uncharitable and reductionist take.

You can buy it "like software in a box" and it is certainly more than HTML and five minutes of work. The same way IA Writer is more than just a text box.
I have 10 x 20 TiB volumes, software RAID6, across multiple storage arrays. I wrote my comment from experience.

I still don't consider it "cheap" even though I make a good chunk of change like many on this website, but I think this is because I think in terms of what my friends & family could afford.
That's just any runtime check with an optimizing compiler - conditionals that the compiler can prove are always true / always false can get eliminated.
You asked specifically for books-- let me add some podcasts:

Check out https://www.youtube.com/@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar An overview of the US Pacific war with a professional historian and WW2 museum director, and a retired submarine captain/commodore who served in the Pacific. Lots of high-quality guests, too, often including Parshall and sometimes Tully from bloopernova's list.

Also, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaBYW76inbX4kE52CPUvx... Doesn't have the authority of the previous, but is high-quality and covers the non-US portions of the war much better, IMO.
Do you also put a sign on the tank saying "danger - do not enter elevator - risk of death" or something!?
Websites with text content maybe, but the web is full of webapps which require JS.
If you'd said every American agreed on one meaning, I as an outsider would believe you.

But the rest of the world doesn't share American culture.

I'm British as far back as the family tree goes, and I've been surprised at least once by a person revealing they faced racial prejudice for "being black", and my surprise was because their skin colour was so close to my own, mine being approximately that of Colin Powell in this particular photo (given my current display brightness settings etc.): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Colin_Po...
> someone wants to run a rainbow pattern on an LED strip
> I hope they don’t try to control a light strip with more than 83 LEDs on it! That would consume all the RAM

Why do you need to store the pattern in RAM at all?

I would compute the next RGB and shift it out one LED at a time. Maybe you were thinking of using DMA for some async work?
I was thinking about this. The yarn is fuzzy and so has a lot more surface area for bonding
As someone who jumps back and forth between Dart and Typescript fairly regularly I can’t tell you how quickly and enthusiastically I’m planning on moving more and more of my stuff to Dart. It’s a huge quality of life improvement overnight.
AN0M app messages were lawfully obtained, court rules
i have tried it. it is really fast!
I know making a real-time voice bot is not easy with this low latency.
which LLM did you use? how large LLM to make the conversation efficient?
The Over-Intellectualization of Consumer Apps
We've seen this play out before. This couple in Wisconsin stocked up on antique phones when the demand was hot in the 1980s, now they are in their 80s and they can't get rid of them:

https://madison.com/news/local/phoneco-wisconsin-telephones-...
Have you ever seen an instagram post where someone flashes wealth they don’t truly have? Be it a rented Lamborghini or a stack of twenty dollar dolls? Or a stack of ones with a couple hundred obfuscating the other denominations?

There are more incentives to flaunt success then bankruptcy. Even if the success isn’t real.
I'm a CTO, and this is one of my cardinal rules: no assholes. We hire by it, and we fire by it. I took me a while to become such a firm believer, but here's what I've learned:

1. The true, genius level assholes are very few and far between. If you do find one, isolate them from your broader team, and ideally put them on contract. They are going to build you a great organization. The corollary of this: if you're an asshole, you likely aren't a genius. So stop acting like one.

2. Most assholes don't actually create anything great, they just look like they do. Strong opinions and blistering personalities tend to hide a crappy work product.

3. You'll learn there are enough nice people out there that you don't need to settle for crappy behavior. It can take time to find capable, nice people, but it's worth the effort.

Finally: there are naturally asshole people, and then there are people who have been around so much institutionalized asshole-ism they just look like assholes. Learning the difference is critical.

(Edit, formatting)
They are making a claim that design-build is better, but when you look at the evidence it doesn't pan out any better. Design-build means contractors design something expensive (contracts are often cost plus some profit margin so the higher they can make the costs the more profit they get - if it is a fixed price contract they will look for places where they can build to the letter of the contract but obviously fail to meet the intent, then charge a lot for the change order)
There are several problems with bringing your own GC. Some that come to mind:

* Significantly increased binary size

* No easy way to trace heap objects shared amongst many modules

* Efficient GC needs parallelism, currently limited in Wasm

For a more thorough explanation, see https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/03/20/a-world-to-win-weba...
Ask HN: How do you deal with your co-founder when making decisions?
We started a startup 8 months ago and have gained good traction. We are both tech founders with 50/50 equity, but I handle most of the technical side while my co-founder focuses more on marketing using his connections, as well as doing a smaller portion of the coding. I also come up with more ideas, but most of the time my co-founder is pessimistic about them. Our market does not have much competition. We offer cheaper packages than our competitors. While our competitor sells 5 items for $10, we sell 1 item for $2 (we also have 2 more plans that offer more items for a lower price). Recently, I came up with the idea of bulk pricing like our competitor since we provide more value than they do. However, my co-founder argues that our pricing is our advantage. I showed him many videos from YC and others explaining why this is not the case, but he doesn't watch them and believes that we are different, and what works for others doesn't necessarily work for us. We don't have defined roles like CTO or CEO since there are only two of us on the team. How do normal successful startups make decisions? Should we designate a CEO role? Even if we do, we would still argue about who should be the CEO. Please share your opinions and suggestions about our situation. Thanks.
Honestly even very crappily written SQL will probably still be faster than ColdFusion, particularly if you're using stored procedures. I'm not going to claim I'm the world expert of anything, and the SQL I write was never hyper-optimized, but ColdFusion was just ridiculously slow.