skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, you can't get free legal representation for habeas actions?

So, firstly the prisoner needs to be very legally savvy and have access to things like pencils, paper, law library etc, which is no given, especially if they are in a county jail which is usually far more restrictive than prison.

Then I believe you would have to exhaust your state habeas first before you can file federal habeas. State county courts have judges who rarely know the law and will never have seen a habeas action. So when you file it, they'll probably spend a year pushing it down the docket (especially because you're in jail) before finding some random reason to dismiss it.

You'll get more educated responses from federal court, but filing there is a little bit harder and the cases take just as long.

Habeas could easily be a multi-year, perhaps up to a decade to litigate through to disposition, especially for someone acting without a lawyer.

source: lots of experience
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3 months? Small claims?

Federal civil court averages 33.7 months from filing to trial. Needless to say, it can be a lot busier than that in slower districts. (~43 months in the 2nd District!) And then there are appeals, etc...

Best case, we were looking at 40 months from filing to trial in the 9th District, which is statistically nominal, but the whole process would probably have taken far longer.

Current statistical table: https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/data-tables/2024/12/31/st...

I've never heard of a single 21st century US (Federal) civil case that went to trial in less than a year, to say nothing of three months. I can point to a mountain of cases that have been dragging for many years.
Files stolen from NSW court system, including restraining orders for violence
One of the big advantages from my perspective is you can cache a lot more effectively throughout the build process when things are deterministic.
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Ask HN: How long until lawyers, other industries are automated with AI?
Hi HN, I was just thinking about this and wanted to share:

Lawyers are slow, terse and way too expensive today to the point it feels that they are gatekeeping for being inefficient and a lot of time wasted for everyone.

With the fact that LLMs are getting more and more better with text and hallucination rate is going to near zero, there should be no reason that lawyers rates should be extremely high in an AI world.

There are massive case law datasets that are available and paired with LLMs and the need for only 1 or two lawyers, it should stand to reason that lawyers + AI should get more done and not charge obscene rates.

I imagine that there would be a either an AI lawyer or a lawyer paired with AI that can take on 100,000 or more cases a year and charge $100 max rather than take on 10 cases and charge millions without AI.

We've already seen AI progress with everyone becoming digital artists, freelance writers, or programmers using AI and those who are already in those professions 10x or 100x ing in productivity already using these AI tools.

Why are industries like finance, consulting, lawyers, accredited investors too slow and gatekeeping with high rates of fees when AI can lower the barrier to entry for everyone and in the process 100x the people in these existing industries productive output?
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Not available in all states. Illinois doesn't have it.
A lot of functions of electronics don't require tons of processing power or efficiency. Microcontrollers can be used for just about anything. General purpose computing can be put to whatever purpose you can image.

Things supported by this OS like the Z80, 8086, 6502 etc. use around 5-10W. Using simple parts to control complicated machines is a standard operation, and even advanced electronics tend to use a lot of parts using older manufacturing techniques because it's more efficient to keep the old processes running.

Here's a fun article with some context about old processors like this still in production: https://hackaday.com/2022/12/01/ask-hackaday-when-it-comes-t...
looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_eruption#:~:text=Ther... suggests that if a goal is to avoid eruptions, low-water content golden rings would be preferable to the bags of mostly water that are live human beings.
Reproducible builds are important also for:
- caching artefacts
- ensuring there's no malware somewhere that's been added in the build process
No clue about Seattle, but they definitely do in Northern VA where I live. Every new development that requires a change of permitted use goes through a lengthy review process with plenty of opportunity for locals to object.

Edit - sibling comment indicates Seattle has something similar.
Moro is apparently a reference to Andrea Moro, but I can't find any writing of his titled 'The Subject "Chris"'.
There's been a lot of discussion in recent years about how fashion has stabilized over the past couple of decades whereas it used to be that fashion was in constant flux. Can we notice much difference between the typical street clothes of today versus those of a decade or even two decades ago? The clothing styles of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s are all quite different. Perhaps the lower quality means the industry now has a way to guarantee constant product sales so they're no longer pushing fashion trends as hard as they used to.

Trends certainly do still come and go, especially for young women, but overall society seems to have settled into a state of low energy for fashion change.
It really doesn't though. Even when google was at its best, and showed you relevant non-spammy results, a degree of critical thinking was required when sifting through the results, evaluating the credibility of the author, website, etc. Do you fact check everything the AI spits out? The ability for people to critically think is basically gone. That's been trending since before AI, but it's really clear to me at this moment in time how bad it has gotten. It's a laziness of thinking that I don't think was the same with Google.
Also, a lot of commits are save point in nature (like if they will be squashed or rebased before merge/push), and the alternative for me is to name them "progress dump" or something because I don't want to look at the diff of an arbitrary commit just to come up with a sensible message.

Though for that I use the AI git message button in Cursor these days. But you don't need to be a noob vibe coder to find it useful.

The haters all have github repos where they've resorted to low quality commit messages at least from time to time.
Wherever people think their justice system hasn't failed them so completely. So, this includes many people in the developed world. Approximation of justice was always a matter of degree, not a boolean.
Personally, I feel Mozilla did not market XUL[1] enough. Had they done that, it could have become what Electron is today, with a native look and feel, and with a much reduced footprint while still offering a JS-based runtime for applications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
And in a couple of years the same will most likely happen to the WASM backend.

That was already possible with Haskell to JavaScript.
https://archive.today/BdltR
Curiously, what is the alternative? Chromium-based browsers?

Sorry, but I don't trust Google's push to Manifest V3.
> Working on his iMac, Richman had to make sure the instruments on camera stayed in sync with the music — all while building one of the most frenetic, tension-fraught sequences of the season.

The most mind-splitting part of this press release is trying to imagine how someone would struggle to edit this on PC. Like, I know AppleTV is hemorrhaging money supposedly, so they have to get their money's worth from each production somehow. As an advertisement this mostly just feels like a reminder to people that Macs can indeed edit videos. I can do this stuff on my Linux PC if I really wanted. Sigh.
Maybe this “screw up” delayed LLMs by years and gave them more years to milk the cow.
If you end up in an ER with a life threatening condition we'll all see just how fast you'll be begging the medical establishment to save your life.
Does he willingly take that treatment from others? I don't really know, but that would be the actual test of congruence.
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If your later work overshadows your earlier, you're not generally remembered as a prodigy.
That ship sailed the moment the super-individualist hacker turned into the 10x programmer.
Ask yourself, honestly, how comfortable you'd be with the idea of the government monitoring you (regardless of how you act, think, or feel) because you have a gene sequence correlated with antisocial activity.

... if, in your deepest heart, you'd be comfortable with that...

... I'd humbly suggest that you may have a genetic condition that makes you a lot more trusting of under-constrained authority surveilling you than the average human being, and you should be sensitive to their genetically-predisposed needs for privacy.
Is this true tho? It feels like a made-up reply and gaslighting. You demonstrated that you can say the opposite of what OP experiences. Now what?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411725.
And the Greek mathematician is pronounced OY-clid ;)
Do you mean the RDMA verbs API? Or something else? I'll point out that it's an API, so an implementation pattern isn't relevant. (it's also an awfully obscure one, and I say that as someone who was involved in standardizing the pre-Infiniband Virtual Interface Architecture API that it derives from)

It's a relic of the old 7-layer model, where you looked at each layer in isolation, and was ditched in high-performance networking code starting with Van Jacobsen's in maybe 1991. No one ever hit 10mbit/sec with a state machine-coded stack.

Note that very few people write network protocol implementations, so it baffles me why they thought to suggest that their high-level design pattern would be useful in low-level kernel code.
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Isn’t this more like Teams vs Slack or Zoom?

Consumer brand recognition isn’t the issue. Bundling with Workspace might be.
I usually support everything but isn't this literally just "we are trying to fork roo code and pay $15 of your tokens so we can show VCs that we have users" - as in people like free money. But that wouldn't be enough of a bribe to justify using the fork over the real project for me at least
I write in quarto markdown so en-dash is '--' and em-dash is '---' with is converted for me.
There are not many families who would let a stranger stay in their home in return for a 'de minimis' amount of work, whether that's teaching python generators or cleaning.

It might take you two hours to teach me python generators. That's not enough to convince me to let a stranger stay at my place for a week.
TSV > CSV

Way easier to parse
> hallucination rate is going to near zero

That is extremely not happening, even with the latest LLM releases.
That would be solved by using the ASCII control chars Record Separator / Unit Separator! I don't get how this is not widely used as standard.
Also we have suffered a couple decades of JavaScript to give us that little extra motivation to make a common runtime environment work. And WASM is open source and thus not proprietary. And all the browsers (well, really, the one browser) are open source. The FOSS community is much more robust than it was 30 years ago, and there are many times more professional software devs floating around too, and security tooling and practices are substantially better now. Personally though I think the general antipathy for JavaScript and its endless parade of duplicative over hyped frameworks alone would suffice to push WASM forward.
How can I prevent my work computers turning my home into an oven?
The idea is clever, but it never made sense as a profit-making entity. It's worth something, but not much. And since it requires little to no maintenance, it feels absurd to subscribe to it.

If this had been somebody's clever open-source project, it might have taken off. They might even have made a decent income consulting. (Consulting on what, I dunno, but people hire consultants for all kinds of things that seem obvious.) But as a corporation, I just never saw it.
Anti-woke has a specific meaning and its not "pro racism to non WASPS" so cut that BS.
It's not really easier than CSV if you can guarantee no commas or newlines.
Chatbots are not social media platforms. Also the vast majority of expected revenue from this industry is not from casual paying users, it's from other companies who will optimize for performance and price.
I talked to JP about this project. He's excited in a way that's hard not to catch. His core thesis is simple: coding agents are the future, and the winners will be the ones who can execute.

It won’t be OpenAI or Claude. They have other priorities. The real opportunity is for small teams who move fast, stay close to users, and keep ahead of the pack.

That makes sense. LLMs are already powerful, almost magical at times. But using them as coding agents still takes real work. They can do amazing things, and be frustrating and make a mess. There are rough edges and big gaps.

Those will get fixed. The question is who gets there first.

The counterpoint to that would be that all these tools are gonna end up sort of the same and there won't be a way to differentiate.

Which way will it play out? I'm not really sure.
Yes, if you want to call them candidates. That word seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting, here.

Were they better options? Probably. I personally was a fan of Stein. Were they available to us on any realistic level in our broken "democratic" system? No. Had I voted for her, my vote would have counted for nothing.

They had zero backing when thrown up against the two candidates that the very real and present two-party system pushed in front of us, and that was that.

Every time someone wants to whine about Harris supporting genocide, I feel like I'm talking to a bunch of bots who have never seen a US ballot, have no idea how our party system works and are incapable of comprehending the vast network of chicanery that results in two major parties drowning every other option we might actually want to vote for.

The illusion of a choice is not actually a choice, is it? So, at the time, the best plan was "NOT TRUMP AGAIN" leaving Harris as our strongest option _even though most of us did not agree with 100% of her policies_. We had a knife to our throat, and a knife at our back. We tried to get everyone on board with the knife at our back since, sure it would hurt, but at least it wouldn't kill us and we could work to move closer to a better solution.

Instead, we're now getting slit ear-to-ear because of impetuous fools who can't see past their own blind outrage.
Technically this is not a low-level primitive. NTSYNC isn't added as a, say, system call like futex2[0] was. It's instead added as a character devivce - which you can build your kernel without, and functions via ioctls.

[0]: https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/futex2.html
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It depends on how much responsibility the AI/AI company takes when their AI attorney fails to represent a client. The process will fail (as it does with human representation), so planning for that contingency will make or break your business. I don't think the American justice system is super interested in giving robots an easy time representing human clients, so I see this as a faraway prospect.

Law firms will continue to exist because they exude confidence and certainty that AI can't get even at the lowest temperature. I say this as someone who hates lawyers and AI just about equally, FWIW.
Behaviorally advanced structures of capital will try to entrench themselves (and have, see Standard Oil, Bell et. al.) but what I'm most confused by is the consent of the people for it today.

People voted for Tax Cuts for Billionaires and apparently the dismantling of the administrative state. At this point I feel like a different species from my countrymen on issues of the state. Funny thing is, I work with and talk to Trumpy people often enough and the ones I know are usually pretty on top of things in person. How does my contractor who has good sense in construction, family life etc. run around with a Trump sticker on his car? What does he think is happening? What am I missing?
I’m not sure what Mozilla has been doing the last ten years but I’m fairly certain it has little to do with what users want.

I am thoroughly finished with them as an organization; hopefully they represent the end of an ugly era, which to my recollection began in about 2013. I will not mourn their inevitable slide into complete irrelevance and financial insolvency.
CSV is a pseudo-standard anyway, IMO the delimiter should be a configurable option (like it is in Unix cut and those kinds of tools).
Try Germany. The most popular thing at the zoo is when they feed the tigers because the locals get so much pleasure watching them eat.
> It is insane that we have to dedicate multiple gigabytes of RAM, have CPUs 1000x faster than we had back with Netscape Navigator

Webpages are applications. Browsers are application runtimes. The main culprit driving high memory usage is not the runtime, but the application.
Funny how the "specification holds in a tweet" yet manages to miss at least three things: 1) character encoding, 2) BOM or not, 3) header or no header.
It's just that I don't any example of an adult genius who used to be a prodigy. The most obvious counter example was Einstein.
> Git trailers are neat, but ultimately suffer from a UI issue: most people are using interfaces to git that don't use the plumbing, and they put all the important info in the first line (and sometimes have a frustrating cutoff of 50 characters)

It’s not git’s fault if you choose not to use git(1). Trailers work great with it. You can use other tools that claim some level of compliance with git, but you do so with the understanding that YMMV.
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Whenever I read these kinds of collapse posts I wonder: where do the bodies go in this scenario? Because if that kind of collapse happens the management of seven billion corpses becomes pressing.
It's not a field that could be occupied by a single language.
For your information:

Germany has a system where you go to the doctor, he checks and determins if you are not able to work.

a few months ago he printed out 3 pieces of paper: 2 with and one without the diagnosis, the without goes to the employer and one of the others goes to the insurance. Currently the insurance and the part of the employer are send over the internet, since most people didn't send the part for the insurance the numbers exploded on the insurer side.

The part for the employer is just for their paperwork so they have the paperwork. The employer has to pay for 6 continous weeks the normal pay, after that an insurance that is part of the social security takes over.

If an employer has doubts about the sickness they can order the employee to go to the "Amtsarzt" an doctor employed by the local health department that checks the person and communicates with the employer that the person is unable to work or not.

in no point an employer has to know the sickness. You can tell them if you want, but you don't need to. An visit from the superiors while they are sick is also something that the employees don't have to accept.
It's not as if they're the main stakeholder of Windows games on Windows anyway.
There was just 1 service pack for w7 and I've never noticed it making the system work slower.
One does not get a pass on being rude and hurtful to others by speaking about themselves negatively.

The fundamental thing that people never seem to understand in the "Linus is being an asshole" vs "I love Linus, he tells it like he is and to manage a project you have to be willing to do that!" debate is that it is completely unnecessary to speak at all about someone's person on a mailing list like lkml.

"This code sucks!" - no. "This code does not meet the linux kernel's coding conventions, has race conditions, and this algorithm could likely be implemented in a far more performant way."

"You're just WRONG" - no. "The position that you're being forced to learn a new programming language is not correct. You have not been asked to write or even understand Rust."

I think the people who think 'you have to be that way to manage/lead' have never been under a good manager or leader and I daresay that a lot of people in technical supervisory and management positions unfortunately grew up respecting Linus and thinking his behavior was how you "get things done", not realizing that Linus's behavior almost certainly kept a lot of people from risking contributing and if anything has hurt the Linux kernel project - and kept people from feeling they could safely point out problems in someone's code because

T'so is a great example; a huge ego. As a result, people simply have gone elsewhere to work on filesystems. The ext filesystem(s) were not terribly reliable or tolerant of real-world situations, is still not very performant, and has evolved at a glacial pace consistently lagging behind its peers.
> Where is WASM in the browser really used apart from crypto miners?

Art and design: Photoshop, Figma

Games: Unity, many other engines or components inside engines (e.g. Bullet)

Videoconferencing: Zoom, Google Meet, etc.

Productivity: Google Sheets

Other: Google Maps and many, many more. For example, here is a talk about how Google uses wasm in a large range of its products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En8cj6xlv4

Look, wasm is a supplementary technology, used where JavaScript isn't good enough, like all the examples I just gave. Those use cases work extremely well right now, and most users on the web benefit from wasm, even if they are unaware wasm is running on the page - which is how it should be.

That is exactly the success that wasm aimed for from the start.
There's a certain mind that either doesn't realize they're sidestepping the problem and turning it into a editing review, or realizes it, and doesn't understand why it seems off-topic/trivial to others.

What's especially strange here is, they repeatedly demonstrate if you interpret it that way, the problem is obviously, trivially, unsolvable, in a way that a beginner in algebra could intuit. (roughly 12 years old, at least, we started touching algebra in 7th grade)

I really don't get it.

When I've seen this sort of thing play out this way, the talking-down is usually for the benefit of demonstrating something to an observer (i.e. I am smart look at this thing I figured out; I can hold my own when the haters chirp; look they say $INTERLOCUTOR is a thinker but they can't even understand me!), but ~0 of that would apply here, at least traditionally.
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