skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, but after a brief read of the 716 page complaint it appears that all of the allegations come from self reported compliance documents for the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and contracts in attempts to comply with the ethical treatment of animals.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbwap1dj4e51mfe/2022-02-10%20PCRM%...

The expectation with animal experimentation isn't that everything goes smoothly, or even that all suffering is avoided in exchange for the information that will result in scientific advancement and safety for humans. The expectation is that there isn't undue suffering caused, and an ethics review board deems that the exchange and suffering paid by the animals is "worth it".

It's an uncomfortable reality for sure, and I would not want to be one of those monkeys, even without suffering, meeting an untimely death in service of human knowledge, but I recognise the trade off and it seems like the complainant doesn't have any extra evidence that there are systematic abuses of ethic review procedures and animal welfare standards.

That said, transparency is good and if there is substance to the claim that they Neuralink or UC Davis) are causing undue suffering then I wish them the best of luck fixing it.
That's my experience as well. I feel guilty while booking through Concur because I know I am wasting taxpayers' money.
The other problem is that AI can be put in charge of phishing operations. Once you devise the correct prompt to get past the filters, it understands what phishing is, and will quite happily write phishing emails for any audience you care to describe. Combine that with an automatic mailer, and you could just fish for IDs (along all the other profitable stuff), and then use those IDs to spam more etc.
Do you refuse any sort of medical treatment or drug that was tested on an animal without sensitivity? Do you refuse to use or consume anything tested on lab mice, which are subjected to horrific experiments (by human standards) by the millions every year?
60% is highly unlikely
Oh they have tried. Collecting various forms of hydrogen by separating heavy water has had government/military funding for decades. The basic physics has been worked out. There is no low-energy option anymore than there is a low-energy way to separate uranium isotopes.
But those animals are not unnecessarily cruely treated. It's one thing to farm animals, it's another to deliberately treat them more poorly than is strictly needed to get the value out of them. That's what neuralink is accused of - unnecessary cruelty.
Exactly. And the muscle memory you built over time made you open and click through folders extremely fast.

But I don’t know if it would scale to the terabytes of today.
Aesthetic Movements
I agree, but I'm not sure that's sufficient. ChatGPT is pretty good and say that the next version actually works well enough to handle most non-close social interactions. Then I run into you in person and realize you have _no_ idea of what “we” have been talking about — I'm not sure there is a good way to repair that.

Ideally, we'd require labels but there's no easy way to enforce that without something like random auditing of AI implementers.
It can be frustrating. From a ChatGPT session, with the proper voices to read this in:

Bomb#20: That is correct. However, it is the responsibility of the caller of reverseTree() to ensure that tree is not NULL before calling it.

Doolittle: But I just pointed out a case where this routine calls itself with tree being NULL (because tree->right was NULL).

Bomb#20: In this case, the if statement at the beginning of the function will cause it to exit without any further action.

Doolittle: What if statement? There is none before the if (tree->left) statement!

Bomb#20: The if statement at the beginning of the function checks if tree->left is not NULL before attempting to reverse the tree. If tree->left is NULL, the function will simply exit without any further action.

Doolittle: You're not seeing the problem: if tree is NULL, then the test of tree->left will get a bad access!
If trucking is an no dispute single digit margin wouldn’t a double digit reduction in fuel cost create a massive competitive advantage
A SPAC, or Special Purpose Acquisition Company, is a type of investment vehicle that is formed for the purpose of acquiring or merging with another company. SPACs are often used as an alternative to the traditional initial public offering (IPO) process, as they provide a faster and more efficient way for a private company to become publicly traded.

SPACs are typically created by a group of investors, who raise money from other investors through an IPO. The investors provide the capital for the SPAC, and the SPAC's managers use that capital to search for a private company to acquire. Once the SPAC finds a target, the two companies merge and the investors in the SPAC receive shares in the newly combined company.

People use SPACs for a variety of reasons. For investors, a SPAC can provide an opportunity to invest in a private company without having to go through the traditional IPO process. For the managers of the SPAC, a SPAC can provide a way to raise capital and make a potential return on their investment if the acquisition is successful. For the target company, a SPAC can provide a way to become publicly traded without going through the time and expense of a traditional IPO.
This is already happening across Europe. EU regulation requires speed limiting technology on all new cars sold from now on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_speed_assistance
Adobe software could literally poke you through the eyeball every time you use it and people will still go "What am I going to use instead? GIMP can't hold a candle to Photoshop."

Though I actually got my sister hooked on Krita as a Windows tablet replacement for ProCreate.
GPT actually seems to be aware that training it on its own output is not a good idea because of such loops. I had one conversation where it straight up said that OpenAI has filters specifically for this reason.
I got a flat in my rental car last week. It ended up costing me about 3-4 hours out of my day to have a mobile tire guy dispatched from 40 miles away. No spare in the vehicle, so I had no choice but to wait.

I found it funny when I looked closer and realized that the tire that failed didn't match the other three. I think that particular wheel was cursed since the car only had 26k miles on it.
Same thing here, signed up, got randomly flagged, provided all of the required documents and was still rejected with no option of using the service. The first and only time I had an experience like that with a business.
Considering the Kids Online Safety Act
> What’s the value proposition here? Who even needs their supposed products?

Are you joking? Have you spent literally any amount of time reading about Neuralink and what they're aiming to do in their first phase of work? Literally millions of people with a wide variety of physical disabilities could have their lives radically changed with this technology.
I can get like a $1 credit for slower shipping so they consider monitoring me 24/7 to be worth doing that twice.
They get some hate here but are lovely birds. Waking up in the bush to their song is quite special.

I know someone on a farm who had a few as pets. One somehow was taught to roll on its back and lift a fork/spoon like a barbell
As Khaled Mardam-Bey recently discovered.
In 2022 basically anything can be a news headline if you will it.
Valid question.

Although how could any product protect against that kind of attack? If the supply chain is compromised, it's pretty much a wrap.
It would require quite a lot of it because you need to significantly change the orbit, especially if you want it to still be plenty fast on impact.

And it doesn't make much sense either. A billionaire can just pay a few millions to send a guy in a car bomb or a cessna full of explosives. It's way simpler and just as undetectable until the explosion happens.
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Amazon specifically has you use their DNS server on a mobile device [0]. I imagine DNS allows them to get a confirmation of your identity when viewing ads served by Amazon on third party websites/apps. Their main page makes no mention on what rights they claim to DNS logs that are not related to ads, and I don't have the time or expertise to dive into their entire privacy policy.

[0] https://panel.amazon.com
I know the gut intuitive reaction to this is negative-creepy, but I’d much prefer if all monetization of information about me and my shopping/behavioral patterns be this transparent.

Heck I’d like it if ad-based business models had some type of GDPR-ish regulation around it the required companies to divulge something like:

>Your use of this product/service is paid for by monetization of the following pieces of information about you.

>We estimate that this informational contributes $X in annual revenue based on the market value of your demographic to advertisers and data brokers

It’s what happens anyway, So why not? And of course I’d like there to be an opt out & option to simply pay for the service instead.
I have a hard time believing that it is easier to hire an academic than to hire an administrator. These are questions of power, and academia has ceded power to administrative staff in what is a good example of Nietzsche's Master-Slave dynamic, where the master has the slave take care of the unpleasant duties of life, and over time becomes dependent on the slave for the basics of life, and finally the slave rules over the master.
Same era but the predecessor to Metro. Encarta 1999/2000. High contrast, and overall extremely easy navigability.
it's an interesting strategy to monitize digital products in a different way. I wonder if the royalties work the same way under this scheme, they must right?
You are the only business I have ever tried to use that straight up rejected me with no explanation, and obviously it's a huge issue as in just this one thread there are multiple people saying the same thing, so there must be thousands if not tens of thousands of legitimate customers you've turned down.
Literally millions of animals die every day as a byproduct of animal processing industries. As in, death in a way that doesn't result in any sort of useful consumption.
Just did that. I still like PS better and I haven’t found a good alternative for LR. I may go back - but I’m giving it a try.
Being upfront and paying for it is better than anyone else in the industry is doing. Bravo.
No, you seem to misunderstand. Animal treatment is awful, but one of the big reasons to do these treatments ethically and with care is to ensure the quality of research while reducing the risk of cruel side effects.

Musk is in the 'move fast and break things' camp, which is the last thing I would ever want when considering an implant that's going into my brain. If you want to trust Musk with your brain and assume he won't treat quality control the same way he's treated everything else then that's your prerogative, not mine. As I've mentioned and continue to mention, Musk is not the single one pushing forward on these sort of things. He is not some hero doing this out of the goodness of his heart.
Yet it is probably useful for many to have it here. We will see by the votes.
It’s kind of a funny comment because I assume your significant other isn’t responsible for paying your monthly income (though such a thing is possible). Not a criticism of you I just found it funny, since I don’t think your conclusion follows from your premise the way the sentence is constructed.
I feel like you didn't read that well, or missed the original issue in OP's article.

The Tax Policy article is describing two legal ways that a store can be involved in charities:

1. The business engages in a co-venture with a nonprofit charity. It dedicates a certain percentage of its sales to a charity. The company can deduct this gift in it's taxes. This cannot come out of a voluntary addition made by the customer at the POS.

2. A voluntary donation made by the customer at the POS. The business cannot count this for a deduction. The customer can deduct it (though generally won't). It makes no difference that, as you said earlier, the company "put in the effort and delivered the money." The donation is not their donation.

These are two mutually-exclusive charity drives. You cannot move money from one pot to the other.

The original article says that the petitioners are claiming that CVS had a legal obligation to do (1) i.e, they had engaged in a co-venture with the ADA and had pledged a certain amount of their own money, but that instead they were using money from (2), customer's voluntary contributions at the POS.
Firefox writers have some serious case of toxic positivity. It's very off-putting.
I have found a lot of commercial websites do not allow proton mail now, likely to prevent abuse. It makes me sad, but I get it.

I am not sure why you would use a proton mail address for job applications, it’s like making a website with a weird TLD instead of a .com - no real positive benefit besides maybe saving money, highly likely to be viewed with suspicion.
Hertz to pay $168M in bogus theft settlement
This will take care of memory safety and concurrency, but not the logic bugs that just cause the state to become subtly invalid with no diagnostic (and then things break later because of that invalid state).

I think we might need to start designing PLs with AI generation and processing specifically in mind. Explicit contracts everywhere might be a good starting point.
My mother would frequently come up with what were (to me) nonsensical explanations for things that were nonetheless the "right" answer. This is hilarious to me.
> Notably, the vast majority of Saudi citizens live in near-Third World conditions, particularly the Shias in the east and the tribal groups in the south, not that this gets widely reported

This is... just not true. There absolutely is poverty in KSA, and the wealth of the elite is obscene, but the average Saudi citizen lives a pretty cushy life of sinecure jobs and vast subsidies (gas is cheaper than water). The official median income is around US$50k, and while you probably shouldn't trust that number, I think we can safely say it's not more than an order of magnitude off.

The people really living in Third World conditions in Saudi are the vast armies of migrant workers, who make up something like 80% of the labor force and do all the literal heavy lifting at construction sites, service industry jobs, domestic work, etc.
> how do we ensure that the people of the world have equality of access to these powerful new tools, and that capitalists don't monopolize it to enrich themselves and exacerbate wealth inequality?

Lol, the model is already locked behind a capitalist entity. It's already too late
How do you figure, he has has stolen as much as $9 billion there's plenty more to go around. His official on the books donations in just 2022 were $69 million. There's still a path to give money to Ukraine and funnel it back to the US, the missing crypto can be an asset with regard to that.
Interesting fact, ear-cleaning can be medically necessary in extreme cases. Some rare people overproduce earwax to the point that it impacts their hearing. I knew a kid in middle school who was perfectly articulate but had a strange, guttural accent, because he'd been nearly deaf for his first several years of life, and hadn't quite caught up on intonation after diagnosis and treatment.
Do they all IPO at $10 price and if so why?
Google's customers: You guys are getting paid?
I think small and medium is well suited for cloud in areas where engineers are scarce or expensive. For me, cloud is more about pace, flexibility, and engineering efficiency than it is about scale.

Even my little side projects I run on cloud. I don’t want to futz around learning how to configure, secure, and scale a DB server if I can order one up or use DynamoDB.

I agree that very large and hyper scale companies are a worse fit for the cloud, largely in part because they can afford to dedicate centralized teams to running great ops. Tiny, small, and medium can’t.
> disregard for any sort of experimental, procedural, or safety policies

This is true if you ignore the comprehensive information Neuralink provides on these very topics: https://neuralink.com/blog/animal-welfare/
Handle what? People killed by the contraption? Bystanders maimed?
Oh, it is very likely that there's all sorts of things of that sort that he doesn't recall. And lots of others that he probably recalls but not with enough certainty to talk about under oath.

Whether or not he approved a particular grant personally eight years ago, it's reasonable for him not to recall. Or, at least, it would be reasonable other than that, of course, he's known for ages that he was going to be asked about this specific thing and, as counsel points out many times in his objections, Fauci prepared heavily for the deposition. It would be very reasonable for him to have read up on the grants he knew he was going to be asked about to be able to recall basic facts about them.

But even then, most of the "do not recall" responses really aren't the damaging parts of the deposition.

I did like the part where Fauci was handed an email he had written where he discussed a paper and described it as a gain-of-function paper [shortly after having testified that nobody used the terminology "gain-of-function" anymore, since it was overbroad and vague], and he was asked whether, in this email, he had referred to the paper as a gain-of-function paper or not (with the text of his email literally in his hands) and his counsel objects on the grounds that it was a "mischaracterization" to assume that, because the email was written by Fauci, that it contained his words.

That actually ends up being one of the more damaging parts of the testimony -- not because it's some big admission that this study was doing gain-of-function -- everybody knows that -- but because Fauci has repeatedly testified that NIAID was not funding any coronavirus-related gain-of-function studies. If Fauci had not described the study using the phrase "gain-of-function", his argument that "gain-of-function is broad and mostly-meaningless" might possibly have carried the day -- he testified that way because that's what he was asked about, but maybe in his mind that phrase meant something else. But then there's the email where he talks specifically about the gain-of-function study which he knows (at the time he wrote the email about it) was NIAID-funded. So, if he ever testified [after writing that email] that NIAID did not fund any gain-of-function studies on coronaviruses, well... that would be perjury.

Still, relatively unlikely perjury charges will be made to stick (or even seriously attempted) -- Bannon remains the only person in basically forever to be actually prosecuted for lying to Congress, and unless Covid gets back to a state where the government is trying to reintroduce restrictions/mandates, I don't foresee anybody spending the political capital to try that case.

And all of that presupposes that that portion of the deposition is even admitted as evidence. It may or may not be -- there were, after all, standing objections. And while objecting to assuming that the sender of an email was its author is a bit specious, some of the other objections might not be as unreasonable.
We changed the URL from https://dev.to/codux/introducing-codux-15j5 to the project page. Readers might want to read both.
No, they don't. Browsers can dis-trust LetsEncrypt; inclusion in the Mozilla and Google root programs is at their discretion.
you're right there, both aspects certainly play a role. similar attacks we're launched by conservatives on fauci because he was a high profile target perceived to be on the opposite side:

https://bfp.org/fauci-hammered-by-beagle-freedom-project-thr...

>One particularly horrific experiment Fauci’s NIAID apparently paid for involved locking beagle puppies’ heads in boxes with sand flies, which were given hour-long intervals to feast on the poor dogs’ faces. Weary of the suffering dogs’ helpless cries, the experimenters arranged to have them “de-barked” – a barbaric procedure known as a cordectomy.

judge for yourself whether this is better or worse than neuralink but it was allowed to proceed until there was a political reason to start digging for dirt.
Military industrial complex == arsenal of democracy

This decade, at least.
This seems like one of those times to go with Betteridge: no.
> Sure, but then you can take exactly the same ingredients but swap out the bad bread for an artisanal bread and the result will taste much better.

“Better” is subjective and shaped by experience and cultutal expectations, among other factors; for a set of food preferences that are fairly common in the USA, no, it won’t, which is why it is hard to find “good” bread (which is not particularly more expensive to make) on the market in the USA, and why what little their is commands a high price; people to whom it makes a positive difference are rare, and disproportiinately price insensitive.
Jokes on them, that's a free $12/month since I barely use my phone and never have sex.
I think you meant, "In 2022, can anything be a news headline?"
Source for him banning people for that?
We plainly don't know anywhere near enough about what's happening under the hood in our own heads to judge based on that, so in practice, "does it behave intelligent?" is the best test that we actually have available.
"I'm going to raise new investor money to pay my old investors off" is also, you know, the literal definition of a Ponzi scheme.
There was Drawing Board which I found exquisite, but as a work of art, not for everyday usage.

https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/2-jpg.330369/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOEMz_saHCE
Correct. My point was to simply illustrate that the fractions of time involved are small enough that trace length matters.
It is perfectly fair for different regulators to have different ideas about what is safe.

The French COGEMA plant is studied to death and doesn't seem to be a terribly dangerous place to work

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078398/

but recent studies seem to show that lung cancer from plutonium exposure is a real thing for nukes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5540354/

Conventional MOX production involves making little fuel pellets that get sintered in an oven and then somebody uses a glove box to pick up individual pellets and stuff them into a fuel rod. You'd think in 2022 they could find a way to do it with remote handling, but those plutonium particles are pesky in many ways and they are highly detectable whether or not they are dangerous so people will detect them and worry about them.
Keep a dummy phone. Load up spyware. Write script to refresh amazon.com every 30 seconds. Throw it in a drawer. Let the passive income roll in.

If other companies start paying for your “data”. Load them up. Rinse and repeat.

edit: disable microphone if paranoid or wrap in a sound deadening material.
If your concern is that certbot has access to your DNS records, you can set up a CNAME or NS record on _acme-challenge.your-domain and serve the TXT record from a separate, isolated DNS server.
But once one questions and another answers, the answer would be available right here on Hackernews. Hundreds of people would save time + comprehend better because the answers here would explain in a compact and comprehensive manner and that too from the perspective of a tech-savvy person.