skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Only a handful of states prohibit hiring representation for small claims court.

2. McDonalds could make it so to get inside you have to agree to arbitration of any disputes. That's usually just used by companies to make you use arbitration instead of the courts when you have a complaint, but offhand I can't think of any reason they couldn't require arbitration in the other direction.
That's not my take. I think prepping is a pretty strong indication of concern. That's not to say you can't enjoy preparing in addition to concern.
> These finding probably aren't much of a surprise to many.

Conversely, you might be surprised at how many this is new information. Just because you learned something does not mean everyone hearing the information at the same time. Some people require hearing/reading something new only one time, others takes many attempts. I think the number of people that walk around with a suboptimal fluid intake is much higher than we might hope, especially in the USA
Some friends of mine tried the carnivore diet. One thing they noticed was improved gut health.
Filling the gap between wages and price levels until wages rise.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704657
Web dev here, but not cybersec focused... if I'm wrong, someone will be along to correct me shortly :)

That said, I'm reasonably confident that what you want isn't doable/practical, unfortunately :(

While there are certainly companies that make valuable datasets available over the web, the usual way they prevent mass scraping is by enforcing account limits, making retrieval expensive and also limited to only one tiny slice of data at a time. An example industry that does this are the mass data harvesting/targeting companies like Meta, Alphabet, or political companies (NGPVan, Actblue, etc.). They cross-reference a lot of PII floating around the internet, and/or harvest their own and then sell that to advertisers or political campaigns, but only a slice at a time, and at prices that they determine. You can of course pay to scrape any one slice of it, but if you wanted the whole dataset, you'd probably end up paying more than the entire company's worth.

That, or their data is inherently time-sensitive, such that older copies of it aren't as valuable. Stocks, real estate sites, news tickers, etc. come to mind, where sure, you can scrape their stuff, but unless you perform some sort of value-added collation/analysis on top of it, it's going to be stale by the time you serve it to your own users. The data originators are always one step ahead of you.

If your data isn't proprietary to begin with (i.e. you're not the one making it and adding updates) AND you want it to be publicly accessible without an account... it's only a matter of time before some botnet or another scrapes all of it.

You can do things to slow down the scraping, such as adding Cloudflare, but realistically, bots and labor are very cheap in much of the world, and if someone really wants your data, they'll get it. It's essentially free to them, especially if you've done all the hard work of collecting it and putting it all on a single website.

It will always take more time for you add to manually add filter permutations than it takes a script & botnet to enumerate through them. They can just tweak parameters and send them through thousands of headless browsers running in dispersed instances across the world.

You can require account signup and verification before accessing the data, but that's also trivially faked unless you're requiring real payments.

Identifying real users vs bots is anything BUT trivial. Google and Cloudflare and hCaptcha have spent decades trying to solve that with huge teams and world-class researchers. And even they only have limited success rates, especially since anybody can spend pennies to hire real humans to run through your captchas. And that problem is only going to get harder, much harder, with all the advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision.

Sorry for the bad news =/ I hope I'm wrong, but I'm fairly confident you can't really accomplish this.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704657
If the universe is material, then we already know with 10-billion percent certainty that some arrangement of matter causes qualia. All we have to do is figure out what arrangements do that.

Ironically, we understand consciousness perfectly. It is literally the only thing we know — conscious experience. We just don’t know, yet, how to replicate it outside of biological reproduction.
Some context from the author’s fedi account:

> I'm exploring this because I think it might be useful for console hacking - where you have physical access, and the ability to execute sandboxed code (say, inside a web browser)

ID: @retr0id@retr0.id (they ask not to link to their fedi instance).
I do on days when I work from home. I like to move around the house when I code so I’ll do a bit of work from a couch each day to spend time with the pets , and then I just take my laptop+headset to get a good large screen experience.

I also watch movies+shows regularly on it but that’s on the order of 2-3h of use at a time.
Show HN: 100% Open Source VSCode Embedded Linux (Yocto) IDE Setup
Hi,

I have made a 100% open source IDE setup for developing and debugging embedded projects:
- Yocto projects
- Linux kernel development
- Bare metal embedded projects
He also got weird facial plastic surgery and looks like a wanted mobster now.
Absolutely. I sooo wanted to tap a snare or drum with my thumb while playing the chord with my index finger.
> Go to space. Maybe Mars.

They’re not going to go to Mars.

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will...

https://www.acityonmars.com

> Would you WANT to be the next tech celeb?

I don’t want to be any kind of celebrity.

“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24–hour job.” — Bill Murray
This attack works on a single person or a small business that produces a lot of public works. Any prolific author or artist is exposed to this. Any marketer, etc.

Your thesis doesn’t make sense about there being no desire for AI in small communities. Small communities absolutely want automation, both in the physical and information world.
>> The blood and urine of astronauts, after all, are renewable resources, and they're available wherever an astronaut's mission might take them.

I think the blood takes a bit more time to renew? Or are they expecting, uh, a bit more sacrifice...

>> "Astronauts probably don't want to be living in houses made from scabs and urine," he said in a statement.
Their goal was never to occupy Ukraine. They got what they wanted, the land corridor to Crimea and a nearly permanent quagmire blocking Ukraine from EU and NATO membership.

The US has always had to contend with the risk of coming up too hard and collapsing Russia. No one wants rogue generals with nuclear armed ICMB.
What is the end game for the war?

I personally don’t believe the millions of Ukrainians who have left are going to return.

Secondly how does the Ukraine military recruit new young troops when the prospects of victory are so slim and Ukraine is slowly being ground down and losing territory.
I am still waiting for my invite...
Well your personal experience might seem a bit off, or biased (?) because lot of Russians address Ukrainians as "Khokhols"[0].

Not since the war, but since Russians have oppressed Ukrainians. It's quite a normalized and promoted slur, online and offline.

It's a culturally derogatory term like you have common slurs that were used to designate some ethnicities or races, like Chechens. These are cultural slurs, unlike "orcs" as an online slur which is a Western term, from a Western reference.

I think you should look more into how Russia has dehumanized some of its ethnic minorities within the Federation and its neighbors throughout the years and how it has until today.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ukrainian_sentiment
If Sam claimed we'll fix climate with the help of AI, he is either a liar or a fool.

Our problem isn't technology, it's humans.

Unless he suggests mass indoctrination per AI AI won't fix anything.
Reminds me of https://soundbox.cognable.com/ which we use to interest disabled children in touch screens, preparing for a talker.
Yup! I saw the same thing. But the VS Code says the opposite.
Show HN: CloudTabs gets beta Chrome extension support
Different players. Google and other ad companies are bigger than old companies trying to MITM their users.
Russian usage of Nazis is specific the Russian history of defending against the Nazis in WWII. It’s not like in the west. In Russia it’s a patriotic thing to imply that Russia is acting in self defense and justify their actions to the public. Russian propaganda to Russians is about convincing them it’s not a genocidal land grab.
I think they would never be trusted. Clan loyalty was paramount. A man would never think of surrender or betrayal, and even if he did, he would not be trusted, because the victorious men could never imagine such a thing (like Japanese in WWII).

Secondly, there was literally no work for men to do, except fight. Another man is another mouth to feed and water. In the small scattered settled urban locations, in the few major oases, there was work (farming, building, digging irrigation channels, etc), but they had E. African slaves to do this, because they could be trusted (no hope of escape; all were castrated).
This ought to be on the front page. It's huge, and a practical proof of the risks of giving the quote-unquote good guys the keys to our encryption.
Finding professionals is a reason to use LinkedIn. Good luck.
I agree. Zed is the future.
A couple of decades ago, I was on a commercial aircraft and sat next to a man who occasionally puffed something into his nostrils. It turned out that he was a researcher at Ft. Detrick, and he explained that keeping your nasal passages moist with saline spray helped to keep out germs. I’ve been using saline sprays ever since!
QUiC was developed by ad as company
End of Octojam (2023)
I remember trying to automate non-distribution builds of a functional GNU/Linux operating system and trying to not read Linux from Scratch but just official kernel.org documentation.[1]

Unfortunately, the state of Linux documentation is so poor, you can't do it. You need to reference a number of third-party articles that kernel.org itself sometimes links you to.

I believe kernel.org might also mention Linux from Scratch, but LFS does a very poor job of explaining why you need particular dependencies straight out of initramfs.

You need a functional shell, and you need to get your installation on to an actual drive. Neither of those things are explained in sufficient detail with the current documentation available today.

LFS at best says "throw in these ingredients," and leaves you with no other information. You can probably read man pages and piece this stuff together, but it requires that you, at the very least, hardcode where to install files with fsck/mount/cp, I think.

Edit: LFS also does a really poor job of explaining why it chooses its "Basic System Software," much of which isn't actually required for a common GNU/Linux system.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/linux-workflow
Well I really hope that you were easily able to transition out of paste-up because it kind of blows me away how quickly that whole craft just got clobbered. Just like my uncle that specialized in atlas publishing-- luckily he was able to hang on long enough to retire.

I agree that people do want to be creative, and I don't think that people are going to let Gen AI supplant that for them. However, the lower-end of the creative markets doing the low-end high-volume work-- think folks shotgunning out template-based logos on Fiverr-- are the ones that have already been displaced in large numbers, and there are far more of them. While they generally don't have the right skillset to do the higher-end work, their seeing that as the only viable career move is majorly fucking up companies' ability to find workers and vice versa, and for employers that don't know any better, they think the market is saturated which is bringing down wages.

Also, clueless executives just don't realize that having a neural network generate a "80% right" version of your work in a flat PNG file will take more effort to mold into shape for higher-end work than starting from scratch, so they've been making big cuts. A coworker on a contract also works in an animation house that fired their entire concept art department and replaced them with prompt monkeys making half as much money-- the problem was that standard art director changes-- e.g. I want this same exact image and garment, just make those lapels look a little fuller and softer but with sharper angles at the end, and change the piping on that jacket from green to purple-- might have been half an afternoon for a professional concept artist but would be DAYS of work to get art-director right using neural network tools... if for no other reason that the prompt writers just don't have the traditional visual art sophistication to even realize when they've got an appropriate solution, because learning that is a lot harder than learning to draw, and you learn that when you learn how to draw. So all the time they saved on the initial illustration was totally sucked up by art directors not being able to iterate even a tenth as quickly as they used to, and fast iteration was the major selling point for Gen AI to begin with. It simply does not do the task if you absolutely require specificity, and having a raster non-layered png that looks like it already went through post is a beast to edit, even for a skilled post-prod person. Well, three months later, they canned the prompt engineers and were begging their concept artists to come back and work for them again. What a waste of everything.

Why do I even bother torturing myself in forums like this by giving a real-world creative industry counterpoint to the tech crowd perspective, despite many of the most vocal ones being smug, patronizing, and self-aggrandizing? Maybe one executive out there will read this stuff and say "Hmm... maybe I should actually talk to people that work in this field that I trust to see if it's really beneficial to replace our [insert creative department] rather than relying on software execs and their marketing people say is feasible."
Isn't an LLM making such things more approachable?
In this case np-complete and np-hard are closely linked: the optimization problem can be reduced to the decision version. Not all decision problems are like that (e.g. happy net problem), but for this one I don’t see the point making the distinction.
Thanks! Now I just need to filter my LinkedIn feed and the corporate AI leaders at work.
Isn’t this the same logical error as saying “I can always tell when someone is wearing a wig”? You are only counting the times when you can tell.
Some friends of mine tried the carnivore diet for a while. From what I understood they did not eat meat dishes that included vegetables.
To be clear, Altman invested $375 million in Helion Energy's 2021 funding round. Helion Energy a for-profit fusion energy company of which he is the chairman.
From a Scottish Mortgage report: "companies are staying private for longer and until higher valuations".

Amazon founded in 1994
1997 listed at $400m
Google founded in 1998
2004 listed at $23bn
Spotify founded in 2006
2018 listed at $27bn
Airbnb founded in 2008
2020 listed at $47bn
Epic games founded in 1991
2022 unlisted value $32bn
Space Exploration founded in 2002
2022 unlisted value $125bn
ByteDance founded in 2012
2022 unlisted value $360bn
So that's some kind of Juridical DDoS attack.

I can see how AI is helping to improve humanity's existence.
That's plausible, but also, could be the frequent things just getting better on their own over time.
Ah, you're in good company. I also keep an archive of saved gay porn videos due to my academic interest in homosexuality.
You grabbed a random page.
My Firefox installs on my various computers have a shard profile, so what are you on about?
The whole article was ridiculous puffery for the application of AI in the legal field, written by… people who would benefit from investment in application of AI in the legal field.

The beginning of the article is supposed to hook you in and provide you some plausible basis for what follows. Yet, they chose to go with AI generating comments on proposed regulations. I’m not going to spend any time going into why that’s ridiculous, so feel free to write me off as a nutter or whatever, but the idea of that submitting a comment to a regulatory agency during a public comment will suddenly transform law and legal practice is about the weakest possible case to make. Public comments aren’t legal materials, they’re comments from the public. And I’ll bet you a year worth of salary that as people start flooding regulatory agencies with genAI produced public comments, a rule will appear (whether through regulation or through judicial interpretation) that agencies need not respond to nor even consider public comments submitted without some kind of declaration that it was not produced using genAI.
Zune HD was released in 2009.
I've seen people using Box64 to play x86_64 games on ARM devices, it got me thinking: why not apply this to game servers?

It turns out that the A53 in the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W can run not only the server but also the server controller.
We alive still in times where some people believe anything they found written on the Internet.

It takes a lot more time to get used to fake video and audio, especially in that mass and quality.
> A cashier at the corner store can deduce as much by paying attention to their customers.

Yes, you've just explained why people may go to a different store, where they are a stranger, when they want to buy something they don't want the local cashier to know about.

The classic example is a 16 year old who buys condoms at a store where no one is likely to recognize him, but others include buying adult diapers, buying a single plunger, and buying hard liquor.

The cashier at the new store might figure out what's going on, but does not know who "you" are.

Which is why the example you quoted is called contextual marketing - it's based on a very small context of the things you are currently buying.

That link, however, expands beyond that to user profiling with 'So Target started sending coupons for baby items to customers according to their pregnancy scores'.

> targeted ads are actually a lot less annoying to most people because they're relevant.

"Targeted ads' includes targeted based on context advertising and targeted based on user profiling.

The g'g'parent comment was specifically about advertising 'without personal information', which is only one type of targeted ads. Please do not use language which confuses the two as it makes it seem like you don't understand the relevant issues.
Court isn’t about understanding if action X violates law Y. Analyzing that part is quick in preliminary work. All of the hard work is proving that the defendant performed X, proving they had intent and it wasn’t an accident, etc.
I think I found the preprint of the article. Of course, the final published article has gone through some further editing. Anyway:

> To ensure safety during daily or repeated use, PCANS was meticulously designed as a “drug-free” formulation, incorporating biopolymers, surfactants, and alcohols that are listed in the inactive ingredient database (IID) or generally recognized as safe (GRAS) list of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and are present as excipients in commercially available nasal/topical formulations. These components and their unique concentrations were identified via a highly iterative approach aimed at maximizing sprayability, mucoadhesiveness, the capture of respiratory droplets, physical barrier property, pathogen neutralization activity, and nasal residence time.

> To prepare PCANS, gellan and pectin solutions were mixed in a ratio of 1:1, followed by the addition of tween-80 (Sigma Aldrich). The solution was then supplemented with benzalkonium chloride (BKC) (Sigma Aldrich) and subjected to immediate mixing by pipetting up and down several times. Finally, phenethyl alcohol (Sigma Aldrich) was added, and the pH of the solution was adjusted to 5.5.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.560602v1....
And there are 26 letters in the english language, which is 52/2.
I wonder how many governments and A-listers are investing heavily in the rapid development of commodity AI video that is indistinguishable from real video. Does it seem paranoid?

They would at least be more believable if they blast claims that a certain video must be fake, especially with how absurd and shocking it is.
At this point, it looks like outside countries are pushing for Ukraine and Russia to at best return to pre-2022 borders, or at worst current borders with Ukraine as part of NATO.

That said, either option is political suicide in both Ukraine and Russia.

> Secondly how does the Ukraine military recruit new young troops when the prospects of victory are so slim and Ukraine is slowly being ground down and losing territory

Big picture, borders have remained consistent and there aren't going to be significant changes one way or the other.

It's become a stalemate.

Russia or Ukraine can mobilize and mobilize, but both sides are too dug in to have a significant impact one way or the other.

This is how an A2AD war will be fought.
I enjoyed participating in Octojam (the CHIP-8 game jam) in previous years and sad to see it come to an end.

Working with CHIP-8 inspired me to a CHIP-8 emulator which was a great learning experience.
Which pills specifically did you take?
Their marketing hyperbole has cheapened much of the language around AI, so naturally it excites someone who writes like the disciple of the techno-prophets

" High-intelligence AGI is the last human invention" What? I could certainly see all kinds of entertaining arguments for this, but to write it so matter of fact was cringe inducing.
Why Is Anything Conscious?
After getting really annoyed with the pseudoscientific naming around this I built a whole site about it a couple of decades ago to get to the top of search results and got threatened with a lawsuit by Danone...

https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/
Well, to make an example that doesn't stretch into ethnic traditions and stays within the contemporary and modern experience that you and I probably share:

Consider two non-professional runners who develop a stress fracture. It's a fairly common injury for distance runners who push themselves too far. It presents as a certain kind of pain and that pain becomes aggravated under certain conditions. It's generally easy to self-diagnosis, and more serious fractures are generally evident because they're far more disabling and intensely painful.

One goes to a doctor, who quickly has a strong guess as to the problem. Nonetheless, they send the runner for an x-ray to confirm, then take another appointment to review the results and prescribe a treatment. That treatment will amount to rest and patience, and (with some doctors) some prescription for the pain. Total cost billed to someone is probably on the order of $1000.

The other is pretty confident in their self-diagnosis and can't fathom the time demands, financial cost, and social resource consumption of bringing in a industrial apparatus just to confirm that diagnosis and be told to take it easy on their affected leg for a few months.

Both examples play out everyday, and there's essentially no difference in health outcome for the vastly most common case. It's true that the latter is at higher risk of missing a more serious complication, but it's also true that the former invites costs, consequences, and risks of their own.