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Worth trying claude/gemini to see if they'll do some scraping for you. I've found some paywall sites only too happy to allow Gemini past the wall.

Hadn't thought of that tbh. Worth a go on Liverpool especially... that's the AWS WAF one I'm currently blocked on and it is doing my head in. The challenge there is volume rather than access (~80k decisions to backfill), so even if an LLM gets through the wall I'd still need to script around it. But could be a way in for the initial cookie. Cheers for the tip and will look into it.

can you share link to Liverpool so i can try it too please?

Sure, here you go: https://lar.liverpool.gov.uk/planning/index.html?fa=search

Heads up tho... it's behind AWS WAF with a JS challenge. Solving the challenge once works fine, but the WAF rate-limits the IP after ~10 requests and blocks for the rest of the day. So getting a session is doable, getting through 80,000 decisions is the hard bit. If you crack it I want to know! Cheers.


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(just add two line-breaks between links; hn needs them otherwise if it's just one line-break it'll smoosh it all into one line)


Love it. Although I'm not sure which is the darkest timeline given https://www.howclosetoblackmirror.com/


I always saw black mirror as explicitly a near-future satire of the present, not commentary on where humanity is headed. I think something like Children of Men would fill the british angle better.


Isn't it depressing that San Junipero, arguably the only happy episode, has the lowest progress score?


The music for that episode still takes me galaxies/dimensions away

https://youtu.be/IYpO3EbvMK4?si=n70N7hi8v29NiZvr


A handful of Black Mirror episodes land on a more optimistic (or at least not entirely bleak) note, though "happy" might be overstating it for any of them. Bittersweet, maybe.

Eulogy and Hotel Reverie from the newest season are at 70-75%, and I think they both end on a similarly bittersweet note like San Junipero. The one with Miley Cyrus is at 65% and is about as happy an ending as Black Mirror episodes get.


I don't read San Junipero as happy.

Black Mirror likes to show us the most-important thing as a kind of punctuation or statement of message even when it's not what the episode has encouraged us to believe is the most important thing (see also: the focus of the camera in the very first episode during A Certain Event—we've been primed for a grand, disgusting spectacle, and the camera chooses to show us none of that, and instead shows us something much more disgusting: the faces of people watching it, which is the actual show, and the point of the "artist" in the episode).

San Junipero ends by showing us the entirety of what is actually happening, for-real, which is an automated computer-maintenance system keeping itself running. It's highlighting the unreality of the virtual world, I think suggesting that even the apparent experiences we've been watching aren't happening in any real sense.

What's really happening? 100% of what's really happening? As you see. A computer system maintaining itself, to keep electricity flowing through its various circuits. Doing what? Doesn't matter, could be endlessly calculating digits of pi, that'd be just as much a "real" experience as what you've been so invested in. This is all that's really going on.


San Junipero is a SAAS hedonistic treadmill for your mind, for perpetuity, designed to siphon all your estate into corporate profits.

Maybe it's not so bad after all, I think one can interpret it positively or negatively depending on your current state of mind.


Demolition Man is the darkest timeline.


This is only going to backfire in the future...


Mmmhmmm. These are the people we're enabling. Makes ya think, don't it?


that's mentioned in OP article.

Heidi is frustratingly consistent at hallucinating stuff. I've seen it in almost all of the dozen or so summaries I've had from medical people recently (surgeon, physio, consultant). A GP I know tried for a month and then was like 'it's not worth the risk exposure to me or my patients'.


I know at least one GP that has stopped using Heidi Health for transcription. He (and as I've noticed with transcriptions from my medical professionals) has noticed many errors, far too many to be comfortable. Things might improve, but not yet.


This is where I'm at as a GP. Every few months I give Heidi another try, but I haven't noticed any real improvement over the last two years. It spends lots of words on trivial nonsense and misses clinically significant points and sometimes entire issues. It takes far more time to review and fix the notes than it saves in typing. Presumably it will be good enough one day, but it's not there yet.


It's Gell-Mann amnesia: you notice the errors in fields where you're an expert.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect


100%. It's like a hacker & troll combined, toying with the literal satefy of people who rely on medication.


Git would just say untracked file. I couldn't add it. Finally chatgpt explained. Kosovo's airport code (PRN) is a reserved file/folder name on Windows (facepalm).


As someone who regularly gets afib (and doesn't particularly enjoy defibs), any research/work in this is welcomed. Thanks for what you've done!


easiest one to get going with is to add the Playwright MCP. As a python dev you might have used it to do test automation? Anyway, it gives your tool eg Cursor, Claude Code access to the browser and automation using playwright. Meaning it can literally load a page to confirm its own change just had the desired effect.

The blender one is also fun as a starting point, if you do any 3d modelling (or even if you don't).


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