skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Never use an RPA tool that doesn't integrate with third-party SCM. If they tried to roll their own, that's a bad sign

- Never use an RPA tool that doesn't generate plaintext-serialized scripts. You're going to have a bad time if they're binary locked

- Never choose an RPA tool that's been around fewer than 3 years. It's probably just a shim on top of MS automation libs, and can't handle the really gnarly stuff

- Never promise anyone you'll automate 100% of their workload. Never try to automate 100% of their workload. Never hesitate to tell a VP you're not going to automate 100% of their workload. There's value in 50%+, get the easy win and move on. Only come back when you've gotten all the easy wins

- RPA is fundamentally about target selectors (or match rules, or whatever else your tool calls them). Their robustness is the only real feature of an RPA platform, and a smaller toolset is going to result in some fragile, quick-to-break stuff

Ultimately, RPA is about one thing: creating a more tactically malleable layer on top of your existing software. Development and change speed is the biggest advantage.

It shouldn't ever be a core system, but it should be where you prototype functionality.
According to the current stats (all polls reporting) from https://enr.elections.ca/National.aspx?lang=e: the vote split between the top 2 ranked candidates (conservative vs. most popular leftist) was only 77.53%; sorry, my mistake. That includes the one riding that was won by the NDP.

Of course, popular vote percentages don't matter in elections; this illustrates, however, the level of generalizied disappointment with the powers-that-be making decisions against the best interests of the Alberta.

Very interesting this morning, is the extreme levels of contempt and dismissiveness being heaped upon any Albertan who dares to support the idea of separation; see #WEXIT. It's both embarrassing and potentially explosive.

Fortunately, Albertans have a long history of nodding quietly at derision and then going and doing something unexpected. We'll see what happens.
PowerPCs have configurable endianness in the MSR register, but boot into big endian mode by default. macOS used it in big endian mode. Linux I can't speak to but believe you can pick based on kernel build config. As for IBM's OS' or the ones running on consoles, I can't speak to that.

The interesting part is that the motherboard also needs to support the specific endianness chosen, and when running in little-endian mode, it needs to perform a 64-bit byte swap on all data going in or out [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#Endian_modes
FairVote has a lock on the "we need to change our voting system: this is the best alternative" message, and from what I can tell are dogmatically opposed to cardinal systems in general.

There's also a history of bickering and personal attacks between different voting reform activists, including people in leadership positions.

The various ordinal voting advocates (Equal Vote, CES, etc.) really need help on the messaging and movement-building front. A lot of lay people struggle to "get" the abstract framing these issues are often presented in. It comes easy to computer programmers and mathematicians because we're relentlessly trained to think abstractly about algorithmic tradeoffs and emergent limits of systems.

But a lot of people just don't see why this issue is important. It just seems like an obscure focus.
The link seems to be getting the YCombinator hug-of-death. I can't read the article at all.

Since POWER9 only exists in the server / HEDT sphere, I doubt this will be a modern POWER9 chip. Maybe something like a NXP-chip, which would still be interesting. Something on the scale of a Chromebook maybe?

If binaries were compatible with the Talos II POWER9 HEDT / Server, then there is still a good use of this laptop. To serve as a portable development platform, much like Intel Atom can serve as a portable development platform for Intel Xeons.

Depends on a lot of details however. Honestly, its probably more important to rack-up a POWER9 Talos II and just SSH into it every once in a while... modern cloud-based services makes this sort of thing much easier.

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EDIT: Site finally worked for me. NXP T2080 chip, 4-core / 8-thread 28nm class chip. e6500 core, which is some form of PowerPC for sure... 128-bit vector units (Altivec). 32kB L1 d$ and 32kB L1 I$, 2MB L2$ for the whole chip.

This is older-tech for sure, definitely "Chromebook" level of tech, maybe a touch weaker even.

EDIT2: I think there's something to be said about an "open" design, where the schematics are available for the community to use and extend. The NXP T2080 has good GPIO pins and connectivity, so there's a chance that this laptop will be easier to interface with electronically than other devices. Guys over at hackaday probably would love something like this. https://gitlab.com/oshw-powerpc-notebook/powerpc-laptop-mobo...
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Access act aims to make user data 'portable' across social networks
Good news: People can usually get over anything, in time. Give it a bit before you do anything drastic. It should bother you less and less as time goes on, even if you don't do anything else.

You almost certainly want to do something else to help. Talk to someone, professionally if needed. If your work/community/whatever has a crisis centre, this is what they're for.

It might be a risk depending on where you work, but tell your boss/client you might take a bit longer at whatever you're doing. Unless you have a hard deadline you can usually get some leniency at work, provided you've been there a while and don't abuse their compassion.
The only problem is are PowerPC/Linux up to task? Correct if I'm wrong but from what I know the entire linux ecosystem is geared toward X86/64 and if you're on other architecture the selection of software that works shrinks substantially.

While we could just compile everything, there's still the problem of untested architecture integration, bugs that doesn't happen in X86 might happen in PowerPC/ARM and it's not a trivial issue to debug a compiler/bimodal action for instruction sets.
Well, there he mourns visual comedy, which is not exactly the same (you can have visual comedy without physical comedy -- well, aside from the performer doing its thing).

Visual comedy could be made in the editing, backgrounds, etc (as in many examples given in the video) even if the actors don't do physical comedy at all.
There is a large amount of star creation because of the disturbance it causes on gases, that may be a problem to life.
Ask HN: Do you have enough time to run your business?
Hi guys!

I am currently a software dev at a FAANG company, but want to quit my current job and start out as an entrepreneur.

Therefore, I am looking for any existing SaaS business owners who don't have enough time or motivation to work full time on their projects. I will act as a 'managing director' and run the business using a profit-sharing agreement.

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Can you comment more about this? Curious about how people get into it. Applying for a grant?
We are a long way from being able to sterilize the Earth. Heck, I don't think we could even wipe out humanity - or even civilization - much less all the myriad forms of life out there that thrive in conditions that would kill humans instantly. (Go to Yellowstone, see the brightly colored pools of boiling volcanic mud, realize those pools are brightly colored because they're full of living beings...)

I think what we're looking at right now is making life a little more uncomfortable and expensive for part of humanity. That's as bad as we can manage right now. The fact that we treat it like the end of the world says more about us than the damage itself does.
Stream video playback would probably invalidate most of the framebuffer anyway, so I'm not sure how much it would help. It's possible it will make a difference but probably not much. There are other things they could do along these lines that would definitely help, though.
Infineon Flies Under the Radar on Google's Soli
Not my area of expertise, but I would assume that there is an efficiency limit, much like there is for solar panels.

Remember that organisms can't just pull CO2 out of the air for free. Plants do it via photosynthesis, which requires the sun's energy. There is a maximum amount of energy falling on each organism, and I would guess that there is some theoretical limit to the efficiency of photosynthesis that is well below that limit.
sounds like some pretty interesting stuff!
What’s your business model? Consulting by the hour? Subscription fees? One-off fixed price contracts? Practically all software I’ve ever done has been some amalgamation or other of “make forms better and more automatic”, whether it’s planning software for gigantic Swedish furniture firms (take a wild guess!) or technical analysis toolkits for financial services. It’s always been per-hour or fixed price contracts for me – try as I might but the subscription model simply doesn’t take with the buyers it seems.

What I’d like to do is fixed price for initial dev and then subscription based contract for support and minor updates, but this seems wholly unpalatable for buyers.
I scored 8/10, and the two I got wrong were both successes of 'RoboTrump' convincing me. In the other cases, it fell down by not having the characteristic short sentences and self-interruptions of real Trump -- so real, people don't believe how real -- speech.
Mass Effect Andromeda anyone?
Very interesting idea, thanks for sharing! Is this solution doing any form of tracking or is it purely just sending solutions to your puzzles?
Wageningen is the world's leading Agtech university. I just returned 2 weeks ago and the 2025 European Food production estimates are ugly, dairy down 30%, potatoes down, onions down, maize, wheat and other cereals down a lot.

Basically, Europen food is in trouble.
Don't these issues apply to commercial software too?
In addition to the "ACR" issue mentioned, smart TVs have been caught throwing up pop-up ads anytime a person changes volume (including over movies/games) and scanning attached media (laptops, hard drives, USB sticks) and sending lists of all accessible files and folders back to the manufacture. Samsung in particular has been pretty shitty with ads and spying.
Progress to a standstill? Making code that solves problems, so that money can be made, is the goal of any software house that wants to ever have a positive cash flow. If it were easier or cheaper to hire for and write code in Haskell, which would make this goal easier to achieve, then it would already be used, and this the case in some domains. Beyond those specific domains, not many companies have the spare resources to donate to progressing the ideas/ideals of software development, unless there's a real, monetary, ROI. For many houses, there is none, at the moment.

It's always cheaper/easier to optimize in the environment one is currently in.
Can you share what you're working on? I would love to see a concrete example of something you are referring to as well as how you market it.
That's a good point, but astute readers aren't likely to be misled by headlines alone.

Unfortunately, headline scanning for confirmation bias of one's current beliefs is rampant. This means (a) biased headlines will get more clicks, and (b) such headlines do constitute a certain lack of honesty in journalism, because of the likelihood that they will mislead many readers.
Is your startup fit for CyberSecurity?
I think that’s kind of part of the story? It’s about kids handed a dying world, a world whose death their parents selfishly brought about, and devolving into madness and nihilism as a result. They’re conscripted into work that has no real purpose other than propping up the existing order and justifying its instrumental, destructive logic.

I watched it again recently and it struck me as incredibly relevant and a prescient warning about the trajectory of contemporary society, especially in the face of climate change. I mean, the entire setting is nearly flooded following a catastrophic event at one of the poles...
There are more use cases for sending email other than marketing. We don't like sending them, but many customers prefer to have transactional information (for instance, an audit has been done in some factory plant you manage) and periodic reports come to their mailbox instead of having to log in to some web app to see it.

It always a pain point and someone somewhere is certainly not receiving something they feel they should. These services help because of how complex the email ecosystem has become with layers of identity and reputation and such.
Yes, it could. Actually that's one concern I have looking forward past the current climate crisis: that the current push to solve climate change will spin up a huge industry of carbon capture and sequestration, which will turn the word's economy carbon negative. Atmospheric carbon plummets -- as fast as it's currently rising -- and we put the Earth into an ice age.

Basically humanity has reached the point where we need to learn to regulate our global carbon emissions to keep the atmosphere at a steady state. We're just now starting to figure out how to down-regulate our carbon emissions; after that we'll need to figure out how to up-regulate it in a controlled way.
Next steps: Link it to those NN video and voice generators, stream endless trump on twitch.
www.localrootsfarms.com

Shipping container-based vertical farms, primarily for leafy greens
How am I supposed to know and how is it even relevant?

The point is, the "placebo effect" (this is actually incorrect usage of the term) only seems to affect things that can't be measured. Why don't placebos heal infection or lower cholesterol levels or blood sugar or supplement thyroxin or something that is measurable?

Because there is no "placebo effect" (in that incorrect sense). There is only bad reporting.
What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win?

Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had a fairly vast majority. If you are thinking Canada or some ranked system, iirc they still elect by majority.

“No majority no win” is a great recipe for tyranny of the majority and why we have representative democracies, isn’t it?
“Just got back to power” with a mandate from 21% of eligible voters. Hooray for FPTP :(
Facebook Commits $1B Toward Affordable Housing in Silicon Valley
My eyesight is really failing me...
The furnaces for making crude silicon are already powered by electricity. So are the Siemens process reactors for refining silicon into solar and electronic grades. So are the Czochralski crystal pullers used to turn refined silicon into mono-crystalline boules for manufacturing wafers.

"Silicon processing: from quartz to crystalline silicon solar cells"

https://www.pyrometallurgy.co.za/Pyro2011/Papers/083-Xakalas...
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Guess what? Browsers still work this way.
Somewhat off topic but I thought when I clicked on the link that it would be about long-lived systems that didn't need maintenance. In an increasingly IoT world we'll have devices all over the place that can't afford to be visited between deployment and recycling.
There’s a significant efficiency difference between high-tech greenhouses (glasshouses) and warehouse (aka vertical) farms. High-tech greenhouses will not compete with field farms for staple crops, but they are already profitably supplying fresh produce in many countries.
True. In the same spirit, I'd also add record linkage to automated data entry. It's a big problem both if your previous data is noisy or your automated solution doesn't transcribe some fields correctly.

A simple probabilistic programming solution can work really well.
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I've heard a similar story about Asynchronous Transfer Mode. An ATM cell is 53 bytes long, which seems like a really weird number. The US wanted it to be 64 bytes as they felt this was optimal for them, everyone else wanted it to be 32 bytes, so CCITT split the difference, and made it 48 bytes plus a 5 byte header.
Blue Origin Will Work on Lunar Lander with Lockheed, Northrop and Draper
That's true, but if I used all CSS properties with this amount of coverage it would cause a lot of extra work for very little gain. If this is something that really gets your goat, and you use Firefox, perhaps it's worth it to scratch the itch, but otherwise pretty useless currently.
It's obvious that these cycles can exist when the things referred to have labels like "A, B, C" or "carrot, potato, lettuce", but how often do they occur for political candidates like the ones described above?

I'm willing to buy that IRV is objectively not suitable for picking meals, but that in practice it is suitable for picking presidential candidates -- or that it's always inferior. Seems like an empirical question, not a theoretical one.
Where is the GitHub part documented? What does "internally" mean? Like a shadow deployment strategy?

Thanks!
God, these consulting companies are the _worst_.
This is almost as long as the Earth has existed since its formation. It is an extremely long length of time. Suffice it to say humans will not be around anywhere close to that time. Nor will any currently recognisable life. All current species and families would've drastically changed and evolved into other forms, with the exception of simple, unicellular life. And of course around this time our Sun will be on its way to a red giant so the Earth would be becoming well nigh inhospitable for life (as it exists now). As for intelligent life, I don't think intelligence can remain stable for such lengths of time.
Data Privacy as a Business Strategy
When voters are all arranged on a single primary axis it doesn't happen, but when voters care about multiple axes at once (ex: socially liberal / conservative + economically liberal / conservative) it's relatively common.

One well-known and widely discussed case is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Burlington_mayoral_electi...
I haven't been talking about SmartOS. This thread isn't about SmartOS-- it's actually about FPGA synthesis tools that won't run on SmartOS, and criticism of how someone got those tools to run. In this thread you are batting .000-- the whole thing you showed up to assert was wronk, and then the whole sideshow of a conversation you tried to start is bad.

set -e is a stylistic choice, though one I'd urge anyone writing scripts in Bourne and Bourne-like shells to prefer by default.
IOT blockchain AI running in the cloud with integrated cryptocurrency and ICO.
The Toyota Financial web site (if you finance a Toyota/Lexus through them) became horribly broken recently. It required me to jump through so many hoops to log in (including turning off ad blocker, turning off tracking protection, not using "private browsing mode," etc.) that I just got fed up with it and went back to paper billing. It's so ridiculous.

I actually pay through my online banking now but I'm forced to receive paper bills unless I agreed to some insanely-long new T&C.

The online banking I use (some local credit union) uses a 3rd-party site so in order to use it I must accept 3rd party cookies on this site. But you don't whitelist <the bank site> you have to find and whitelist <the 3rd party site> which requires some knowledge/skill in this area. I don't know how any "normal" user will be able to use Firefox after these updates; if you can't log in to your bank you're just going to go back to Chrome, right?
If your company does business in the United States, they're violating the law. https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers/d...

Section 8(a)(3) of the Act makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer, "by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment[,] to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization." (An employer that violates Section 8(a)(3) also derivatively violates Section 8(a)(1).) For example, you may not

- Discharge, constructively discharge, suspend, lock out, lay off, fail to recall from layoff, demote, discipline, or take any other adverse action against employees because they support the union or engage in union activities.
Familiar with email aliases (ie user+words@gmail.com)? Easy to have infinite addresses and yet a single mailbox with automations upon receiving the confirmations.
The first season of Psycho Pass is really good in this regard as well (second season not so much). Some of the best sci-fi I’ve seen in a long time.
> ... but wasnt FF a browser-only release of Mozilla ...

Basically. Netscape Navigator was a large suite of functionality, including mail and NNTP. FF, originally "Phoenix", started off as a browser only.

It was light enough that I compiled it from source via Ports on my FreeBSD 4 (?) machine, and don't recall it taking too long.
Yes, approval voting is simple and effective. How should we bring attention to it?
Reminds me of NATO/OTAN (English/French)
CDNs could whitelist HTTP header keys, constrain HTTP header values, and regenerate a full clean header to the web server as part of their security services.

CDNs already parse headers, and the CDN developers have the knowledge and know how to correctly constrain header values.

There are 100's of different HTTP Header attacks e.g. I like this one that returns a response from a different persons HTTP response into your HTTP response: https://portswigger.net/blog/http-desync-attacks-request-smu...
I clicked on "Careers" at optimal.ag but it doesn't work(
Wanted to see who are u hiring at the moment
Yes, I hope my comment is not taken as defending DU as being OK. I was specifically replying to the idea of this becoming some kind of new Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The video shows it running a big-endian kernel, and the distro link is to a big-endian Debian port.
Discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315699
Do CF Workers need an API-Gateway, like AWS Lambda?

(I know Lambda can also be accessed via the SDK)
But most people copy and paste licenses into their own LICENSE file.
What is the reason for this? Does the same problem exist in US, Canada, etc?
AWS Route 53 experiencing occasional DNS resolution errors
Different strokes for different folks, but I found their willingness to let a scene breathe (even to the point of absurdity) a wonderful counterpoint to the fight scenes.

The show is not about mecha fighting monsters... it's about the spaces in between people, and how we fail and succeed to connect. The elevator scene, Misato and Kaji, Shinji's tape player, Shinji and Kaworu... those are some of my favorite scenes because they show the connection or disconnection between the characters.

Yes, it does save them money to not have to animate. Art always has to deal with the limitations of the medium, in this case budget.