skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AHK [0], Sikuli [1] , and Ui.Vision [2] are extremely limited vs what a proper RPA framework will give you for Windows automation.

If your needs are minimal (e.g. test automation, because you don't care if it breaks 10% of the time), that's probably enough.

But they're definitely not the same class of tools.

[0] https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Control.htm

[1] http://doc.sikuli.org/match.html#Match

[2] https://ui.vision/rpa/x/desktop-automation
Now, if only we could reveal Applejinx’s real name to a few million people while misrepresenting their beliefs. /s

What does interest me is that both you and I are posting here with our legal name, while Applejinx hides behind a veil of anonymity.

They must have something to hide. /s
But they wont have diverse routing :-) all it takes is a navvy with a back hoe digging in the wrong place.

And you also need to have diverse routing for power coming in and generator / battery room set up.
BTC (31,375,356 USD) was just moved from an inactive address
First I thought it would be about dumbing down the existing maths so more people can understand.

Some 10 pages in I realized it's explaining the concepts I've internalized years ago in a way I can't comprehend at all.
> many crypto investors to believe the latest bull run is different

"This time it's different" isn't an argument I find compelling for why something that is known to have bubbles and manipulation isn't in a bubble.
Yeah, you got it, see my reply to capableweb. Thanks!
I'm patiently waiting for the dismissals (it's just a fad like tulips or beanie babies), the negative permabulls (it's evil because people can use it to buy drugs / not pay taxes, it can't do as many TPS as Visa, it's bad for the environment...) while laughing all the way to the bank.

Crypto is the HN equivalent of what the ipod was to Slashdot: "lame" to the people who think they are the typical user, who declare there is no product-market fit. Maybe after 12 years of being constantly proven wrong, it's time for the old guard to stop being luddites and concede it has been very wrong?
> I've never worked at a place that doesn't use them.

Consider yourself lucky then.
I know of a place that doesn’t use transactions in a homegrown ERP solution, of all things.
Oh thank you. Hmm "Status
Expired - Fee Related .. 2022-07-13 Adjusted expiration" .. is that like when your power gets cut off from not paying the bill? p.s. Vince's book was published in 2008.
You exchange network+filesystem access against only filesystem acess.

The server needs to store your DB somehow too.
I understand what you mean but disagree. I merely appreciate tools that make some effort to standardise their UX. Of course configuration is going to be a major part of the system; however that doesn't mean I must use fragmented tools to manage them.

For instance, I avoid touching those Java tools you mention (or Javascript), preferring leiningen et al. from the Clojure ecosystem. If I don't want to deal with CMAKE or whatever the hell php or perl or erlang or go use, I can use my distro's package manager (coincidentally, yay) to abstract them away. If something goes wrong (which rarely happens these days!) it's even money that the problem comes from some Node/JS intermediate abomination which doesn't even show you the curtesy of being tractable in its scope or mode of operation.

And your last line is uncalled for. I'm happy you like the current state of affairs, but my very subjective view is that I'm not affected by the JS-land Stockholm syndrome. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy dealing with the domain problems :)
Well, in a view similar to the many-worlds interpretation, your decisions may be random, but your observation of those decisions follows the path of your choosing.
Does it use anchor rules to identify target controls? Yes. Does it provide actions one can execute against those controls? Yes.

Most RPA vendors are cross-trained from the business side, rather than having a background in tech. So they're generally not very familiar with the broader tech world. (Their dev teams are, but those aren't the folks writing blog posts)
> If you are not on Windows – I’m very sorry.

Do you mean OSX right?
Last time I had an issue of this kind on Linux, I just got the source, built in debug and actually fixed the issue.
I think your question frames a negative in a positive light, "committing 100%". A better question could be, "should I give up my income with no knowledge that anyone will be interested in my product?"

Most likely case (if you have savings): you wind up back in the workplace having lead a more interesting life and having spent your savings.

Worst case: like someone I know you are not able to return the salaried position you once had.

Best case: you get on an accelerator programme, get some support/money and your product takes off.

You may like this book;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful-Stra...
I agree, GME was bad enough but no way I’ll touch TSLA.
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It is no coincidence that PR is a continuation of propaganda for another field.
There is an arms race between reddit admins and spammers in general -- who will ruin any platform with eyeballs on it.

This article does not address that all -- vote fuzzification apparently only serves "brigading" -- thast not what it's for. It's for spammers so they can't judge the effectivness of their bots.

The author misses the wood from the trees. I'm not seeing valid criticisms either which means he didnt' even Google to see what others said of reddit, e.g. poor moderation tools for large subs.
We're truly witnessing an extraordinary paradigm shift in human history.
What you seem to be saying here is, "Imagine a thing that doesn't work. It doesn't work."

That's... not an argument?
Didn't real the article, eh?
I always thought it was pretty obvious when YouTube rolled out screen time reminders.

It had nothing to do with anything but minimizing liability in case the general public ever catches on to what they are doing to kids mental health.

What’s hilarious is they probably have some “data retention policy” and will get away with it.

I guess it’s why SV engineers want to care about social issues so much. When you’re up in your $300k+ a year ivory tower built on something you know is dirty, you are exactly the type of person to be angry and project frustration.

I saw on Reddit a screenshot of AOC dogging on old people in Congress for not understanding digital. She listed a bunch of modern day issues and this wasn’t one of them. If even she doesn’t know, we really are screwed.
The most important thing when you do this is that you don't listen to your local audio signal, you only listen to the mixed signal coming from the server. That puts you in time with everyone else, more or less.

Roundtrip latency was under 30ms, which you definitely feel but your brain can compensate for.

The funny effect overall though is that because you're delayed and everyone else is delayed, you end up sort of waiting for the other player, and they end up waiting for you, so instead of the classic band "everyone speeds up" it's like everyone progressively slows down as the song progresses.

We haven't tried with our drummer actually playing drums, he's just been recording against other parts we provide. I don't think it'll work very well because his acoustic kit will be too loud and he'll hear that as well as the delayed drum sound, which for him will feel like a stuttery mess
I think he was referencing just happening to have read it while simultaneously being an undergrad, not that he was assigned it required reading. Could be wrong though.
When it hits around $54k it will be worth a trillion so give it a few minutes :)
Both nocoiners and coiners are locked into their positions so hard it’s “I’ll go down with the ship” at this point. At least one side gets to be rich though!
Your comment spurred me to find the Wikipedia pages about notes. I had always been aware of the gradual shrinking of the dimensions, but didn't realise it happened so dramatically from pre-war to 70s [1].

Huge notes always remind me of Bresson's Pickpocket - a decade earlier but close enough [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A320_note#...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0IcoDkGOmM
For 12 years, just bubbles? First it was over 1 cent, then over $1, over $1000, now over $50k.... when will you consider the possibility you may have been wrong? At $100k? At $1M? (which most models indicate as a plausible target price in 10 years)

Let me give you my favorite quote, pulled from another HNer comment: "I enjoy reading comments about Bitcoin here because even without any venture backing, it achieved a bigger valuation than all of the Y Combinator companies COMBINED, yet people still think it is unstable and has no future."
Tesla's market share in Europe has been falling over the last year. The other manufacturers are catching up, VW in particular.
Yes I watch her stuff as well I appreciate her work although its not always consistent video to video. I recommend people check out https://forgottenphysics.com/
Just a guess but I think this is probably where Lori got most of her inspiration at first
In their relation with blogs and social media, traditional press is at the "fight" stage of the three-stage Ghandi progression "first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win". Can't wait for stage three and good riddance, especially seeing how much they are willing to fight dirty and compromise their supposed principles.
Most people familiar with the US patent office will agree that it's totally broken. The reviewers are not scientists, and aren't required to understand what's being proposed in a patent. They simply perform a search for prior art.

As a result, all kinds of pseudoscience has gotten "patented", for example this patent for detecting "tachyonized" materials (you know, materials that have been infused with tachyons, the hypothetical particles that travel faster than light):

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7760357B2/en
This is one of the best comments from a green handle I’ve seen in a while. Rant or not, it adds to the site; just this weekend, I was lamenting some very low quality green account comments and contemplating whether a 12-hour waiting period or de-ranking of green would make HN better. This argues strongly against.
> The code was likely written in the early 90s when the barrier to entry was much lower.

You're probably right about that.

> That seems more plausible than all the developers being illiterate.

I'm not saying all developers are CS illiterate, but most are.
I’d say it requires humility.
Yeah that is what I was referring to. Pretty chilling story.
Regardless of whether you agree with all the evil stuff, the fact is that Bitcoin is generating a lot of noise, speculation, and wasting a bunch of energy for practically nothing.

I know practically no one around me who has ever used Bitcoin for actual purchases other than buying drugs once. And I know literally no one who uses it in daily life. However I have a few dozen friends who bought Bitcoin because it's going to go to the moon or something.
You don't know how Bloomberg obtained their evidence, and unlike conspiracy theorists who lose nothing to spread their misinformation, Bloomberg stakes their reputation, and business, on the credibility of their stories. Incorrect details is one thing. Falsified story in such sensitive matter is another thing. Especially now that they've doubled down on it.

> You can't just ignore the huge numbers of things in this story which straight up don't add up

The rebukes can boil down to: a) companies involved denied it; b) nobody else confirmed it; c) the picture in the story didn't seem to be legit.

Perhaps I miss other rebukes, as I didn't follow it very closely, but none of the above is convincing enough to dismiss the original story.
Janus is another famous SFU but they do have a plugin called AudioBridge that mixes all audio on the server https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/audiobridgetest.html
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How so? Bitcoin's excitement comes entirely from its value in fiat, as opposed to regular usage in daily life.
Hi! Author's here.

Just read about this extension, thanks. The concept is rather interesting. Most probably you can cause some problems for corporations if you constantly add informational noise, but I don't think it will really change anything significantly.
You see they will still get real information about you, even if it has some noise. Your real behavior is the most valuable here, and it will not go anywhere.

Also I'm quite sure Google can detect automatic actions very well, it's a thing they need for detecting bots, who click on ads or leave comments on youtube. Same goes for most of the tech corporations.
Yes, but everybody already knows the threat is real, most especially Schneier. Something made him change his mind.
He is now blogging with his full real name at: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
I think often the things that don’t exist are not there for good reasons... using Stripe’s api for example from a module is pretty trivial in my experience, it’s just HTTP and you don’t need to be super clever about it. What specifically are you struggling to paginate, I’ve never found that difficult to implement even with quite clever options. Again notifications doesn’t sound particularly difficult and I don’t see why I’d want to rely on some complex gem that does every option when I don’t need them. Elixir+Phoenix I agree is definitely lower level but there are things it does much better than Ruby on Rails. I’d rather not have to rely on gems and write the simplest implementation specifically for my use case. It’s a trade off, but one I’m much happier with.
Not everyone in Silicon Valley is a rationalist, but pretty much all Rationalists are in Silicon Valley. Some big names in Silicon Valley are central figures in the movement.

EDIT: To be clear, I don't know what the geographic distribution of Rationalists is. I also don't care. The fact of the matter is that the movement is irrelevant everywhere except Silicon Valley, and within Silicon Valley it is fairly powerful with several prominent adherents. This is spelled out in the New York Times article and its citations.
Searching is needed.
It seems that edge also has an N^2 complexity rendering SVG files. I've been using SVGchart to render time series simulation data to SVG and viewing it in the browser. Putting out 4 traces sampled at 40KHz over 1 second produces a slow but tolerable rendering. 2 seconds of data kills it, while 0.5s is fairly snappy.

The issue at this particular threshold of time complexity is IMHO that you often need to create a new data structure with multiple fast algorithms (insert, and query) in order to reach O(n log n). Many people will punt at that point, questioning weather it's really worth the trouble.
Oh god, that looks absolutely awful.

This is why people hate UI designers.
...also worth more than Tesla currently
Plenty of venture dollars have been invested in bitcoin related services, or even just used to buy bitcoin directly.

It's not really the same relationship as investment in a company, but it's not absent either.
It’s always meant, “I’m paid to post ads”. Whether that’s psychological manipulation is up to you.

(Yes, ads are designed to get you to interact with them, but on their own, I wouldn’t go as far as saying, “psychological manipulation”. I’ll admit the industry has tended in that direction, however. Your view may differ)
Yeah, 100% with you here.

I actually tremendously enjoy hearing a well constructed negative argument against Bitcoin/Crypto that presents a perspective I haven't heard a 100 times before and/or hasn't been debunked in depth.

These are actually necessary given how new and different the whole shebang is.

But that hasn't happened in a rather long time on HN, or if it has, it's buried 10 level of indent deep amongst HN randos parroting lame climate change arguments they've heard on reddit of FB.
I've used Scala, Clojure, Haskell, and F#. I'd say F# does a great job of providing a happy middle path between the strict side effect management of Haskell and the advanced OOP features of Scala. It also brings the well-designed ASPNET CORE stack.

If I was starting from scratch and just wanted to learn, I'd say you'll learn plenty from any of them. Haskell has the most to teach about purity in FP, Scala the most about OOP, and Clojure the most about metaprogramming.

F# has the most to offer for just getting things done quickly. It is a language of practical compromises. It's not the most pure, it doesn't bring the most advanced OOP, and it's metaprogramming is tricky. However F# is what I grab first when I want to build production software quickly and safely.
Clearly that is not the case just looking at the sales volume of each.

Tesla is a niche product catering to a small subset of Auto buyers. As other manufacturer ramp up their EV lines it will be clear that Telsa is not going to take over this market.

For example in the US the standard Pickup Truck is still the most popular vehicle, Tesla's "Cyber Truck" as no chance of unsetting the F150 for that title, and F150 Electric will be out in 2022/2023 and most likely will be the fastest selling EV in the US

and it will be interesting to see how the Mach-E does against Tesla
Personally, I'm neutral to slightly bullish on crypto. It's reached mainstream and it looks like many companies are going to put a portion of their cash in BTC as an inflation hedge. The price will definitely fluctuate, but it does seem like a floor is being put in because of this move to the mainstream.

So my advice on owing crypto, is own enough that if it goes parabolic you aren't kicking yourself later, but not so much that it breaks you if it goes to zero.
Vue definetly could, I have a single page music/note sequencer done in it that is maybe a bit more complicated than this so yes (I really should find the time to make it public and maybe showHN, made a parse backend to it but had to leave it mid due to real-life commitments).
I know. I'm retired thanks to crypto. I'm glad I eventually saw how HN was wrong and learned from my mistakes. It did cost me bit of time-opportunity, but there's a point where you have "enough" and it's not worth chasing more money anymore.
Higher education: free speech and academic freedom
Blue Prism makes it almost impossible not to bash out something resembling proper, abstracted object oriented design (reusable objects, methods on those objects, etc).

Unfortunately, it does this in a hamfisted way that makes the product harder to learn and use than it needs to be. It's fine if that's all you use, but you're not going to be able to quickly crosstrain / ramp someone up on it.

IMHO, that defeats a core value proposition: enable non-developers to develop.

I've demo'd the MS offering (Power Automate), but haven't daily driven it. It's slick.

The question I have is where MS is positioning it. I don't think it's an independent product, so I think they might see it as filling in a gap in the O365 offering? I don't think legacy support is a major point for them, which will probably be good enough for most people.
In Python you just have to open the special file name “:memory:” to get a memory-based db. I don’t remember what the raw SQLite incantation is (or if it’s different). Also, pay attention to “ATTACH” - it’s the way to use multiple databases (file and/or memory) while still letting SQLite handle it all (e.g. join a memory db to a file db, insert result into 3rd file db - all without having to look at records in your own code)
My crypto friends have raised millions outside of VC and then became very rich once their projects launched basically over night. Liquid immediately and never paid a lawyer.

Truly is a paradigm shift and I think a big problem on HN is that VC can’t see they are being disrupted and have no way of avoiding it, plus they think they are untouchable geniuses, so being wrong this hard isn’t pleasant for them.
What's it like being an SRE for a FAANG? To me it sounds like you need to know practically everything about software engineering (network stack, linux stack, web app stack) so it appeals to me as a generalist.
> I know practically no one around me ...

You need to travel and/or get out of your social bubble more.

I've met folks who bought houses with Bitcoin and moved millions across "money transfer unfriendly" borders.
Another good example, one of the the then top HN users by karma:

2015: "Most advantages of Bitcoin which matter are captured by, and improved upon by, a LAMP app which simply holds account balances."

2019: "I acknowledge that when Bitcoin was $17 I said it had no use case, should be worthless, and likely would be at some point in the future. No evidence has come up which would make me change my view. (Though my is it taking a while.)"
I am as skeptical of TSLA as the next fellow, but at least the company can capitalize on its rising stock price to convert it into physical infrastructure that provides a certain floor to the company value.
I hold some amount of cryptocurrency. I am living in a country where some of the premise for cryptocurrency makes sense (strong capital control, banking and financial sector is ... questionable). And my intution likes the idea of cryptocurrency.

But by far and large, there is no product-market fit still. And people are rational in being against it for various reason, please don't call them luddite.

Personally, I'd still support crypto in the same way I'd support FSF (though much less of a support, just for clarification!). Because I think there is something there with the idea, and I like the principles. But there is a high chance the detractors are correct in their assessment.
How much of this Bitcoin wealth is centralized to the top %?
Bitcoin as the gateway to Ethereum and the possibilities opened up by smart contacts such as the currently embryonic DeFi market.

Paradigm shift isn't too strong a terminology.
But still, relying on sprinklers to save your IT business is a bad idea. Offsite backups are needed.

Yep, totally agreed. Resiliency comes from having offsite backups, cold/warm standby sites, testing your backups and ability to switch to the DR site, etc. The sprinklers are mainly about saving human lives.
Can't see Leopold II being very popular in Silicon Valley, he would certainly reduce the demand for smartwatches.
I try to avoid the term in docs and discussion, but find that - where I can't refer to stakeholder names directly - I fall back to "the people that use the software", which.. might be more efficiently named 'users'.
I considered retiring but it’s too boring so I just keep working in crypto. I’m a workaholic by nature. Not having a boss is great though as it allows me true freedom and the ability to work strange hours.
What did I write that's untrue?
Do you have an actual example website/app that does this “less addictive” thing?
I just wanted internet money, not a speculative financial instrument. :(
No, that's incorrect. More energy does not mean more secure, and it's a common fallacy in bitcoin.

If you read bitcoin.pdf, the security depends on the % of miners that are honest.

In a nutshell, more energy just means that the "difficulty" goes up, i.e more hashes are required, but that's nothing to do with security.
It's a smart move, how can Google respond without undermining their whole business model.

Microsoft struggles with it as well, it's not something their enterprise customers are asking for.
Does anyone else feel like:

- they've missed an opportunity to get rich with minimal effort from crypto

- still have absolutely no interest in jumping in at this point?
I agree that calcium seems like a natural candidate and I suggest as much in my thesis. Coming from physics, I didn't know about reverse replay in the hippocampus for a long time, but I also have this association now. I would be glad to talk more, is there a way to reach you?
Because sqlite let's you index and query the data without having to write your own layer to do that.