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As a fellow SWE who's been in the RPA space for a few years now, I'll offer an alternative perspective.

Traditional RPA is here to stay, and only getting bigger. By "traditional" I mean screen-scraping and click bots. It's not only for legacy apps. It also addresses two development pain points that will never go away: (1) complexity and (2) missing features.

On (1), I've worked with companies whose APIs are so convoluted and poorly supported, and distributing your client in their ecosystem is so complex, that I've thrown up my hands and gone, "Forget it, I'll implement this with a service account." An RPA process logs into the front end, clicks around, scrapes some data, outputs it to the next process in my pipeline, and it's done. I've written processes like this that have been running for years with basically no maintenance due to stable-enough UIs. UI changes are still a risk, but if you have a mature UI, it's a great, simple alternative to a more complex process.

Regarding (2), APIs don't always expose all the features of the UI, and sometimes vendors won't, or can't, add them in a given budget or time frame. I worked with a partner whose API had essentially one read-only endpoint. Their product was fantastic and they had other integration methods; they just hadn't prioritized API development, which they could afford to do because they delivered so well in their niche otherwise. We had to get creative in how we would pull the data.
An easy way to blunt such attacks is to have physical write-enable switches on drives used for backups. Then, when restoring from backup, it cannot get corrupted.

Of course, even better would be a physical switch for incremental backups, so a disk drive works like tape - it can physically only be appended to if that switch is "off".

Come on, security professionals. None of this has any technical or cost barriers. Demand it from drive vendors. My older drives have such a switch.
> Basically every module also has an ‘extraConfig’ type of option

This is actually changing so that the additional config can be merged/validated even if it can't be typed

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-o...
It's only a matter of time before bloatware shipped on OEM devices and "free subscriptions" for antivirus, warranties, etc. pay for themselves by doing a little mining in the background.

And then, of course, it's only a matter of time before they're doing a lot of mining, and they're subsidizing the cost of the device, and a contract will require you to run the miner until it's been paid off.
It does not apply only to policing. From the article:

>The legislation bans the use of the software by county government agencies and administrative offices...
In the US drinking actually goes up with income and poorer people tend to not drink at all - but more of the ones who do are alcoholics.

This is possibly the reason why studies say "moderate drinking can be healthy".
For those unaware of WA state counties: this includes Seattle and its surrounding metropolitan area.
You nailed it. I'd add - avoid lifestyle creep, take that 10m and put it into stocks, real estate, startups and crypto. Then just sit back and watch the money flow.
They don't use your standards of $$ value. For VC it is strictly based on current and anticipated future value and amount of profit to be had. It has nothing to do with usefulness to society or actual importance in the human experience.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-21/facial-re...
There may not be enough unsolved violent crime to justify facial recognition, but one thing there is too much of in Seattle, Portland, SF, LA, NYC is un-prosecuted violent crime.
MS Windows is 100% to blame. How can a worm spread that easily in 2021 to pcs across the network? 0day trash windows exploits
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> About the same weight (4k per Google) and the road-master is shorter.

Not sure your sources, but a 94s Roadmaster weighed about 4572lbs according to the Owners Manual. Perhaps you were looking the sedan weight?

The Outback is 3753 in base or 3917 in turbo guise. So maybe not 1000lbs, but not far off.
why not a traditional bank? You can open the account on your name or the company (depends on the legal form). The advantage is, that you can reach them by phone or in an office. Cross country cash transfer are usually no problems and you can manage your account on an e-banking website or sometimes on an app.
No, it would just push such payments into the shadows.
With nixops you also define define your configurations in nix (and can have interdependencies between them) then start machines or virtual machines as blank nixos installs and add their ssh key and address for nixops to reconfigure and manage.

I ultimately find it easier to have one host that is keeping track of all configurations and pushing my changes to all hosts since I otherwise end up with a lot of machines with different changes I've been working on.
Social media triggered the Arab Spring which destroyed nations.
> Most don't know what virtual memory is or are surprised that two processes can resolve different values under same pointer.

Yikes. How many of them have a degree in computer science?
It's not an either/or.

People contribute to the site because they get value from it and want to give back. And for some people it's a kind of reputation. That's enough on its own, or else the content wouldn't even exist in the first place.

Totally orthogonal is Stack Overflow as a business. People need to write and maintain the code, run the servers, moderate the community, determine new features, and so on. They're the ones being rewarded by the sale, and they deserve it because SO is a whole lot more than just the user-generated content.

I don't think there's any moral or even social or "decency" expectation that people who have written questions and answers over the years would share in the business rewards. That was never an expectation going in.

Now, if Stack Overflow's founders want to find ways to "give back" to the community from their personal proceeds, then that's wonderful too. But they have no obligation to.
I don't agree - that won't work as critical infrastructure can't be not connected to internet; perhaps we have a different understanding of what "critical infrastructure" means? You can have disconnected industrial networks, but the ransomware cases aren't really about those.

For example, let's look at the recent major Colonial Pipeline case. Their pipeline systems weren't connected to the Internet, and did not get compromised. What got compromised was their business billing and customer communications systems - and those do need to be connected to internet, that's their whole point, and they apparently were critical enough to make them shut down the (uncompromised) pipeline anyway.

It doesn't matter if your meat packing plant machinery SCADA systems are isolated, your inventory, logistics and sales systems are critical for your operations and need to be connected to the internet, so a ransomware attack will kill you even if your plant equipment works fine.

It doesn't matter if your chemical plant sensor network is isolated, your payroll and shift scheduling system is critical to your operations and needs to be connected to the internet.

Heck, for so many companies their email systems are critical to their operations (and leaking the contents would cause a massive liability) and those obviously need to be connected to the internet.

Not connecting is helpful in some cases, but it's nowhere close to a sufficient solution.
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> how much is this worth stopping?

Having a physical write-enable switch on the backup devices costs about three cents.
I searched the comments for some of the big-name RPA “solutions” I’ve had to work with before, and none of them show up at all (Blue Prism, mentioned in the article, was one of them). Not surprising, since ALL of their documentation on how to use the damn things or even how they work on a technical level is paywalled.

As someone who’s had to support them for an org’s clients in the past, that lack of access is extremely frustrating. How can I develop a library that lets clients access the web app through RPA if the vendors refuse to tell me how to make things accessible to them? Waste all around. Good riddance. Not that I’m any more confident about Microsoft’s offering here.
Chinese hackers already hacked the NSA and stole their zero day exploits - it was 2014 but still.
I am sorry if people feel like this is not the right place for this post.

If the admins feel like that, please remove the offending post(s). Or ask me to amend them.

I have made something that I think is cool and with the hope that others liked it, but if it's out of place I can only apologise.
Apologies for whatever, but thanks for this post; one more thing to look for to uninstall on relatives/acquaintances computers.

Reason: products having "Crypto" or "Secure" in the name are usually a bag of bugs, doing much more damage than anything else. Why this is so is kind of a riddle to me; I don't know any product promising to secure a PC that isn't buggy and insecure, with the only exceptions being the inherent security of operating systems (windows, MacOS, Linux in ascending order).
I guess it's just more efficient to try and make friends with people that you already have to hang out with 40 hours a week. People are lazy and making friends as an adult is difficult
My distinction is that it's to get you used to the standard, not the hardware. VCV Rack still uses 1V/Octave and CV just like a real Eurorack synth, so calling it "modular" is a bit of a disservice. VCV Rack is an emulation of the hardware, so much so that you can actually mix and match the two if you have the proper interface.
Several VCV Rack modules are software renditions of hardware Eurorack modules, e.g. the Befaco or Expert Sleepers ones.

I'm sure there are some VCV modules inspired to other systems like Buchla or Serge but they are not official software reproductions of hardware products, like the examples mentioned above.
National Defense is the realm of the Executive.
Scott Alexander was the subject of a story, not an anonymous journalistic source which is what the poster you replied to was referring to when they said the NYT protects their sources.

I am not disputing that the NYT revealed his full name, they absolutely did so that, against his wishes.
These days you have to win on the iOS/Android app stores.

Nintendo can still compete with specialized mobile hardware because of unique IP and quirky games only they can make. But I don't think there's room for another dedicated handheld devices. Especially as cloud gaming starts to become more of a thing.
On Chrome, go to chrome://settings/

Search for "search engines"

Open "Manage search engines"

Under "Other search engines" click on "Add" (on the right)

Add this custom search engine:

- Search engine: Python docs (first result)

- Keyword: p

- URL with %s in place of query: {google:baseURL}search?q=site:docs.python.org%2F3%2F+%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

Install the "Redirect Google Redirects" extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-google-re... (otherwise you'll see a "Redirect Notice" page)

You can also add this search engine:

- Python3 docs

- pp

- {google:baseURL}search?q=site%3Adocs.python.org%2F3%2F+%s

Now, when you need to search for the Python documentation, just type "p setattr" and it'll go straight to https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html or you can search "pp setattr" and it'll show you the search results, filtered only for docs.python.org/3/
Nixon, Reagan including Nancy Bush Sr. the original instigators of the federal on drugs are all dead.
Genuine question - why not ban cameras altogether? Or ban the use of computers in police stations, make them write up all their reports by hand. I truly don't understand why there would be a line at facial recognition, it's just a law against making a process more efficient.

It's clear to me that there should be a line to prevent fully convicting someone of a crime without any humans in the loop at all. Don't replace the jury or public defenders with robots. But facial recognition could just be a way to look through a large amount of footage to find relevant clips that would then be reviewed in more detail by humans. Without facial recognition, you just pay cops overtime to look through footage themselves. It doesn't necessarily affect the outcome of the process at all.

I think facial recognition just needs some help with its image, it's just a tool that would save tax dollars. Or a means to Defund The Police, if that's your thing.
Based on the title, I had hoped this article would be a study of fast typists to determine the most efficient typing styles. While this article is not that, if you also came to the comments looking for something like that, such studies do exist:

https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/136Mkeystrokes/

An interesting conclusion is that "non-standard typists" are catching up to touch typists on standard keyboards. This matches my personal experience as someone whose teachers thought cursive would forever remain more relevant than typing...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002075925.h...
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/10/18/todays-self-taught-ty...
Show HN: Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa
It makes people weak, unable to control themselves and resist urges. That transfers to other areas of life or even civilization.
That's more polite than my immediate reaction.
Don't worry, I'm sure the NSA has acquired lots of fresh new exploits since then!
LifeLock only advertises in media channels popular with the ignorant, vulnerable, and/or paranoid. People who don't know that story and definitely don't know better.
Yes it's actually paraphrasing the title of a nice piece she contributed to the second issue of the Spectres journal published by Shelter Press! The full title is "Instrument design is composition, resonance is harmony." It's an inspiring essay -- the Spectres issue on Resonances has a number of other nice essays from composers, sound artists etc loosely grouped around the subject.
Unless there have been classified changes, EO 12333 bans such activity.
Do you also use Arch?
Not an admin, but this seems totally appropriate (resubmitting your blogpost would have been the more "correct" way, since HN generally prefers links over text submissions, but doesn't really matter)

Cool project!
You can find causes for causes all the way back in the chain. But voters are human beings with independent agency to act according to their own wishes. They have the ability to break the chain of causation if they want. And they don't. So it's their fault.

It's the same way that you can't say a child abuser isn't responsible for his crimes because he was abused himself as a child. Yes, that's a factor that contributed to his actions, but he's still responsible for his own actions no matter how difficult the decision is.

Yes, voting every 4 years is a democracy. It might not be direct democracy but direct democracy has serious problems and you probably wouldn't want it.
It can kill you though. It raises blood pressure and in some people this causes heart attacks.
Isn't Ethereum going to migrate to PoS in the near future anyway? Not that it's the only red flag here, but it seems like this product is going to have a short shelf life lest they migrate to other coins.
Does anyone have any insight about the tech behind emergency call number worldwide ? Is there a specific network / stack / set of protocols / etc... ?

How are the requirements (availability / security) typically handled ?
Specifically on this, yes but keep in mind the US is far behind Europe in terms of civil rights / privacy and other protections for citizens (See GDPR for ex.).

I just learned about this "traffic light labelling" going on in the EU and was blown away that this was implemented 4 YEARS ago. [1] I'm hoping the US catches to Europe for everything else, we're far behind.

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/traff...
Woke Institutions Is Just Civil Rights Law
Just like Protonmail if we're being fair

Except with that one, a lot of otherwise tech savvy people just refuse to acknowledge the limitations and inability to verify privacy claims at any given point in time
And? Why should my country allow it? Why an addicted minority needs to set policy for everyone?
he sell his soul for only $1.8B
There are lots of rehab and recovery links like the previous one and this one, but it is quite hard to find specific details of what triggers sever psychosis/breakdown in the context of psych drug use.

I do know an RN who nursed someone who had taken LSD in the late 60's and never recovered mentally, which had quite an impact on my perception of this class of drugs

https://blackbearrehab.com/mental-health/schizophrenia/schiz...
That is very much true. In Germany, for example, people waste about 55 kg of food per year. If you are able to cut that in half and let's say that 1 kg of food produces around 0.7 kg of CO2 (average), you will be able to reduce 15 kg of CO2 per month. We have more information in the app if you are interested.
It can be very informative (and slightly scary, if you know how some of this stuff really works) to look at print magazines targeted at the age 65+ crowd to see how certain categories of technology products are marketed and sold to a certain demographic.
> I let my profile build up 10-20 things installed, then every few weeks I decide what belongs in my declared config and uninstall everything in the profile.

I'm curious what you get out of this that you don't get from just adding/removing packages in your home-manager config? Is it just a matter of it being quicker to do nix-env -iA instead of updating your config and running home-manager switch? Or is there some other benefit?
There are none. Compliance is bargaining with a universe that doesn't care.

Hold product managers and non-tech execs accountable for security breaches. Stop treating IT/ops like the suckers. Since that's never going to happen, buy some Monero to increase your bargaining leverage on the ransom price.

The bar is not very high, it's bike theft economics. Your stuff only needs to be less vulnerable than the next guys, unless you are a political target. If you are a political target, please forget my name.
Data suggests the NFT bubble lasted just four months
What’s this here about a social contract, hmm? I never signed any contract.
> Capitalism is really about the means of production, capital, being private and for-profit. You can have buyers, sellers, and markets in other types of economies, like communism or socialism.

Capitalism is about minimally throttling creativity and private property.

Communism/Socialism (thinking of the EU here) seem to view lack of regulation as chaos.

No. Do not want.
For Many Workers, Change in Mask Policy Is a Nightmare
I understand, but as somebody who has wanted to be fired, I value the stories. It lets me know that I'm not the only one in my industry with these kinds of feelings.
If we forced the cops to wear their badge numbers, we'd know who was committing the violence and they could be prosecuted for it.
My instinct for self-preservation tells me that this is not a good thing. I understand the need for privacy, but what happens if somebody puts a gun (or a knife) to your face? I think that the need for privacy could be solved through the legislation: we can have very severe restrictions on who could look at this data and why. Also, we can have severe restrictions on the admissibility of such data in court. Unfortunately, I have not seen any credible efforts from politicians, right or left, to introduce privacy protections from the surveillance abuses.
feels incredibly discouraging how the nazis always run xenophobic campaigns about how great and censorship-free the naziland is. oof. like, the campaigns always focus on only china having these issues, but this kind of news comes out of naziland weekly
Has protonmail's advertising been misleading? I'm a happy user myself, but I don't think I've ever looked into their marketing.
This is why I keep going back. I'm afraid it will get worse with this but it may be just entropy of existence as a web service. It's inevitably doomed to mediocrity and replacement by a new hotness.
Odd they still using the Norton branding - it has been a while.
I'm imagining a system where you have two different lengths of time units.

You can have a "scientific second" which is defined by distance and the speed of light. Just like we have now in SI. When the rotation of the planet changes slightly you need to compensate by adding leap seconds every few years for things to sync up. Eventually they will need to add a leap second every day as the earth's rotation slows down. Some planet with high variation would be adding and removing these frequently.

But, you can define a second as 1/86400th of a "day". For most civil purposes you just want to know when an event happened relative to the day/night cycle and the year. In which case the order of events is more important than the precise amount of time between the events. If precision is needed, you can always measure in scientific seconds and convert accordingly. I figure the "civil second" is fine for such a purpose because it's not like living beings can consistently and accurately keep track of time in their heads.

Now for a planet with a rotation as slow as Venus the concept of a "day" is probably meaningless. It would be more like a season of light and darkness. So I suppose you'd just only use scientific seconds and count upwards?