skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's just wrong. Most RPA Software (like UiPath) uses selectors for web and desktop automation. You can use static or dynamic selectors, anchors and lots of other techniques to tell the bot where to click/type.

It's very dynamic and a well written bot will work even after changes to the website or software.
Also, pure RPA is usually only used on legacy software without any other APIs, so they rarely change.

Source: RPA/IPA Dev
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27870824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6311717
Even Nucor is being very much steamrolled by imports.

Efficiencies of scale achieved by megamills cannot be achieved by small in-situ smelters, simple economics
The man doesn't care if you trust him as long as you aren't getting in his way.
So what's better?
Yep, and the opinion pieces are just advertisements in disguise. So who are the advertisers paying for the content. They don't care about truth. It's just about profit or control.
The media needs something engaging happening to have something to continue to report on. (Even if that thing is just public figures reacting to a thing.) If they lob a bombshell and see it explode, but there are no further consequences to that explosion — no “sequelae”, as the medical profession would put it — then they can’t very well continue to report on the explosion.

What makes further consequences happen? Powerful people taking an interest. The media is the fourth estate, but only insofar as their actions trigger reactions in the first-through-third estates. For a news story to “continue to happen”, it needs a patron in a position of power to actually care about what was reported, and act in response, in a media-visible way. News coverage is, and always has been, a feedback loop between journalists and the public figures they cover.

Which implies that if something is a “taken as a given” practice among pretty much everyone with power, then reporting on it won’t get any powerful patron riled up, and so won’t get anything done to feed back into the news cycle.

Democracy continues to function, separately from all this; voters read the news, get angry, and pressure their congressman, who then pushes for change in the house, causing ripples in the bureaucracy. But none of that is able to be framed in an incendiary “continuing coverage” format, because there is no heroic narrative to democracy, only the snowball effect of small actions — so the regular news media doesn’t attach to it at all, so it seems to just drop off the face of the Earth.

But it’s still happening; it’s just happening in a way you can only perceive with “I watch C-SPAN” glasses on.
They might not need it if it didn't already exist, but since it does they might need to embrace it / adapt to it... also, taken at face value, some players such as Visa [0] claim it would aid with cross border transactions. "Helpful" could also apply to the users, not necessarily to the current providers they have been forced to deal with. For example, deposit instiutions that allow for USDC deposits while paying out much better interest rates, and even allow USDC to be used to pay for debit care payments are "useful" as hell to me, if not the bank I pulled my money out of (to deposit in various crypto custodians like Celsius and Crypto.com for yield).

[0] https://cryptopotato.com/visa-announces-layer-2-payments-cha...
Framing the question as one of "more" or "less" government seems to contain an implicit assumption about the value of government itself. The value of any government. It assumes all government is qualitatively the same. Hence the only question is whether we should have more or less. Whether that is a reasonable assumption to make is left as a question for the reader.
Naturally this means nothing for the ruling class and is devastating to the middle and lower classes.

Why does every single policy lately lead to further consolidation…
And it's not only in the USA. For the last 15 years I have seen my country Mexico fall deep into violence, killings, narco state, blatant corruption and abuse from the people in the government.

And nothing happens...

Time and time again someone I the "high society " gets killed, there are a couple of marches and everything stays the same. It's as if the actual majority of the population was fine living in this shithole.

It's so depressing.
Many of the fortunes you see in these leaks are illegally obtained through political favoritism.
Unsure how feasible it is, but Boom does expect to have cross pacific flights as well as flights over land due to various improvements to the tech.
> Democrats today could improve their performance enormously if every staffer’s computer monitor had a Post-It stuck to it that said “the median voter is a 50-something white person who didn’t go to college and lives in an unfashionable suburb.

The Blues should steal The Reds "theme song"? Aside from being a marketing / identity mistake, this won't be true much longer. The demographic trends seem to favor The Blues. That is, the country is getting less white and more like the demos that tradionally favor The Reds. Mind you, of course, not every one of these will go Red, but unless there's some sort of crazy inversion, time favors Team Red.
Ireland: chuckles "I'm in danger"

This is literally their entire economy lmao.
Usually there are indices on the properties of specific labels (e.g. for the .population of :Country), in graph databases with labeled nodes (most of them), so in general pretty much the same as in a relational database.
maximize salary & autonomy.
> I’m more and more desensitised. If anything, I found it demoralising.

Reminds of this explanation of the soviet era 'hypernormalization':

"The word hypernormalization was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach in the United States. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s. He says that everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation."[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
Yes it's quite common. In general there's a term called intelligent idiot. I learn that from Nassim Taleb. My understanding is there are a lot of people look smarter than they are. I noticed a lot of the phenomenon since then.

My theory is there are some fundamental cognition defects in our sapiens' brain which was evolved from "small data" environment (compare to today's bid data environment) so the biochemical reactions inside our brain on the conclusions from Bayesian model are not much different from the reactions to the conclusions from witness. That results in many people don't differentiate beliefs(very strong but have never seen the truth) from "solid facts" which is equivalent to the topics that you know very well.

The most common places to observe intelligent idiot are the areas related to ideologies. For example there are tons of politicians showing very strong intelligent signals: articulate and organize their thoughts very well, with solid logical reasoning, while actually talking bullshit which only can be noticed by the people knowing the ground truth.

In technology areas there are less but still some. People are easily confused with strong intelligence signals with the real intelligence.

It's not black and white. Some time real smart people also make the same mistake. Give a couple of examples: Sam Harris, Bret Weinstein , I consider both very smart, rational, evidence based,scientific thinking guys according to the depth of their thinking. However I noticed they have some serious mistakes on their judgements about some matters that they don't know the ground truth. I still highly respect their intelligence but not the same as before. They are not intelligent idiots but just made small mistakes. Meanwhile I think I might have the same problems that I don't know since they are smarter than me and still make mistakes.

Here in HN with a high density of smart people, there are tons of chances to observe intelligent idiots. Just check those non-technology related hot topics.
> Jostling how?

I've already explained this multiple times elsethread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28738098

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28738221

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28738280
Not the person you’re replying to but it was just a three word reply, which could be interpreted in whole bunch of different ways, so it feels like you may have made a bit of a leap here… :)
Isn’t Apple’s audio stack used professionally? What exactly are you wishing for? Why would the chip make any difference to a software audio stack?
Who cares about the voters? Please the donors and the media barons and the Knights of Influence, and let them render all such worries irrelevant.

The only reason to think of the voters is as a bugbear to keep your own folks in line. If their behavior gets too egregious the voters might wake up and realize "ants don't need to serve grasshoppers" and then there's all sorts of fuss.
The amount of safety features you require alone would not allow this. To be compliant you need to move all your models to a number of safety features.

In addition, you need to actually meet fuel standards, and that alone requires a whole lots of sensors.

And people actually 'shocking' want to have advanced features, and the ability to link the car with the phone.

The simple reality is people wouldn't buy a low tech car you describe. Seriously, people are not spending 30-50k on a car that can not play music from your phone.

If you completely redesign the product, maybe you could reduce the number but that is effort that is actually far larger the problems with supply. And if you started to redesign the product now, you would almost certainty use more chips anyways because the requirements are going up, not down.
I highly second this. I found his videos so inspiring that I build my own adaption of his cpu.
Telling the GoogleBot to not index your site doesn't necessarily remove your site from Google. They can and often do still show your site but they replace your description a generic statement that they can't show it because you have decided not to include your site in their index. It is crazy but true.
Can you explain how that works for someone ignorant like myself?
I find it hard to believe that there could ever really be a good economic model. Predicting the weather works with a supercomputer since all the processes (temperature, pressure, etc) can be modeled as continuous. A very successful Spiderman movie saving Sony's quarterly profits hangs often on a coin-toss.

Our lives are governed by relatively simple rules of physics but the world is in an incredibly complex state. Economics takes the output of those rules of physics and tries to wrangle the state of all the atoms in the world into some simple values, and then uses some simple equations to make predictions. How is this not worse than spherical cows?
Amethyst – Starting Fresh: Halting Development of Amethyst Engine
This looks really cool, unfortunately the UI window that appears when I click the extension is like 50 pixels wide for me and unusable.
https://github.com/google/ion as used by Google Earth.
Yes, it would be much more interesting to see the corruption of your local small and middle tier politicians.
Well, just fancy having to even explain yourself with an "EDIT: Reading some replies....."
Installing Windows 10 using only floppy disks [video]
It's a joke about the uniform
It is deemed to be repeated, as long as most people are too indifferent to push this kind of unjustified environmental damage to the headlines
yes, I do think that
Pandora Papers: An offshore data tsunami
I rate it 6/5
Thanks for this, I wasn't aware of it.
From reading the docs, I don't see anywhere if Grid automatically handles spot interruptions to resume from last checkpoint which was the main focus of our internal tool.

Have you used it btw ? and what has your experience been with Grid ?
Optics on direct copying without attribution aren't great for trust in open source software. Count me out and thanks for pointing me to the place where people are _actually_ working in the open/cooperatively.
Ask HN: Starting a startup with typed code x none typed code
I'm not a really good programmer and I still have problems with types in TypeScript x JavaScript, for example.

I'd like to start a business and I would of course move a lot faster by simply writing JavaScript instead of TypeScript.

If I chose the JavaScript route, what considerations should I have in mind?
> Look up Louis Rossman on YouTube. There are many repairs that are trivial for a trained professional that Apple just refuses to do, nor do they provide parts for. Replace a single resistor and an "unfixable" MacBook works like new again.

I know who louis is, and contrary to your opinion replacing random surface mount components until the machine turns back on is not a repair. Generally most of his work is not even for machines that spontaneously failed, it's all stuff that's water/beer/soda damaged that Apple turned away. He charges more to do those repairs and they generally don't hold, because it's impossible to remove all latent moisture and corrosion once a board is significantly damaged like that.

> The characterisation of third party repair as "amateurs" is one of Apple's creation (obviously not just them but all tech companies).

The context was the end user buying parts and repairing their machine themselves. How is that not amateur?

> Apple will wipe your data, send your phone to China and replace your mainboard at best. An actual repair technician will fix what's actually wrong right then and there and not touch what isn't - including data.

Apple themselves say they do same-day repair, so I'm not sure why you're overtly lying about that here.

> I completely understand that you don't want to fix your own device or even if you only ever want to deal with Apple, but that shouldn't be the only option.

???

I'm 100% pro repair, I'm just not getting the hate on apple for their practices. They are by far the most pro-repair company in the smartphone space (definitely NOT in the laptop space however, though their in-store battery replacements for macbooks are still cheaper than buying genuine oem batteries for thinkpads, I wish they would go back to socketed ram and ssds but that clearly isn't happening), and are the only actual company that offers in person same day repairs and mail in repairs for reasonable prices. If you want to get a pixel repaired you have to go to shady third party chain stores that are contracted by google, and usually all they will do is replace the screen and see if it works (even if the fault is completely unrelated, you can search for people's experiences with pixel 3s spontaneously bricking and find thousands of horrors stories).
I like Google, but wouldn’t mind a better search engine, even at the cost of my privacy, so long as I had a choice for what could be shared.
Reader mode fixed that for me
twitter mobs also cancel people for saying the wrong thing about a kpop star. Doesn't mean they are right or taken seriously, just means a large group of people can bully you.

If you're not doing anything actually racist or offensive, they will be seen as they are bullies. People cancled or have seen real life consequences have been people learning what is offensive/racist publicly when we should be way more forgiving since most of these concepts are snippets taken from university level courses than described again in 30s chunks. Those people deserve education of why people are upset and why what they said is a problem not cancellation
or the head of recruiting :^)
It was rhetorical and snide. We all know there is no exclusivity. OP is just asking for action for the amount of already acquired information. He isn't saying we shouldn't acquire more evidence.

There is no ambiguity, just verbal gymnastics played by those who want to comment in bad conscience as if they have somehow furthered the conversation.
As someone who went through browser wars and lived under IE tyranny, I hate this point of view (which is pretty common, unfortunately).

What happened is that standards finally got their act together, and FF was eating IE's lunch anyway. Chrome just sped up its demise. But, monoculture is never a good thing. Especially as the leading company is actually an advertising agency. Do you think we can trust them not to abuse their position?
Well, but how's the immunity derived from first being vaccinated and then infected? Do you simply acquire the better immunity with 93% lower risk of death during the infection?
> there's a reason people tend to buy studio recordings over live recordings.

There are live recordings and there are proper live recordings. The second one is very hard to do, and very hard to find.

Blind Guardian, Metallica, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Iced Earth and Pink Martini tend to do this right IME. Classical performances are another category, but the environment is utterly different in these.
IARPA has produced quite a few:

- https://arstechnica.com/science/2010/12/sciences-breakthroug...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20160312133713/http://www.deltek...

- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-governmen...

Those are just recent, unclassified ones.

ARPA-E being the "peaceful industry" is a lot more open about private partnerships and generally just funds and provides oversight: https://web.archive.org/web/20100527161846/http://www.energy...

Some renewable fuel projects: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/blog-posts/refuelin...

They're focused on renewables, lessening waste, etc. and have made some contributions in that space, just not as sexy as "borgsects" and "space lasers" like DARPA or advancing nation state surveillance and electronic warfare capabilities like IARPA.

Everything is starting to get an ARPA though because of how it's somewhat allowed to cut through red tape for innovation which is hard for usgov: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01878-z
> For a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, offshore providers can help clients…

Heh this is totally affordable for regular jack offs like me. Perhaps someone will create a public benefit corporation (benefit for the irony), democratize access to these schemes for everyone, draw the ire of government when tax revenue plummets and lead to new laws enacted.
While I see what you're saying, I don't think that I completely agree with you because the wealthy using these techniques (especially if they are politicians, but even if not) are undermining public confidence in the tax regime. If Nancy Pelosi or the President of Azerbaijan are conducting their own affairs in one way while advocating for something else, why should I believe their supposed commitments to a socially equitable taxation regime or desire to make the world a better place?
You're right they will never be satisfied. And I can't wait for the Black Mirror episode about that very subject. Not that Nathaniel Hawthorne didn't cover that nearly two centuries ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth-Mark
There are offensive weapons that you advertise so that the enemy wastes resources to defend against.

Having nukes for MAD is useless if no one knows you have a credible threat.
> That being said, these are opinions, and I’m glad there’s someone else who pays attention to the design language used by football broadcasters.

I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cursed to do so everywhere. It's like the curse of a trained ear - congratulations on being able to hear any chord progression, now you can't escape every song you ever liked being the same 4 chords over and over again.
Develop an Idea into a Product in One Day
BANCStar was never intended as a programming language, rather as a bytecode for a programming language VM. What happened though, is the vendor shipped the product to customers, some customers found the VM and started writing code for it directly, which the vendor never intended them to do. That is why it was such an awful programming language - it was never meant to be used as one. Imagine if people wrote JVM bytecode directly, without even using assembler mnemonics - that would be equivalent to BANCStar.

If the customers were more skilled, they would have written a disassembler/assembler to convert it to more reasonable syntax. This is the kind of thing that “too smart by half” people do - smart enough to rip off the covers and start tinkering with the internals, not smart enough to build some tools to make it easier for themselves. (It appears some of them eventually did do that, but others just stuck with writing the stuff by hand.)
Why would they release raw data?

That would be a massive break of journalistic integrity.
Seriously people need to watch Sandy Munro on YT. He literally went threw some calculations one the money you can save on removing a single fastner from the design.

He was a former chief engineer at Ford and had his own company for decades now. He also worked in Ford Global Finical Head Quarters.

When he sees some small board screwed down with to many screws he starts ranting.
I'm not convinced you want air breathing missiles for interception, you want solid rockets or something of that sort. There are Standard Missiles (SM-3) faster than Zircon, although they are for BMD defense.

Faster ESSM/SM-2/SM-6 could be developed, and reaction time could be lowered.

This is instead the equivalent to the Zircon.
Imagine wikipedia and the top newspapers doing this ... users will start to use another search engine.
I feel we'll soon enough have a Brexit/Trump moment with these regressive taxes labeled as "environmental" taxes.
Clearly you haven't watched the movie 'Snatch'.
"High school socialists" is unnecessary sneering at the community. I suspect you could express these opinions without such flamebait.
Why would they? In our global world, there is very little tying the rich to the countries they amassed their wealth in.
Inside the Taiwan Firm That Makes the World’s Tech Run
> There's really no basis in physics for the zones

That’s because the Zones are artificial.
Of course, but he adds the beat so smoothly and unobtrusively that the ordinary listener hears no glitch in the matrix. That is where the magic comes in.
This is why Monero is the future.

With Monero, anyone can hide as much money as they want, and transact with trusted parties without anyone knowing, and there's no practical way for any government or journalist to snoop on them.
You are saying it as if it happens suddenly and by surprise. Those limits are presented since you open the tool.

A screwdriver isn't "good" at putting nails down. It would be pointless to say that it's not a good screwdriver because it doesn't drive nails. Pico-8 is like that. It only allows a certain amount of everything: sprites, sounds, colors, even program tokens.

I must point out that it is possible to drive a nail using a screwdriver. You hold the screwdriver from the metal end, and repeatedly hit the nail head with the handle. It's a bit awkward. (But also sort of impressive. Like the people that do 3D stuff with Pico-8).

There are options out there to go around most of the limits if you really want to. You might have to sacrifice something. You need to be creative, the same as with the screwdriver. I actually enjoy that.
These absurd speeds result in a significant amount of aerodynamic heating, so assuming the booster is simply not shielded much it'll likely disintegrate in seconds after being detached and no longer in the missile's shadow.