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Ask HN: Why isn't there a 100% undetectable automatable browser?(off the shelf)
I've tried plenty of automatable browsers over the years(nightmare, puppeteer+puppeteer-stealth, playwright, fakebrowser, selenium, secret-agent...)

Unless you tweak them a lot, they're all detectable.

I'm not talking about headless browsers because they're all detectable no matter what you do(at least with timing attacks, with the way things are rendered... you need to run them in a real window to make them undetectable)

Why is there not one 100% undetectable browser out of the box?

Just a regular chrome/firefox with some way to fake clicks and inputs without changing any of the behaviors of the browser besides this?

I've had multiple ideas, like running a real browser with a fake uBlock/adblock extension that get the coordinates/values of elements, transmits those to another process, and then moves a real mouse cursor through the screen and send keyboard events to the actual OS. or just use OCR on the screen without doing anything to the browser. (Of course clicks and keyboard events needs to emulate the timings and movements of a human, but that's another problem entirely.)

But it would seem really painful to make those reliable.

Do you know of a package/browser that is 100% undetectable and just exactly behaves like a real browser?
Well, if you go 2 TB over, it might still cost as much as a house.
Promising Internet satellite is rendered useless by power supply issues
Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble, Inc.
I think I know what you're trying to point out, but just for anyone who doesn't get it - humanity has been around for about 200,000 years.
Nice.

Digital IMAX is disappointing. Hardly "MAX" anything. It's just 2.9K, which doesn't even measure up to my at this point mundane 4K monitors.

I hope they come up with a better digital one. 4K is great for home use but in a cinema it's not quite there.
There are many ... but they are rather older games.

I still play them from time to time.

I will list them here in no particular order:

- Sensible World of Soccer

- Baldurs Gate I & II

- Heroes of Might and Magic III

- Colin McRae Rally 2.0

- Governor of Poker

- Counter Strike 1.6 and GO

- Fallout 1 and 2

From the games above the Sensible World of Soccer holds kinda my 'personal' record as this is the only game that I have played non-stop for 28 hours with breaks only for eating and toilet.

I described how to setup them on FreeBSD here if anyone is interested:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/oldschool-gaming-o...

Regards,
vermaden
Disco Elysium. I have returned to it recently, and I'm still amazed by how good the writing is. There are simply no other games out there that tackle these themes and build a world so closely resembling one I'm living in.

Teenagers on amphetamine and mephedrone, surviving the worst hangover of your life only to get drunk again, aching for a love that you destroyed yourself, barely scraping money to pay rent, corrupt union leaders, foreclosed game studios, domestic violence, underground rave at abandoned church, people who are unable to let go of a political conflict after a few decades — all of that hits much closer to home than saving the world.
Football Manager series.
Recently, it has to be Grounded. I put in a lot of hours. I was often thinking about it when I went to bed and when I woke up.

Although games are a big hobby of mine, that level of excitement about what I plan to do next and how to reach a new area of the game was new for me.
Why wouldn’t they? Meta seems to have the money, the hardware, the talent, and the executive motivation to keep producing better models.
In case anyone wants to play it for the first time - I would probably go with the Black Mesa remake for some shinier graphics and improved end levels.
It is systemic, but I think you underestimate how deeply the adtech money and everything surrounding it is embedded in our mindset. It's essentially the Goodhart's Law taken to the extreme, where every single new iteration of the system brings in new middlemen, new misaligned incentives, then putting those middlemen between the person providing a service and the person who'd like to pay for it.

Here's an exercise: try to draw a diagram of all parties required to display a video ad on your page. I suggest starting with the OpenRTB and VAST specs. It's creepy.

The biggest shame here is that most people are convinced that we need advertising because otherwise people would not pay for content.
Firing versus resignation makes no real difference.

It's easy to stay where you're not wanted- don't go to the office, don't answer email, don't do any real work. It's basically garden leave.
Hello everyone! Yesterday I started a mailing list for those who don't have enough time to follow HN every day and for those who want to limit their time because they're overdosing social media, like I did some time ago.

This is a second mail of a mailing list. It's free and open, so you don't have to subscribe to a list if you don't want to do it yet. You can also unsubscribe at any time!

Let me know how you liked it
If you mean memorable as in remember playing, definitely something from the NES era. Probably Dr Mario or Track and Field with the powerpad.

If memorable in which game itself left an impression, probably Skyrim. I think that was the first open world game I'd played, and it was at the time rather breathtaking.
CEO of Anthropic on AI Safety and Netflix's 'Deep Fake Love' [audio]
Not that I can see, the developer's roadmap[1] currently is at writing a blogpost about it & trying different sampling methods, expanding to the large model looks to be a long way off (which is a real pity, even if there was just a finetune of large for english that would be a big help over the existing small english finetune).

Could you go into more detail about your workflow? I'd been considering a two-pass approach myself until I discovered tinydiarize mentioned in whisper.cpp's --help text

1: https://github.com/akashmjn/tinydiarize#roadmap
Won't this vary by less than an hour? Seems like a distinction without a difference to me.
Yea, but it would probably put many people underwater on loans.
Interesting.

I'm never been PIP'd myself, but I've seen it happen to many -- and it's never resulted in anything good, nor has it ever seemed as if the purpose was actually to improve anyone's performance. It's usually seems like just a thing that has to be done before you can fire them. Even when the PIP'd employee isn't fired, the PIP remains a scarlet letter on them for the rest of their time at that company.

I'm glad there are companies where this isn't the case! I wonder how common those are.
Every blu ray player runs java for bonus features on the disk- they can even connect to the internet!
JustVM
Yes, but the good news is that the majority of people reading this are both old enough and rich enough to be insulated from the worst effects during their lifetimes.

This makes it very easy for them to say, “No we’re not doomed, the smartest people are working on this and will figure it out.” Once they do that they can go on living their lives without really caring about whether we are doomed or not.
Maniac Mansion. I loved the story, the puzzles, the way of interaction. Everything was so new and creative. Too bad Lucasfilm stopped making games.
I wrote a thesis on using constraint satisfaction with minizinc to solve the genome edit distance problem: https://github.com/jpnelson/genome-edit/blob/master/thesis.p...

My takeaway: modeling problems in minizinc correctly is exceptionally difficult for non-trivial problems. You can model it correctly, but you'll likely still need to add additional "constraints" that improve the performance of the solver to the degree where it's even remotely usable to solve real problems.

It's a really interesting tool, but one of the reasons we thought it might be useful for this problem is so that non-technical people could easily change the constraints and play with the costs for different operations. I don't think it's particularly good for that, at least in this problem domain.
Yeah the GOP is like the useful boogeyman, but most Dems are no better. Hell, the most powerful parts of the Dems include folks like Joe Manchin, who's right in the bag of coal. Even in a world where Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election and followed through on her policy goals, they were still too timid to turn the tide.
Sure they would. Fair isn't some objective measure, it's what the market decides. If multiple market participants see that one player is trying to corner the market, raising their price is fair. It can equally be argued that those swampland owners bought the land in the first place because they had a vision that it could one day host a unique commercial enterprise.

If your business strategy depends on deceiving people, what does that make you?
Generate data using ai, save it, it cannot be copyrighted or anything, data isn't a model, use it as much as you want for training.

Ezpz
I watched a YT video [0] where a man gets to record his time in a Swartzentruber Amish home and they didn't know who the president was. It didn't seem to impact their lives at all.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JJKKkETuI4
Ha, I also remember using a helium canister to look for leaks in a vacuum system in the lab. At least ours wasn’t at cryo temperatures though. Sounds like a real pain.
New Directions in Cryptography (WHITFIELD DIFFIE AND MARTIN E. HELLMAN, MEMBER, IEEE), https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf
There are dozens of us. DOZENS
I mean it costs more money to have employees available to accept payments, when an online form is virtually free.
Half Life 2

I played the demo level "We don't go to Ravenholm" probably 50 times before I bought the game and was blown away. Everything about the game was so far ahead of where the industry was at the time and I still have not found a weapon as fun as the gravity gun in modern games.

I read somewhere that Mario 64 convinced Gabe Newell that video games could be art - Half Life 2 is that game for me.
Suppose his coworkers are all working unreasonably long hours (whether out of fear, or poor work-life balance, or whatever), and he’s “only” working 40-45 hours a week. His output could be excellent, but he’d still be on the chopping block, no?

I don’t think him being chosen to receive the boot necessarily means his performance was poor. I mean, maybe it was, but from the outside I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion.
There's lots and lots of 2TB drives under $100 available. Just picking one that I know of:

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-b...
I checked the big ISP in my area and I can't even find a way to book dial-up. Is that still a thing in places?

edit: Oh, apparently there's still a handful here? https://www.teltarif.de/internet/by-call/einwahlnummern.html
The problem with subscriptions is that you don’t have unlimited means, which means you can only afford a certain number of subscriptions. A subscription is always more than the cost of a single purchase, so by forcing you to subscribe the company is coercing you into also choosing them for the next purchase as well.

Yeah, you can go to another pizza place to get the pepperoni that you want, but you have already subscribed to the first place and it is a nontrivial decision to not utilize the subscription you already have. Plus the new place will require you to subscribe and now you’re paying far more than the two slices would have actually cost you if you were allowed to buy by the slice.

If you want to talk ethics, pursuing exclusively a business model that is anticompetitive via a reduction in consumer choice per transaction is on the wrong side of that line. I don’t fault people for opportunistically avoiding the paywall.
There's also the characteristic feel of "Lot's of words, little substance", which seems to apply for every single ML generated body of text I have seen, and a bonus is it also catches non-ML based charlatans!
Subspace(“continuum”)… top down spaceships pew pew. Elegant physics, high skill ceiling. Multiplayer only, so many hours spent in 40+ player arenas in Chaos Zone. That game was really fun for chasing high-bounty ships that had survived in a single life for hours… half the zone going after one guy/turret, finally popping them was so satisfying!!
Decentralisation-friendly MLS is working well already as a proof-of-concept in Matrix - check out the Implementation section of https://arewemlsyet.com :)
> If you yourself struggle to define what 'performance' means in your job, isn't that a red flag all by itself?

No? How do you define the performance of a doctor? Nurse? Teacher? Developer? Tech Support?

Most of these roles have metrics that might seem like easy and foolproof ways to measure performance, but ask anyone that has actually worked any of these professions for more than 2 min, and you'll have endless tails of management fucking everything up by chasing a dumb number.

If your job matters in the slightest, it's not that rare for performance to be wildly elusive to measure.
Yep, all the oil/gas not used by USA/EU will be used by other, poorer countries, probably at lower prices than we are paying now for that gas while switching to even more expensive alternatives.

We still have nuclear as an option, but the 'greens' are somehow too stupid to even think of nuclear as a solution to many of our problems.
That's actually a pretty useful LLM use; restaurant menus tend to be in a multitude of formats. This is a smart way of organizing chaos.

I am thinking this is something AutoGPT could figure out how to do too, isn't it? Give it a list of restaurant names and let it determine how to scrape them.
Just move the fucking bricks mate.
> Computer parts are always high-margin. They're made out of purified sand after all, the raw materials of chips is excessively cheap.

The purification and especially the lithography (aka making actual chips out of a silicon disk) is what is expensive. The machines are pricey as fuck - a single line from ASML alone costs 200 million dollars, and that's just the machines for the lithography, not including the machinery that makes the ultra pure monocrystals, that slices them, or that cuts and packages them, or the cleanrooms and the remaining support infrastructure. Or the extremely specialized staff you need to actually operate them.

And it's a ton of money involved with very long lead times - say you're TSMC, you get an order for a batch of chips, and even if you had capacity starting tomorrow, the 700 steps to the final product take three months [1]. That's a massive amount of capital to be stuck for months, and errors can waste all of that.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/three-month...
Why wasn't the movie called Einstein then? Would the project have been a success if Einstein and Oppenheimer had swapped places?
if it would help that i would be more direct for you, i mean to say i think those who both knew and continued to make extreme profits off of oil extraction at the expense of a planets worth of people should be considered murderers.

and lacking judicial means for justice due to those same murderers control of most governments, i predict they will probably be executed by small vigilante groups in the middle of the night, though mobs with torches and pitchforks are also a possibility.

but that kind of statement and that rising sentiment behind it is generally scrubbed off the internet. who knows why, maybe its not profound enough.
How close is this to the max wet bulb temperature? I remember reading about temperatures hitting close to or beyond that in Pakistan a while back but that accounts for humidity and so it may not be as close given how arid Death Valley is.
Yes, but it only removes ads. Reader view fixes all other annoyances.
Absolutely HN has astroturfing going on. This community is chock full of people who are gullible but think they are the smartest in the room, and most of the people here have more money than average. It's a marketer's wet dream.
I’ve played with minizinc in the past though we use scipopt now instead.

The minizinc code looks pretty reasonable to me though. Specify your variables as ranges. Specify your constraints as math equations. Tell it what you’re looking to maximise / minimise.

https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.7.6/en/modelling.html#ex-cake...
If you’ve got an apparatus with 20 parts (a low estimate) and they’re all independently 95% reliable (a high estimate), it’s only gonna be in a usable state 36% of the time.
> I worked for a dial up ISP as a network engineer around the same time frame mentioned in the article.

I was an intern at a large tech company (rhymes with bun) at the time, and one of my tasks was to reset idle ISDN connections that were eating the capacity of our POPs.
Sieges are pretty bloody, but its better than a grind through trenches and minefields at the rate of dozens of meters per day. My point was more so that Russia "probably" won't keep fighting if they don't control Crimea.
Bubble Trouble: I’m not into gaming, but I fondly remember spending countless hours on this simple flash game https://poki.com/en/g/bubble-trouble with my roommates in my undergraduate days.
On LLM Supply Chain Security
Also a Florida native (grew up near Jacksonville — the swampy part not the beach part — WITHOUT air conditioning).

I lived through the PNW heat dome a few years ago (also without air conditioning). 110+ all day long and 80+ at night was as close to hell as I’ve ever been.

I’ve never been so glad to be 40 years old with a chronic illness as I am today. Good luck to anyone who’s going to be alive in 75+ years.
Stop Using Expressjs in 2023
> It's absolutely heartbreaking watching something I really care about die by a thousand cuts; how do we protest this?

Death by a thousand cuts can also happen in the other direction. Even if we do not have a single decisive way to oppose this disastrous proposal, we can fight it in as many ways and on as many avenues as possible. Spreading the word about it widely is an important first step, so that those best placed to oppose it know that they should act.
> the fact that he was picked must mean he was at the bottom of the pack in terms of performance.

Perhaps, but the difference between the bottom of the pack and the top of the pack might be negligible. We don't know.

> My advice would be to be humble enough to admit that the performance can be improved and take ownership of that fact

Sure, that's fine, but I still think that the odds are he'd be better off if he quits as well.
Manic Miner

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Miner

Many, many hours of a misspent youth were spent on this game, until all 20 levels were complete, and could be done in one go without loosing any lives, and then, as quickly as possible just for fun! The levels would even feature in my dreams! :-)
I was thinking specifically of the Tea Party targeting during the Obama years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
You get different pictures depending on what numbers you're squinting at. Staring at luxury produce like asparagus might lead one to believe the industry has a point. Turn your attention to cereals and grains and literally nothing the industry says makes sense. A quick examination of what percentage of the world population considers asparagus a dietary staple, and the delta in acreage utilization between say asparagus and soybeans makes industry claims that vertical farming has anything relevant to add to the current slow burning agricultural crisis seem ludicrious at current global population numbers.
Most people tended to use their own ISP's mail servers back then. Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL were the only third-party email services around, before the likes of Gmail took off. It would be trivial to go look at mail server logs to see if X login was connecting every X minutes.

Encryption was seldom used there for POP3/IMAP/SMTP because hey you're on the same ISP network and not crossing the Internet. Further it was pretty easy to hop on a terminal server like a Portmaster and do a debug/packet dump of individual dialup connections if somebody really wanted to see what somebody was doing.
This is exactly the case. The commission won't let companies take adequate rate, so most companies are unable to make a profit in the state and are pulling out. Doesn't make sense to stay in a market where you're forced to lose money most years.

(I work in pricing for a large insurer)
I’ve heard of this before. That there are geniuses tolling away in fields but because they don’t have the right resources, no one knows who they are. But Isaac Newton changed science without the Industrial Revolution. Without running water or cars or electricity or modern medicine. Cream rises to the top and natural geniuses like that would be very apparent very fast.
https://www.kith.org/words/2022/06/11/best-linguistics-paper...
Katamari Damacy. I keep thinking of the ball as a metaphor for life/memory. You try to pick up a bunch of stuff, but end up dropping a lot, and forgetting about the first things (embedded in the core of your ball).
I have another angle: I spent some years of my youth singing in a choir and one of the biggest challenges there was to bring more male voices into the group.

Apparently singing was considered girly or something. Writing wasn't though, because you'd have teenage boys write rap songs - I avoided a lot of bullying by producing work impressive enough to gain some respect among the school thugs - even though it was essentially a diss on the whole culture.

Anyway I landed in a choir only because I was shanghaied into it by my (female) friend. Was a nice change of pace, but the male/female ratio was only slightly different compared to my previous activity - theatre.

What I'm getting at is that not everything has to be intersectional.
The best we can come up with is not electric cars and synthetic meat but bicycles and vegetables.
> the rise in misogyny and homophobia

As someone who did battle online with 12-yo boys in the 90s, there's no "rise". Just kids and other immatures being trolls on purpose. Best not to let it bother you. It isn't real for the most part and most will outgrow it.

Sounds like another good reason to keep minors offline until they mature a little.
> female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's

Not actually all that much among pop singers though. Most successful male artists tend to have quite high natural singing voices and females fairly low. And at any rate most music can easily be transposed as necessary.
But I do agree there is a tendency by many male singer/ songwriters to stick to less vocally demanding melody lines. I'm less convinced that would be much of a deterrent for dedicated female songwriters hoping to pen tunes that were well suited to male voices.
In fact they can't (both Facebook and OpenAI) train their models without asking permission. Just wait for someone to start raising this concern. The EU is working on regulating these kind of aspects, for example this is not compliant at all with the GDPR (unless you train only on data that doesn't contain personal data, that is more rare than you would think).
I don't think you could do that on PalmPilots either. You're taking a cool story about use and history of the PalmPilot and turning it into Yet Another iPhone Complaint Thread.
Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
So British place of birth means "mother's residence" and not place of birth?
Most: Zork on a pdp-20 (iirc). GPA went down a ton. Shockingly better than what I'd played before.

Honorable Mentions:
Civ IV: It all rang true. One session lasted over 40 hours. One more turn...

City of Heroes: best MMO for me. Every now and again I hear echoes of the sounds and it brings me joy. The story, graphics, scriptable attacks I could tinker with. Just loved it.
Google respects the "robot.txt" and asks you to use it to opt out of their crawling.

Parent's point is if your own scaping army respects the "scaping.txt" and goes down on Google as they don't opt-out in their scraping.txt, it probably wouldn't fly.