skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Thank you, Copilot!"
That should be it's slogan.
It's helpful to watch stuff like this to see how others put together code, how they think about the tasks they are competing, how they confront errors and how their environment is set up.
Tried out Automa a few months ago. The UI was pretty, but the UX had much to be desired and I had constant trouble with it. I just reenabled the extension, and everything does appear to be greatly improved.

Previously, I think (i'm fuzzy on the details) that whenever I needed to start selecting elements within a page to set a css selector is when it all started to go downhill. The selection process was severely broken somehow and/or it was impossible to just manually set the CSS selectors. I'm pretty sure I couldn't figure out how to set a selector without doing an element select first, after which I couldn't edit the selector without it breaking everything and having to delete the workflow and start over.

Now a CSS selector text input is definitely right there next to the "select element" button, and editing works successfully.

But the "select an element" process still doesn't make complete sense to me. When I'm in the dashboard creating a new workflow and click the select element button, nothing happens. I tried executing the workflow so it opens the desired page, but I can't click around to select something even though the button appears to be highlighted. It does look like I can open the extension menu and use the select element process from there successfully, which lets me figure out the correct selector without having to open devtools.

I'll have to do some more testing, but it looks like the improvements over the past few months put this back into the realm of "usable" from what I've seen so far.
This is the guy who kicked up all the dirt about Red Hat, which IMO was entirely overblown. Not to say that he's a bad dude...but be careful of who you listen to on the Internet.
160lbs is about the limit for what humans can manage in real battle conditions. Joe Gibbs can shoot heavier than that, but not repeatedly and rapidly for minutes on end.
I use Office/Safari/Photos/Whatsapp/VLC and sometimes Chrome on my 2015 MacBook Air with 8GB, and it seems to work OK.
It's not Linux. I have more than one gripe with Linux and FreeBSD free those. Yes Linux can do all those things but that's not the reason here.

The kernel feels solid and bHyve is a goddess.

Jails are great for running isolated browsers with sound.
That 'i3' runs circles around i7 laptop CPUs from just a couple of years ago
This is how the big cloud vendors do, see OCP server and rack designs for an example. IIRC the rack connects to one leg of a three phase and converts to DC inside the rack’s UPS.

It’s great for efficiency, but makes a hassle bringing in third party equipment since you need to make accommodations for bringing in the regular AC power that everything else is designed for.
> As a naive outsider: Does RAM in 2023 encrypt all its contents?

No. At least not reliably, due to how the keys are stored in RAM as well (e.g. when in standby mode, or when a laptop lid is just closed).

There's even an EFI reboot flag that could fix this and force-clears the RAM on next boot, but it's usually deactivated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack (works still on Windows, thanks to BitLocker)

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/h...
Escaping to Mars and taking the source of why earth failed with you sounds like a stupid plan
Very petrifying that Vercel say Neon is GA and the founder of Neon disagrees.

https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-postgres-is-now-availabl...
There are thousands of these kinds of services. Almost all would be bonded, some would offer armed security escorts to go with the courier (of course, for a fee).
Co-founder here. Additionally, you are able to set different stream mode for each entities and script actions which allows you to customize your players’ multiplayer experience. For example, doing a lag compensation by syncing player unit positions (between server and client) but not rotation nor bullet positions
I thought about it, but it's not that entertaining nowadays.

We have been spoiled by decades of mind blowing SF.

We know all the twists, all the tropes. And the style hasn't aged well.

Foundational stuff deserve respect because we built on them, but sometimes you can feel the age.
(Edit: this is wrong – see comments)

And this water is supposed to be fed directly into the homes of hundreds of thousands of customers through the existing district heating network which obviously isn't built with seawater in mind. A seawater storage facility would at the very least require a heat exchanger which would decrease efficiency.
Jeff is incredible, his brother works for RPi manufacturing I think looking at the factory tour.

He's not biased at all when it comes to comparing the Pi to the competition in his blogs, I mean erm clones, there is no competition anyways.

Jeff Geerling blog: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog
There is a very different (but less popular) direction in American sci-fi that is most prominently represented by Kurt Vonnegut, although he tends to depict a much closer future than the likes of Heinlein.
Sweet! I didn't know that, thanks!
> What's going on with others ?

What's going on is that almost none of the people posting here have used an Apple Silicon Mac with 8GB of RAM, and don't realize that it's a very different experience than trying to use a PC with 8GB of RAM.
> From a 2020's perspective, X11 is deeply weird.

X11 is a distributed systems non-meshed networking protocol, that outputs to screens as a side effect.

Knowing about Erlang dist and figuring out how to do X11 a few years ago, everything makes a lot of sense. Except for xlib. xlib is a bit better now, but it turns a pretty decent (but certainly not without flaws) async protocol and implements blocking synchronous calls... And then most toolkits were based on that. Sometimes you really do need to wait for a reply, but so many things don't need it, and all the waiting makes actually networked X much less usable.:(
> If having as you claim support from the majority

Of this thread. I presume the vast majority of people don't really care about Omegle, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the nostalgic commenters here haven't actually used it since 2009. I have semi recently, and let me tell you there was a lot more dick on there than I remember.

I do find it weird that most of this post is blaming (in order) the family, the government, woke society. It seems fairly obvious to me we should be blaming the people showing their dicks to everyone and the pedophiles.

Overall I understand any site choosing to shut down rather than having to foot the bill of policing their users, I probably would too.

> If people could go back in time, we would never have public education because “it attracts predators and facilitates child victimization!”

We both know this isn't true. We still have church after all.
There are many companies within this company.
We Designed a Resilient Vector Embedding Creation System for PostgreSQL Data
Why does my latte cost so much?
It’s not clear to me that there’s a meaningful distinction. If “the masses” can be manipulated into supporting and even dying for a despicable but charismatic leader, that precisely means a bunch of individuals were so manipulated.
If one is already running only "verified" (attested) code (with a read-only partition), diskless doesn't buy you much? Android, for example, does this: The system partition where the OS is remains immutable unless there's a signed update (or the bootloader is "unlocked").
You can get rid of a lot of unexpected behavior just by using Slackware. I like the BSDs, but I also like having broader hardware and software compatibility.
AdaptiveCards: A whole new way to deliver UI
Interesting! Had a look at the spec [1] which looks a lot like AV1. Has the same OBU elementary stream concepts, ISO 14496-12 bindings, codec param string, the whole enchilada. What's missing so far is DRM (common encryption), but I'm sure they're already working on it.

[1] https://aomediacodec.github.io/iamf/

[EDIT]
Compared to AC4, dts:X same stuff all done differently, as though you see them maneuvering around the patents minefields.
Why they should use seawater? Fresh water is not in shortage in this region - yearly precipitation significantly exceeds evaporation.
Interesting. Colocation of gas-fired generation (usually with steam offtake as well as electricity) with refineries happens quite frequently as well.
I remember when geerlingguy was just the author of all the ansible roles I happened to use, crazy to see how much of a "personality" he is now.
But the software for other SBCs is extremely bad, I've never heard of any Pi on release or after that has any software or hardware bugs.

Proprietary blobs aren't that bad with Broadcom...
The reason you use Alexa to set a timer is because Amazon as a company wanted a presence in your house, and they internally understand and regularly use the term operant conditioning. Otherwise you’d be using a timer.

You are overestimating your own agency.
I'm curious if you could talk about any of the consequences at all. There's a very similar situation unfolding at my company currently. New project running on FreeBSD because that's what the admin likes, and he takes every opportunity to bash Linux that he can. I'd like to prepare for potential pitfalls best I can.

We've already had issues around compatibility with third party software and OS upgrades (which surprised me in particular, likely a mistake on the admin's part but I'm not privy to the details).

FreeBSD seems like a wonderful OS for purpose-built hardware (eg pfsense, PlaystationOS, Netflix's distribution servers), but I'd much prefer to be on something common for the general compute. I don't even want to know what hiring another/replacement admin will be like in the future (we're entirely on-prem in a city that's away from a major population centre, niche enough as it is without adding FreeBSD on top).
Have you ever looked at how many American politicians are veterans? How many of them have children who are in the armed forces? It's certainly not universal, but they do have children who would be fighting their wars and they have fought in the last generation's wars.
They do care. But they care about different things than you and I.
It's really hard to prototype w/ static typing. It's not really about mechanics; annotating parameters or return types, that stuff's easy. The problem is that in prototyping you're changing a lot of stuff because you don't necessarily know what the structure or types will look like, and every time you change something or rethink your taxonomy you have tons of type updates to do.
> ...a belief in psi powers implicitly supports an ideology of racial supremacy, and indeed, that's about the only explanation I can see for Campbell's publication of the weirder stories of A. E. Van Vogt.

Could somebody help me with this? I'd like to understand it.
Sure, however in the traditional sense of most people using VMs, there is no virtualization of GPUs, ie vGPU, and thus no hardware acceleration, if you use something like VMWare or VirtualBox inside Windows. In a hypervisor setup like Proxmox, there is, but the issue is that you need one hardware device per VM, which can get annoying. So paravirtualization via WSL is actually, depending on your needs, superior to either of the previous two cases.
> Does this prevet rootkits?

That's the idea. If the OS is immutable, where do you put them?

Bootkits require further mitigation to prevent, but Mullvad has also put effort into that, too, with their secure coreboot bootchain.

Of course as an end-user you still can't really fully validate a machine over the network has not been tampered with, so you're obviously ultimately still trusting Mullvad as you'd expect.

> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. I don't expect that there would be a significant amount of requests in RAM, probably just remnants of mainly what was active (and some de-allocated but not cleared remnants?) when the machine was reset.
Look at the date of publication
Right, that's what I've been using, I was curious about the higher dose prescription version GP referred to
If it was that big a deal, they would channel the waste heat to useful purposes such as heating nearby homes for free. The marketing benefits are obvious.
It's James T. Kirk's. I think.
The iPhone 15 Pro that launched some months ago has 8G

8G is paltry on a desktop computer that should last years.
Honestly Apple holding the line on memory probably helps pressure developers to optimise.

When people say they need 16gb of ram to have a browser with 200 tabs, a chat messaging program, and an audio player I really wonder what they're smoking. That could be done on maybe 4gb, 8gb would make it easier to handle things like tabs with high resolution video.

You only NEED ram for what is actively being used. If you aren't actively using 199 tabs, you don't need them in memory.
That doesn't make them smarter or more knowledgable outside of a very narrow scope, where they knowledge is entirely dependent on what biased experts called by either side tell them.
Juncker interviews are better IMO.
The new ESP32 models coming out, especially the RISC-V models, all have security features like Flash encryption and hardware cryptography modules. Unfortunate for those who like to reflash consumer devices.
I read it as a stimulating thought experiment. It's supposed to get you thinking outside of those well worn ruts. Of course, those ruts are often well worn because they are tried and true, but it's nice to go off road once in a while.
Check out Ursula K. Legion. One of her stories, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, was recently adapted into an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Hi Peter, what are my employment options as a programmer who (long story short qualifies for DACA) is completely undocumented. Not a citizen, not a resident but living in the US. I'm working with a local company and doing work as a 1099 Contractor, but this along with freelance can be limiting. I would much rather work with a big(ger) company, but unfortunately I don't have work authorization. Am I right in assuming there's no way for me to get hired at a real company? Or are there workarounds I'm not aware about?
>They and I know they can't side step lawful requests which raises the spidey senses even further so I believe it is a valid question.

They have been able to turn down lawful requests previously, which is (at the very least) a positive indicator that may lower your spidey senses a bit.

>On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.

>After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...
Projection warping should be viewer position independent (within a limited scope), only relying on the position of the projector and the screen. Some home theater projectors which already do this to an extent. And there are some famous public performances where video is projected onto a building and warped to match the contours in such a way as to give a convincing 3d effect (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_5sDvAlNY). You can perform this kind of projection warping on a raspberry pi.
If you're curious how the time rewind was implemented, Blow did a GDC presentation back in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dinUbg2h70
Todd was the one saying Starfield was going to be realistic.

Instead you're Buck Rogers
> Soldered RAM can be somewhat higher speed and lower energy than replaceable

Can we have one piece of soldered RAM and one slot to add more RAM later on though? (at the cost of possibly unmatched speed and other stuff that happens when you mix and match RAM as you like)
Compiling Gentoo on a Pentium D was a great way to keep my dorm room nice and toasty
Play is also what distinguishes hacking from working: not only for programmers, but also for hawks, horses, and hounds.
As someone who has lived in both Boston and San Francisco.... I'd choose Boston's infrastructure any day. We complained about it constantly, and then we came to SF. And desperately miss it.
The french are very pro EU, maybe more so than the rest of the continent. The french pay attention to strategic things and that's why they project their will into the EU hoping the bigger demography will help keep fighting against the super powers.

Yet they totally fail to realize that the rest of the continent doesn't always think like them. That some countries will never accept a majority vote, that some others just take the EU for it currently is: an economic free exchange zone with democratic requirement.
Still today, for a french commoner, the solution the contradictions of EU, in social, economic or strategic matters is always more europe and be damn if you don't.
I like the idea! I am studying math and interested in learning more about Finance. However, the categories seem a bit broad, and it is a bit too easy to select categories which are completely unrelated. As a total beginner, I would love pre-set learning tracks that link one topic to another in a progressive way.
Koestler Parapsychology Unit
The concern is someone logging into Gmail is sending plain text passwords and email contents to Microsoft. That’s why sending plain text passwords over an encrypted channel is a concern.

It would be fine if Outlook was backing up encrypted data and then not sending the decryption key to Microsoft servers.
It started as a joke.
I wonder if you could get similar results with fewer parts by measuring the resistance across the zipper teeth. Or capacitance, if they're coated/painted.
Yep, I faced this same issue when I bought an M2 Air early March. The 16GB BTO upgrade was roughly 40% more expensive compared to the discounted base 8GB model.
>I think complexity always costs. You have to devote more gates to implementing it, more engineering, more area, and more power.

Complexity also benefits - instead of having to do 12 different simple instruction, you can just do the one obscure instruction appropriate to the situation.

The question is whether the actual perf benefits outweigh the costs, and the only correct answer to this is to actually measure what runs faster.

Currently we don't have a decades-mature RISC-V chip, but ARM currently outperforms RISC-V massively so it's best to reserve judgement, and not make any hasty claims. Especially since people were claiming RISC would beat out CISC since at least the 90s, and yet three decades later CISC still dominates.
Looks like the population will grow to 10 billion primarily fueled through Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, but it really depends on whether those economies can have their own "economic miracle" by utilizing the new workers being born. If not, they'll go through a population boom and bust cycle and it might be another 50 years until their next one. If they do utilize it well, the population is predicted to drop, perhaps to 5 billion, in the next few hundred years.
Wouldn't the 'better system' produce smarter politicians? Are you not just arguing the semantics between the ends and the means to get there.
Neat, one more element to the "Rd" element group.
I think the point of the article was to show how much more lethal the average human has become over the years. The initial question, was clickbait.

>> Rather than being technically superior weapons, firearms took the skills and muscular effort out of killing someone from a distance. The main reason most European armies switched from bows to crossbows and then firearms was the short learning curves of these weapons. Crossbowmen and musketeers required little or no training, while it took many years of practice to build an archer skillful and strong enough to be of use in warfare. The crossbow and the firearm thus expanded the number of people in a given population that could become soldiers. That was great news for those in power because they could now build large armies quickly.
It was an amazing place to work back in 2006, but yeah it's gone downhill since then. It seems like Google is kind of in an internal cultural battle with itself about what exactly it's trying to become.
Gotta admit that the writing is very good and his content are entertaining, regardless of the content or (mis)information.
I think the amount of people in it for the sake of building hasn’t really changed. It’s just that the domain has been absolutely flooded by people in it for the money.

Things felt nicer when we were all still just building.
Targeting the U.S. Treasury auction means the target was the US and its cost of funding itself, where this auction facility at ICBC was just the means.
Not sure if it's cause & effect, but forests were mostly cut down. The largest "forest" nowadays is 740 hectares (7.4 km2) (2.86 mi2).
Same reaction here, when I read the title I reflexively yelled out "No!"

Geerling's an excellent trailblazer, explainer, and all round lovely guy, and his specialties are much broader than just R-Pi.
Do the other cloud providers give you IPv4 endpoints for free? I didn't think that was the case. (ie I thought AWS was just falling into line with the others on charging).

As for the "critical services not supporting IPv6" in the post I was quite surprised that it's such a short list of things that don't work - I would have expected more. They've obviously made a ton of progress.
> So disagreeing with someone else’s behaviour when choosing their tech means they have Stockholm syndrome?

No, they perfectly explained why that isn't the case. Please read the post carefully instead of knee jerk responding.
Ah, thank you, I don't think anyone's tried to fix the failing schools before, so if they just get started on that this whole voucher thing is unnecessary.
I bought my 16GB MacBook Air from a store. And FWIW, vendors like B&H and others regularly stock high-spec Macs that you can get overnight.
I don't follow. Wouldn't you just send another USB drive? Doesn't seem any riskier than anything else sent by courier.
But it still has cookie popup crap right ?
That's also how I would read it, and I think it's perfectly understandable why someone who was considered a Jew by the Nazis and had to flee from Germany, despite holding a prestigious university chair position and being a scientist of the highest international acclaim, would feel that way about the instincts of the masses in 1939, in the days of mass hysteria leading up to or following right up to (depending on when exactly this was written) an unjustified war of aggression against a neighboring country (even without knowing what that war would later turn into).

Considering these circumstances, I think his assessment is spot on, and the fact that we look down on this idea nowadays (judging from the fact that this is the top-voted comment at the time of writing) may be evidence of the kind of progress he was hoping for in the last paragraph.
If you often do the same typos, you can also use a text expander like Espanso to automatically fix them (replacing "teh " by "the ").
When you're done with the Lem bibliography, you could start Jerzy Żuławski, Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg and Strugatskys. :)
vim-mode movement keys in editor, along with emacs keybindings ctrl-a, e, w etc on the command line.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliptheweb/bash-shortcuts-...