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Very impressive! At Airtop.ai we looked into lightweight browsers like this one since we run a huge fleet of cloud browsers but found that anything other than a non-headless Chromium based browser would trigger bot detection pretty quickly. Even spoofing user agents triggers bot detection because fingerprinting tools like FingerprintJS will use things like JS features, canvas fingerprinting, WebGL fingerprinting, font enumeration, etc.

Can you share if you've looked into how your browser fares against bot detection tools like these?

It was incredible to see our CEO do this in like 15 mins. LLM based web automation is the future, but is also fun and whimsical

Heya, Marcos from Airtop here.

You're right, it won't book your flight, but what it will do is (in your example) scrape Google Flights and return all the flights that:

1. Leave from Newark 2. After 6:30PM 3. That cost less than $200 4. Take no longer than 4 hrs 29 min 5. with only 173 kg CO2e

So you can be THAT specific and then it will tell you exactly what to book

You can create a free account via our website: https://www.airtop.ai ! You should check out the Studio once you create your account so you can experiment with some prompts and examples

Heya, we don't have a Discord server just yet, but it's super cool to know there's sufficient interest in having one. For now, though, I'd be happy to answer any questions here or over emails.

You can probably scrape that too! What sort of data would you be looking to get?

I'm not affiliated with this company or product in any way. I'm actually curious what the community thinks of it and if anyone's found it useful. Every product like this I've tried recently will do a good job of outputting some code that builds the UI, but never does a good job of writing code in the style that matches the rest of my code base, or using our custom components that often wrap other component libraries and implement our design system. If people have tried this, or other products, and you've found them useful to build non demo, non side project code, can you share your experience?

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Subsequent bug thread dealing with the fallout: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123264...

Reasonable people can disagree on things like formatting, features, or the superiority of one interface/product over another... all fair game. And Linus’ contributions give him an enormous amount of credibility and leeway to have it his way. But when you treat people with such disrespect (ex. By calling them a moron), you lose all credibility and respect in my book. There should be no excuse for treating people with disrespect no matter who you are or what your contributions have been. I’m not surprised given his reputation, but I’m still incredibly disappointed

As I read the discussion, one interesting question came to mind. There are so many cities that want to be the next "tech hubs", and many of them have been promoting that label (with or without merit) for years. I can't tell you how many articles like this one [0] I've read.

But in reality, many of these cities are making an honest effort to live up to that label by attracting talent, corporate HQs and investment to make these claims real. Texas' tax policies are one example [1]

In contrast, I see SF and the broader Bay Area making moves in the opposite direction. One such example is the new CEO wealth tax [2], along with others that make SF seem hostile rather than welcoming. It's no surprise that companies want to leave.

Do other people see it this way too? Has SF or the Bay Area enacted policies to attract or retain tech talent, investment and innovation? Or is the valley's success due to a strong network effect that has been self reinforcing (more talent means more investment means more talent, etc). Have California, SF or Bay Area policies in the last 20 years truly encouraged the flourishing of the tech industry, or has it happened despite these governments? Really curious to hear what people think.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/jpmc-2018/are-these-ci...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10141...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-approves-taxes-on-c...

Very illustrative example. So in this thread, I'm reading the opinion that "it's not the fault of government, it's the fault of the voters". But your point (hope I'm not misrepresenting it), aligns more with "it's actually the voters who are fickle and don't always vote in a way that's aligned with their best interests".

So what are we left with? :(

Is the same true of Tesla? I know of plenty of people who work or would like to work for Tesla. Another group of companies that haven't received as much attention in the recent "SF exodus" narrative are Google and FB. Google has been opening large offices outside of SF for years and is slowly contributing to the growing of tech hubs around the country. Google's Boulder office comes to mind as a good example.

I'm not aware of any large FB spokes, but FB remote work allowance might end up having a similar effect. Not to mention the many startups that have realized that the distributed model works fairly well if you know how to do it, and opens up a large talent pool. I currently work for such a startup and we don't plan on going to back to a central SF office model post pandemic.