jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We've been successfully using locust for automated performance and load tests for a couple of years now. Locust is very flexible, the community is great and python-based test implementations are big win for engaging our quality engineers in test design and implementation.

Since our platform (Appian[0]) has a pretty heavy/complex client, we built a thin abstraction library [1] to empower both our quality engineers as well as some of our more advanced customers to write simple automated performance tests.

[0] https://www.appian.com
[1] https://pypi.org/project/appian-locust
Same here. Was just thinking about it last week.
> Also I don't think Doctor Who pulls in the audiences it used to.

The show is in a weird place at the moment - the ratings aren't bad enough to justify cancellation, but the show just doesn't really work properly.

Jodie's run has been a bit of a dud - although Capaldi was probably impossible to follow.
Have you lived in a city with a subway for an extended period of time? I reckon you get used to almost any sort of transportation in a certain time.
I agree. If you wait until traffic is bad enough, then transit might end up getting pushed -- but it's just to appease people who want to maintain their car-driven lifestyle. Everyone currently sitting in their car on the freeway doesn't think they're the "other" person who should be taking the bus or train. The next step is outright fighting any growth, if they already haven't been.
This probably isn't a situation you want to take a purely economic outlook towards the problem. When the largest at-risk group is the elderly you're not going to see a lot of financial disruption in sectors that keep the wheels moving.
Suppose a 737 had engines that were old and not as efficient as newer, larger engines. How would you go about finding the right changes to the airframe to accommodate these new engines? You can do calculations, tests in a lab, etc, but eventually you have to put them on a plane and ship them.

Oops.

But then again, doing something is often better than nothing. Even if it’s not perfect.
Yes, and anyone can do it. The more the better. Then I'll create a cheat sheet for sites that index cheat sheets.
Try talking to your team members and manager. One of my senior colleague who mas mentoring others was in similar situation.
He worked out a deal with the manager - no interruption from 10am to 12 noon. He even got a board saying 'Quiet Hour 10 to 12' outside his cubicle. It took us a week to realize he was serious when our manager told us. We respected his quiet hours.
Eventually the money gets spent. Might not be right away, but eventually. You have to tax services as well for it to work though.
The purpose of a literary agent is to get you published and in bookstores. Most programmers are quite capable of the former and the Internet is driving the latter into obsolescence. And I don't know many authors who make a lot of money, anyway. I don't think writing books is generally more profitable than software engineering.

All this is to say: Any "software publishing agents" would be scammers.
Meaning you will delete the app you paid $2.99 for in protest?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs
I am interested. I believe you about the corporate taxes, but I have a hard time believing you are able to avoid the SE tax.

On way or another the full 15.3% social security tax is going to be paid.
> (I've met seniors that have never used version control!)

I was one of those seniors, albeit at UT Dallas. I wasn't alone, by far. I was a Comp Sci major, not a Software Engineering major, but the majority of my classmates probably couldn't write a piece of code that ran.

No real solutions, just reiterating the scary facts about people who call themselves programmers.
> Scrape every active user

translates to "Scrape every user" unless you know of some magical way to get list of "active" users.

Guess howmany active users there are? Guess how many servers you need running to get through those in 1 hour. My guess is something much more than $360,000 worth / yr.
This is the problem i-names are intended to solve.

An i-name is a short name that looks something like =name. So instead of your OpenId URL, you can type in =name in any OpenId form and it will log you in as usual.

So instead of name.myopenid.com, I'm =name.

There are registrars who sell an i-names for relatively cheap. (There are also free ones.) The i-name points to the broker's lookup service. In their database, your i-name is associated with a unique number that you keep even if you let your name expire.

That entry points to an XRDS document, and that document tells the login form a number of things. Most importantly, it tells it your OpenId URL. It also provides a series of forwarding addresses that look like this:

=djacobs/(+blog)
=djacobs/(+contact)
=djacobs/(+twitter)

Et cetera.

My favorite is =djacobs/(+contact). It points to a page on my broker's site with a contact form. This contact form knows my e-mail address, and people can use it to e-mail me without finding that address out--like any other contact form. More importantly, the form comes with useful spam-fighting settings, options like "don't let anyone e-mail me without an i-name of their own".

I happen to think i-names are pretty cool and will tend to make everyone settle on one ID. Maybe a good vocabulary will come out of the forwarding syntax, and we can approach a loose Semantic Web using i-names instead of URLs and triples.

Caveat: As of now this is painfully tedious to set up for the average user. Eventually, though, people will see the merit in this approach, and more competition in this market will drive a user-friendly setup.

For now, it's just for hackers.
Great stuff. Lots of people have commented on why more outdoor sites haven't taken off. I'd point you all to www.mountainproject.com
The new public pages look gorgeous, especially that huge 3D graphic on the home page. Good job Chris Jennings!
"sections" take care of that.

The "one big file" gets processed so that each section is kept in sync with a file.

Again: the idea is about make editing easier, it's an addition, your "one big file" is just a compound "view" over atomic files.
What is the definition of "create"?

For example what if I wrote a program to open the original file, examine the shapes of the fonts, then write them to a new file?

That would essentially be copy-pasting the file, wouldn't it? But how is that different from someone using their eyes to "examine the shapes of the fonts and write them to a new file"? Just because of small inaccuracies?

So what if I wrote a program to very slightly change the shapes of the font? Did I "create" a new font?
What's with the weird assumption that you can only visit one website? I don't think that's how this Internet thing works. If there was a local version for me, I'd use it, but I wouldn't necessarily stop using this one.
Sweet, so my account is worth about a whole $1 in tweets
Thank you very much for your comment. Osteopath just made my list.
> some of the existing automakers seem to still be covering their ears and singing

Some, but the more common story is "traditional automaker pouring billions into EV production to make up for lost time."

> If Tesla starts suffering mortal market-share wounds, they will still be a compelling acquisition target

More importantly they'd need to suffer mortal market cap wounds. At anything like current prices they're not only dreadful value, they're simply unaffordable. At the moment Tesla buying a large traditional automaker is more likely than the reverse (though maybe not likely in an absolute sense.)
"comp.lang.c has been identified as containing spam, malware, or other malicious content."

Hehe. Insert Rust joke here.
The same thing happened last July to comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.lisp.

https://support.google.com/groups/thread/61391913
Oh, Google. You never quite figured out adulthood, and now senescence is setting in.
I do fault people for being mindlessly cynical. It clouds the discussion so much that it makes legitimate concerns harder to see. Spreading FUD about big corporations actually has the reverse effect; low effort criticism colours all criticism, making it easier to dismiss as paranoid whining.
You repeat the word "toxic" a lot here, but there's nothing toxic about believing gender gaps in representation are mostly due to personality differences. For example, you could believe that gender gaps in engineering are 60% personality-driven and 40% discrimination/sexism-driven. There is nothing toxic about this opinion; a 60-40 person may still abhor discrimination and make common cause to minimize it with other social justice advocates. The only people who think that opinion is toxic are those who insist that all inequalities are automatically due to bigotry and oppression, no additional investigation or evidence needed.

It seems to me that your move to the Blue Tribe could have less to do with the "toxicity" of the Grey Tribe and more to do with your eagerness to hurl unfounded moral accusations at those who hold positions you disagree with. That is quite the popular pastime within the Blue Tribe (even if some of its members may themselves be disgusted by it).
If that group was relying on Google, that's on them at this point.

If you use any Google product, you better have an alternative ready. There's no telling when Google will either shut the product down, or just ban you.
The average person doesn’t need to avoid plastics is my point. They are a walking carcinogen already. Eliminating plastics for the average Joe is just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
Can you expound on the plant based oil part?
Aren't most works-for-hire for by US Government employees immediately released into the public domain? In that case, then, how and why is it that the National Arboretum is a "copyrighted place"? Also, does anyone know a good primer on copyrighted places in general? My understanding of copyright law is hazy at best, but that seems unreasonable.
I was surprised to see the National Arboretum on this list since most works created by the US Government are not protected by copyright (which is a great situation not enjoyed by people in most countries).

Turns out they have a special law about collecting fees for using the arboretum:
http://law.justia.com/cfr/title07/7-6.1.2.1.1.html#7:6.1.2.1... -- however I wouldn't call this a copyright restriction per se.

I was also surprised to see that they included an example image for most images that require royalties. :-)
Yes: your contemptuous tone is not appreciated. From the guidelines:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

Would you say your exact sentence to someone who works at a big company or a research lab, someone who chose not to do a startup?
This is an unfair title. Some of the prohibitions discussed (brands, U.S political party logos) are about copyright, but others (St Paul's Cathedral) seem to be about public disruption, and others (The US National Arboretum) apply only to commerical photography.

This is a list of places/things where photography (commercial photography in general) is prohibited, but it's not necessarily about copyright.
Everyone talks about having to do something actively [like working out] but the simple things are overlooked:

1) get a good night's sleep [I actually lost about 20 lbs just by getting more than 1.5 hours a night of sleep]

2) eat a large breakfast [the best pattern is large breakfast, large lunch, light dinner]

3) take breaks whenever there's a respite in the work [just stand up and walk around a little bit before getting back to keyboard]
Hey jaddison,

Yes sure it is! :) I`ll promise to add a GIMP tutorial next week, but I`m running out of ideas on what it should be based off. If you have any ideas, feel free to use Crappy Pixel`s contact section and let me know.

Regards, Chris - CrappyPixel Admin
I have used Keepass (Classic) for years. http://keepass.info/
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Do I understand the article correctly that this is talking about the long tail of warming, as the climate gets asymptotically closer to what it'll eventually settle on? Like when you have a fridge and turn the power off, it'll get slower and slower towards environmental temperature, and they calculated this trend for thousands of years given CO2e already emitted rather than in the next, say, 50 years?

If yes, it sounds like something to keep in mind, i.e. it's not like we still have much of a CO2e budget remaining or time to waste (we'll have to take back out of the air what we put in from X years ago onwards), but at the same time it will also take many many years to get to dangerous warming levels (if we stopped emitting on an extremely optimistic schedule) and at some point between "in a while" and "in a few centuries" we have to suck those greenhouse gasses back out of the air to not have this effect run its full course. So this isn't "turns out we're doomed after all" as the headline suggests, just a further-into-the-future calculation that tells us what kinda already made sense (the long tail until settling on a new temperature average).
Neat idea, but something is off in the classification --- almost everything is male biased even in the most simple of cases... eg "The cat walks up the tree"
USAA is almost unbeatable for insurance, but I think Navy Federal has a much better banking experience.
Months ago someone posted a research paper on here that came to the conclusion that the only reliable way to avoid two dominant parties is approval voting.
This sounds like a nice way to make damn sure that you never have to pay benefits.
I don't know of anyone offering 2% right now, but for historic purposes here is an article about some great rates above 2% over a year ago: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/savings-accounts-besides-all...
React/Angular/Vue/etc. is the janky crap. The client side is MINE, stop wasting MY resources for your ease of development.

I say this as a developer that has to deal with "React apps" at work. As I user I can't stand the "modern web" where megabytes of Javascript are wasted turning a page load into a spinner that doesn't work half the time.
WhatApp is so prevalent in El Salvador that it would be very inconvenient not to use it. It's by far the preferred communciation service.

It's also the cheapest. Because its free with WiFi, and cost less than US$1.00 per day with a data plan. Compare that to phone calls that cost about US$ 0.15 per minute or SMS that cost US$ 0.06. It may not seem much, but when you factor the local minimum wage in urban areas: $1.87/hour or US$ 0.03/minute the difference becomes significant.

Perhaps the closest alternative here would be Telegram. It has niche users like government, NGOs, political organizations and group chats for people with similar interests (like Facebook groups are used in some countries).

I guess, WhatsApp has become like our tropicalized version of WeChat.

Its used to chat with friends, family, group chats (leaving a group chat unannounced is a big faux pas). Almost every class gets a WhatsApp group for coordinating coursework.

Most stores and restaurants, big and small, accept orders via Whatsapp and that way one can avoid the third party app delivery fees. It is also used to send bank transfer confirmations, and gps location pins to coordinate deliveries because our addressing system is not that good.

I even did most my last loan application via WhatsApp. And also discovered last year that the only way to contact one bank about an ACH transfer was via WhatsApp or by visiting a branch.

So basically, it's the most used and most affordable main way to reliably reach anyone or any company. From the largest bank, to the smallest mom and pop store. From my company's founder to the newest intern.

The only thing I still get by plain SMS is multi factor authentication tokens or the ocassional spam message.
> So if you've ever "payed manually" with a check, even if you've never set up automatic rent payments, your landlord could still do the same thing if they wanted to.

Well, that would be committing wire fraud. If I agree to automatic payments at least the landlord has an excuse that I had consented to such recurring payments.
Better precision patch: https://gist.github.com/932108
second p90x
The main page seems focused on simplicity and short sentences. I think they thought that $0.99 would have looked too noisy compared to $1.

It's possible that they are also pandering to people like me who dislike prices written in that way. I am annoyed by the chore of mentally adding one to every price ending in 99 cents, and I respect sellers who write prices like that less.
This is so completely awesome. Just yesterday I was looking for something similar. I will start using this immediately.
If your conclusion was correct, the music industry would have run out of money and died. That has not happened yet. How do you explain how your theory does not match observed reality?
This is called -> in Clojure.
Side point but I can't help it: I can't bare static image navigation like this anymore, especially from a tech site like wired. I work on a widescreen laptop and I have to scroll down every time a new page loads with the next image.
Gas must be cheap in Pakistan.
I'm an athlete-turned-software engineer at FAANG. This is the NFL scouting combine:

40-yard dash, Bench press (225 lb repetitions), Vertical jump, Broad jump, 20-yard shuttle, 3 cone drill, 60-yard shuttle, Position-specific drills, Interviews – each team is allowed 60 interviews in 15-minute intervals, Physical measurements, Injury evaluation, Drug screen, The Cybex test, The Wonderlic test

I would consider this set of proxy tests to be roughly analogous to the FAANG interview loop for screening world-class engineers. They're representative tests with predictive validity for the separate, more meaningful task of Game Day athletic performance -- since you obviously can't hold a real Super Bowl as a scouting combine.
Nevermind all that.. you'd have to work with PHP. No thank you.
Signal and Telegram seem to be the most commonly mentioned alternatives here. Which one do you prefer and why?
If it really is fascism vs. fascism (it isn't), why not choose the side where less people die?
God reading that garbage upsets me. "Cyberysecurity Reporter", not a very good one at that.
Use a Visa gift card next time.
We are a representative republic. Part of that reason is because it is too burdensome to expect the general public to have the information and expertise to be fully involved in governance. We delegate that responsibility to our representatives.

EDIT: I removed a line that was superfluous to my point and was drawing attention away from my actual point.
Great write-up. I was highly skeptical of the claims of 95% efficacy. After reading this analysis of the data (and other literature) my suspicions have been confirmed. The public needs the raw trial data. Now.

Regulators are under immense pressure. We need the open-source / scientific community to be able to analyze the efficacy and safety of the vaccine in the raw trial data.
It is spying. It's a defence contractor phone so probably everything done on it is recorded because governments spy on their employees. Baseband/GSM stack is likely wide open to exploitation by other governments.
ESNI is the only reason why I use Cloudflare in some of my web sites.
Just because the "programmer productivity" problem isn't one related to Computer Science doesn't mean society can't benefit from solving it... I find most people aren't all that interested in Computer Science, but rather in getting things built for the purposes of other industries.
I have WhatsApp/iMessage groups for immediate friends and family who I don’t mind getting real time updates from. Everyone else, I am okay with periodically contacting as desired via text/audio/video call.

It seems pretty liberated, and I am not sure what more a social network website could offer. Outside of about 5 people, I have no interest in real time updates…I can wait to see photo albums next time I call or visit, like in the times before broadband. In fact I prefer it, so that there is a jumping off point for things to talk about.
I think it's fairly simple: the goal should be equality of opportunity and not equality of outcomes. Furthermore, when opportunities are unequal, they should never be made equal by reducing some of them.
You hire the right people and they make the culture. Culture is NOT enforced. It is simply the reflection of you as a good or bad hire-er.
I can't convince my family to switch over when the UI is so shit.
That’s not how mobilecoin work
> Like Donald Trump, But For Nerds

Not only for nerds. Like Trump was for years, Musk is living rent free inside the medias head. They hate him and yet they continue to make him.
What "Signal community"?
What are your (you guys) opinions on Session (https://getsession.org/), the Signal clone that uses Tor, and no phone numbers? Any significant downsides? Anybody know the team there and can speak on their trustworthiness, longer term intentions etc? What about the code they've added? Anybody review that? At a quick glance it looks like a decent but less user friendly alternative (no phone numbers - good for privacy, bad for grandma's to be able to adopt it easily). Thanks.
Nice! I've been using NoiseTorch, which works great but has as major downside I can't configure it to autoload, so I have to remember to set it myself after boot. There's also PulseEffects, which supposedly has an RNN plugin, but it didn't work for me when I tried it some months ago.

Does Alsa_rnnoise work well with Pulse/Pipewire systems?
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/12/12-10525-CV0.wpd...
So does iOS for me, 13.2.3.
> Have an app where user logs in through said website, then scrape their friends using this user's token.

That's some extremely shady thing to do.
They spent 30 years wasting the vast majority on ridiculous things like the Space Shuttle. Multiple billions of dollars to launch what Elon Musk will be launching for a measly 2 million.

Their science was always a rounding error on their pork.
> but you can use some quick and dirty macros for that.

That is the point of most of the libraries described in the article — to prevent having to recreate this particular wheel each time you need it. Do all Rust programs/libraries need one of the libraries? Not at all, but I find that using one that has some nice bells and whistles will encourage the programmer to improve the errors and their messages.
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