skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ideally, we would have used JMeter or something similar, but we could not get it to run locally. So we wrote a small script to walk through most of our endpoints, with concurrent requests, ramp-up time, the works.

I'm pretty sure somewhere north of 80% of load testing tasks play out exactly like this - certainly at least 4 or 5 of these efforts that I've been a part of started with an attempt to get the latest version of JMeter to work ("we should use the mature solution and not reinvent the wheel, right?"), hit major difficulties, and ended up with me cobbling together an ugly but working 100 LoC script that did the job with far fewer headaches than the feature-rich but not really functional Cadillac solutions out there. Apache Bench can do quite a bit in a pinch, and doesn't choke up as quickly as a lot of other ways that you might generate traffic.

Re: Cloud Functions vs. Cloud Run, both are fantastic services and I do tend to prefer Cloud Run lately. For minimizing cold start latency another trick you can use if that's too big a move is to do your function routing within a single global endpoint (obviously this only works for internal-only APIs) - rather than having 100+ endpoints that you hit, you always hit the same endpoint and just include the desired call as a parameter, and route to the correct logic in a few extra lines of code. With all your functionality now passing through the same cloud function call, you're much less likely to incur the cold start penalty on your less frequently called functions, though it comes at the cost of some complexity in code. If you're going through Firebase it also speeds up your deployments quite a bit because you only have 1 function to deploy. Not a silver bullet (and it's also not a good solution if you want a proper REST API, since you're basically forced to jam everything through a POST endpoint), but can be an effective intermediate workaround if going all the way to Cloud Run is too daunting.
It's typically a North American - or sometimes Western European problem. As people become more lonely, they rely more on their companion pets. But ignore the obvious contradiction that they eat pigs, chickens or cows each day.

I'm not sure anyone else really worries about it from what I've seen, having traveled around.
this is excellent news, as some US states employ prison labor heavily in their manufacturing and agriculture sectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
If NSO (a small group of engineers) can monitor an iPhone with zero click, knowing only the phone number, including that of high rank officials, what do you think of capabilities of state-level actors?!

Yes, anything connected can be recorded, probably by dozens of organizations.

These capabilities are probably kept extremely secret. We will not know much about them until perhaps decades later.
> The world didn't used to be like that. I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tribe and not try to spread.

False. Christianity got proselytism from its immediate parent, Second Temple era Judaism, which was also a proselytizing religion (or, at least, had proselytizing subsets.)

Later, including modern, Judaism is mostly non-proselytizing, sure, but that's not how it always was.
We (my partner and I) do enjoy streaming media to a degree, but I prefer physical like yourself. I also find a kind of (likely pretentious) comfort in having control over the media, as in knowing the version I am watching hasn't been edited or changed like airplane movies used to be.

In general though I recommend separating the acts of curating media (i.e finding it and cataloguing it) and watching or consuming it. I started doing this years back when RSS was a thing and I found myself doomscrolling through hundreds of articles, not able to remember what I had read (and sincerely enjoyed) a few hours earlier. I strongly recommend it to anyone who finds themself doing something similar.

Also unrelated, but Netflix's interface actively discourages searching for additional information on their content, as normally none of the titles, cast, etc, are text and highlightable/cut and pastable.
It is? I use google photos regularly on Firefox on Windows, Mac and Android.
Before 6pm: Nice breakfast, feed the dogs/cats, work, think about the impending doom of civilization, work a bit more.
After 6pm: Go Jogging, gather with friends at the usual spot or through discord. If bored, play games, watch streams.
I think you're both right. We live completely differently now, but it's not clear that our essence has greatly changed.

In particular, that our values have changed is wonderful. But that's a cultural development. I'm convinced most of the people I've known would have shrugged at slavery like most Romans did, had they grown up with it. (Maybe they would have questioned it as children, but by adulthood they would have choked those questions down.)
Do you consider this to be an important criteria? Are there any practical concerns when buying a mask that doesn't technically meet the spec that I'm not aware of?
Companies receiving US government subsidies should manufacture finished goods domestically (or with its allies where not otherwise possible). Especially companies of strategic national interest.

Intel wants a multi-billion dollar grant/bailout from Uncle Sam. Make onshoring of manufacturing a condition of receiving such funds.

Furthermore, I posted a tax advantage system in a sibling thread that would help encourage other companies to do the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892031

Remove taxes from positive externalities. Attach conditions to bailouts/grants. Use money to force the outcomes you want.
When I lived overseas several years ago, and was on an ancient plan that only allowed 200 free SMS messages, the blue vs green was a critical distinction. After my free SMS allotment, it indicated whether I was being charged or not.
The Gargantuan Challenge of 5G Semiconductors
Huh. Thank you. I'd never heard of these guys before. I'll give them a call.
The failure mode of a single shared engine is extremely brittle.

What would happen if that engine decided to ignore standards bodies? (coughMicrosoftAppleGooglecough)

What would happen if a single party managed to upsurp governance and obtain de facto single party control?

Better to have 2+ options, so there's always a "What if..." life raft.
At least it's still an option to install it though. Even on mobile.
I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Are you blaming capitalism for the moral failures of a communist regime?

Maybe you're just suggesting capitalism isn't capable of "solving" the wrongdoings of communism? If so I would agree. A society that accepts the evils of communism is a difficult thing to solve externally.
Just gonna add on to the pile of replies: I've got hardware-accelerated Firefox set up as well, and have zero issues with crashing. Can't remember the last time it crashed. Even going months back.

(And one of the PCs it's on runs a GT 710 with now outdated drivers)
> Do not know of a single XMPP client that requires a phone number

Here is the only one I know: https://quicksy.im/
I've worked in PHP for years. It still makes me nauseous. I would never recommend anybody to learn PHP, it's simply a shitty language all around.
I don't think that this is an 'exlusive or' situation; The emphasis in the poem is on the small man, who is not often treated as being as part of the big picture, but who has to pay the bills, in the final analysis.
Unfortunately the bad design choices from the past are mostly here to stay - I mean, when you have the thing you want to find (the "needle") as the first parameter in about half of your "find something in something else"-type functions and the "haystack" as the first parameter in the other half, are you really going to break backward compatibility just to make things consistent? Of course not! So PHP will never be my favourite language (although I work with it every day), but it gets the job done, so...

Since you mentioned Python: I would never think of using Python instead of PHP, at least not for a web-based project. Performance-wise PHP is (I think) better thanks to all the work Facebook sponsored, and it has all the "batteries" needed for web development included, so the only reason for choosing Python would be that it's maybe more "elegant".
> That, and also the fact that it may be pretty much the only dynamic language in use today with ARC and not a GC.

Python and Perl use reference counting too. Ruby, Lua and JS (at least v8) are GC'd. PHP isn't unique in that regard.
> I always thought it just needs a bit more attention, and I'm willing to donate, but I don't trust Mozilla for routing what we give towards Firefox development

+1 A whole back I wanted to give to Firefox but I wanted to specify which projects it goes to. Many other orgs do this but last I checked Mozilla does not
daft question, but could mozilla fork Chromium and run it more openly?
I mean, it clearly has them; it's part of the syntax. You can skip them, and the parser will insert them for you; but the language has them.
Google tried this with WebKit. But they had to fork it to Blink because Apple is a very poor steward of open source. So that will always be the problem.
No. Lack of meat leads to vitamin B12 deficiency which gives you all sorts of neurological issues. Pretty damn horrible ones.

> The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics warns of the risk of vitamin B12 deficiencies in vegetarians and vegans. Vitamin B12 is found naturally only in animal products. A lack of vitamin B12 can lead to anemia and blindness. It can also cause muscle weakness, tingling, and numbness.

We might not die, we will just get severely disabled. It pretty much mimics MS.
$2.5M?!
Black boxes that you paid for upfront, that change their functionality, and you have to pay $9.99/mo for it.
Don't Look Up meant to be condescending. It is more of a frustrated sigh than a sophisticated commentary. It's not the greatest comedy or drama there ever was, but it's portrayal of the zeitgeist is spot on, if uncomfortable. No wonder it struck a chord.

The new Matrix is a creatively bankrupt demake of the original. It's somehow worst than Revolutions which is a collection of CGI battles and not much else.
git:// is not just unauthenticated, but unencrypted on the wire. They want you to use https:// for unauthenticated clones to at least prevent MITMs.
Turo S-1 IPO
Obviously my experience is my own, but in many cases it was the ticket system that changed vs. the version control system, which is why history wasn't always there. A lot of my early experience was at startups and I think I saw a version control migration only happen once (VSS to Git). I've even seen a couple places that didn't even have a ticket system. Unsurprisingly, those no longer exist.

In any case, I think the "correct" answer is proper commit messages AND solid issue tracking. My preference for commit when looking in the past was more around trying to understand particular changes to specific files or lines of code, which are more easily navigated in source control. A good commit message helps narrow down things when there is a long history, but a link in that message to the actual ticket would be a dream since that would likely have the larger context.

All that said, I have spent some time at a FAANG and neither commit messages nor tickets were useful at all there. Commit messages were usually along the lines of "fix a bug" or "add a feature" and the tickets rarely had more detail than "fix X" or "add Y". That was more of a symptom of the "go forward" culture there. Little time was spent making it easier for the next person since that wasn't really rewarded in the performance process.
> … picture Gul Dukat

No way! Apart from being pronounced differently (Cardassian vs Kardashian), the creepiness of Gul Dukat is a professional achievement by Marc Alaimo, whereas the creepiness of the Kardashians is purely accidental and unintended.
Mine's primarily used for intercom, messaging, and simple weather updates, where its main achievement is intercepting audio requests where it tries to answer things I want to do with my phone and thus blocks my phone from providing useful functionality. "I'm sorry I don't know how to do that" yes but my phone does so shut up and get out of the way.

Multi-room music playing isn't something I've attempted. Do you have the speakers grouped together or keep them ungrouped? Does it do a good job of keeping them in sync? Because my biggest disappointments are generally in the poor coordination between the devices on the network not knowing which should handle a request - often I'll be right next to a speaker and make a request, and the one in the next room will reply, bewilderingly.
> (Note: there are no photographs; nor did I take a notepad, so I'm writing this from memory. Cameras were verboten -- not because of security, but as an operational precaution. For starters, some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past, triggering a generator trip; for seconds, we had to wear protective clothing -- try explaining to a visitor that their expensive Nikon has been contaminated and needs to be left behind!)
> But in the case of righteousness, such a belief is almost always mistaken. Most of us, whether we be timid or bold, liberal, conservative, or (especially) some version of radical, are prone to imbibing heady infusions of the stuff. Viewing ourselves as “good,” in fact we become grievously toxic, literally intoxicated.

Something that "most" humans are prone to doesn't seem the same as addiction to me. It may produce some similar neural markers, but the number of humans subject to tolerance/dependency feedback loops that become pathological to the point of requiring medical intervention is surely small enough to not encompass "most" humans. If anything, this seems to be saying that self-righteousness is not an addiction at all, but a normal part of being a person that almost everyone experiences. If that is the case, I don't think individual virtue and discipline is up to the task of defeating where self-righteousness becomes prone to failure modes. Instead, we need systems and institutions that remain robust in the face of individual self-righteousness. Accept that a whole lot of people are going to be this way and find a way to make governments, companies, and communities that work anyway. If some collective effort relies upon the participants going against their own nature to work, it might work for some time, but it's doomed to not work for very long.
ARC is not more performant, it's more deterministic. "regular" GCs have better throughput. RC in general also handles other resources (like files) a bit better than GC.
that's an implementation detail, mostly because Linux has taken too long to copy WaitForMultipleObjects https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13913882/what-is-the-equ...
Most of the Smalltalk implementations I know support version control via Git or some other mechanism as a means of code distribution. And as I understand it, production code is built with CI/CD pipelines using a base image and checking out the code that's the app from a repo.
They were probably referring to the three alerts that came out for the single event last weekend. The first two were garbage, telling us to google it? Only the last had information people could actually use.
I mean value proposition specifically to the latest version? Some syntax improvements here and there, nothing big.

The value proposition *is* the ecosystem. Do I prefer coding Python to PHP? Sure (although it's not night and day difference by any stretch of imagination). Do I prefer Laravel or Django? Laravel. Do I prefer WordPress or ....? Actually, there's no equivalent, it's the one ton gorilla in that space.

When it comes to the 'classical' web (but also fun new toys like Laravel Livewire), there's very little that can compete with PHP as far as I'm concerned and the IMHO minor warts are certainly not worth losing the ecosystem for.
The criminals are using social media and tech to organize. It's now an arms race where the police and non-criminal citizens need to figure out ways to out-coordinate the criminals.
Package-lock.json pins only first-order dependencies
What kind of appliances can wait for several hours? The only example I can think of are cars that are being charged over night.
I see it a bit different. Using your own sentence structure:

"The line of argument supports the prevention of the existence of an undefined number of living beings to max. the quality of life of other existing living beings."

The argument doesn't seem to me as simple as you are portraying it and I don't see where you got the extermination part from.
PHP has a GC since 2009 (version 5.3). Its goal is precisely to collect reference cycles.
Firefox is open source and predates Chromium. Why didn’t Google just contribute to Firefox?
While the implementation of synchronization is not obvious, the concept of doing it is. They shouldn't be able to patent the entire concept of allowing multiple speaker volumes to be adjusted with a single slider (which is what everyone is complaining about), as the implementation of that is trivial.

Maybe that isn't what they've actually done though...maybe Google is keeping their synchronization stuff, but breaking the volume change since Sonos made the mistake of combining them in a single claim. That way Google can avoid violating that claim by not doing the volume part.
For me, automatic highlight all on mouse selection in an add-on, which Chrome doesn't have, has been the biggest reason I've preferred Firefox for years now. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/
I wonder when it will get forced on me.

Was having trouble meeting some aggressive deadlines, so keeping a session going with mostly reference manuals loaded was important. But Firefox kept badgering me about 95.0.2 and providing a dialog with only Download and Dismiss options. Looked at the site and saw 95.0.2 addresses frequent crashes on c/e/z-series Bobcat processors running Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 which has no relevance to me. Then my Windows 10 box Firefox stopped bothering with the Download/Dismiss dialog and started updating directly. Only Windows security allowed me to stop it.

It is great that Firefox developers are making progress and releasing fixes, but they should really try to make the updating process more friendly and allow people who do not have outdated processors and operating systems to get work done without being interrupted by irrelevant junk. This may seem small, but having the operating system and all major applications constantly demanding updates and restarts is getting really distracting.
Yesterday I was googling for “rub fingers genie magic”. I was looking whether it was a cup, kettle or a vase you “rub fingers” to invoke the magic genie.

But google would automatically change to “jenie” and bring up Amazon crap. I tried adding “alladin” and it changed query to bring up alibaba crap.

Google had no idea about the famous alladin and genie story.

Google not only misunderstood me, they thought I was an idiot for asking a non e-commerce query.

The top 5 results above the fold were all ads. It was truly frustrating. I called a friend to ask them that question and get an answer.
A VPS is another product by the same megacorps.

For example, if S3 is recoded, it’s hard to accept that the surveillance stops there, and is not extended to EC2s and indeed to digital services offered by any other company.
As civilization begins to crumble due to extreme weather, rising seas, and refugee migrations, one thing we can say is “well, at least we kept our flight slots”
Right; it depends on the circumstances. There are things you can do to a pig that make them unavailable for other uses, but I can say with some authority that there is medical research you can do on a pig that leaves it available. Also, the pigs the boy was working with hadn't been euthanized yet (avoiding euthanizing them was the point of finding someone to take them).
I still hope for Gemini to get bigger. At least in the hacker community, so I can stop having to visit the web often.
I think they're blaming capitalism for the moral failings of the capitalist companies who willingly submit to immoral demands.
We can't go far as a specie by denying that objective truth exists, and thus that in an argument there's, more often than not, someone who is less wrong.

We must aim to be collectively less wrong. But that won't happen without rightly self-righteous people fighting the bad ideas. Doesn't mean they have to lack compassion for the mistaken though.
As a heads up, all of the "Crime Watch" for Minnesota and Minneapolis are run by a verifiable racist. Please ensure you review that source with awareness of the bias that is implicitly in every update from them.

Source: https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/01/25/data-show-racial-bi...
Mafia fugitive arrested when spotted on Google Street View – the Inside story
> On macOS, command-clicking links in Gmail now opens them in a new tab as expected.

How is this Firefox's problem? Isn't Gmail just a website?
Would you be able to get along with this guy?

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-covi...
> He did more than that, as noted in the comment you replied to.

He really didn't. It matters nothing if you feel a commit breaks your code because you not only ignored the author but also failed to perform any sort of due diligence regarding what dependencies you ingest.

I mean, it was a major version bump. People blindly upgrade stuff without any regard about what goes in, and somehow that makes the guy who volunteered his work on a side project a villain?

There are a lot of red flags in this story, but the author of the colors flag ain't one of it.
Yunohn, you are the one who used the term "the science" which you consider controlled by corporate interests. Mellavora's anger at your comment is justified since at the very least you were directly accusing them of being complicit. You are weaseling out.

Pfizer, can be corrupt, and price gouge, and be the perpetrator of various other evils. That does not change the fact that the vaccine they are mass producing based on research done by BioNTech, is ammong the most effective and safest of the 20+ vaccines. And that all of the available vaccines are vastly safer than the disease.
From here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0a1/releasenotes/

I found this link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654112

Which contains this comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654112#c371

Which explains that the improvements came from upgrading their libwebrtc library to version 2H2020. I wasn't able to find release notes for libwebrtc itself.
Can't we just deploy the Smalltalk or Common Lisp code and not make changes to the live image? Then we can deploy Smalltalk/Common Lisp projects just like we deploy Python/Ruby prjoects. Can't we?
Well, we'd have to be talkin' 'bout one charmin' motherfuckin' pig.
in meatspace though, my real mailbox is mostly filled with spam that the sender paid to have delivered.
granted, it would at least act as a limiting factor.
And for the nerds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)#Worst_... (Knuth)

and
In November 2004, Michiel de Bondt proved that solving a Mastermind board is an NP-complete problem when played with n pegs per row and two colors, by showing how to represent any one-in-three 3SAT problem in it.
It's a nitpick. I'm glad someone is doing this.