skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are some effective ways to test cloud-native applications?
Testing has always help us identify problems and deliver high-quality products to users. But testing Cloud-Native applications is more complicated since the Cloud-Native applications are more dynamic, distributed and built on Microservice. Do you have any testing techniques for microservices and cloud native apps?
Really? Regular Russians deserve it? Since when Russophobia is fine?!
buy some I bonds from the US treasury at treasurydirect.gov. They are guaranteed to match inflation.
There are two active projects in research stages at the moment - without knowing internal politics, it's equally likely.
Do we actually need to know how it works, or do we just need to really deeply understand that common sense is not scientific evidence and everything we actually care about can't be predicted just by "Being smart and thinking about it"?

Actually being able to do stuff with Bayes law by hand is going to be not only hard to teach, but probably impossible to remember for those of us who don't actually do math in real life. People forget stuff after a few months or years.

I highly doubt the average person is interested in checking the math on a science paper, so if you want the general public to understand statistics you... have to show us all a reason to, and also teach us all of the related skills needed to make it useful. Or else.... we will all just forget, even with the best teacher in the world.

Most of us aren't doing random game engines as a hobby project or testing things on bacteria cultures.

Maybe they should teach it in context of how to understand a scientific paper, since that's one of the more relevant things for non-pros. If you just teach statistics alone people will say

"Ok, now I know that it's easy to lie to yourself if you don't use any numbers but I don't have collections of large numbers of data points in my life to actually analyze"
That's not what the paper linked to concludes. The study compared 5-year-olds who didn't wear masks to 6-year-olds who did. The conclusion was that age-dependent susceptibility statistically overwhelmed the impact of masks, so a conclusion about masks couldn't be drawn.

From the paper:

"The immunological innate host response in younger children that wanes as they get older,
alongside classroom dynamics, could explain the age-dependency gradient"
It doesn’t matter if you have money, it matters if you can pay.
Failing in one AZ probably means they changed something with DNS servers for that region. We had a similar issue recently when we rolled out a new DNS server that returned longer SOA records which broke python's mysql driver in only some regions during the rollout. Debugging nightmare fuel.
I am nowhere a supporter of attack on Ukraine, however when I open a reddit page I see 10s of posts in seemingly unrelated subreddits, probably organically upvoted by people angry at Russia and with sympathy towards Ukraine which highlights the brave fight of the small nation. However the skeptic in me feels that a lot of this information is also being orchestrated to the top behind the scenes, which in this case makes the West not too different than Russia.
In other words the government reads and records everything you do online.
What Google search isn’t showing you
That is a legitimate question that people have very seriously studied. What do you think could go wrong, exactly?

We have accidentally caused thousands of species to go extinct. We might as well make a deadly, replaceable species go extinct on purpose.
"The First Circle" by Solzhenitzyn is a great read. The caricature of Stalin in that book is absurd, I am not talking about that.

There is a historical character Abakumov [1], and in one of his reflections, (from my memory) he rues the fact that he was inducted into the inner circle of Stalin. One moment of displeasure, and he could be gone. And there is no way out of the inner circle other than perhaps, death.

A truly frightening, strangling, situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Abakumov
Solzhenitsyn on Russian Reconstruction (1990)
Not an apologist by any means and all that makes sense. I've found it easy and not-a-problem to bump those versions in the config file and made gcc 11.2.0 compilers with everything up-to-date this way quite recently.

There's also this fork of MCM that's a fair amount more active, as it backs musl.cc. I probably should have mentioned it

https://git.zv.io/toolchains/musl-cross-make

Regardless, your argument that a distro taking care of something for you is exactly what they're there for. Makes sense to me.

Mostly surfacing that there's multiple ways to handle that sort of thing. I find cross compiling simplest with these and version bumping wasn't a big deal at all compared to the complexities of other ways of cross compiling.
What I'm referring to is non-trivial function definitions.

Things with optional parameters that can accept a wide variety of types, async callbacks and async variadic return types.

The hoops you need to jump through to make the compiler happy are absurd.
Sometimes being seen as deeply knowledgeable will do nothing but create endless unpaid work for you. It is often the case that this work comes from people who don't know and don't want to know whatever it is you're good at.

Surely everyone here can relate with the classic "computer guy" everyone takes advantage of. It turns out this exact same thing can happen in actual technology companies. All you have to do to become "that guy" is have knowledge about some vital technology that people don't actually want to care about. People will happily send anything related to it directly your way, increasing your workload and responsibilities with zero additional compensation.

It seems databases are to many professionals what computers are to laymen. They depend on this technology but they don't fully understand how it works or how to fix problems. They still want to define the database schema and make other key decisions. If there's any problem, they don't want the responsibility, they want to be able to offload it to some "database guy". Who wants to be that guy?
The express lanes on 580 do this too, but with one, two, or three lights, instead of a numeral.
>I'm guessing that spying on that non-encrypted traffic would take about $50 and an afternoon of setup, and would not require any special skills.

I could see it even becoming a feature in consumer grade network equipment. A bit like HDCP circumvention in video capture boxes or region free playback in optical media players. All you'll have to do is shop around.
Sure, well do we need to do business with countries that don't respect international borders and regularly commit war crimes? You're blaming the USA and the west on the invasion of the Ukraine and Russia trying to genocide the Ukrainian people.
Joe Sixpack. Gonna use this one
Great article; but I think we already live in a version of the reality he is describing. The currency is attention and the government is the large tech companies ;)

Even in his nightmares he is still "waving his phone" to conduct these transactions. What do we think we are doing today with our phones ?
You've just changed the cost of doing so from near costless (a DB update) to very expensive to do at scale. (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner care and feeding, potential violence and injury, paying staff to find targets, manually, etc) That alone is worth a lot.
You could allocate a single novel struct containing
the structure of interest and any number of list elements that will contain it in a single malloc().

If the lists don’t need to know about each other, each novel struct could be different.

This would work, but it’s a bit exotic, so I’m not recommending it. But it addresses the locality and multiple allocation issues.
Hijacking this with a related question: I’m an independent contractor, and have not yet renegotiated my prices. I just hate those kinds of conversations, but at some point, it is irresponsible to procrastinate. I’d be interested in hearing from other contractors: how have you approached this?
The big difference is that at a Japanese covenience store i can safely assume i am not going to get food poisioning from a sandwich. Be wary of tightly-wrapped sandwiches at US convenience stores. I imagine tthe "gas station sushi" warning doesnt translate easily. Im sure that the stations in japan serve great sushi.
Yes. I had an old cellphone account that kept getting charged after my credit card expired. Had to go in person to cancel, as I have long since forgotten my online account password.
Are they ill-tempered?
It seems that the C reimplementation is becoming a preferred approach for C FFI in recent languages---at least ones that can afford the cost. Not just D's ImportC but there are other examples like Python cffi. C++ FFI is another story though.
I am sort of running out of steam keeping this up here.

I was honestly keeping an open mind to hearing some convincing evidence or even some mainstream reporting sources that this wasn’t a poorly put together private mercenary action.
Node, Ruby, and Python come to mind. Oddly enough the alpine versions of haproxy and nginx on Docker hub had issues too.
I'm specifically referring to an extra 30% of LOC that does nothing other than type abstraction and provides no functional value.

30% is a conservative number.
It's not.

> AFAIK, there is currently only 1 non-Apple branded "Retina" (~218 PPI) desktop display on the market.

> Ask HN: Why aren’t there more third party retina screens?

That's what I was responding to. Great job.
Work for a defense company. There's a lot of hardcore engineering there.
they don't, but Trulia/zillow/etc are getting it somehow, and there's clearly a database on the backend, so
The census should be done by overhead satellite images using statistical approaches. It doesn’t matter precisely how many people there are, because that is changing every day.
You start with:

> I don’t really get the author’s argument. A lot of it seems very “slippery slope” to me.

Ok, so what? There is a reason people use that analogy. It is a real thing that happens. You go on to describe it in action yourself:

> The more extreme authoritarian uses cases like financial “imprisonment” are certainly bad, but similarly can already basically be done.

This is nihilism in its worst form. No one is saying they are breaking virgin ground here. Cash is one of the last bastions of financial privacy. One can spend it without a name being attached. That is valuable for many legitimate things. A CBDC eliminates that completely and we slide yet closer to authoritarianism.

Why build a tool no one needs and can be used for oppression?
'I fell in love with my AI girlfriend – and it saved my marriage'
I was part of Techstars some years ago and had some chats lined up cloud architects from Azure, AWS and IBM. Azure and AWS guys were super nice, we talked architecture, cloud benefits, possible use cases, offering free credits etc.

Then the IBM discussion came up and within' 2 minutes, I was already getting pitched to buy stuff vaguely related to what we were doing. Also some offering of stuff that made no sense whatsoever for us, and yearly packages, and free credits if I do this or that or pre-sign for this; maybe the worst discussion I had in 3 months over there.
They're effectively giving you a pay-cut.
I don't think Japanese convenience store sandwiches are that much better than those from Spar, Mace, Tesco, Boots etc in the UK and Ireland, so I have to wonder how bad things are back home for the presumably American intended audience when all these kinds of articles invariably start with something about how shocking it is to even contemplate eating 7-11 food.

(Also a bit out of date, the tax is now 10% and must be included in the price printed on the product or shelf.)
"Mars was empty before we came."

Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
China and Russia can't exist (gaslighting all their citizenry) without a closed internet.
What's the real figure? What does Shadowstats say?

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
World’s smallest fiddle. All the cyber talent is going to industry already because the popular mythology says government employees are shit and shouldn’t make a dollar. I’ll bet there are some politicians (and voters) who would go so far as to say government employees should pay the government for the privilege of working.

Meanwhile, the high risk basic R&D spend that underpins many US businesses (including most grad student salaries and research grants) is from the US Government. Every time one of those fails (Solyndra) the press points it out as a failure of government. Every time it succeeds (SpaceX) it’s attributed to the scrappy entrepreneur and the government subsidy be damned.

The risk is socialized onto the taxpayer and the gains are privatized to the very rich. Look at the iPhone: internet (DARPA), cellular (developed to Army requirements based on Vietnam radio problems), GPS (DoD), multitouch (University of Delaware on an NSF grant). How about the Sand Hill boys spend some of that money on security instead of inflating Atherton real estate prices and laundering money through modern art auctions?
Ah don't be it's not your fault.
> In this the flour and water are mixed together, and then cooked which causes the starch in the dough to change structure and become more chewy and gelatinous.

> They also usually cut the crusts off for you which, technically makes the sandwich less healthy,

I'm confused by this section. They seem to be describing how most bread is made and I'm unsure how crust is healthier ...
How do you know how much equity new hires are given?
I don’t understand why folks don’t just point out any back doors in these services will be abused or hacked eventually. Do our leaders want their own personal correspondence—-to their big donors, bankers, brokers, interns, mistresses, drug dealers, coup instigators—-available to the FBI or the media too?
> But what are the things the app can do that the web cannot?

As a subscriber to many Substack newsletters with different publishing schedules, I've found it to be a bit tedious and distracting to have my email inbox be inundated with new posts. I'd rather go to a reader app that has all the newsletters I've subscribed to in one place for when I have the time and the interest to spend a couple of hours reading. I'd like for the app to just send me a reminder once a week with who published what so that I can decide if I want to go to the reader app and peruse at my leisure.

As a writer on Substack I've found that readers like to reply directly to the emails they receive instead of leaving a comment on the web version so that others could see it and perhaps react/interact with it. If the app could help harness a community for the writers by making it more comfortable for readers to like and leave comments, then that would be beneficial in building a brand. Additionally, if the app has a mechanism to recommend Substack newsletters that are similar to the one a particular reader is reading then that would help expand the reach/discoverability of lesser known writers.
I've been using Fastmail for my side business for a year now and am happy with it. Pretty straightforward to set up with your own domain. Trivial to set up a number of aliases for a single inbox.
Just from economics point of view, it's a really bad idea to monopolize banking completely. There's a reason why central banks / money issuing should be separate from governments, although this principle has been eroding for a while. Typically the most oppressive and authoritarian governments also have more control over their central bank, which gives them the power to fund themselves while keeping people poor through inflation. Thank god for Bitcoin, for letting people to escape this financial tyranny.
I think you've answered your own question: your discomfort in moving jobs is not worth to you the bump in salary you'd get.

It's already been well established by many even in non inflationary times that dev salary is maximized by switching job every 2-5 years or so, subspecialty dependent.
Surge is an awesome open source synthesizer that is getting updated all the time: https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge

LMMS is a digital audio workstation, not a synth. If you're looking for another FOSS DAW there is Ardour.
Wrote to Dianne Feinstein of CA about being against Earn-IT act and got a letter back about how Earn IT act would prevent child sexual abuse material online. Sigh.

As disappointed as I was in the response, I'm glad that EFF makes it really easy to reach out to reps. Took me less than a minute to send out my stance against the Earn IT act to my representatives https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-....
musl-1.2.1.tar.gz (sig) - August 4, 2020

This release features the new "mallocng" malloc implementation, replacing musl's original dlmalloc-like allocator that suffered from fundamental design problems.

https://inbox.vuxu.org/musl/20200518194204.GG21576@brightrai...
Pretty good writeup from the author

https://musl.libc.org/releases.html
Rest of the detail in the actual changelog is worth reviewing too
> The official line is that inflation is not a factor in assessing annual comp adjustments.

Then what is?

Engineer comp has exploded the last few years, well past inflation. So if they're not matching inflation, and they're not matching the market (which would be even higher) then it sounds like they just pay you whatever they feel like and hope you stick around.
I agree. Just saying that it's not that oligarchs will just get their goods from china and nothing will change for them. Whether that's going to have any impact whatsoever is another story.
In a short story, isn’t the last sentence just as important? For example, it is the last sentences of The Last Question by Asimov and The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke that make the stories. I’ll always remember the last sentences, I have no idea what the first sentences are (despite rereading both recently).
Gundam is going “metaverse” with $130M budget
One obvious answer is revenue. Getting money in is a real struggle for extremists, who tend to get banned from traditional platforms. Think of it as like paying membership dues.
interview elsewhere and offer your employer the opportunity to match.

if you have to rebuild your network to be effective at a new firm, anyone they bring in (at a higher rate) will have to do the same
What company are you at?

Amazon is increasing pay for many technical jobs, although specifics haven’t been communicated. They’re selling it as a large bump for everyone, although I already understand it’s mainly to retain talent or at least match inflation. We’ve underpaid our talent in the past compared to competitor companies.
It's time for a new approach to saving daylight
"Consumer electronics used to break down all the time 50 years ago"

Citation required
Does Rust apply aliasing optimisations now? Last I heard of that, they kept having to turn it back off because of LLVM bugs concerning aliasing.
At this point, they don’t care. Plenty of politicians have had criminal investigations and have had zero consequences. Hell, one man won a reelection while he was in jail. Matt Gaetz is still walking around free even.
Some things I’ve learned about memory
> New hires are getting 50% more equity than the total value of my unvested equity. The official line is that inflation is not a factor in assessing annual comp adjustments.

Leave. They either only want you at a discount or you will get a counter offer to consider.
Farmers are a resourceful bunch. Most I've met can fix just about anything.
The government does put Bluetooth trackers all over the place. Cities like to use them for monitoring traffic flows and patterns. But I would not be surprised to find out they do more than just that with the data. Or I would not be surprised if the vendor who makes the hardware also collects and sells that data on top of the tax money they get.
> In my case, the audio devices menu on Mac/iOS displays nearby AirPlay targets, including those not on the LAN. My neighbors got their misconfigured so it always pollutes my menus with no way to disable this even though I never use AirPlay and don't have any compatible hardware (nor intend to get any). Every time there's a risk of misclicking and accidentally broadcasting a meeting's audio or (if they have auth enabled) annoying the neighbor by waking up their Apple TV (or taking over whatever they've been watching)

"Accidentally" broadcasting a few times is probably all you need to do to get them to fix their stuff... They probably don't even know.
any resources for that just like this post? I am going to google as well, but wanted something if people already had on the top of their head
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller."
On what occasion have any of these new cyberattacking boogeymen-on-steroids done anything to anyone?

I'm going to continue to worry about criminal fraud and my own government, rather than ghosts with foreign names.
British people love their grocery store sandwiches, but the reality of them is deeply disappointing - even the M&S ones are bland and thin, vastly inferior to what you could get from any deli counter in America.

These sandwiches in contrast look a lot more interesting. This is a fun take on travel writing too, exploring simple daily stuff.
This micro-behavior is what accelerates inflation. Will be interesting what the next few years bring.
There have been numerous cases of food poisoning from Japanese conbini food
I have said this before: this is a losing battle for individuals striving to protect the freedom, if we just try to do it individually. People bringing this get paid to do this during office time (and maybe after office time too by lobbyists) so they will keep at this; my protests require me to do it by taking time out of the limited time I have left after office.

Fight fire with fire, fund EFF so that we have our own well stocked army. To be clear, I'm not trivialising or belittling the impact of individual effort, just that it takes too much to be sustainable. And yes, individual and organized efforts are not mutually exclusive.
i had a baby just as the pandemic hit and my wfh productivity went down the drain. they just gave me a 9% raise… thanks inflation…
Tangzhong is when the flour and water are heated together to make a starchy paste which then gets added to the dough. Keeps the bread softer and more hydrated than it would otherwise
I get egg salad sandwiches at gas stations pretty often.

My friends are appalled, but nothing is wrong with the sandwich.

Certain types of jobs I've worked (construction, lawn care), the guys make heavy use of gas station meal options (hot dogs especially).
Not sure if it helps, but here are my stats as a FAANG senior IC. I received an "exceeds" perf rating, a 6% salary increase and one salary worth of RSUs (vests over 4 years). Others I've asked got a 3% raise (with a worse rating).
(alas the path of the tootbird is a lonely one)
> I've been told by well more than a dozen former co-workers that they're afraid to say anything or let anyone at work find out about their political opinions because they're afraid of getting fired

In fairness, there are multiple explanations that don’t involve this being objectively true, while also being how these people perceive their situation.
> They also usually cut the crusts off for you which, technically makes the sandwich less healthy

why?

Its just made of the same stuff as the rest of the bread...
If you want to hear an oud in “modern” music: Out of Time by Blur.

It’s a 20 year old song at this point.
Staff level. Got 3.8%. Seriously considering leaving. There has been super high turnover of other senior leaders and friends.

Could literally double my total comp if I spent some time doing leetcode. Probably 20% raise without leetcode.

Have some silver (bronze?) handcuffs or would probably be gone already.