skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as much as I should - my tool set for it is pretty limited. apachebench and some clever scripting for other things.

Generating the load is the difficult part for me. Things that speak HTTP/HTTPS are generally trivial, but some APIs are more difficult than others.

I'm trying to wrap my head around simulating many Docker clients hitting a registry that's acting as a pull-through cache. Ideally with varying sets of images/tags to truly exercise it.

I don't really mind visualization. Most of the metrics I care about are those I can observe with common utilities like strace, iostat, and vmstat.

I mainly just want to be able to put varying levels of heat on the thing
Carlin was a good comedian, and I'm sorry for spoiling the joke , but I don't think everyone who drives faster than me is a maniac and that everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot, and I don;t think most other drivers think that either. Rather, I think most drivers are going roughly the same speed as I am, the "speed of the road", and the problem drivers are the ones going MUCH faster or MUCH slower. But I think I encounter a disproportionate number of problem drivers, most drivers I pass are going conspicuously slow, most drivers that pass me are going conspicuously fast, I may never encounter a driver that is going the same speed as I am even if we're not very far apart, that's the way speed works.

A very similar thing can happen with internet conversations that are dominated by a few extremist loudmouths. I think I probably am more reasonable than most of the time, I think probably a lot of the people who don't comment are more reasonable also. Not because the "silent majority" agree with me, of course they don't. But I think the silent majority are a lot more moderate than the vocal minority.
I couldn't agree more.

On top of that, cloud tech can't be "set and forget" because of deprecation of apis and services.
Yes, but I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar if you actually sat these people down with a licensed clinician, you'd find a lot of mental illness. From what I've seen a lot of these people have some delusion, no matter how 'strong' or 'weak' that delusion is, that they've developed a 'relationship' with the creator, not realizing that almost no woman would ever seriously consider any of these men as a long-term... or frankly, even short-term... partner.

If there's one thing that evolutionary psychology has shown, it's that women's psychology for the mating market is not wired that way.
there's a guy on Twitter that runs sims of Australia's power usage that claims 5 hours of storage is enough for year round use of renewables so 10 hours could be a big deal
Generally by volume. One or two? Sure, you might be a really generous friend. Fifty? Probably a bit too generous - something fishy is going on. Of course, without a federal firearms registry, its difficult to quickly just flag people who are buying guns at an unusual rate.

As far as actually catching perpetrators? Again, without a database its usually down to undercover work and tips.

https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/crime-g...

https://giffords.org/lawcenter/state-laws/trafficking-straw-...

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/56-arrests-dozens-of-narco...
Some jobs seem to only want you around for your experience/expertise, like baby-sitting and preventing fires. You could theoretically make everything so stable that when something fails a secondary system kicks in, and all you do is to debug when that happens and make it even more stable. Just make sure you have an excuse to not work on site or they will keep you busy with meetings, admin, and reports. But one day there will be the the perfect storm and all systems on your 15 different full time jobs will go down. You could always call in sick that day, but then they would hire more ppl like you.
Immigrants are people you can hold legally accountable for fraud. Someone who catfishes their way into a remote-work job and is untouchable by domestic law, not so much.

There are some ethnic boundaries across which some employers are not willing to entrust remote work, and the response by the impacted demographic appears to be to double down on the fraud that led to the stereotypes to begin with.
It's a good point but worth noting that the Mullvad VPN (which, like porn, has a strong driver for privacy) recently got rid of susbscription payments altogther.

Their reasoning was that you can't handle recurring payments without holding a lot of personal data.

Perhaps porn sites that want to offer inter-species furry porn should bite the bullet and only accept one-off payments, just so they can make effective use of crypto.
Huh, never heard of that before.
It could be, but it’s not necessarily so. It’s safer to circumvent Mastercard regulation than government, for better and worse.
Because the credit companies are acting under the guise of the law. "I don't want to end business with you, but the law compels me to do this!" If you haven't broken the law, there's no way to appeal this decision they've made as they do not have a route for that.

That aside, the ability to pay a service is pretty much fundamental to its existence. Being able to at-will terminate any company you want, even ones that are provably innocent, with no way for them to so much as appeal against your decision is a worrying amount of power for a company to hold. I don't think that even the government can do something like that (at least not legally).
According to the article:

The leaked information includes the person’s full name, home address, date of birth, and date their permit was issued. The data also shows the type of permit issued, indicating if the permit holder is a member of law enforcement or a judge.

So that is "easy to draw conclusions".
I learned C on a C compiler for the c64.

https://archive.org/details/Super-C_1986_Abacus
Satoshi about porn: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671.msg13844#msg1384...
There are plenty of other industries which are just as high or higher chargeback risks and aren't forced through hoops. Gyms are a prime example. Food delivery has a high chargeback risk. Gift cards are a go-to for leveraging stolen debit/credit cards. You don't see the industry forcing regulations here, or forcing these industries to go through specific payment processors.

It also doesn't explain why porn actors routinely find their checking accounts closed out on them, or they get blacklisted entirely.

It has nothing to do with risk, and everything to do with Christian fundamentalists in the banking industry exploiting their positions in industries we need, to force their morals on others.
Yeah... I'm trying to work out how to fit it in, later this year. I have a 40hr cert that's expiring, later this year, but the stuff I'm really interested in doing requires the full 80hr WFR.

I hope that more of these courses can evolve into a hybrid online model, where you can use distance learning to spread some of the coursework out, ahead of time.
One I alway like to ask is if they press charges ;). (For those who never saw it, this is from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy)
Photopea.com was able to keep their hosting costs down to about $50/yr while still serving 7 million people[1]. Their website was hosted statically at a size of 1.8 megabytes. Yours is different of course because you scrape Wikipedia regularly, but there may be a cheaper solution than your current setup out there for you fyi

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i8j5te/i_made_a_free_...
Why do you think it is a forced position?
If they are shitty they’ve got the consequences.
In addition to being a great resource on mathematics and scientific computing in general, if you're working in the scientific python ecosystem, his blog (and assorted similar content on twitter/etc) is a must-read. There's often a lot of great scientific python content there too.
There is a belief that this was intentional. There were "threats" by CA DoJ to release this information a few years back "in the public interest".
> Carbon dioxide is easier to compress and store at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure compared to other gaseous storage vehicles, like hydrogen or air.
Sure but crypto is an order of magnitude more complicated to get going than using an existing cc. Most people don't already have a form of crypto payment at the ready when one hand is covered in lube and they just need to hit the "confirm subscription" button. I would need to do days of research before I could confidently buy porn with a cryptocurrency.
Higher pagespeed score does not mean faster. Even a fast website can get a poor pagespeed score. In News, a lot of the pagespeed score boils down to ad networks, TTLs on 3rd party content and, importantly, content shifts after initial paint.
There have been documented cases of that happening. One story I read, the employee only got found out because there was unusual VPN activity. Such as valid logins from (possibly?) Chinese IPs.
Why is purple color taking over the world?
I saw a clear trend in recent years. Almost every software is using purple color for its branding and main themes. While I'm not against the color itself, the sheep mentality of UI designers (if it was their decision), to blindly copy a single color, appears silly. Let me be honest - the color looks nice only when used for things in the foreground, and looks pretty ugly if you pour it all over a webpage or software.
This is irrelevant. OP didn't say "most" and the primary concern is that it makes gun owners potential targets, which is true.
Personally I think they should not be able to decide such things. A payment provider should be forced to accept all legitimate customers. It is absolutely unwanted for a private business (in an unrelated category no less) to be playing the role of legislator.

The problem is once a majority of payment providers (especially in this category where there's only really 2 major ones) starts blocking things, it becomes really difficult for fringe groups that are in fact perfectly legal. I understand that porn payments are a bit more risky but the providers can simply have a policy to deny chargebacks for this category and shift the risk to the customer. Similar to the way returns of sex toys are not accepted for hygiene reasons.

Recently there was a lot of news in the Netherlands about prostitutes not being able to open bank account because all banks refused them. Think of prostitution what you will but over there it's legal work and they pay their taxes. But not being able to get a bank account gets them into very difficult situations and pushes them to shady people (which was exactly what the legalisation was avoiding).

Also other platforms like fetlife have recently been forced to validate their users, leading to potentially serious consequences if this data ever becomes compromised. Many people there don't even show their face so the result is that they have to give a lot more personal info now than they would have wanted to.
What if I told you there were millions of gun owners out there that don't subscribe to any of the cliché things you listed in your comment? Gun owners aren't a monolith caricature like you imagine.
This of course runs into the problem that the government doesn't have a regulator for the Internet. The FCC could maybe be pressed into the role, but it's not entirely clear what mandate they could have over what is effectively a giant privately held network. The government doesn't run the root nodes nor any of the nodes between you and the porn. They do run large networks, but those are merely attached to the internet, not integral to it.

There is the other issue that people are rightfully concerned about the creation of morality police, as they have a long and sordid history of suppressing minority communities for reasons that aren't in the public good. Everyone agrees that child porn videos should be banned/prosecuted, but after that it gets down to where to draw the line and that's an endless source of conflict. Some people will claim that homosexual content is just as damaging as child exploitation while others will say that banning homosexual content is damaging to the community. They will not find a working compromise.
IMO a simpler alternative for anemic nuc's and older pc's. Love it's small footprint and how relatively hands-off it is.
It's no body else's business, especially the power hungry federal government, to know if I own a firearm. If you want to see what happens when you disarm citizens there are plenty of examples through history. You can look at Australia during covid and the camps they setup. The citizens could do nothing. The government should always be kept in check and having armed legal citizens is a wonderful thing for freedom.
I think it would behoove you to read this entire thread again. I'm not particularly interested in defending some kind of absolute prohibition against firearms from a constitutional perspective, because I know of no such argument.

Here are two points I've made, both of which I think are defensible:

* SCOTUS has repeatedly recognized that the Second Amendment does not reflect an absolute right to either own or employ guns however individuals would like. In particular, SCOTUS has recognized that both the states and the Federal Government have rightfully and reasonably regulated concealed firearms, and that there is no constitutional threat to such regulation as long as it does not constitute prohibition. The Federal precedent for such regulation goes back to 1897 and is not meaningfully adapted by either McDonald 2010 or Bruen 2022 (which both preserve "shall issue," like you've mentioned).

* There is a reasonable public interest in knowing who receives a CCW permit, one that is not impeded by the current "shall issue" standard. That public interest complements the current privacy standards under most states' FOIA/FOIL-style laws. You can see above and adjacent comment threads for why I think this is.
> it were a web framework, it would have been "obsoleted" half a dozen times over by now.

So a point for Bitcoin then?
Anonymity of the origin server is not at all a design goal of SSL/TLS: in fact, the whole point is to tie a web host to a particular identity. Originally it was supposed to be legal identity, but that is actually fairly useless, so now it's just a domain name.

For end-users TLS and Tor both provide privacy; since you don't need to identify yourself in order to use https. In fact, with ESNI and DoH the only thing anyone snooping wire traffic can see is that you're connecting to whatever data center is owned by the company hosting the website.

The sites in the original article are criminal enterprises, which means they have the unique problem of needing the origin server to remain anonymous so that their hosting provider can't find out what they are doing. This is the one thing Tor does that TLS doesn't; and they were deanonymized by them insisting on providing a self-signed cert anyway. However, this is a particularly unusual threat model that is far harder to maintain. Even the whole anticensorship thing is usually just hiding what sites you're visiting from, say, the Great Firewall - we don't care that China can also use Tor to learn where Google's servers are.
> That's fine if people helped her after work

Depending on the industry, it's definitely not fine.

I work in healthcare. If one of our employees was giving a foreign national access to our internal systems, that would be a Very Big Deal.
> Sure fees maybe higher, but at least a private company can't restrict what you can sell online while whitelisting some competitors.

Until exchanges turn around and do the same thing as Visa/Mastercard once they have enough market share...and they aren't subject to anywhere near as many regulations.
Nice. I only looked at the linear algebra parts (first 20 pages), but very impressed with the detailed solutions.
> Electronic voter machines didn't exist

It's not one of Carlin's, I think, but there's this old joke

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
the term 'deep web' refers to the subset of internet-connected information that is not widely published eg on search engines, where as the 'dark web' is specifically sites that hide their hosting information behind tor i2p etc

as unfair as it may be, a huge part of the usefulness of information is its accessibility, and these search engines currently hold a near-monopoly on which sites can generally be considered readily accessible, ie the 'surface web' above the deep web
What happens if the dome ruptures and suddenly releases all its CO2 into the surrounding air? Will it hang around long enough to be dangerous for people (or other living things which like to breathe). Given that they're cycling between gaseous and liquid states, there's presumably quite a bit of CO2 involved.
Somehow the MT32 version sounds better than the CD one. Altough, I guess that comes from the MT32 being aimed at professional use.
Capturing co2 from air is a waste of energy as long as there are chimneys discharging the stuff by the ton.
What you're saying clearly makes sense but Bitcoin isn't accepted almost anywhere which is what "new" means. Porn would be an early adopter for potentially mass consumption. It would be new to me certainly as I've never purchased a single thing with Bitcoin and that's almost certainly true for most people.
Ron Gilbert covers that in this blog post: https://www.grumpygamer.com/when_i_made_another_monkeyisland

> I have made one pixel art game in my entire career and that was Thimbleweed Park. Monkey Island 1 and 2 weren't pixel art games. They were games using state-of-the-art tech and art. ...
> it doesn't seem to be capturing depth axis vibrations

Good point, the paper mentions x-axis and y-axis, but doesn't mention z-axis. Maybe depth vibrations could be resolved as changes to the interference pattern?
"It's fascinating that Canada has such a reputation for being more progressive than their southern neighbors"

CANADA is....Quebec isn't. It's Canada's Florida, just with crappier weather, and more cheese curds.
I chuckled. 10/10.
A fly with human characteristics doubly so
It takes a trip to your nearest FFL willing to run a background check, and who will usually charge for it. And oops! Your next-door neighbor's name matched a different person who has a criminal record, and she now has to wait three days to transfer the gun. And oops again! She already got raped and beaten to death by her ex in the time it took for NICS to clear her.
Well, mapping between the databases. If DROS data is available, yet the individual doesn't have a CCW, what does the DROS info have? Given what I understand, if an individual has a CCW and the info exposed there, mapping to what firearms they own may be relatively straight forward. If they don't, then what info is available?
> more than twice that amount [10,000] died in one day on September 17, 1862.

In case anyone is curious, this refers to "the bloodiest day in all of American history" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam where it appears fewer than 8,000 people died.
Pick a room of your home growing up. Draw a picture of it, as best you can, from memory.

Go ask your siblings or parents if you're right.

Memory is a fluid thing.
Also isn't escaped methanol a worse greenhouse gas than CO2 (86x worse by a quick search).
Yes, if the only metric that motivates you is "will this get me more money/promotion", you will certainly look down your nose at people who help others succeed and create fictions like 'no one' in their right mind would do that. My experience has been that there are numerous (though clearly not the majority) people who look at the world differently.
There is something even more disturbing. I have a friend who caters to the LGBTQ community. She does parties, party busses, promotions with famous artists at clubs, etc. She once told me that many of the credit card processors wouldn’t do business with her. This was a decade ago. I don’t know if she still has the same issue.
I see the color blue everywhere, are there examples of sites with purple?
Only if we think "it's better than web development churn" is somehow a positive marker, and not a neutral one at best.
Revenge of the Earthworms
After you make a submission, you're taken to the the newest submissions, which implicitly encourages you to take a look at them.

Also, some people go to /ask or other lists to see specific types of posts, even if they didn't bubble up to the front page.
I have never understood that sentiment. If you define long term energy storage as being able to discharge at max power for a day or a week you are penalizing superior storage technologies for no reason. Let's say that you have two technologies that have the same cost per KWh, the same round-trip efficiencies, etc. Now let's assume one of them has a maximum discharge rate of C/100 so that at maximum power it lasts for 100 hours. Let's assume the other technology has a maximum discharge rate of 1C, so at maximum power it lasts for 1 hour. For the same price, you could have either a system that only works for long term storage or a system that would be considered "short term" storage even though it has the same capacity and the same price as the long term option. There may be some exceptions, but generally whenever you have short term storage you automatically have the option of long term storage as well by just discharging at a lower rate.
Isn’t this setup a giant BLEVE-bomb? Where will these be built? Shouldn’t they be buried rather than surface domes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor...
I think the only solution here is to dump a war chest of cash into the ecosystem.

One the reasons Java and C++ are incumbents is due to the network effects that made them what they are today. Oracle literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars convincing developers Java was the next big thing. C++ enjoyed platform support by being compatible with C and was embraced by big players with deep pockets.

Haskell doesn’t have a shot at becoming “a safe choice” in that regard. It's not an exclusive language to a desire-able platform, it doesn't have an organization with deep pockets to fund its development, it doesn't have a killer application.

But it is an oracle for the future of where programming is headed. Many languages are trying their best to steal ideas from Haskell/FP: immutable data structures, pattern matching, lambda functions, lack of null, constrained parametric polymorphism, etc; patterns from libraries like monads, streams, lenses, functors; all making their way into Java, C#, etc.

That being said I haven’t felt that the ecosystem is lacking core libraries for almost anything I’ve been working on. The IDE support is still lacking and profiling tools are there but lacking shiny DUX. Otherwise I can’t really complain.
I've definitely done it before. It used to be my primary way to stream music at work from my home server. This was likely a decade ago so I couldn't say exactly how it was set up (I've since switched to the, now seemingly abandoned, Subsonic) but knowing me SSH probably played a key part.
Yep. This is an established pattern and practice by California.

Here's a famous one:

> Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, Inc., for the 2009 fiscal year was publicly posted; the document included the names and addresses of hundreds of donors.

https://reason.com/2021/03/04/californias-requirement-that-n...

The law they were using to sabotage groups they didn't like finally got ruled unconsitutional.