skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"insert something really bad into a critical application"

Dear god. Please let me know that you need to have code reviews, unit tests, and a QA staff for "critical applications". An AI doesn't replace any of that.

I need to hear you say it.
Show HN: A Simple Load Testing CLI Built in Go
There are plenty of good tools for load testing such as JMeter, Minigun, and plenty more - but they all have their own set of options to learn.

I built this one to support a simpler workflow where you just paste your curl request (or other cli command) after your `spam` config (literally just `spam -r 2 -- curl www.google.com).

It's pretty barebones but I'm 100% going to use it in my day to day - figured I'd share it here if it helped anyone else!
Those kinds of hole-in-the-wall places in New Zealand are overwhelmingly more like to have a "no cash" policy.
> Title: Farm drainage

> The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land
with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles

> Author: Henry Flagg French

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F._French
https://www.parallax.com/propeller-2/ tons of improvements in terms of memory access etc, but pay attention to the "64 smart pins" section specifically. I use them to buffer out sub-microsecond waveforms 3ms at a time. I send it off to the smart pins then my cog is freed up for other things. I also previously used some for an HDMI GUI.
Having an effective warning system is not reliant on "every person buys their own sensors". And compared to many other threats, effective CO2 sensors are very cheap, so a community that knows it needs them can do things.
I mean, I get that HN covers a wide range of interests, and I love that.

But, let's be clear: this is a juvenile rant, at best. It's not an actual cafe. It doesn't propose anything actually workable. It shows no curiosity around the change of culture that occured, or what a change back would look like, just judgment. There's no commitment to building anything real. The writing is subpar.

Is that really "gratifying intellectual curiosity" in any way?
2FA in what context? App passwords, XOAUTH2, Kerberos pre-auth...? OTP or FIDO? You should be able to work with them anyway.
I'd say you can play with intervals around here...

https://github.com/jjwbruijn/OpenEPaperLink/blob/a2aea16de83...
Except everyone has a phone and carries it with them all the time. Someone gets a text or call from their kid during school hours, but has to leave to check it. Your spouse texts, but you're halfway through a scone, so you need to take your food on the road to find out whether they need something. It's just oppressive absolutism; eliminating a critical part of people's everyday lives (even for folks who would find respite in a break from screens) to the point of banning digital payments is not doing anything to create a safe space. It's creating an ideal, not a friendly place.
Do you feel that someone asking for “best cheapest cities” was unable to distinguish between “best per se“, whatever that means, and some friendly advice about where to spend the next few years? Is it your thought that they are attempting to establish a Platonic “best” definition, or just some tips?
Wouldn't it do just to hook it up to an online processor, as if a web page?
Web Accessibility Evaluation Guide
>what they need to do is change the test to test for the thing the student is expected to be able to do better than the AI

Do such expectations still exist? Are they expected to remain for very long?
I am a libertarian, and I feel as you do. If I had not given up my privacy rights so long ago, I probably would have been a privacy activist. Constitutional rights should apply to everyone in the country. Spying on overseas traffic is not ideal, but it's rooted in a "technical" interpretation of the Bill Of Rights. It's also a fact that every other government does the same (and worse).
I've seen posts of three asterisks around before, but never spoken to someone who uses them. May I ask what they're for please?

Edit: Also consider ruTorrent for a friendlier interface.
EV dedline dates will be pushed further into the future anyway (they're further enough already so that nobody will even remember them as a promise as the time approaches). "Gas guzzlers" are gonna stay with us for long after any currently bought new car is old enough to replace.
Thanks Simon, I can't believe I looked twice to make sure I wasn't calling it wrong, and still didn't see it.

That did, indeed, fix it!
Can you please point out where the post judges people for using screens? I see "don't use screens here", which isn't a judgment of people who use screens, it's just a rule.
Your statement, however, is very judgemental. Especially of a place you have never been and appear to have decided to never visit. For clarity, here's what I consider the harshest judgemental part you posted: "Can you imagine the conversations you'd find yourself in at this place, given this is how the "owner" sees the world?"

Finally, I'm pretty sure the original article is some sort of creative prose or story, given the rest of the cmart site. If so, then its appears to have illicited strong reactions, which may be a sort of success in itself.
i’ve been eagerly awaiting multi-line support for inline tables for what feels like forever
They only serve us on paper, in reality they end up serving the oligarchs in big business and powerful lobbyists and pressure groups. Some of those pressure groups being front organizations for radical feminists and evangelical Christians, having hidden agendas. Who are big proponents of censorship in the name of supposedly protecting our morals. This has been going on for decades, since the 1970s at least. Some of these organizations have even renamed themselves to hide their religious origins, operating under the name of preventing human trafficking and sexual abuse. There's even a name for it: "femi-servatives", a portmantau of feminism and conservatives. Yes, an unusual alliance.

Citation below, from a reliable source:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2013/11/21/rescuers-redeemers...

" The focus on sex trafficking, therefore, becomes yet another channel through which Christian institutions are able to carry out their sex-negative agenda, particularly by casting themselves as Rescuer, Redeemer, and even the familiar role of Western male hero saving the passive and helpless female. "

Another one below, less reliable though:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-exodus-cry-the-shady-ev...

Finally, it's disturbing in how the two-way (transmit/receive) nature of the Internet as a medium, has virtually let all these "morality police" organizations into our homes, to watch over us, through their lobbying efforts to change the law. That wasn't possible with radio and satellite television, which were receive only. Where you could watch or listen to anything you wanted and explore freely, without ever having to worry about the thought police breaking your door down, should you happen to stumble over something deemed "inappropriate" by them. The difference between that and the Internet is stark and highlights the sheer madness and insanity of what the Internet has made possible.

The Internet became like the telescreen in George Orwell's 1984 novel. You can never be sure if it's watching you or not.

In the past, this was the stuff of nightmares, but it's here for real now in the 21st Century, because of widespread Internet usage in society.

And your children are at risk from it, from sexting, from a teenage son coming across this material and viewing it, maybe even intentionally. Perhaps the risk of your children being prosecuted for breaking these laws is greater than the risk of them being physically abused by a pedophile?

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-sex-offender-registries-...

https://jlc.org/news/most-states-require-some-youth-be-sex-o...

https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/harms-placing-kids-sex-offen...

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/chi...
Training a model doesn't mean you understand what the neurons actually do to influence output. Nobody knows that. That's where the black box analogies come in. We know what goes in the box and what comes out. We don't know what the box is doing to the data
I have a medical condition that makes me sensitive to everyday noises. It started when a friend invited me to learn to shoot but was complacent about my hearing safety.

Lots of conditions have pain from sound but this is no ordinary condition. It is highly unstable and degenerative. Something is broken, the more broken it gets, the more easily it gets broken, and the longer it takes to heal, if at all.
Many of these patients are stuck indoors 24/7, with earmuffs and earplugs, afraid of even the slightest sounds. Even then, they still get a myriad of symptoms, different kinds of pain, autophany, visual snow, distortions. Most have tinnitus, myself included, and it can be very, very loud. One poor guy has 50 tones. Another woman hears it in her sleep.

All these people want to live but this condition is living torture and you end up living like a caged animal. We have no idea what causes it and there's little hope of improvement, given that it gets virtually no research money. No drugs exist which can mask the pain. Many of these patients end up going because they truly have no options, no hope, and living has become unendurable.

Thankfully my hole isn't so deep yet but I have decades of dental appointments and MRIs to endure. As long as I mostly stay home and avoid nearly all social interaction, I can probably hold out a long time before I get that bad. However, I also have mystery tendonitis and other pains that are getting worse so idk. My mast cell labs are all very abnormal so I'm thinking it's auto-inflammatory.

Mayo clinic is a waste of time I hear for stuff like this. I'm going to try the Metrodora institute, see if they can come up with something. Nervous that I may worsen from the flight and end up stuck there.
It doesn't exist (yet) but pair this https://www.amazon.com/Digi-1st-Counter-Digital-Mechanical/d... with a paper notification (behind plexi) and some green/red leds, and a raspberry pi and you could have a screen-less card reader.
close the feedback loop enough to get the dopamine rush each time:

- aim to either meet or exceed the previous workout, and consider that a success

- count reps so you can increase them 1 at a time until you're ready to increase weight

- for cardio, increase difficulty (incline/speed) until you're ready to increase distance

- set a longer term goal, too, like a body weight bench press or a 10 minute mile

- after doing this for a while, you might notice some differences in your appearance, which can be its own motivator
v3 or v4?
haha, this exact thing is my biggest gripe with toml

edit: just found https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/discussions/915#discussion..., super happy to be able to rest this out early
and classes are most of the time not needed anyway, it's just Java programmers that aren't used to the idea that code can be perfectly correct and readable without a single class
I like the idea a lot and would genuinely go to such a place. And I guess the judgemental tone is there because the idea is to specifically cater to the kind of people who feel sick of screens.

But I don't understand the position against accepting cards. And I guess I also kinda disagree on e-readers, although modern ones can be used to connect to the internet and stuff, I suppose.
Have you ever been to a live action theater and dinner thing? Like Tony and Tina’s wedding and the lion king - it’s corny as hell and meant to be consumed in small doses.
Gastrodiplomacy and Korea
You just have to hope that Apple doesn't do what it's already tried and allow its own apps to bypass the TCP/IP stack filtering and firewalling.

And then backpedal furiously and say that it was "a temporary measure while some apps were getting fixes and updates". Huh - not sure why TextEdit.app ever needed a kernel extension but maybe they're right, and it wasn't just a BS excuse.
The part of Redis that were Jepsen stressed, Redis-raft more recently, and Redis sentinel, for which the numerous flaws were pretty much summed at "as designed". No part of KeyDB has gone through a Jepsen style audit, all of which are untested bespoke algos.
hmm it comes down to $10/ month for me + 1-2$ in case of very intense searching
It's well hidden but the article correctly states that paying teachers more does not solve the problem. In a situation with housing scarcity, paying people more, lending them more, will only inflate prices further.

It's a supply problem, and if you think big costly cities will ever add so much supply as to make housing affordable to single income median wages, you're delusional.
> This research paper is talking about performance whilst you're talking about scalability. Those are related but are distinct from each other.

The paper has "Scale to Hundreds of Thousands of Cores" in the title. I have not yet read the paper but it seems unlikely it doesn't talk about scalability.
Was there ever something like a breakdown on exactly how that went down?
This is insane. Thanks for sharing this gem.
In general, for each major use case of file/message encryption (messaging, backup, transport, package signing, contracts, drive/filesystem encryption, &c), there is a cryptosystem that does the job better than PGP, in part by being built out of modern components and a modern understanding of cryptography†, and in part by being designed around the actual problem and not a lossy abstraction of the problem.

So it's frustrating to see PGP advocates talking about these things PGP does that Signal, or Tarsnap, or Minisign, or Certificate Transparency, or whatever don't do on their own. It's like telling a line cook that a Swiss Army Knife is a meaningful competitor to a chef's knife. Like: it doesn't matter, nobody's going to use a Swiss Army Knife on the line, it's not a threat or anything, but it's so obviously wrong.

† People tend to forget how underdeveloped our understanding of cryptography engineering was when PGP/GPG first came about; for a crash course, check out the IETF archives of Rogaway pleading with the IPSEC people to avoid chained CBC IVs.
I googled this - it looks like something I'd love to visit in a trip to London. But not somewhere I could see myself as a repeat customer if I lived nearby. Still, good for them for making it work. I hope the beer is good.
Mark Russinovich wrote about this back in 1996: https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/inside-difference...

I don't know if modern versions of Windows will still blue-screen when you attempted to make changes to the "ProductType" and "ProductSuite" REG_SZ values in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions" key. (I see some values under that key in Windows 10 that I don't remember seeing in older Windows versions, too.)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/

An excellent movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. It's a heartbreaking story.
People usually gain back that weight much quicker. All it could take is one bad month and you could gain it all back.
Never really understood the point of these? They started showing up maybe ten years ago, and I must have missed the introductory blog post on them with the rationale.

Guess I can see the utility of having a little stats/props table at the top of a project readme. But the in-line wrapped style and images from an external web service aspects never made sense to me. Why is that popular?
Getting a mag strip reader (MSR) isn't hard and a USB can be found for under $20.

So you read out the tracks and get the data.

You would need to input the amount. Keypad and 7 segment display should work there. While smart watches aren't ok, I suspect that the some electrical cash register is acceptable... and then...

Wait a moment, if they've got an electric cash register they've got the ability to have a MSR.

Anyways, let's assume that the 7 segment display for input of the amount is acceptable. If not... Nixie tubes?

Once the amount to charge is entered, and the card is swiped through the MSR, a receipt printer with the result is used (though they might have issues about that since thermal paper receipts often have BPA https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/bpa-and-bps-in-... )

Anyways, result of the transaction through whatever payment processor happens and is sent back to the pi (no screen) that then prints out the result.

Sending credit card number to a payment processor from a MSR is no more difficult than sending it to the same processor from hand entered (for example, online). You might have a higher fee rate, but it's not difficult.
Not the strongest business metric but it shows developers’ attention and a signal that people somehow care or want what is built.

The strongest metrics would be revenue, usage in production for large companies, big contributions that are themselves use for real life use cases.
can we please stop working on projecting shit into our eye balls and instead project shit onto thin air like a screen
> Wow, two posts about accounting at the very top of the front page! Must be a slow Sunday.

Or more people are feeling the cost of living squeeze and/or have been laid off and are trying to figure out their finances.
In NZ there are plenty of places that don’t accept cash. Kinda the same deal - they just have to inform you first.
It was the same in Germany when I visited about 10 years ago. Wonder if it's changed?
The iPhone's a pretty crappy apples:apples example, because a huge part of its functionality was outside Apple's control -- a usable cellular data plan.

And, from memory, only came about because Apple was Apple and could say "We don't care that you're AT&T. Create this plan for us or your customers won't be able to get an iPhone."
I was referring to scalability in the sense of the size of the data being stored.

You can have slow queries with 10GB of data just like you can have fast queries with 10PB of data.
"compared to a fixed ASIC" seems like a bit of a harsh comparison.

The ideal fixed ASIC is as die-facilities-efficient a solution to a particular problem as you're going to get. The ideal FPGA is as generalised a solution to a large bucket of problems as you can get. Do they have to compete?

Ease of programmability though, there I agree and more. A chip facility can't be exciting or even interesting if it's hidden behind being a giant pain in the backside to drive.

(disclaimer: I used to be really interested in this stuff, but the problems I was interested in were eaten up by general processors and simple uses of GPUs and I'm just not interesting enough to have problems that really justify exciting hardware any more... more power to you if you still do)
Heck, the package manager having to execute random code in every package (setup.py).

And speaking of beautiful and elegant, dunders everywhere, really?
I'd love to know about them because I've never heard of a place where you're told off if you use your phone.
What's to stop someone who carries a phone from turning it off before entering the cafe? You can read those texts later.
I have just started experimenting with hledger, and then beancount this week!

My ideal setup would be YNAB, I really liked that program but unfortunately their current price is too high for me. So my plan for now would be to use beancount as normal (possibly with a telegram bot for entry + imports every week or so, with deduplication), as beancount has good existing tooling and is more strict than (h)ledger, and writing a frontend for budgeting on top, as that is not strictly part of the ledger itself. So that frontend would just make a weekly balance of expense accounts, and each could be mapped to a budget.
That brings back a vague memory of watching a youtuber play it and at some point he was raging more at the commentary than the game because it was so pretentious(to his mind).

I bet that aspect to it was probably intended too, which I love
Where did this veer off into talk of medical intervention? I'm talking mental health.

>> "Let’s say"

Let's not. Keep this weird fantasy to your AO3 page and tag that shit so I can ignore it.
I know you guys think you're being clever pasting ChatGPT output into this website, but you're not. You're diminishing the quality of the website and the web at large. Please, please stop.
completely true but at that point you've been in the industry for a few years and already know how to code. hopefully you'll have spent some of that free time catching up on the social skill if you minmaxed on knowledge acquisition in university.

personally I completely understand the idea of a lone wolf coder. I'm self taught and started aggressively learning web development while working a dead end job. At some point I realized if I hung out with my coworkers and smoked weed/drank after hours with them like everyone else was doing, this is what Id be doing for the rest of my life. You're the average of the people you hang out with. if the average is hell bent on mediocrity and thats not what you want, isolation is just what you have to do till you are good enough to find a new crew.
>"1. The Intel Optimization Reference, under Section 3.5.1, advises:

'Favor single-micro-operation instructions.'

'Avoid using complex instructions (for example, enter, leave, or loop) that have more than 4 micro-ops and require multiple cycles to decode. Use sequences of simple instructions instead.'"

Do you know WHY exactly it says that? Please explain.

>2. By surface I meant literally silicon surface area. That and transistor count (and other aspects like fan-out and clock domains etc) are the major aspects you trade when engineering a CPU.

How is hardware transistor count, fan-out, and clock domains, etc. relative to adding to/changing the software microcode instructions for a CPU via a software microcode patch?

>If you need larger microcode ROM to store larger microprograms you also need more bits to address into the microcode ROM and that makes microcode programs even larger! All this consumes surface area and transistors that could be devoted to something else.

What CPU are we talking about?

>"Sure, if you could fit the binary search instruction microcode in the existing spare space of the microcode ROM"

This is what we are talking about.

>"you wouldn't have that problem"

No you wouldn't.

>"but you'd still be competing with other potential use cases of those alleged "microcode speedups". What about a UTF-8 string length instruction, would that be more important? Etc"

What are all of the "other potential use cases"?

How would adding an additional microcode instruction to a CPU that had room for it compete with all of the "other potential use cases"?

What exactly do you mean by "UTF-8 string length instruction"?

What exactly do you mean by "string length instruction"?

?
I think Sony was happy with PSVR sales. Everyone else burned money.

A headset which is half the weight, double the resolution and still cheap would sell well.
hey so we don't allow screens here, and we're going to ask you to leave.
hmm no thanks, im not going anywhere

county sheriffs office. yea hi, um, we have this guy, he wont leave our store, and um, yeah, he refuses to leave, and, we just need somebody to get him to leave. ok, what is your location? were at no screens cafe. ok we have someone on the way. okay, thank you
Better quality of life for the rest of the world looking into Arch Linux packages. The aggregate of this, will most probably be more involvement from more people as it brings the development to life on the Gitlab Web interface.
I've used waveapps for my consulting business and it works great
Their own summary is here: https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A

Paul Hibbert (a UK tech YouTuber) was also hacked in a similar way, and he dived into info on that here: https://youtu.be/0NdZrrzp7UE
I have to add, for complete clarity, my post that was removed complaining about the psot removed did notify me that they removed that post, the original post however, remains in the memory hole