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Show HN: AutoBalter, automated load-testing and fuzzing with just an API spec
Hi everyone!

I'm excited to announce the Beta launch of AutoBalter, which is an automated load-testing, fuzzing and integration testing solution. Taking an OpenAPI specification, AutoBalter will simulate requests to measure performance information and display these in an easy-to-use dashboard.

Additionally, these simulated requests are done such that AutoBalter learns more about how your APIs are structured and the constraints they have. Using both exhaustive tree-search and AI, AutoBalter will find requests which test the edge-cases of your system (and these can then be added as regression tests with one click).

Essentially, you provide an OpenAPI specification, we provide load testing, fuzz testing, integration testing and regression testing -- all automatically.

Would love to hear any feedback you have on the product or the idea!

Website: https://www.balterloadtesting.com/autobalter/ Demo: https://www.balterloadtesting.com/demo-index.html
The article's safety information doesn't mention the possibility of intense UV. Is that a risk with any of these chemicals?

I thought of this because the list includes magnesium sulfate. IIRC, burning magnesium tape generates enough UV that you should have eye protection.
50m is the upper echelons of private chaffeur money, 250m is the lower echelons of private jet money.
I once had a hospital try to balance bill me, which is and was illegal. They explained it to me and I asked why I should be accountable for the difference between a number they made up and a number the insurance company made up? Especially when these are deliberately inflated for negotiating. They dismissed the bill entirely.
I tend to be a bit skeptical of Catholic bishops' opinion on scientific issues.
They used to have an option to show cached page so they think this is a useful feature in their search product. It's clearly a feature in their product that they are benefiniting from. Maybe the Internet Archive should block google.com referrer?

The Internet Archive's mission is to provide access but it's not to enhance some for-profit's company products for free (when they have a cost to serve the content).
I agree on principle, but I feel the next name will also be turned into another British slang term for sex offenders, if only because some lad will find it funny and become determined to see it through.

We are, after all, talking about the country that terrorized an Austrian town into changing its name after decades of sign theft and jokes [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria
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> If Putin wanted to recreate Imperial Russia, or the Soviet Union, then why would he negotiate for peace?

To distract western military support.

To distract offensive\defensive ukrainian plans.

To construct a peaceful narrative at home or the war mongering west.

To strengthen or pet allies, who mediate.

To gain intelligence about the willingness of territorial sacrifice.

Would Putin ever publicly admit his grand soviet plan? If no, then how would he behave instead? Consider georgia, chechenia, belarus, etc.
People love the very notion of an app. Computers went from something every user was expected to program to some extent to that brittle black box because users didn't want to program, they just want the benefits of software spoonfed to them. "We" evaluated the world where the computer was beholden to the non-programmer users ("our AS/400 administrator is some guy from supply chain, I put his data in an Access database for our team to process"), and then Apple made a gazillion dollars with "apps" because your average user thinks that shit is for dorks and a waste of their time. You would be floored at how many young people don't even own a computer beyond their phone because they see so little benefit to something they have control over. It is very much a values issue in the population at large.
Doesn't excuse the lazy headline writing. If we're talking about a serious public health matter, the press shouldn't shift the cognitive load to their readers ffs.
A nice hot toddy is the best part about being sick.
Check out home-assistant.io
A) they did have that program eventually

B) money doesn’t magically turn into materials and finished goods. Someone had to make masks to distribute and they had to get their raw materials from somewhere right when the supply chain was disrupted.
What your critique does not address is the hardware aspect of the pi. GPIO pins engage many people who are interested in seeing tangible results of programming.
Black Hole Flyby: David Kaiser on the mystery of dark matter
How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi
Data… guesstimates.
Depends on your own level of background knowledge vs. the author's.
Back in the day me and a couple of friends got very excited to chase the prize in Netflix's contest [1]. Took us a minute to realize it was a brilliant move on the company's part -- all they had to do was dangle a carrot, and they had teams of PhDs and budding data scientists hacking away endless hours in hope to win. A real bargain, had they tried to hire with that budget, they would've maybe got a handful of people for a year.

1: https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/220100498/researche...
Weights are now up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657743 (I couldn't delete or edit the link on this post)
Yeah but to reach that point you will probably need those "useless AI detectors" (as stated by the comment I was replying to).
That was my point - we're not there yet therefore those tools can be useful.
I honestly cannot tell if your speaking for or against my first hand account, or the vehement denier :/
> OpenAI announced that they had started on an AI text detector and then gave up as the problem appears to be unsolvable.

Making a reliable LLM also appears to be unsolvable, but we still work at it and still use the current wonky iterations. My comment is even if there is no perfect AI detectors, a lot of these tools are good enough for a "first pass"--coincidentally the same use case many effective LLM practitioners use LLMs for.
But putting myself in Elon’s shoes he’s been talking non stop about how great Optimus and robotaxis are going to be, and that Tesla’s valuation is about to moon, why not just start a new pay package with new price targets if Tesla is on the presipice of printing money?
Interviews with leaders in the local-first software movement
Fear and hardship for the last community inside Chitwan, Nepal's tiger central
Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on the planet
For my impatience I think :)
Three of these appear to unsubstantiated claims from Keynan power grabs that well documented vaccines are causing sterilization.

The vaccine mentioned in the first link is now massively widespread and attributed to saving 10,000,000 lives over the past decade
It's literally a ROM. You can't overwrite a ROM. There's no flash or EEPROM on the chip at all.
The headline (and its subheadline) is a fair and effective summary of the article. The rest of the article exists for anyone wanting the rest of the details. You only have to go to the first paragraph to hear about other types of masks, and the actual study is linked if you want to get really into the weeds.
That may be true, but it is also true of early employees who stick it out for similar amounts of time and get nothing. $1-2 million may be the total amount they would get after a billion dollar exit.
Wait so you are saying Hell on Earth would be good for business?
I didn't even realize they did that, interesting. Sadly, two years late and not even nearly enough if it was on time.

Kinda telling and depressing that everyone was ordering random knockoffs of varying quality from overseas, because we couldn't seem to produce enough domestically.
I just mean it seems AI are fairly good at sifting through and summarizing information, so it may be that the same AI that generate all this slop may also be able to be used to sift through all the slop to pick out only what we need and is relevant.
This is not a real risk you're talking about, but small inconveniences. A risk is losing your house for example, or losing the ability to rent.

Inconveniences are part of life anyway. Being the first engineer means you get all these inconveniences (tell your wife and your kids) plus real risks as above (taking a loan to buy the options and losing it)
For many ordinary citizens its just panic when asked to perform something not within the usual cultural norms.
In japan this is normal behaviour, whenever you feel under the weather.

Then there were obvious propaganda lies surrounding masks. One was that soldiers wear them- and i was a soldier, with a abc-mask and we "trained" marching with them and unscrewed them to get some air.
Then some other world-unaware office worker suggested using them in freezers and cooled environments- which basically boils down to waterboarding yourself with condensing air-moisture.
Good idea, pushed by panicy people into bad policy, communicated badly, resulting in massive resistance.
You can incrementally read or write the value in a BLOB column of a row. You can read/write etc using a file descriptor like API: https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/blob_open.html
If you are accused of using AI, is proving you different really a defense? It changes the trespass from making something using AI to making something that looks like AI was used, but with the extent that some subcultures are against the use of AI, just appearing to have used it even with proof you didn't isn't going to be accepted.

So much of the discussion focuses on the creators of works, but what about the changes in consumers, who seem to be splitting between those who don't mind AI and those who want to oppose anything involving AI (including merely looking like AI). Is there enough consumers in the group that opposes AI but is okay with AI looking content as long as it is proven not to be AI?

"AI looking content" would be decided on an individual by individual basis, with some percentage using AI detection software in their decision making process, with that software being varying degrees of snake oil.
What I mean is, do the various enterprises cluster around the same versions? If roughly half of them skip odd versions and the other half skip even versions, and they do this fairly consistently, it doesn't affect revenue patterns.
Seems odd to me to promote the idea that in a highly competitive capitalist environment, investors should dilute their own shares to be… Nice? Musk would fight this tooth and nail if it was someone else’s pay package.
IIRC Covid is airborne so it doesn't need to travel on droplets.

But feel free to double-check that one. Everything surrounding Covid is so tied to politics and identity, it's easy to get things mixed up between actual studies that have actually demonstrated a thing and people just spouting off whatever just came out of their assholes.

In other words, I believe I read an article on how we know now that Covid doesn't need droplets to transmit, but it honestly could have just been someone saying that there was an article claiming that and I've just conflated being told there's an article with actually reading the thing.
I'm baffled that this is your take. I'm relieved to see some positive evidence, since the Cochrane reviews on the topic keep concluding "little to no benefit" for either surgical masks or N95s.
If you read anything about this man, you come away feeling like this man was a giant.

His 1980's Voyager news conferences on are YouTube. They are astounding to watch, in an of themselves, and also to observe the skill in which Stone presents the findings.
Yeah, in 2006 Netflix offered $1M in a similar scheme. At least back then that sum meant something.
It's amazing how much money people invest in the idea that the future will be much, much worse than the present.
ah right bro. forgot that on that part of the world, half of that people change their name when they're getting married. thanks for the answer.
Maybe I should, so that I could abuse from the employees and then explain how I deserve to get rich if MY startup succeeds but my employees don't (because it is MY startup, you see? I don't need them).
Or just have an LLM generate it in a separate window and type it in yourself. No special tech required.
Accumulating capital becomes easier as you gain more capital, which is exactly why we need to abolish stock option pay packages and tax these people. Film at 11.
N95s were in short supply for quite a while, and a result from this work is that cloth masks outperformed surgical and KN95s. People made pretty good cloth masks, so unless real N95s were distributed, distributing masks could have been a wash I think.

I’m not surprised that cloth beat surgical, but beating KN95 is kind of a shock. Of course, I’m sure there was quite a bit of variance in cloth mask quality. I wonder if anyone has done specifically a study on the home made cloth masks.
Startup founders often take salaries too
Gleam's type system is (IIUC) basically h-m bolted onto the beam. elixir's is its own
Every time I see people online reduce the human thinking process to just production of a perceptible output, I start questioning myself, whether somehow I am the only human on this planet capable of thinking and everyone else is just pretending. That can't be right. It doesn't add up.

The answer is that both humans and the model are capable of reasoning, but the model is more restricted in the reasoning that it can perform since it must conform to the dataset. This means the model is not allowed to invest tokens that do not immediately represent an answer but have to be derived on the way to the answer. Since these thinking tokens are not part of the dataset, the reasoning that the LLM can perform is constrained to the parts of the model that are not subject to the straight jacket of training loss. Therefore most of the reasoning occurs in-between the first and last layers and ends with the last layer, at which point the produced token must cross the training loss barrier. Tokens that invest into the future but are not in the dataset get rejected and thereby limit the ability of the LLM to reason.
https://archive.ph/QQxPE
But how do you know we’re not there yet? Not across the board, but isn’t it possible there’s a small yet growing portion of written content online that’s AI generated with no obvious tells?
In the general internet the reputation of AI writing is that it's writing that's bad/awkward in a way that is often identifiable (by humans) as not having been written by humans.

AI detectors are useless, you're right, but for the same reason AI is unreliable in other contexts, not because AI writing is reliably passable.
Raivo OTP (written by security researcher Tijme Gommers, who really should know better, or just didn't care) got sold to Mobime (some guy in Morocco as far as I can tell).
How can they be one way?
Literally using the internet to tell people how they don't trust DARPA.

Interesting.
Stupid startup killing idea: an open-source script that runs LLM in the background and streams its output as input events, so the idiotic keylogger thinks it's all written by hand.

Just writing this down here instantly invalidates the premise.

An overkill variant to rub salt in the wounds of duped investors: make the script control a finger bot on an X/Y harness, so it literally presses the physical keys of a physical keyboard according to LLM output.

Bonus points for making a Kickstarter out of it and getting some YouTubers to talk about it (even as a joke) - then sitting back to watch as some factories in China go brrrr, and dropshippers flood the market with your "solution" before your fundraising campaign even ends.
Problem is probably that the masks are supposed to be single-use when used as protection and you're meant to replace them even when moving between different places. You're also not meant to wear them for extended periods of time because they supposedly get less effective when they get wet from the moisture of the air you exhale. They also aren't washable so you would need to dispose of them after use.
Having worked with sqlite in an enterprise production environment for vehicles many years ago, it's gotten much better over the years. It's also gotten a performance boost as everyone now uses SSD's. See Faq for details where they still mention rotational speeds and inserts etc.

With WAL mode Sqlite is much much better, in the past we had all kinds of problems with trying to read/write at the same time. At that point in time every table was a separate database as a workaround.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005206/does-sqlite-lock...

https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q19
A bit late to the thread but it is still on the front page. I've got some esp32 risc-v eval boards I've meant to mess with, but I'm nervous about their availability due to political instability and also while the rust support seems pretty great, I don't really know what is going on down in the hal and whatnot. Is rust on the 2040 well supported? Is it too well supported? Is it well enough documented that I could start with no software of any sort and load a pure rust blob and have it do some uart or something? My motivation is to recapture the feel of the c64 or Amiga1k wherebthe only mmu is optional page protection at most and you know what everything in memory is doing.
I do find it amazing that even in a place like Germany with excellent state-level surveying and archaeology services, as well as at least two centuries of enthusiastic amateurs, there are still undiscovered castles lurking in the forests...
If the consumers were non tech people, I'd agree. But isn't this a product aimed at hackers and tinkerers?

I know the first thought that came to my mind was: damn, I'll have to find new hardware when my Pi dies.
This mixes up where the value creation takes place. Shitcoins are a good example of this fallacy, I can mint ten billion neilwilson-coins right now and hand them out, it doesn't mean any new value has been created. Perhaps an easier way to understand this conceptually is to think of money as a loan, because that's what it essentially is, a pair of credit and debit. Taking out a loan in and of itself it doesn't create any new value, the value is created if you do something useful with it. Money isn't even a requirement, you can also barter or trade. Money is only a means for mediating trade and do relative distribution, it isn't wealth.
In my case, I talk a lot, and write a TON, my use for AI is really "can you say the same information with less words" then I tweak what it gives me. To be fair, I'm not a paid writer, just a dev writing emails to business people. I rewrite emails like 20 times before sending them. ChatGPT has helped me to just write it once, and have it summarized. I usually keep confidential details out and add them in after if needed.
Most masks I used, my glasses would steam up from the amount of leakage.

Edit: With all the statistics that were bandied around in that time, I wonder how many accidents were caused by steamed-up glasses due to leaky masks.
Is this happening to software developers too? Being accused and fired for using AI to write their code?

If not, why is it different?
Yep. The US told Ukraine it was never going to happen. Originally Ukraine had wanted neutrality but Russia kept making territorial claims on Ukraine land pushing Ukraine to seek protection from Russian imperialist ambitions.

If Ukraine eventually gets NATO membership it will be because of Russian's invasion.
> My feeling is that making it super easy to pull 50 transitive dependencies without realizing it does not help

What is it that makes you think that C/C++ does not do this also?

[ EDIT: this also has something to do with the typical size and scope of C/C++ libraries ]
Now they are just as the boards that predated them like the Beagle Board.
AI utilization for social media analyzes in ecom
Hey - this is my first post on HN and my journey of starting my own business (Saas company) - I wanted to create products for a while now but never had the "courage" to just do it. I am a decloper and always overcomplicated things, this happened to my first saas product too (tiksearch) . I starter more than 3 times from scratch again. Started with a over comlpicated microservice .Net System, which should have been used as boilerplate which I permanently improvved, optimized etc.
After my third or fourth iteration I realized, who cares about that? - The answer was: just me and no one else! Two weeks later I got my first Saas online. Another two weeks later the second. But all of this doesnt matter if you cant get any feedback. That's the reason I am here - have a look and tell me what you think about it.

It is meatn to help people analyze social media (comments + video) -> I have planned so much more for this, but first I need to know if it has a right to exist or if I should burry it. Even thingsl ike image analyzation etc. are planned so yea - too much things I want to do :D

Please try it out and feel free to provide some feedback.
Its an interesting observation for sure, but those developers for mobile and web sit at the tippy top of all other abstractions layers. At that position a certain amount of boiler plate is needed because not all controls and code behind are the same, and there is a mighty collection of hacks on hacks to get a lot of things done. I think this is more of “horses for courses” thing where developers higher in the abstraction stack will always benefit from LLMs more and developers lower down the stack have more agency for improvement. At the end of the day, I think everyone gets more productive which is a net positive. Its just that not all developers are after the same goal (Application dev vs library devs vs system devs)
> It was only in late 2021 where certain people realized vaccine skepticism was lucrative and the Republicans needed something to rile up their base for the upcoming elections did vaccine skepticism become a thing.

This is revisionist history. I remember many Democrats being staunchly anti-"Trump's rushed vaccine" and it was only when their party came into power did they turn into human pincushions nearly overnight, "believing in science" and not being able to get enough jabs into them.

The vaccines, of course, were one and the same.
Ask HN: Do you agree on allowing bicycles on the sidewalk?
In most of Europe, bicycles have to ride on the road next to several thousands kilograms killing machines as opposed to riding on the much more peaceful sidewalk.

In some countries, like Japan, riding on the sidewalk is standard and it looks like you would even get blamed for driving it on the road.

I love bicycles but I cannot see myself use them for anything other than the occasional exercise. Going on the road is just way too scary for me.

I was wondering what the average HNer's opinion would be on this topic.

Edit: Wanted to add a personal story. I remember that once I was walking on the sidewalk and as I was about to look behind me to turn (from the outside to inside of the sidewalk) a bike flew past me at bone-breaking speed. While I'm 100% for allowing them on the sidewalk, we definitely must educate people to look when crossing INSIDE THE SIDEWALK. I imagine a kid would've just turned without looking and probably get killed.
> Do those two points mean you should get a fraction of the equity (or rather, a fraction of the options) as the founder? Honestly... maybe. I've now seen a few founders fail. It can really be a career-killer.

And I have seen a few founders fail and enter bigger companies at a pretty high position. Not sure I would relate that to how much money they should get in case their startup is one of the lucky ones.