skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would read some intro on x86 instructions, and then use Compiler Explorer [1] to create assembler instructions for code from a language I know (e.g. C, Pascal, etc) to learn how their primitives (method calls, loops, branching, etc) translate into actual assembler.

[1] https://godbolt.org/
> There was some period of discussion on the subject back in like 1963 but the <tv> companies went to war against human civilization and there's been no going back. It corrupts and twists everything it touches into a constant hustle for eyeball-cash and an entire generation has now reached adulthood knowing nothing but that hustle touching every bit of media they ever interact with. Who even knows what they'll do with that.

Fixed that for you ;)

Like, I remember growing up absolutely surrounded by advertising. It was on the TV, it was on the radio, it was in newspapers and magazines. Literally every second page in a magazine was ads! It was crazy. I grew up with it (as did many of you).

What were the major level societal consequences of this shift? And when did it begin? Was radio just as bad in the 30's?

Are newspapers where it went wrong? Man, at that point we may as well go the whole way and blame the industrial revolution ;)

More generally, advertising is a consequence of the economic system we've (somewhat) collectively as a species decided we want to achieve our goals. I doubt the first urban dwellers expected the vast new cities to be hives of disease, either, but them's the breaks.
I babied my iPhone 12 Pro by using an automation to turn off a smart-outlet at 76% charge. After a year I'm at 95% health, basically on par with everyone else.

I've discontinued the automation and will just buy a new battery in another year or two instead. /shrug
The closest thing I've seen to that is https://github.com/novoid/Memacs
They're invested enough in it to use it, is my guess.

People tend to downplay the "neat" factor in productivity tools--and they can be total attractive nuisances where you play with them instead of doing stuff. But the truth is you do sometimes need something to keep you engaged in the short term while the long-term benefits add up. Wrestling with Notepad works against that.

FWIW, when I try to use Notepad for this, I end up with 150 open Notepad notes that just end up pickling/restoring with the app. I've never thought hard about it, but I suspect that happens because you naturally keep the note open all day, and often the next to refer back, but there's no obvious time to close it.

But for whatever reason it just tends to turn into a huge mess, whereas note-taking apps tend to either optimize to the idea of "everything all at once" or they manage a daily journal scroll for you somehow.
Uhm.... the perfect example is ublock origin with reddit.com vs. old.reddit.com

Reddit.com is eye fucking cancer.

Old.reddit.com is consumable....

Interestingly, after a 15-year-long account I was "permanently banned" for TOS violations which cannot be determined... Reddit is dead to me. (Ill be deleting (scrambling) millions of comments... I was top mod of a sub /r/ with 1.5 million users, which is now one of the most active /r/s...

If anyone would like to buy my 15+ year old account, make me an offer.
You will find that people who grew up on farms or just in the country have a very different definition of "cruelty to animals". Shooting a pest animal is just a Tuesday. Not worth mentioning or remembering. Doing it with the pellet gun instead of the .22 or shotgun is because you were feeling magnanimous that day, or you sold out and moved to the 'burbs but still don't want pests wrecking your stuff, and don't want to risk discharging a real firearm. A cat that you don't have around on purpose very well may qualify as a pest animal. Know how people complain about outdoor cats killing enormous numbers of birds? You got a bird feeder or birdhouse, and a cat is hanging around it, that's a pest animal. Got chickens, or other fowl, same ("how will a cat kill a chicken?" Well, 1. you'd be surprised, and 2. most people keep chicks inside but juvenile chickens exist and tend to live outdoors). Just prefer not to have wild predators spreading disease to your own pets or livestock, same. That it only got a pellet means this is its lucky day. Blame the people who keep breeding more damn cats than the world needs, or assholes who abandon their pets if they decide they don't want them. Listen to Bob Barker, folks.

... that out of the way, there are way too many people who do shoot stuff, and even animals, that they have no reason to and probably shouldn't, for fun. Some may be psychopaths, but I'd bet most are just actual card-carrying morons with poor impulse control. All are best avoided.
The Altruist’s View on Brain Computer Interfaces
Tell HN is not a good tag for such submissions, the right thing is just not trying to gussy up your submissions - a cornerstone principle of HN. Everything posted to HN is someone telling or showing something, the tags are highly specialized. If unsure, just don't use the tags.
Ah yeah that clears it up. I thought this was a post about why your tool was better than others. Thanks!
I assumed pyflow nodes would be "lazish", not the code inside each node
Oh, sure, it just seemed odd.
I don't know, but it must be horrible not knowing whether you got the job on your own merit, or if you were just hired to tick a box, if a company has some cynical hiring policy.
> tangible benefits to more diversity

People say that a lot, and even say it's been researched, but outside of product focus groups, I've never seen the actually research that supports that claim.
The same set of questions can be applied to DocuSign or other centralized e-signature services. The answer to most of those questions would likely be "yes", but more importantly that doesn't seem to stop the viability of this type of service.

If plaintext contract acceptance grows then one hopes that the middleman could be cut out and we could eventually see adoption of standard developer versioning tools adopted by in-house legal/IT teams to wrangle the plaintext contracts.

Other than plaintext contract tooling (which I know is a heavy lift), this workflow would then be no different than the current practice of emailing marked-up Word documents to each other directly until the clean copy is ready for execution.
Thanks. I look at /r/random every so often to learn new subreddits, but this one I'd never seen before!
> I guess we should have hired his wife!

Classic comment.
Got a degree in math. For me, the repeated act of rigorously proving counter-intuitive results put me into a state of mind where I tried to avoid having "beliefs" until they were proven results.
I think it's a matter of perspective. I don't think lawyers would typically view Word or ChangePro as being difficult to use - certainly, trying to get them to learn git would be a significantly greater effort. Outside of tech circles, I think that is true of clients as well.

The main problem I run into is people using conflicting diff software (eg, you generate a blackline of two Word documents using ChangePro, but you forget to PDF it before it goes to the other side, so they put through some changes on the blackline document in Word tracked changes). These things can be avoided through sane configuration options. Maybe git is an objectively better solution but even if it is there is a huge local maximum problem.
> I'm pretty sure understanding the biology behind it all can help make predictions about the outcome ...

Of course it can, that's what you use to write your test plan. But I never (ever) rely on those predictions alone. Everyone who has done this long enough knows that if you don't test your code well enough before you push it out, it will fail. Hell, it'll even fail sometimes when you did thoroughly test it.
If anybody is further interested in this, a recent YouTube video by Spencer Cornelia went behind the scenes of a similar operation that is still running:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N05vGcw_tI

They are betting the spread between different books and most of their operation involves keeping accounts live and with placement capacity
I’m not so sure this is entirely due to fuel. A Volkswagen Golf with great fuel economy still has a big rear window and an FJ Cruiser has a tiny one and chugs gasoline. Many of the cars don’t actually have dramatic tapering roof lines, what they have is rising belt lines which cut into the window space.
No Halo.

Destiny 3 will probably be exclusive to Playstation though.
Also between 8.1 and 10.

To avoid repeating myself,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412065
Kubernetes Pain Point Survey
FB^H^H Meta buys Roblox, mark my words.
EIDs – Encoded IDs
Supposedly this has already happened! Although in the alleged case, it was an existing employee masquerading as a candidate:

https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvicecanada/comments/kr924n/e...
Not the same. This post is to a git-repo with active development, compared to the first post where the last commit was more than two years ago.

Both about PyFlow, but the first one should probably not be used. They also changed the license from Apache 2.0 to GPL-3.0 (probably a smart move).

That make this post deserve some time on HN. Glad that someone is breathing fresh air into the project.
When I worked at one of the above, it was part of the process for reporting an ads bug. First, disable your adblocker.
I tried a few different options for note taking, including Foam[1], Roam[2], and now Dendron[3]. Dendron has been the best fit for me because it's built on VS Code (I already know my way around and can be more productive in it), and has a great team & community supporting it.

Markdown in a git repo is so much better than anything else I've tried.

[1] https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
[2] https://roamresearch.com/
[3] https://dendron.so/
Downvoting on HN is fickle; sometimes it's the point that's being made, sometimes it's how it's being made. I think asking "have I meaningfully contributed to conversation" is part of it... but a lot of downvotes comes as emotional response or simple disagreement. You can choose whether to take it seriously and grow/change to satisfy it, or be yourself and take votes in passing.

That being said - sad to hear you are not eager to learn and don't have sense of ownership; you are correct that disqualifies you from some roles (most, in a way, but recruitment process is all sort of obscure and counter-logical).

For what little it may be worth: it mostly comes back to the old proverb of "courage to change things you can, accept things you cannot, wisdom to know the difference, and zen to make peace with it". I try to coach my team members very early on "these are things that are part of organizational machine; satisfy them so you are done with them. These are the things where you can make a difference and where most of your value will be concentrated. Focus on those once you've fed the machine".

I think part of disillusionment, at least it was mine, is the feeling that somebody somewhere, and ideally ourselves, should have all the necessary power. In reality, we all operate within constraints, more or less visible or scrutable.

Ultimately, life is imperfect, professional life included; it's a life's pursuit for most of us on how to grow our own acceptance and peace with it. Sometimes we make that change within ourselves, sometimes we are able to make an external change that aligns more with our priorities.

Best of luck!
>What is your solution?

Did I just get a promotion to CAS[0]? Time to update my CV. I feel special. Time for me to start accepting bribes.

It's sport. It's humans. There is no solve. People want to do it, they will find a way to do it. There are other people that will take advantage. To the point that those in charge of $sportingEvent (FIFA, Olympics, Cycling) all "fall victim".

> Should we just close our eyes to the threat?

Only if you want to miss the entertainment.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Arbitration_for_Sport
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We had a remote freeloader find a position at Oracle before his short-term contract with us was done.

Onward and upward :)
No to NoUI
If you watch that episode, Joe pushes back a bunch of times and even pulls up Google for a fact check. It's just that Joe is polite with his guests and that seems to confuse people who are used to Twitter style dunking. Is that what people are looking for? Should he kick off his guests and yell at them? Or put them on guide rails? I don't think so. He has friendly conversations and disagrees in a polite way.

Also Jordan is being mischaracterized somewhat. You have to watch the whole explanation and ignore repackaged soundbites. He was (inartfully and perhaps incorrectly) challenging the accuracy of predictive models, which is a fair thing to do. It's not the end of the world. He can challenge it and others can present the counter argument.

Plus it's important to recognize that he's on the side of the environment. He argues (and I agree with him) that the best way to improve the environment is to bring people out of poverty, which enables people to think and strategize over longer time frames, not being so focused on their next meal or paying the bills. I believe he is correct about this larger point.
The phrase "walk softly and carry a big stick" comes to mind.

There's no need to go into that interview guns-blazing. Soft-balling the questions at first is likely to do the job. If it doesn't, they can still bring in the heavy artillery later.

This approach has worked very well for me in all kinds of adverse situations. Being nice and asking politely has resolved a lot of situations, and I can still fall back to being nasty if I have to. (And I might even find I was wrong before that point, and I can back off without losing face.)

For instance, returning a defective product at a store. I can simply tell them it doesn't seem to work. They can attempt to show me it does, they could take it back, or they could refuse. If they try it and it doesn't work, and still refuse (or just refuse), I can start demanding my money back. If they refuse that, I can call corporate or my credit card company.

If I start with corporate or my CC, I might still get what I want, but it's a lot more stressful and IMO less likely to work, even if only slightly. And there's no chance to fix the situation with another resolution than the one I chose. Sometimes there's a better way, and you just don't know.
... no, as the page you link says, the extensions are reviewed by Mozilla employees.
> As I understand it, the reason an HIV vaccine has been so difficult to create is that HIV mutates so easily.

Nope. There are exactly two species of HIV since at least the '80s. HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV however can trick the immune system into creating non-neutralizing antibodies, that can't fully prevent the progression of the infection.

If you run a large pharma company you probably already make a lot of money from long-term HIV/AIDS treatment. From the CEO's perspective developing a HIV vaccine may shrink the antiretroviral market if at-risk groups vaccinate themselves. Therefore you prioritize more lucrative projects.

HIV vaccine makes sense if:
1. You can hope for a general mandate of your product, or:
2. You are a small pharma company looking to make a name for yourselves.

Regarding the benefit of mRNA vaccines over non-mRNA vaccines for HIV, I don't know. I have yet to learn if there is significant medical benefit to mRNA other than reduced cost and TTM.

AFAIK mRNA does not enable producing new types of proteins, only this time they are produced by your body, right?
No jail, crippling fines that if the behavior doesn't change would wipe them. One example would be sufficient and the industry would fix itself up.
That's not a distinction the BBC's editorial team has ever used. Historically it has bleeped words ranging from "fuck" to "Coca Cola" and discouraged talking about ideas deemed inappropriate for the audience like most verbal references to sex before 9pm. People who range from neutral to outspokenly in favour of that sort of censorship are, however, liable to be enraged by the renaming of a dog in Dambusters (the original naming had far less expressive purpose than the average expletive!).

The shift is clearly more of one from ideas that certain groups consider to be of no value ("vulgarity") to stuff which they consider to be at least relatively valuable "the treatment of casual racism as completely normal behaviour which shouldn't provoke any reaction and might actually be funny, because that's just how things were in the good old days".
Yes. It takes a long time to generate the flu vaccine. The strains need to be selected long before the season starts so it's a bit of guess work. That's why effectiveness varies from year to year. mRNA vaccines can be produced in high volumes much faster than traditional vaccines. It would allow the flu vaccine strains to be selected at a better time.
‘The Power Law’ Is a Funder-Friendly Look at the World of Venture Capital
> Power seats are not a pointless luxury. I’m pretty sure they are continuously adjustable which is much better than trying to pull on some lever and get the seat to pop into approximately the right place. To say nothing of mulitple drivers with memorized positions etc.

YMMV, but I have no problem using mechanical adjustments. Power is no advantage for me.
I find the best results on reddit when I look for the same company selling only that type of thing. They often moderate the sub on that topic and are very open about being a seller of it, and know their product. Note this is actually selling the product - not to be confused with amazon links. They need to have a real business, and while they moderate the sub they never have links to their store (instead it is search my profile to buy from me).
Same here. That Lumia 920 Windows phone was a breath of fresh air compared to the mess of laggy icons and screens you have on Android and iPhone. Shockingly for Microsoft, the OS didn't get in your way. Snappy and very functional like a phone should be. I have Google's flagship pixels on Google Fi. Bloated slow shit.
Ask HN: What's the largest serverless setup you've seen?
I'm looking for a serverless analogue to the Stack Overflow Architecture post from 2016: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/

They're doing about 2500 requests per second. That just seems like an incredibly complicated setup (granted -- lots of redundancy, but still).

What I'm looking for are real war stories of scaling serverless up to 2500 - 5000 requests per second.

A few searches online only gives me theoretical tests, benchmarks and demos, but no actual apps in production. I'm looking for someone who actually does 2.5k+ requests per second on a serverless setup in production for a real app.
Until a decade ago, I've always tried to be the better person. I did not block ads and for sites that I liked, I even intentionally clicked on ads.

I can tolerate ads. Also 10 on a page. And they can even blink. What I cannot tolerate is malware, personal data theft, and ads destroying the performance of any website. Ads have become a liability and advertisers have made it loud and clear that I'm not a human being, instead a resource to be exploited, and no tactic is below their standards.
When I was a high school senior in the 1980s I worked for a company making a VT100 clone (it also emulated several other popular terminals) The processor was a 6502. I can't remember how much RAM it had, but it had an 8k ROM.

When I started on the project we were using 12k of EEPROM. The lead developer and I spent about a week optimizing the firmware to reduce the ROM requirements to 8k. For debugging we used logic analyzer traces. Fun times!

I remember that we called this a "smart terminal" because it had so many functions.
I assume that still has something to do with mRNA being a novel vaccine type. Therefore the regulatory bodies are still carefull. If Moderna, Biontech and other potential players show again and again that there process of developing new vaccines is safe, I'd guess the time to market will getting shorter and shorter.
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I did not know that. This thread has convinced me to seriously look at paying for YouTube.
What provide if in America may I ask? Cheapest non voip I've been able to find is 120/yr
Referees in all the top leagues still get paid average salaries yet they are the most powerful person on the field. They are the point of failure in modern sports
10M Users and 10 Years Later: Python Tutor’s Scalable Research Software
Yes, but remember in the scenario you're replying to, you cannot tell if they've done the work. So assigning to the specialist you mention might as well mean tossing the job requests into the bin.
So many small things Google Maps could do to improve their UX
+1 Insightful

Similar experiences here.
I started my analog bullet-journal system 5 years ago, and though it's evolved a lot, continue to use it today. In parallel, I'd spent a few years writing what I call "devnotes" in markdown files on local fs. But they were sporadic and poorly organized. Then in 2020 I tried Roam Research, loved it (backlinks ftw), spent just over a year using it daily, but eventually abandoned it, faced w/ a "choice" between abysmal performance [the offline UX depended on Chrome local storage, and as my graph grew it kept getting worse] and putting my private thoughts in the cloud. Enter Obsidian. Finally! Offline, local fs, markdown, backlinks, plugins galore (eg Excalidraw integration)... it's exactly what I wanted. I've been delighted with it for the last 6 months, and recommend it to anyone interested in "tools
for thought", PKM, note-taking, GTD, etc.
Hey, same about looking for a generalized framework, but I'd approach it from the other side.

I'm pretty okay with the general shape of code (a nested tree-type structure), but think the possible interactions are unnecessarily awkward by being forced into a text editor.

You ought to be able to effortlessly fold, move around and disable/enable blocks of code. There's not much of a point in allowing indentation or whitespace mistakes and it doesn't usually make much sense to select a part of a token (or often even just a token without the block it's attached to).

These issues can mostly be fixed by representing tokens and lines in a tree-like structure of nodes, for which useful editors already exist.

IDEs try to retrofit these things into their text model (the most advanced one I'm aware of being IntelliJ), with automatic indentation fixing and folding, but even the best attempts aren't even using 20% of the potential.

My most jarring example of how bad IDEs still are at this is folding + disabling (commenting out): When I comment out a block of code because I don't care about it that is folded because I don't care about it, it shows it back to me even though I don't want to see it because I double-don't care about it!

(Side note: I'm aware XCode doesn't do this, but it's far from general)

There is so much effort put into concepts, parsing and whatever, and everything uses trees, because that's the natural way of reasoning about code. Why are we still stuck interfacing with it through an awkwardly serialized version?
Maybe. I think it's less fuzzy - the ads back then were clearly ads and harder to mix up with search results. So even if Google had ads on top of search results then, it wasn't as misleading. Or rather: The statement looked valid then, but doesn't anymore. That's what people pick up on.