skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say this depends on the situation you're negotiating. If your only means of communication are e-mails, your best bet is to keep the line of communication open, and present data that builds a case that they cannot ignore without risking a (heavy) loss.

If, however, you participate in face-to-face negotiations, you open up a whole slew of other possibilities of influence only limited by your personality and personal morals. As an example, a CEO friend of mine told me that he'd always make sure to get really drunk the day before an important negotiation, so he'd be grumpy and mean when he finally sat down at the table. Let's just say that his methods were in stark contrast to those promoted by Dale Carnegie.
It's absolutely dependent on investors. Hire, send investor updates, choose partner, view from angel investor etc.
Most of these only applies to invested startups and mostly in SV.

Bootstrapped startups cannot hire unless they have hit a certain profit mark and certainly not preemptively.
Well, I wouldn't put it past them, since they are quite anti-democratic in their nature.
The whole “unbanked” thing is really unconvincing, because there's no way Libra/Diem will be usable for people who don't have identity documents and the evidence needed for KYC/AML forms, and that excludes most unbanked people.

As for international money transfers: TransferWise and the like are already providing better solutions in that space without forcing you to use Facebook Coins. Now you might say that mostly caters to the rich world, and that's true, but the people who can't use TransferWise are probably not going to be able to use Libra/Diem either for the same reasons they can't use TransferWise: ID documents, KYC/AML, plus capital controls and sanction regimes which aren't magically going to disappear for this new currency.

It won't provide one of the few benefits of Bitcoin etc either, namely the ability to make illegal transactions more easily.
Yeah i have had quite similar and intense swelling from mosquito bites (I think, could have been something else).

Is it painful for you too?
They are also hiding the Iraqui weapons of mass destruction.
Amazing how many problems can still be solved, even today, by not typing a URL into your browser.
This article is from a couple of days ago. The story the article is about has been posted to HN several times and I think that there are may be some relevant updates to the story since this article was published if you wish to dive in:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
Show HN: A Visual Studio CodeLens to inspect the IL instructions of a C# method
> The reason I ask … is I have noticed a sense of pressure and other commonly called out symptoms when turning on new wireless gear.

As do I. But no one ever wants to believe you. If I am in close proximity of a WiFi router as example: I get block-headed and pulsing-zap feeling above my ears. Hearing deteriorates causing my hearing to go all tinny.

I've mitigated it by turning my WiFi router transmit power to half which helps but doesn't help in office environments where the router is mounted above or if I am round at someones home.
I'd guess the idea would be to have more succinct URLs.

As to whether or not primary keys should even ever be exposed in URLs, different story.
So we should work with the hypothesis that distribution and infrastructure is free?

I'm not saying that Apple doesn't have a healthy profit margin, only that comparing them to a card processor is simplistic.

This whole tone of "straight face" and "I dare you" comes across as affective and childish.
How to Create a CLI with Node.js
The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal
Maybe Facebook sees that the US dollar will no longer be the reserve currency one day relatively soon?
I've been anxious about posting this here for weeks now. I figured that it's too niche or too trivial to be interesting. But today I saw a CSS file hitting the frontpage so I guess I just worried to much.

The idea is simple and functionally it doesn't look like much. Yet I'm quite proud of it, because the implementation was much more difficult than expected for a couple of reasons.

Fighting the Visual Studio SDK: even though the VSSDK is super-powerful, some parts of it (especially CodeLenses) are very poorly documented.

UI styling: the VS team went out of their way to prevent extension developers from re-using the VS styles. They actually don't want extensions to look like VS for CI reasons. It took days of trying random stuff and digging through the VS DLLs until I found what I needed. I'm not even sure this was entirely legal.

Finding the IL for the code-lensed method: this sounded so easy in my head at first. VS/Roslyn gives you a MethodSymbol of the code-lensed method, I'll just have to find it's MethodDefinition in a Mono.Cecil AssemblyDefinition by name. But C# allows method overloading and suddenly I had to cook up a non-trivial matching logic that can resolve overloads without breaking my fingers or brain. Overloads can become arbitrarily complex (e.g. Foo<T>(List<T[]>), Foo<T>(List<List<T>>)) and of top of that the types that have to be matched with one another (MethodSymbols and MethodDefinitions) are structured differently in non-obvious ways.

Unit-testing the overload-resolution: in order not go insane, I had to have unit tests for the above. The idea for those was that each test gets the Roslyn MethodSymbol of a specific dummy C# method and then checks if the overload resolution can uniquely identify it in the Mono.Cecil AssemblyDefinition of the test data assembly where that dummy method is defined. Loading the test data assembly with Roslyn is easy enough, but how to get a specific MethodSymbol? If you only use the method's name, you'd have to deal with overloads again, only this time on the Roslyn side. The solution was to have a special selector method which takes a lambda calling the dummy method. The selector method would then use Roslyn to analyze the test's syntax tree, locate it's own call in the test case, grab the lambda argument passed to it, and then return the MethodSymbol of the dummy method referenced by that lambda. Pretty nifty, I think, but I later found it would have been easier to write only a single test case that just iterates over all MethodSymbols in the test data assembly and tries to resolve them using the matching logic. However, the disadvantage of that approach is that such a test case would lack focus and it would be harder to pinpoint what exactly went wrong when the test case fails.
> Over the months, their ambition has been cut a lot by regulators.

I don't see how this is a surprise. Facebook basically wanted to take monetary sovereignty away from states and give control to private companies. What did they expect? Especially when right now people are noticing the reach Facebook has into our lives and how irresponsibly they're acting with it. Why would any sane person give Facebook any more control over their lives?
Could you elaborate on that? Which features of preprocessor make it impossible to implement C++ modules?
Be careful. What choose boring technology really means is choose boring technology for anything not related to your competitive advantage. It is the engineering equivalent of MBA advice to differentiate between core and context, and choose boring technology for anything that fits in "context". Maybe your business's competitive advantage isn't related to your technology stack, in which case, all of your technology had better be boring. But sometimes, you really do need to run that brand-new shiny 5-GitHub-stars project in production. If you do, you just better make sure that you're one of the core maintainers, and that the time you sink into it more or less directly translates to business success.
I'm not sure they are asserting that. In the context of managing or reducing rates of type-2 diabetes, it seems relevant.
Thanks for the feedback, I am looking into it. I am sure though, that it is not an Firefox issue, as I tested in FF while development. I guess, the database is overloaded, currently...
Even though one or other branch of the if-statement won't be valid C++? How does it know that set_color is a function if it isn't defined anywhere?
But how many applaud it? (In secret because supporting this is something you might get fired for...)
Talos – Modern OS for Kubernetes at the Edge
The video shows that for one hour, ballots were illegally counted without any observers allowed in the room.

Trump's path to victory is described by Praying Medic:

https://prayingmedic.com/2020/11/27/the-crisis-is-over-im-re...

You once wrote:

States can't change their rules for certification of electors without a governor's signature. If a state tried to pull some nonsense like changing the selection of electors away from the process as encoded in law before Nov. 3, that'd be new law and (a) would require a governor's signature or a veto-proof majority and (b) may actually be ex-post-facto if the current law is structured such that it declares how electors related to the votes cast on Nov. 3, so could be stopped by state courts. [1]

But Praying Medic counters your argument with a citation from the SCOTUS ruling in Bush v. Gore. Chief Justice Rehnquist summed it up: "Or put differently, when the legislature acted pursuant to the power granted to it by Article II, it stands above any limits imposed by state law."

If it goes to SCOTUS again, the five conservative justices will likely follow the Constitution.

All that has been needed to be done was that there was enough election fraud demonstrated that state legislators could feel they are not required to honor the popular vote when choosing electors, because the popular vote, as counted, is not reflective of the will of the people.

I told you 23 days ago this was Trump's strategy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25078993

Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona will all send electors for Trump, giving him more than 270.

Edit: And, you can be sure they will be arresting everyone involved in the fraud, right after they impose martial law to round them up.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25079610
Wow. They really want to get away from the facebook brand. Zero mentions of Libra or facebook, despite the fact it was renamed only a few days ago. Not even in the FAQs.
Exactly. I think one of the problems is that "invisible" handicaps do not invoke an emotional response.

In fact it is even worse because e.g. irrational behaviour of a mentally ill person often invokes a negative response. This results in stigmatisation, which is inherently counter productive.

A general mindset change is needed to address this on a larger scale. Specifically, in education there should be much more of a focus on ethics than there is now. This is hard because it can be in contrast to "profit-focused" education where e.g. the main goal of studying a field is to get a well paying job at a big company. But of course there are many factors there such as how a university is funded and can keep running.

Sadly, it doesn't look like the general population is ready for these discussions because as a human race, we cannot even get over more known/discussed problems such as racism.
2009 paper. No subsequent followups studies since then?
slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Same with Safari for me.
Intentions Conquer Cravings
No, the Stardust mission collected interstellar dust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)
The website still says "The Diem payment system will support single-currency stablecoins (e.g., ≋USD, ≋EUR, and ≋GBP) and a multi-currency coin (≋XDM)."

Is that no longer true? I'm not sure if the website is up to date.

https://www.diem.com/en-us/vision/
I remembered the article and came here to comment about it. What a nice surprise to see the author beating me to it :D. Loved it!
Receive all my compassion. And I was complaining of a sprain depriving me of long walks for a few weeks.

I started walking at a rhythm of 5 hours a week minimum three years ago. And I must say, without exaggeration, that I am a different man now. I haven't been sick for 2.5 years; I feel that my immune system is stronger now. Before that, I used to get sick, angina or whatever, twice a year. Also, my legs have become more muscular and my face has become thinner, which makes me look more attractive. I'm 18 again ;-)
Yeah, the database is under too much load right now (should have chosen RDS t3.micro when posting on HN). Updating to a bigger instance right now, should be up in a few minutes again. Thanks for the feedback
Oh my. Once I spent two hours chasing a bug in my colleague's code (uni, not corp), until I arrived at this gem of his:

#define ZERO 1
Respect and courtesy are nice but I think the reason this style is so effective is different. It makes the counterparty believe that you are collecting the paper trail to file a lawsuit. And behaving like you are preparing to file a lawsuit is much more effective than just claiming you will be filing a lawsuits.

I imagine that when presented with a choice of $88 payment or having to deal with a lawsuit, 100% of decision-makers will chose the former. And it’s not about the lawsuit outcome. Even if some complete garbage is filed which has no chance of success, the burden it creates on the business is clearly much higher than $88.
Thanks for reading!

Basically, you just agreed to settle and not continue to press your valid claims of potential affiliate fraud.

What would have been a better course of action?

Even under the most optimistic estimates, they owed me less than $500. I don't have access to their sales data, so I don't have hard proof that they're committing fraud. The company's legal team could just turn around and say, "Oh, our rep was mistaken when they said we're not following our own policy. We actually do pay according to our published agreement, but you didn't make any sales during that time period."

I could have pursued options for some sort of class action lawsuit with subpoenas for their sales data, but that's a much bigger time and financial commitment than I wanted to put in.
I have recently deleted my lindekin account for many of the reasons mentioned in the article. But what really had me saying: that's enough, was the HUGE amount of unsolicited communication I was getting. From young professionals entering hackathons and looking for guidance to the "talent acquisition" people, who just dump on you all the openings they have to see if you respond to any of it.

Hackernews is currently my social network. I use youtube to make low effort videos logging what I've been working on and HN to actually invite people to interact with things I build and get feedback. I still have an Instagram account, but I'm planning on deleting it also.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Follow the money .. watch the actions not the words
Aside of not find it useful and find it excessively slow, -1.
Blockchain has a zinger name, but it's useless when real-world applications are in play. It is slow and energy inefficient. Considering that it got "reset" by the owners once after a divergence, it's not that "decentralized". It has a group that controls it.

Secondly, it's definitely not secure in the sense that is advertised. Aside from regular social engineering and old-school hacks to get people's tokens, governments have been successful in tracing transections in investigations. That's how SilkRoad got got, and recently Japan did it as well.
Pretty scary that there is almost no mention of Facebook on the website (only in the logo of Novi, the wallet app for Diem by Facebook).

I'm wondering if all involvement in Diem at Facebook goes through Novi, and with that the members section is "truthful" (though still obfuscating the involvement), and/or if they will cherry-pick which companies appear on the list of members based on how good/bad their image is.
> their customers are those who discriminate on price

Not only price. We've flown previously with Ryanair numerous times, and I don't think price was ever the deciding factor - they simply fly to a lot of European destinations, so for us it's meant shorter routes.

They've completely lost my trust after this debacle though - their illegal behaviour had been utterly shameful, and I'll go out of my way not to use them in future.
A draft copy of the disputed paper was posted over in Reddit, if this is of interest to anyone:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...

https://gofile.io/d/WfcxoF
I’ll say that those workstation vendors, most significantly Sun, faced the classic Innovator’s Dilemma-described failure: doing their best shortly before they died.

Sun died in part because they didn't negotiate the dot.com crash. Many startups following it wanted to buy Sun servers with Intel CPUs, they were of high design and build quality, but unless you could put your purchases on credit cards, or were buying an enterprise system's worth of hardware, Sun the company wouldn't give you the time of day. They insisted you use their 3rd party channel including VARs, which also usually wouldn't give you the time of day. So they bought kit from Dell, which actually wanted to sell you stuff, got used to dealing with its quirks and failures, and by the time would be buying enterprise quantities of computers, were on balance happy with buying more of their cheaper Dells.

The also made a big enterprise push, and threw it all away when their failure to check results from off CPU cache memory intersected with IBM's chip radiation problem. Instead of owning the problem, offering a solution like the IBM of old, they first blamed their customers, then made them sign NDAs before Sun would try to fix the problem. In other words, proved they culturally were still a flaky workstation and superminicomputer company, which was not what the enterprise market then was looking for. Nor those who still buy IBM mainframes, z and i (AS/400) series. One of my banks uses the latter as a hosted solution, it's rock solid.
In short: it is possibly a good idea to eat and drink (at least some teas with goji berries etc.) only after exercise, if you are trying to maximize its health effects.
In this case this doesn't work because "if constexpr" parses both branches. If the new library version changes function signatures, the if-branch for the old library version produces an error:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/4KK997

PS: interesting to note that Zig does the "right thing":

https://www.godbolt.org/z/9c13PY
I thought she offered her resignation and they accepted?
We normally call that an 'API', no chains of blocks required!
I think this gets at why people keep going back to old, time-tested tools. All new languages, frameworks, and tools seem to converge on the same things with enough time. Carpentry, computers, and programming languages all end up with a router.

They also end up with some kind of cruft, or annoyance. A time-tested tool has time-tested failure modes. Everyone eventually figures out they need to start a nail with taps and remove their hand before swinging. Some people prefer to figure it out on their own, others like to know the path ahead.
It would be fine if the preprocessor was actually replaced by something similar in concept, just with the glaring issues fixed like any other macro system devloped recently. But instead there's a bunch of ad-hoc rules trying to cover the things people use the preprocessor for.
TIM, Ericsson and Qualcomm set new 5G record: 1 Gbps mmWave Over a 6.5 km
Pesticides are mentioned in the paper, but it doesn't consider it a convincing explanation, except, maybe, as a contributing factor.

But the most important part is in the summary:

> Multiple hypotheses and mechanisms have been proposed to explain these clinical cases, but evidence has been lacking, no hypothesis has been proven, and the circumstances remain unclear.

Pulsed, directed microwaves just seem to be "the most plausible mechanism". So, nothing conclusive.
Of course, some random african lady on the front page, look how progressive people behind Diem are
The unfortunate part of this is gaining traction on an alternative platform is extremely difficult. The people who really love these features are recruiters - who end up spending a lot of money on the platform - to make use of the psychological-fuckery the platform has to offer. A no-nonsense LinkedIn alternative that was a public resume, a search engine, and a direct messaging system would be perfect but I bet it'd be hard to gain traction.
Its a question of where the line is drawn. Some, or many perhaps, would prefer a world where they aren't forced to alter their brain chemistry to the degree that a powerful pharmaceutical does. Caffeine, while substantial, does not have this same degree of power, whether positive or negative. There are reasons why one is a controlled substance and the other freely available OTC.
Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud Sign Pioneering Cloud and Innovation Partnership
I've begun doing recruitment in a professional capacity recently, after having been the type of dev that dismissed this kind of social media, LinkedIn hashtag feed nonsense for the same reasons you do.

And I still don't love it, but I have to admit it's got a place in the strategy. Posting a job req with some focused hashtags seems to help get more responses. Posting a few industry-appropriate articles does seem to help keep our company in folks' minds.

In an ideal world every company I work for will be so amazing and so well known that I don't have to sell it to folks because the right folks are coming straight to us. Or that all of my friends and all of their friends will magically be capable of switching jobs to come build a new team with me whenever I need to grow.

But reality doesn't work like that, and so things like LinkedIn end up being table stakes. It isn't the whole of my recruitment strategy, but certainly it's a functional part.
The LinkedIn feed is a holding pen for our world’s overproduction of bootlicking elites.
Google has close to a 100k employees. I wonder how the other 99% feel. This is America no one is stopping her from starting the next google and crushing google.

This reminds of the Chappelle skit when keeping it real goes wrong.

She published a paper without getting it reviewed talking shit about google. I am sure she was generously compensated. If she wants to talk shit about google she should probably do it when she doesn't work there.
The original Stanford SUN workstation [1] lead to the first hardware for both Sun Microsystems and Cisco.
You might get fired for... supporting your bosses' decision to fire someone?
It seems on iPhone at least you have to type really fast or it searches for the first few characters you entered and doesn’t update.

Maybe because I have content blockers.
Thanks for the emoji filtering trick, I'll consider start using it on my GitHub :)
Show HN: Friendtainer – get reminded to meet with friends regularly (on PH)
Hi, I just upgraded the database, it should be a lot faster again
I would rather people learned the basics of RDBM's and concepts like "primary keys", "indexes". The kids these days depend on that stuff being hidden from them by CPU/disk speeds and ORMs. If they can't get the concepts of a technology they are most likely to encounter in their day jobs, what chance do they have with Blockchain, considering that it is NOT a trivial thing.