skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being very persistent and calm can go a long way when dealing with organizations in person: most customers, when confronted with a negative answer from a company representative will become irritated, frustrated and will want to terminate the exchange threatening to escalate to some higher authority, a boss (that is rarely available), the courts etc. It's a negative emotional state that most people want to stop.

What you need to do in those circumstance is realize that you still have immense bargaining power with the specific individual, that can, according to company polices present you with a negative answer that is profitable to the company, but in all other respects is severely limited and must behave in a courteous and professional way. You need to reflect that back to them, and repeat your claims ad nausea, bringing more arguments and repeating your point of view with the utmost calm, as if nothing they say is relevant to your problem. Verbally, you state your claims and non-verbally you deliver the message that "I can do this all day and will not leave until you drag me out with security, making a scene". You do not move away from the counter and/or follow the employee calmly, non-threatening continuing to repeat your claims.

The frustration will build up even in the most seasoned customers representatives. All of a sudden, you are no longer the company's problem - a lost or dissatisfied customer; you are THEIR personal problem, a persistent client that demands their rights and stops them from engaging with other customers. Should they make a scene and become rude or verbally or physically abusive, it's their job on the line, for failing to properly handle a demanding client; but if they continue being calm and professional with you, they are failing to do their job and serve other customers. Many representatives will cave under this pressure, if what you are demanding is in their purview, or, a the very least, be very happy to rid themselves from you by producing an actual manager with the power to solve your claim (that would very rarely be disturbed otherwise).

I have successfully used this method to negotiate out of unscrupulous baggage fees at the airport, obtain discounts at advertised prices instead of the "fine print prices" etc. It's a time-money tradeoff, as was this one here. The method is less efective over the phone where the representative has the power to terminate a call. In this case here one company official made a serious mistake by stating in writing something contrary to official company policies. You will usually not be that lucky in email exchanges with an unscrupulous company.
Amazing sleuthing.

Though I'm also amazed people install Geforce Experience, see that you need to create an account to log into it (supports Facebook login even) for something you're ostensibly using to manage local Nvidia drivers, and then proceed with the installation process.
I avoid adding anything less than 20 years stable to my "stack".

It's proven and stable, it's bound to have a wide install base, and there is 20+ years worth of knowledge on the web for every issue I may happen to run into.
I'm curious whether the author sent the link to the blog post to Nvidia...
> and made me actually me.

I've been an addict and dude you sound like an addict
There is a lot in here - making me rethink if and null
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Free radicals seem to be good for the brain
> Made myself a Senior Director of Engineering at a major company with an impressive background.

Is that even legal?
Teams has high numbers, but I wonder how much of that is actually eating into the Slack use case. Most of it seems to be awkward KPI gaming by forcing people to click into it to read docs and make calls.
Definitely. Get advice from a variety of people with different styles/backgrounds then process that to make your own decisions. Even the most amazing investor will give advice that is wrong for you at times. Great investors respect that.

My other additional advice for founders is get support from other entrepreneurs at a similar stage - that peer support is super helpful especially on bad days!
Why are you suggesting the #foo header have a link to itself? That doesn't make sense. An id attribute value is supposed to be unique to a document, they also act like anchors. Your <h2 id="foo"> is already the #foo anchor target. You can add arbitrary anchors with the "<a name>" tag but if you've got elements with id attributes you're already good for anchors.

This is true of all elements with an id attribute, not just headers. They're unique in the document so they can be unique selectors in the DOM.
The Future of Payments (and how to invest in it)
HTTP/3 with QUIC as transport will be using UDP and is encrypted.

I assume it will change quite a few things for these kind of needs.
All this CIA money and nobody can find a spectrum analyser? Or just borrow some FCC guys and go listening?

This reminds me of the Gatwick drone hysteria where nobody proved there was ever a drone.
So here is a lesson I take from these kinds of problems.

Look at the interface of your program. Are there any elements that seem to be arbitrary decision on your part as a designer that are there only so that you have easier time?

If yes, even though it might seem a good idea today, there is a chance you will need to change it in the future or it will become a sore for some of your users.

Always try to understand the problem in terms of underlying fundamental rules/definitions and only use these for the outside surface (contract, API) of your system. Fundamentals don't change. If they change it most likely means you had wrong understanding of the underlying problem in the first place.

Using only fundamentals for your API will mean easier integration with clients and interoperability with other systems.

As an example, if you implement an application that assumes that a user account is connected with an employee and the employee only has one manager and that only the manager does approvals you might find that yes, the application works but also you will find yourself an a lot of problems pretty soon when you find that there are times or parts of your organization that don't follow this pattern.

- an outside contractor might be brought that needs an account,

- an employee or contractor can have multiple managers,

- an employee or contractor may need multiple separate accounts,

- the manager may need to deputize somebody else to do approvals,

- the manager may want to decide they want to run their organization differently and trust their employees to do the right thing (but can't because the app forces approval flow),

etc.

These problems happened because of naive understanding of the model of the system (ie. the model does not correspond to the fundamental properties of the system) or because the designer decided it is too much work to implement these.
There should be a CIS [0] hardening guide for LinkedIn like there is for iOS, Safari and AWS.

[0] https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks/
I feel obliged to contextualize "Billionaires Build" on behalf of the unaware.

Marc Andreesen published an essay "It's Time to Build" [0]. He claims that ostensibly, COVID-19 inflicted acute trauma on the U.S. economy. But it merely excaberated the symptoms of a deeper dysfuntion. The root problem is the cultural decay of "a will to build". The solution is to rekindle this norm.

Several have published their own takes [1]. pg must have figured "What you can Learn from How to Ace a YC Interview" conveniently dovetails into the larger debate. Had he written the essay in a vacuum, I suspect he'd have emphasized "sell users what they want". Rather than the grand narrative "civilization is built by founders" which might increase exposure but possibly dilute the original intent.

[0] https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

[1] https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-cultures-that...
It’s the internet ....
"But what if this vaccine triggers other yet unknown side effects, that will not manifest itself for a few years"

What if it triggers side effects after 50 years, lets postpone vaccination untill 22nd centiry!

What side effects are expected after several years, what plausible mechanism is there?
But, but... But hacker news already told us years ago it was cicadas not directed frequency used by Russians on US diplomats.
You've got it wrong. The people being thrown under the bus are the people being sent into poverty because 20% of the population can't seem to stay in quarantine.

Would you put 100 million people into poverty to save 1 life of a person who wants to go to Starbucks to get a Peppermint Mocha?
I think that’s a gross overstatement about ISP DNS.

Certainly in Europe I’ve not seen anything even close to that.

I’d love to see a good country-by-country survey on ISP DNS to see just how common this manipulation is.
Protect Your .env
Oh? Where did you see that?
>It makes me think there's room for a "consumer debt collector" service with a revenue share model.

There was a company called Service that kind of did this. They launched around 2015. You would tell them about a customer service dispute you were having, and they would call the business on your behalf and recover the money you were owed. I used them several times, and they were able to recover money for me without me having to do much except give them the details.

It looked like they had a few million in VC money to blow through because it was free, and there were no minimums on the dispute amount, so it definitely couldn't last. In Feb 2017, they added a 30% commission on recovered money,[0] and then later that year, they pivoted to focus exclusively on disputes with airlines,[1] which it looks like they're still doing.[2]

[0] https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=8cdf4d62d0219f237ed96d7...

[1] https://mailchi.mp/dcc5d15901c4/meet-service-20

[2] https://www.getservice.com/
Let's build the largest Remote Friendly cafe list together
Covid-19 taught us to work from anywhere. I struggle to find a place that has good wifi speed and quality service. Why not we create a global list of good cafes, co-working spaces we all can work?
Can you link to the results of your study?
Scalewsy Stardust instances are 1.9Eur/m.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/
It apparently cost between $30k and $60k to house a single prisoner in the US. So you have a choice: you can spend those $30k to $60k putting a homeless person in prison (not solving the problem), or spend the same money fixing the actual problem (treating it for what it is: a mental/health issue) or perhaps spend the money cleaning up the streets and provide places for people to use drugs safely. America so far has always chosen the least effective, most cruel way to pretend to solve the problem.
The premise of the article seems to be that high density cities are less energy efficient and therefore not sustainable. I think that might be debatable in itself. But in any case, that's only true if you use non sustainable sources of energy. Australia particularly has no excuse to not power it self using just wind and solar (+ batteries). They'll probably get there eventually. Switch to clean energy and then sustainability has to be about other things than energy usage.

The biggest problem Australia has is climate (heat waves) and water shortages. Even that is a solvable problem given that they are surrounded by oceans that you can produce clean water from with sustainable energy. Sustainable farming is a solution here as well.

The counter argument argument to this article is that spreading millions of people all over the place would be hugely disruptive to nature. Wherever we go, we chop down trees, turn forests into farmland, and quite often into dessert eventually. We cut roads through nature, pollute our rivers, etc. Not sustainable at all. There are soon going to be 10 billion people on this planet. The only way to sustain that is to keep most of those in cities.
Strong disagree with the sibling comment. I thought it was an easy read and the timeline was clear.

I do think it ran a little long, but no worse than that.
That's just bad usability on Slack's part, not a technical limitation of the tech. Also, afaik Slack is/has moving away from Electron.
> Native hardware acceleration is supported on Macs with M1 and Intel-based Macs through Apple’s ML Compute framework.

This lead me to believe that it supported hardware acceleration for the architecture (because it lists Intel too), which made it seem ambiguous if it supports the specific accelerator abilities of the M1.

What "native hardware acceleration" is available on Intel-based macs?
This might explain it - Switzerland is in Europe, but not part of EU. At least in EU consumer has lots of rights and is pretty well protected. I have no idea how that is in Switzerland (though what you report surprises me). That said, legal action in Europe... good luck. :)

If this happens to you a lot, go for a credit card. "Chargeback" works worldwide (afaik) and it puts you in the position of power, where merchant has to prove that you are in the wrong instead of the other way around. Simple solution and no real drawback.

EDIT: ...and change your CC company. They seem incompetent.
From a linked article:

Acoustic waves have never been shown to alter the brain’s white matter tracts, said Elisa Konofagou, a biomedical engineering professor at Columbia University who is not involved in the government’s investigation.

“I would be very surprised,” Konofagou said, adding that ultrasound in the brain is used frequently in modern medicine. “We never see white matter tract problems.”

It could be environmental and maybe other locals are affected as well. But since the U.S. does this to other countries all the time, they suspect foul play.
That's an awful lot of kit to take along on a climbing trip, and then to leave behind some of the useful bits in the accommodation.
comparing multimillion dollar sites with niche sites is pointless
> I would like to end the story with some action items like: “Next time, when I rent a place, I will do XXX.” Nothing reasonable comes to my mind.

Checking to make sure the locks work seems like a reasonable and already recommended step. How one goes immediately to some AI thing and misses 20 more realistic steps in-between is a bit perplexing to me. Second more reasonable step, keep valuables secured or in your possession.

I'm more paranoid than most with no real reason to be. I take a few moments to look around when staying in a hotel or airbnb. I turn the flashlight on to look for any hidden lenses in smoke detectors and vents etc, identify and disable things that could be used to listen in like smart speakers and tv's. I'm not looking to be some super secure safe room but a few minutes prevents most petty maliciousness or "opportunities". I'm more distrustful of Airbnb's than hotels.
Quantum chess gearing up for a commercial release
* Chris Cantwell. Quantum Chess: Developing a Mathematical Framework and Design Methodology for Creating Quantum Games (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05836

* Megan Potoski, Chris Cantwell, and Doug Strain introduce Quantum Chess as a fun tool for quantum education. Demo on a quantum computer. Day 1 of Google's Quantum Summer Symposium 2020 (July 22, 2020).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-Mb8OJuRg

* Anna Rudolf, chess grandmaster from Hungary, hosted a tournament recently
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/824369168
I'm so tired of articles like this that never enumerate solutions. Anyone can enumerate the bad things about something. You don't need to know anything about the situation to do that, so why leave the analysis at the minimally-developed step?

Analyzing the situation before schools ever used cloud platforms and why these platforms are alluring to begin with should be a big part of this discussion, because you must understand how you got here to ever understand where to go.

For example, when I was high school in the early 2000s, the most advanced setup my high school had was for students to use USB sticks or email the teachers assignments, and it sucked for everyone. The teachers each came up with their own effort to track files. And there was a lot of work for teachers, e.g. students forgetting to attach the file. Or, a clever hackerman such as myself, deleting a couple bytes in the file before attaching it to buy myself an extra day.

In university, the school used Blackboard which is apparently very expensive and definitely very underwhelming.

After those two experiences, I'm not surprised that Google suite is a true breath of fresh air for schools and students alike. I know nothing about the education system beyond this post, so I would love to hear something more informative about the situation than "capitalism bad".
Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids
I agree. That is a terribly confusing sentence.
I actually don't know what you mean. The post I responded to said that the money recovered was not enough compared to the time spent. My point is, the money is not a lot, but considering it's a low income blog anyway (there is another blog post about that) it's not too bad, especially in terms of future reward, for which he basically does not need to do anything.
Doom on Pico-8
Humble Book Bundle: Hacking 101
German Word of the Day
I think if you consider normal (fractional reserve) banking “theft” it’s pretty easy to understand why you’d also consider BitCoin as a positive force.

If, on the other hand, you accept contemporary definitions of inflation and consider normal modern monetary systems as being the least bad - then it’s a pretty different picture.

These articles invariably attract the gold heads.
> That said, Common Lisp is weird. What I find particularly jarring is that functions and variables live in different namespaces: if you put a function into a variable, you can’t just use it like a function, you have to funcall it.

Unless I’m misunderstanding, the author sounds like a developer that’s primarily used JS. It’s really not abnormal to have to include parens after a method name in a language, which indicating that you are calling a function.
The largest open library dataset (transcript)
Why do you share 'rumors' like this without some proof or at least a link?

This is how Facebook-style urban legends spread
Finally the tinfoil hat comes to good use. But would it even help?
The Ghidra decompiler is particularly impressive.
A handful of HN people have found me via the link so I don't know what is going on.

I'll ask LI to restart their computer.
Nice. One note for anyone going for this on Postgres, ordering is different so requires a different generator. There's a nuget package for that but i can't remember the name right now.

Edit: Found it https://www.nuget.org/packages/RT.Comb/
> Use your US CC, make charge-backs

I'm in the UK, and made my first ever charge back a couple of months back, after Ryanair refused to refund a flight that was cancelled due to corona virus (we'd booked it before the pandemic started). I'd paid with my CC (a UK card; not sure why it would be any different with a US CC?). I forget the exact sum, but it was something like £1,500.

Ryanair completely took the piss - they were very clearly trying to hold on to everyone's money for the duration, and ignored communications or offered ridiculous, short-lived credit notes in lieu of a refund. Several months passed like this.

Eventually I read up on how charge backs worked and called my card provider. They sent a form, and within a couple of weeks, the money was back in my account - the whole process was really straightforward, and I fully recommend using it if a vendor is outright refusing to uphold their side of the bargain.
If I may, I am not convinced that the "professional way" solved anything.

Of course just my opinion, but I read:

>In the meantime, how do you wish to resolve the matter? What outcome are you wishing for?

as an amicable prompt to find a way to solve a trifling matter in a short time.

I mean, the "professional way" has nothing to do with managing to escalate to the CEO (how exactly did you manage to get his e-mail?).

Besides, a sentence like "I will seek other means to recover the money owed." is ambiguous enough to be easily read as a threat, as there may be "other means" that are not legal.

So - still as I read it - you hassle the CEO of a company, and Mr. Herscu is tasked to understand what the issue is about, and as soon as he finds out that the matter can be solved with paying 88 US$ he pays, problem solved.
A reset css has the goal of eliminating browser inconsistencies so that you can then layer your css on top with consistent styling. That is, a reset css looks for inconsistencies between browser default styles and then makes a consistent choice.

The goal of this project is to improve the appearance of simple text websites, not reset or normalize.
Author here.

Yeah, that was my initial thought too, but thinking about it more, I understand why that doesn't exist.

Merchants are the ones paying the affiliate platforms, so the affiliate platforms don't have incentive to create features designed to increase power of the affiliates at the expense of the merchant.

Affiliates in this space don't seem to be very discriminating. The only communities I've found for keto affiliate marketers are the groups run by the merchants themselves, so it's not like they're searching for information about which merchants are honest or not. I think the general trend is to try a merchant, monitor how much they pay you, then move on if the dollar amount is too low.
The new window is the "new teams experience" which you can thankfully disable in the settings. I don't know who had built it but leaving out the fullscreen option for watching a screenshare was pretty bad.
I would guess ultrasonics or low frequency radio waves that are projected from multiple directions to converge on a location where the individual waves amplify each other, likely generating a dissonant lower frequency that resonates with the sensory structures of the human inner ear.
I thought you meant that people willingly sign up to be defrauded with their knowledge and consent.
> I'm not a webdev at all, but this just looks like 100 lines of trivial CSS to me. What am I missing?

I am not a webdev either. This is a trivial CSS indeed. I don't think you are missing anything. When I posted this on Hacker News, I was hoping some people would like it because they might find it useful. Like I said, I am not really a front-end developer. But I do hack up simple HTML pages together for simple text-based websites from time to time. While doing so, I find myself using this minimal (and trivial) CSS frequently to make the page appear slightly more pleasing compared to what it looks like with the browser defaults, so I moved all that CSS out to a separate repository and shared it here. It is useful to me. If it is useful to someone else, that's a bonus!
There's always a bigger fish. Some people think I'm smart because I can make an app, but I'm just a mere mortal code monkey compared to these true geniuses
What you're really asking is if this supports the neural engine?
GPU support is of course 'native' to the M1 also and seems to be the limit of the support here.

Neural engine support is not stated.
Capsule with asteroid samples in 'perfect' shape
Thanks for reading! Glad to hear you had an easy time following the details.
We'll see.. but minority activists have a tendency to use drama and twitter outrage a lot.

But if you take the minority part, google has a point: as a manager, she had a setback. Now instead of sucking it up and maybe wait for the next submission deadline and modify her article, she went and complain its discrimination on a internal mailing list of employees and then making ultimatums. :roll-eye: Any manager would have been fired.

Its only a special situation because she's black and work on ethics. Its privilege actually, more than discrimination here.
The young and reckless are why it continues to spread. There have been numerous reports of frat parties and college keggers being super spreader events. They lack discipline.
Acheiropoieta – On art not made with hands