skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what you call 100 Javelin equipped soldiers in a group? A target rich environment. The paper/rock/scissors idea would have mortars ranging down on that group in a flash. Try running away while humping 45lbs of gear while under mortar fire.
I hate you. Now I want to buy one of those SID chip synths!
Ask HN: How do I get my money back from Quickbooks?
I received an invoice payment for the specified amount from my US client through Quickbooks Online. Till date, Quickbooks have refused to release the money to me, because they they claim they cannot verify my Merchant account.

On further research, it seems I don't qualify for a merchant account since I am outside the US. But if they cannot provide me a merchant account, at least they should send back the payment to my client, so that I can receive it another way.

But they have terminated my account, are refusing to talk to me, and have also refused to send the money back to my client.

At this point I would like to know if there's a way to contact a higher-up at QuickBooks, or I have to file a claim in small claim court to recover my money.
Lack of selection bias would be selecting according to demography distribution. Looks like this sample has young people way overrepresented, by clikcing through a video. And young people support the war slightly less.
+1 for HA.

I'm using some Tasmota firmware gear, ie outlets from Athom, just works, no cloud, all mine forever.
Very often they say things like this: “War is certainly bad and unfair, but we have to go all the way once we have started it”. Or, “the war is unfair, but I can't be against my own country”.

There are no war supporters among people I know though, everyone has their own bubble.
Braves business is built on Google Chromes source code...

Google has 500+ staff working on that codebase. When they finally annoy Google and they decide to rewrite the license for future versions, will Brave be able to keep up?
A common criticism in this thread -- and elsewhere -- is the accumulation of subscription fees to authors. I can justify $10/month for my favorite writer's weekly work, but not another $90/month for my next 9 favorite writers' biweekly or monthly work.

What are your thoughts on handling this aspect of the economic piece of the content puzzle?
I will ignore the bizarre exception you are making for "Laws regulating the curricula of state-funded public schools" because I can still point to other examples. Here is a law that passed this month in Florida that dictates what topics employers can discuss in diversity training programs.[1]

[1] - https://www.natlawreview.com/article/florida-s-stop-woke-act...
There's a lot of faux difficulty in the form of coming up to speed/new processes/new people/new location with any job. I promise they'll both be sufficiently hard until about the six month mark. The question is if you'd like the difficulty to roll off from there, or continue at a plateau (or maybe even increase).
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1683/
Maybe the author ate too much tofu and is now sick of it

What race is tofu?

"No More Strawberry"

"No More Apple"

"No More Salt"

"No More Chocolate"

"No More Sugar"

am i racist too?
> eminent domain to seize unused property
You're probably right.

I don't have a source but I vaguely remember reading about how salt is no different than fat or cholesterol in terms of how it correlates to your body. Fat does not make you fat. Cholesterol doesn't raise your cholesterol. Salt doesn't raise your sodium levels. Excess calorie consumption combined with lots of fat (high in calories), will indeed, make you fat. Excess calorie consumption combined with lots of cholesterol, will raise cholesterol levels. Salt is no different.

This is an interesting read about salt from a 2011 article.

"Intersalt, a large study published in 1988, compared sodium intake with blood pressure in subjects from 52 international research centers and found no relationship between sodium intake and the prevalence of hypertension. In fact, the population that ate the most salt, about 14 grams a day, had a lower median blood pressure than the population that ate the least, about 7.2 grams a day."

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...

EDIT:

The above referenced article has been discussed here on HN a few times over the years for anyone who wants to read previous comments.

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=end+war+on+salt
Jumping on to agree: it is absolutely untrue that the devices are bricked. The hub and app are just pretty useless right now.

In fact, with Insteon, you can even set up and link devices manually without any hub at all, using the "set" buttons on the devices. The scenes and links and triggers are all stored locally on each device, iirc.
Oreology investigates mystery of why Oreo creme filling sticks to one side
Done! But it still wont get any security updates then so by the parent’s comment it might as well be useless.
Guess I know what I’m learning this weekend.

Anyone have tutorials they want to share?
I'm U.S., and I'd assert that all of our informational conveyance (from language to measurements) is a confusing mashup. English is a pidgin language, and we're so accustomed to the weird mashup that it doesn't seem jarring to us sometimes to mix metric and imperial in the same context. Not defending it (because it's honestly awful), just explaining why we might not notice until it's pointed out to us.
I did it once with GIMP, and apply it every time with xournal. In my experience people do not really require that the PDF looks printed and scanned, so I never cared about that aspect.
I’m aware it’s a mess and the story is crazy, but unless we have hard evidence that something is legitimately misinformation, especially when it comes from a mostly reputable news source (NYP), then it should not be suppressed. And importantly: this standard should be held consistently, regardless of who benefits politically.

The “left a laptop at a repair shop” part is of course bizarre, but makes about as much sense to me as anything else that Hunter seems to have done in his life.
>>>But you need to distinguish. If refugees are knocking to my door I won't say: "You are Nazis". If Ukraine is defending against invasion, I will advocate for sending weapons. And so on.

Sure, but there is a big gulf between "Ukrainian Nazis are Kremlin misinformation" and "We recognize some of your people are morally questionable but still desire to arm/equip you in the justified defense of your homeland."

We used to be much more honest with ourselves when we were getting in bed with useful bastards (Werner von Braun running our space program and Eric von Manstein "advising" the post-war Bundeswehr are two of my favorites). Messaging has devolved into a very simplistic good/bad binary model when reality is much more grey.
~90% of people in China are homeowners [1]. China's investments are extremely disproportionately R/E compared to other countries (70% vs 35% for the US) [2].

The CCP has immense pressure to prop this bubble up, and they have many options:

* Lower lending standards (you need to put 25% down to buy a house in China, but only 3.5% in the US)

* Lower interest rates (mortgage rates are negative in some parts of Europe, but ~5%+ in China)

* Mortgage interest deduction

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7546956/#:~:tex...).

[2] https://fortune.com/2021/12/02/chinese-real-estate-investing....
It's just serverless architecture. It may not fit for every project.

We use the concept to add meta tags to our client-side-rendered webapp for search indexing. We can decouple our client app from our server and deploy each separately. We use "serverless functions" to add some meta tags that need to be added server-side.
Well, let's see. I currently work remotely and have 3-5 hours of meeting per day. So I'd say I spend about 5 hours on my phone.
Mozilla kicked one of its main creators years ago too, and that guy is the one making Brave... so no surprise ;)

Features that should come out on Mozilla will instead come out of Brave...
In an article covering bad engineering resulting in bricking, I think it's relevant to point out that Insteon's kind of bricking is impossible if you choose the right product, and which product that is.

I did some research before investing in home automation. I settled on Z-Wave exclusively exactly because there are multiple manufacturers in the market, their devices are interoperable, and I can use Free Software controller software that I host myself that doesn't phone home. Admittedly I am dependent on binary firmware blobs embedded in every device, but at least my system has no Internet dependency whatsoever.
Well you'd be taking a bet on the regulations changing in the future.
Rolex has a powerful brand for how many decades now? Not gonna Google it but probably at least 40 years. The chance people will suddenly decide Rolex sucks is very low. NFTs have a few decades to go I think before we can compare them to Rolex.
Johnny Decimal – A system to organise projects
This can improve the situation, but I'm not sure if it would truly solve it. I believe the proper solution is to simply ban buying non-commercial buildings as an investment. If you're not living on it, you can't own it. I can't see why one would be against this aside from greediness.
"continual decline" is an understatement of how big the decline supposedly is. I calculated the actual decline in my other comment[1]. In short, if their figures are to be believed, the US economy contracted 67% in real terms between 2000 and 2020. That would put US GDP per capita between Guyana and Argentina. Even if you believe the "US is in decline narrative", it's hard to believe that it's been declining to the level of Guyana or Argentina.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31085430
"We've been trying to reach you about your Google Account Extended Access Warranty".

To unlock your account, please enter the code in the email we sent you.
How does AMP interact with Brave's advertising monetization, BAT?
The burden on proof is on the people doing the censoring. If they wanna censor one theory they need do disprove it or prove another one. And this goes for all subjects, not just 'rona.
As a video editor most definitely. And yes there are more professional machines but frankly their low to mid-tier models have a ton of firepower and work great for me these days. I used to drop $2500-$3000 on my Macs to edit but I can do great with $1350-$1800 now, especially since I don't need After Effects/Motion much
Looking at pictures, it has two visible round jet nozzles which suggests it has much higher radar cross-section and IR-signature than F-35.
Distributed Cache Systems and High Availability on Redis: Vol. 1(Master-Replica)
This project reminds me of another way to avoid dealing with taxing corporate policies that are nonsensical; receipts. If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in https://makereceipt.com/
For a few years, I had a consulting practice that implemented stuff written by Microsoft, IBM and others, mostly using scripts and little applications that were posted on the web for free.

It was the only way to make the business work, as work for hire would be owned by the customer, and we didn't have the money to waste arguing with massive corporations.

It's like anything else tools + labor = work product.
It drives people nuts but I say there are many characters in Unicode

https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/quotation-marks/

if you need a new kind of quote, so you could write

Integer index = 77;
Statement s = « SELECT COUNT(*) FROM that WHERE x = @index »;

People ask me "How do you type those on the keyboard?" and I say, "I don't type them on the keyboard, I cut and paste them." I use >128 codepoints all the time and mostly I don't need to because autocomplete works with them. No reason you can't write

out.println(√(41.0))
Data science salaries grow by 25% in the past 5 years
And that quote is exactly why there should not be an endless push to turn corporations into financial "growth" machines.

When you solve a problem, you stop. Scale your solution, but stop. Otherwise it's just psychopaths playing out power fantasies.
I discovered this project recently via some random HN post, and I've been contemplating using it to start over with my very chaotic Emacs configuration.

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

The list of features:

* Improved UX, that's still in line with Emacs traditions

* Sane defaults of baseline Emacs functionality

* Automatic installation of many major programming modes on demand

* A curated set of 3rd party packages to enhance the base functionality

* Simple modular architecture

* Easy customization
Being remote has increased my phone usage. I can just be on my phone during meetings. In person it's not appropriate, but remote they don't see it.
If you can rotate around it then it's not a video. :-)

Maybe I'm pedantic on this because I work with VR a lot where the terminology is a mess. (Are 360 videos "VR"? Then what do we call actual VR videos? etc etc.)
Links in the "text" part of the submission form are not clicky. Try posting this again, but add the URL only to the "URL" field and keep the "text" fiel empty. Also, remember to add http://
If you know some Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp isn't hard to learn (and they're even closer than when I learned elisp 15-20 years ago). Some minor gotchas with literal syntax (literal arrays/vectors and chars are represented differently in each) and some differences in their standard libraries. A more major gotcha is elisp's dynamic scope, which comes up if you're used to lexical scope.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Dy...

In practice, I've never been bitten by this except when I tried to do some fancier functional programming things in elisp that I normally would use another language for. And you can specify that you want lexical scope:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Le...

The whole section those two come from: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Va...
If you read the study you would know the answer, because they literally define the very thing you’re asking about.

As helpfully posted elsewhere in this thread:

> Helping to address concerns about potential liberal bias among fact-checkers, we also examined untrustworthiness ratings from politically-balanced crowds of demographically representative (quota-sampled) American laypeople recruited via Lucid (15), rather than professional fact-checkers.
Isn't that true of literally everything though? Raw vegetables are not safe to eat unless washed properly, cooked meat isn't safe to eat unless cooked properly, raw meat isn't safe to eat unless handled properly, damn even something as simple as garlic oil isn't safe to eat unless you know exactly how it was prepared and stored.

I have no idea if the risk with sashimi is any greater than with other things, but I'd guess not?
Hmm. Intentionally? That would be beautifully ironic if Putin nerfed the army (judging a competent army as being a threat to his rule), and then he didn't have a working army when he wanted to invade Ukraine.
From Wikipedia on "Percentage Point"

> A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points, but a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured.[1] In literature, the unit is usually either written out,[2] or abbreviated as pp or p.p. to avoid ambiguity. After the first occurrence, some writers abbreviate by using just "point" or "points".
I've had trouble finding good data on this. Locally, farmers have had their water cut to the bone, upstream reservoirs are empty, and people are paying big bucks to drill their wells deeper. It's a notable change over 8 years. We're set for now as regular consumers, but I don't feel comfortable betting on the 15-year timeframe where I live now.

So we're eyeing the more sure things, e.g. far PNW, and NE US.

I certainly wouldn't move to an area that depends on the Colorado river, but that's just me.

And who knows--maybe something will trigger with climate change and Vegas suddenly gets rain soaked and verdant.
>Similarly, one could argue that supernatural beings from alternative universes are constantly intervening in local events, but they make sure to do it only when the scientists aren't watching.

The atheism catechism already has an entry for this, it's the teapot hypotheses. It goes, "nobody can refute my claim that there is a teapot in the asteroid belt, but nobody should believe it either."

That sounds like a good argument to me although I don't know the metaphysical philosophical details of why. (Occam's razor?) No matter our stances in abstract epistemology we must all agree we can't go around believing every irrefutable claim we or anyone else thinks of, at minimum because many are contradictory.
Help. My satire meter is broken because I am reading this as if it was written seriously.

You know the most vocal opponents of tofu that I know of, non-vegans/non-vegetarians. People who will let you know they couldn't be vegan or vegetarian because they love meat and hate tofu.

They aren't racist, they just have a food preference. If the name was "no more meat" would your argument still apply? Is that racist? If so against who?
See NYT "hit" pieces on substack:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/business/media/substack-n...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/business/media/substack-g...

Along with one of Substack's founders responding to it: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1514318085083340807
The USA stock market went through one of histories greatest bubbles from 1927 to 1929. Afterwards, it took the stock market 24 years to recover. But by the mid 1950s, the stock market was rising to new heights.

This also assumes you put no new money in the market and ignoring dividends. Buying the dip in the 30s, 40s would have cut this time to breakeven significantly. Also, we're talking a once in a 100+ year event. We may never see a repeat of a similar sized crash again in our lifetimes.
You are saying stocks have no value? That is on you to make the case because humanity disagrees...
So you're reading way too much into it, despite posting an article that explains what tofu are in the context of typefaces? There's no racism here. Not even a hint of it.

Your reductio ad absurdum that follows doesn't do your argument any favours either.
The history books will not be kind to those that supported lockdowns, nor should they be.
I wonder that the EU commission hasn't used GDPR or some anti-conpetition law to ban AMP in the EU.
You can't say "fiction" to anything just because you don't like it. There is always a another side, always, but you just say "fiction".

I really liked your comment:

>This happens everywhere. I personally know someone in Russia who sent their kids to very sketchy pan-Slavic 'rodnover' far-right camps.

I'm looking forward to you showing where in Russia children were taught to kill Russians and yell "Москаляку на гиляку" (hang up the Russians)

It is not so much the presence of nationalists that is important (as you said "This happens everywhere"), but the attitude of the country towards them (Nazis Germany doesn't happen everywhere).
Desperately need a bundle type offering. I wouldn't pay $5 x 5 different subscriptions, but I'd do a $10 bundle for 4 newsletters, or the like.
I believe Walter’s comment (sibling to yours) is a common experience because there isn’t a solid relationship with superiors before the negotiation takes place.

Building relationships takes time. Restarting new relationships every couple years via job hopping can impede such a conversation and make it feel more transactional than mutually beneficial. Since short tenure is more common, this may be another reason Walter finds his colleagues’ experience common.

When negotiating, I knew I was solving the right problems for my superiors and I wanted to keep working to solve their problems but for wages which were more competitive. My bosses understood, wanted the same, and used the offers from other companies to make the case for a raise or promotion.

I would not advise going into a negotiation simply with the notion “I can get paid more over here.” That wasn’t the point of the negotiation. If you go about it that way I believe it would be damaging. A conversation only about pay feels transactional which is damaging to these kinds of long-term relationships. Instead, I was truly desiring to continue my good working relationship with my bosses, but for more pay, and the negotiation was the way for both of us to win.

Over a long time, relationship building snowballs and can be even more effective. The last time I did this after working at the same place for a decade, I got a call from the company’s CTO a few hours after my talk with my manager. He was traveling on business but made time for me to discuss my concern since he knew my work. The call was the start of a satisfying new career direction in a new department.
> "Anti-censorship" is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days.

I don’t know where did you get this idea? What did you mean “mainstream intellectual community”? Do you have any evidence like mass signatures supporting censorship from mainstream intellectuals?

People consume too much Reddit / Twitter sometimes live in an alternative reality.
Ah, wasm... The site managed to almost kill my machine until the tab committed OOM suicide, I guess this explains why.
I always think it's the cleaning solution LOL
Western whataboutism is a really underexplored phenomenon.

Why do they always do diminish struggle of people and nations outside of West?

It's like they're always saying "nah everybody hurts, you're not going through anything special, let's talk about us instead".
No.

From the website you linked:

> Unless you’re an American well-versed in typography, tofu will be no more than little squares of bean curd to you, but in fact it’s a plague that’s affected designers ever since type went digital. Tofu are in fact the little outlined boxes that appear when a character can’t be rendered on screen, usually because nobody has found the time to create a design for the Unicode.

I still see tofu for emoticons in text sometimes.

(Digital) tofu - not being able to see the characters/emoticon intended - is what is gross.
Can you list some?
Replace the diamonds with housing and it's spot on in the West.
> You can’t “remove” those errors — they are likely the primary cause of the perceived gap.

I think you can fix the errors and exclude more opinion-based "fact checks" if you review the underlying data carefully and transparently. Whether those fixes and exclusions close the gap is currently a matter of opinion, and I think we should try to do better than just everyone just having their own opinions on it. That's my whole point.
It can display merge conflicts (as Git can display those) but it doesn't resolve them. It's purely a display tool. Its installation instructions recommend setting `merge.conflictstyle = diff3` but that's not an automatic process.
Please expand upon this argument.
It's like why they publish "troubleshooters" that shoot about as well as those Stormtroopers in Star Wars.

(To be fair I've found the network and audio troubleshooters do work about 20% of the time.)
Chopsticks are for eating the food floating in the soup then you’d normally drink the broth after?
The worst thing about emacs is there is no good newbie init.el that has no more than 10 packages to fix the very common starter pain points.

I don't recommend first time emacs users start with Doom. Everybody should get their feet wet with plain vanilla emacs, with evil mode turned on if they are coming from vim.

Then after a while, they should try Doom. Just to get a sense of what it can do.