skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fascinating that Americans find this outrageous, given how the very same Americans consider it to be MY duty to tip 20% (since restaurants, despite being obscenely expensive, don't actually pay waiters unless waiters get less than minimum wage in tips; pretty much what DoorDash is doing)
Some tips:

Note that many free credit monitoring services exist, and most credit cards nowadays have this feature available. These qualify you for the $125 payout.

Up to 10 hours effort ($250) can be claimed without documentation, for time spent battling or preventing ID theft. Preventing is probably key here, and could cover a lot of activities.
Unpopular (or at least unconventional) opinion: depleted aquifers are a good thing, because it's turns one of the externalities of outrageously exploited agriculture into a true cost. More expensive food means less land use and less energy spent irrigating what we do grow.

(I felt the same way about "peak oil" 20 years ago, but alas fracking messed that guess up.)
the answer is: "IT DEPENDS", on dozens of factors, starting with your environmental heat & humidity, and current workload.

Generally, drink at least enough so that you pee clear once a day, and not too dark. If it is clear all the time, you may have other issues. Also, roughly follow your thirst (unless you are drinking sweetened / salted drinks).
Gunther Stent made an interesting comment about this: "I believe that science is, by nature, reductionist, but I also believe that reductionism will not carry us all the way. One of the reasons why I think science will eventually peter out is because you must always explain some higher level in terms of some lower level - that's what scientists have to do. But I think that when finally we get to sufficiently complex things, this will not be possible."

That's one perspective. I do wonder how deep we'll get with understanding and simulating the brain.
I agree with you on all the points you made above.

Whataboutism is never the right choice. Stay focused. Fight the good fight. Don't let them (or yourself) distract you. Stay focused comrade!
Sounds like a great payout for the lawyers, but a terrible one for individuals. I bet you have to sign off on 'never holding equifax liable again for this breach' as part of your free monitoring
As reificator says, the idea is making headway. Politics require compromise. Ideally it would be opt-in, with strict regulations and severe penalties still in place.
Equifax tracking is opt-in. It's a term on any loan or credit card you take out.
The G in GNOME originally stood for GNU, actually.

Gnome is still listed as a GNU package here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html

Today, however, Gnome is a rather independent project, with its own GNOME Foundation.

(There was also GNUStep but it was never popular)
I work on parts of this project. No one outside of Markrams small close circle thought HBP would do what he promised, but it was rather seen as a way to fund ambitious computational neuroscience projects otherwise unimaginable. For example, Neuromorphic chips have been ever present within HBP. We are building new multiscale simulation tools to tackle neuro degenerative diseases. The list goes on. Simulating a human brain itself was just the tag line, technically already accomplished by eg Izhikevich, TheVirtualBrain project, Eliasmith's SPAUN among others.

edit despite working within the project I definitely think a critical view of such large funding is essential, so articles like this are welcome
>Interestingly, "keks" is singular

Same thing in Russian.

More interestingly, it also happened with other loanwords, even with newer ones: e.g.

* бакс = bucks (a dollar) -> plural баксы

* памперс = pampers (diaper, genericized) -> plural памперсы

* чипс = chips (potato chip) -> plural чипсы

My guess is that the word was loaned in its plural form, that form was modified to have the "right" ending, and a singular was backformed from that. Like boots -> бутсы (no singular form.. yet).
$25/hr is peanuts
Look, it's not my pet project, I'm just pointing out that if we decided we needed to track groundwater usage for whatever reason- price, allocation, whatever- it could probably be reasonably done.
Surely I can pay for my own anything that my city provides through my taxes, including roads and safe drinking water. I live in a place where I don't, and I like it that way. I much prefer it to dirt tracks and wells. Others may not place such a high value in that. Too bad, they also have to pay property taxes.

It is a good deal for me, I'm not denying that.
At 36 degrees Celsius of wet-bulb temperature, your body is not able to cool itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

The maximal temperature when you can still cool down depends on humidity and is exactly 36 degrees Celsius with 100% humidity.
That's like when websites say I've opted into such and such just by visiting the website. It's a stretch to call something opt-in when it's unavoidable in modern life.
Delivery should be paid for by the company at a known price. Tips should go to the delivery person. Their model was basically giving the tips to the company, which is not what a customer wants. If I knew my tip was just going to the company I wouldn't give one.

Unfortunately stuff like this happens at many local restaurants. The jobs are allowed to pay below minimum wage and let the tips pay the employee. Some places abuse that even further.
Although it sounds radical (16 cores!) it's a rather low end chip. So months to a year, and millions to low 10s of millions of dollars. However the Chinese govt is massively investing in semiconductors at the moment so they will regard that as valuable research and investment rather than a cost.
Improvise. Add plastig bags to a suit of your choice.
Add Ice.
Your fridge is now your AC.
wow, now wondering what that accident might really be.. ;)
People with wealth are targeted by scammers who file fraudulent claims against them. These fall under the liability portion of your insurance.

It's not about the house or car, it's about that $10MM in your bank people want to go after by claiming that you tripped them and they broke their back.
A lot of the remote FUSE filesystems actually cache to disk and upload asynchronously to avoid noticable latency.
Vectorised Byte Operations
Why not make huge floating sunsails? Some blimps and a ultra thin material.. shadded city during the day.. bonuspoints if the ultra thin material are solar cells, keeping the sail afloat..
Multiply this by every single person who has to do this whole process.
Who knows, farmers understand that they essentially compete with their neighbor for groundwater, so maybe they would police eachother & ensure that everyone plays fair & had a meter. Just dreaming.
I was thinking today how when I was a kid and watched TV at least there was some sort of oversight about what could be broadcast and advertised on TV, especially to children. There is no such thing on youtube or the internet, so people that let their small child loose on a tablet as a babysitter scare the bejeezus out of me.
I kept an eye on my own comment. From +14 to negative whatever.

There was a noticeable trend. You may want to believe you're not "sheople". Studies suggest otherwise.
The UK's Conservative Party fill Facebook with Boris Johnson ads: 554 versions
You're right of course, but thermal mass is important too.
Reminds me of the KenM comment where he gets back at Papa Johns' by not tipping the delivery driver.

https://i.redd.it/jrusids6bggy.png

> I'm not giving my tip dollers to a company that doesn't support working people
This resonates with me, but what caused me to definitively stop using the app was the spam notifications which literally cannot be turned off. That was the last straw of user-hostility that made the app too unpleasant to use. I switched off every last email notification in order to keep that stuff out of my email inbox (nothing less was sufficient to stop it), which made it very easy to permanently ignore the app.

I'm sure the spam notifications A/B tested well for engagement though, /eyeroll.
Some great advice! Is there something like this more specific to computer science theses?
Was watching a nursery rhyme channel with my 1.5 year old son...then an ad comes on for a drug trafficking series on Netflix...drugs, guns, etc
why not just sanction or tariff beef exports? Seems like a simpler solution.
And its a great plant to boot!

- Kids love to play in it.

- Quickly soaks up CO2 by growing phenomenally fast.

- Great at mitigating soil erosion and keeping slight hills from sliding

- Great feed if you live in the country (I drive by an old horse shelter on my way to work).

- Oh, and you don't have to water it if you don't live in a place where it's not supposed to be.

But that says more about the people that live where grass shouldn't be than it does for us who live where grass wants to be.
It's not like that at all.

When you take out a loan or credit card you sign a legal document agreeing to all of the various terms. You don't sign anything when visiting a website.
Technically you can still get loans and credit. It's just a lot harder and requires more underwriting and proof instead of having a single, handy Credit Score number attached to you from various agencies.
4xx errors are no better or worse than 5xx. They just mean different things.

Generally, 4xx errors means 'Client screwed up'. There's probably no point sending this message again, it isn't going to work until something is fixed. That might mean it will work if, for example, the account is funded or card unlocked. But something needs to be done on behalf of the client.

5xx errors mean 'Server screwed up'. It probably _is_ worth having another attempt at sending the request. Maybe it was a temporary glitch, or maybe a new release of the server has to happen. Regardless, there was probably nothing inherently wrong with the actual request.
> Check if the value different than the default, e.g., empty string

which is a worse version of the GP's

> explicitly encode an empty/null state in your values
Silence from the technocrats.

Pretty much everyone that comments on HN is basically a part of the extremely corrupt democratic party.

Basically HN is full of warmongering deepstaters or those who work and/or directly support as much.
You can over-hydrate though. The myth that you need tons and tons of water has actually led to over-hydration which can cause serious problems or even death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
After the community push back in 2015, this is no longer true. Most of the software is being open sourced, and the data from the BigBrain project is already open and will complement similar sized data from Allen Institute and the HCP.

I work for a work package leader for the next round of funding, and the European Commission seems to be demanding a Apollo level focus nowadays.
Yeah right, "Satya" is literally Stallman.
According to the FAQ if more than $31 million in claims are made, the amount of the payment will be reduced. So, the number of people who can receive $125 is ~250,000. I can't imagine they'll get fewer claims than that given how many people were included in the breach.

That's just wild. Where's the rest of the money going?

Source: https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/faq#q-10
No- but that presupposes the existence of a well functioning free market, which everyone agrees we do not have with water.
You can now 'borrow' a dog for the day via Doggy Day Out programs
The microphone cutting has been going on since long before the debate, kiddo.

Welcome to the private-government deplatforming dystopia.
>I haven't had to unclog a toilet in years.

I too haven't had to unclog a toilet for reasons other than deficient toilets and/or excrement size for years.
CreditKarma offers free credit monitoring.
Oftentimes what you think is hunger is thirst.

Babies who have stomach trouble sometimes over-eat because they mistake stomach pain for hunger.

So instinct/reactions aren't failsafe. Especially when we've loaded our diet with addicting things.
Can anyone think of any likely and plausible explanations for what went wrong on Google's end?
>If someone is able to figure out how to use less water to grow the same amount of crops

We've already had that for years. Farmers don't want to make the structural investments required to get there. Water for farming needs to become prohibitively expensive for them to even consider moving away from their wasteful large fields. Tax the hell out of the land, too.

What takes an acre of land and 100,000 gallons of water (a crop of wheat grass) can be done in a building 1/8 of an acre, 90% lower water requirements if not more, and produce 6x more than what the open plot of land does, on a yearly basis, on average.

I did and proved that almost a decade ago. Looks like nobody still wants to listen.
I'm not a proponent of censorship by any means, but I'm starting to get serious fatigue of these types of stories.

Especially in the case of politicians, I have no sympathy when Google or Facebook or Twitter decides to terminate or otherwise take action on an account. Rally behind them until it becomes inconvenient, then launch a suit! What hypocrisy.

We got here because of our weird fervor for capitalism, holding it up as some pinnacle of society. Yet when a company successfully exploits all that capitalism has to offer, it's screams and outrage!

I admit, I am not fully up to speed on this story. But here's the kicker - after reading this article, I still have no idea what the story is. This is just boilerplate "rally against the big tech companies!" without any rhyme or reason - at least no reason mentioned in the article.

>Please join Tulsi in her fight for our core American values of free speech and fair elections.

Free speech flows two ways, which is often forgotten. Corporate entities are entitled to free speech as well, for the better or for worse. They are also entitled to remove anyone from their platform or limit the services they offer someone. This is baked into the concept of capitalism. The whole legal system is built on the premise that corporations are awarded autonomy / person-hood.

The whole rallying against the corporations which capitalism enabled, in the name of capitalism and free speech.. I just don't understand it.

We wanted capitalism. We got it.

Stop begging for governments to intervene in private companies, while praising capitalism like some god. Pick a path. And then, apparently, ask for some donations.
Can anyone recommend a good synth that will be fun to play with but not too confusing for 3–5 year old kids? (With adult helpers who have some basic piano experience but don’t know much about synths.)
>You murder someone... you deserve to be removed from society permanently

I disagree, if only in the sense that I may consider some killings that meet the legal definition of murder to not deserve permanent removal from society.

>You murder [an innocent child]... you deserve to be removed from society permanently

I agree, but, barring practical constraints, killing isn't the only way to do that. It is, unfortunately, the easiest, as well as the most gratifying to many people's sense of bloodlust in regards to people they hate who perhaps are not as evil as child murderers, or perhaps have been wrongly or disproportionately convicted. I think there is a dramatic problem where, more and more, people want to use emotions to dictate laws. If somebody hurt my child badly enough, I'd want them dead - and not just in the heat of the moment. But I'd consider it dystopic to enshrine my pain and emotional need for revenge into law.

>Tax payers should not be spending their hard-earned money keeping the evil murderers alive.

I agree, but I think this problem is one entire tier of gravity down from the decision of whether or not to institutionalize the killing of citizens, and does not have a place in the moral question, which is the interesting and relevant one.

>Full stop.

You're immediately broadcasting an unwillingness to engage and discuss, which I think is antithetical to the spirit of HN.
if you have a mac, why not start out with garageBand? It's actually quite capable and it's free!
I would hope so, especially if you're raking in $22 million a year reviewing toys:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ryan-toysreview-7-year-old-m...

With L.O.L. Surprise, they don't even need to buy commercials, Youtube does that for them:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lol-surprise-hot-new-toy/
HBP has not much to do with AI/ML though the latter are used for model building within HBP
stoked to see this on multiple fronts:

- someone with a vested interest + some modicum of power can hold .google's feet to the fire on this issue and will likely hammer the point home even post-settlement or whatever (remember when they out of the blue suspended my ad account?...)

- Tulsi maybe gets more exposure as a candidate, leading people to her anti-war ideals, which may influence other candidates

admittedly haven't heard google's side but there's precedent here for them committing unwarranted screw ups. of course, if the campaign did do something naughty that'd be a pretty big self inflicted wound.
What would replace science? Some sort of enterprise of systemic analysis?

"We see all the dots science has shone a light on. Let's now figure out how they're connected and how they affect each other."

That would be cool.
If you follow the minutes of the MQTT TC at OASIS, after the release of MQTT v5 there is now talk of formalising the MQTT-SN spec in a similar fashion, that should lead (in time) to more robust implementations.
It's nice to know big business keeps on telling the voters who to elect.
Ah, true. I hadn’t thought of droppings off the tree. (Comment was edited I think, or I seriously lack reading comprehension.)
So the persecution feeling of "nerds" from "jocks" is "mostly in their head and self-inflicted", but the persecution for being "alpha" from "guys with smaller frames" is totally real. And really, I really can't help to think about all the mental baggage someone who uses the term "alpha" has.
It probably doesn't help much that all of our asteroid detection is through passive means. But then we don't necessarily want to go around blasting gigawatts of radar energy around the whole solar system either - better hope there aren't any not-so-friendly aliens watching the skies.
I don't think anyone said "care". Regulations are meant to force firms to meet a minimum level of a requirement (eg safety, anti-discrimination, etc).
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I have to question your overall understanding of the topic of message passing. Channels are a well-established concept in messaging.
Let me add as well: Some similar types of things are happening in the US. Politics above science.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-...
I envy you guys all. It takes me up to 2 hours in the evening and I am not happy with the results.
It's Highwayland.

Highwayland is the America that connects the other Americas together. It spans the entire continent by itself, but everywhere else is only a short drive from it. No one lives there, but everybody passes through. The interstate highway system didn't create Highwayland, but homogenized and unified it.

Everyone is a little bit comfortable in Highwayland, but also a little bit bored. It has McDonald's, Subway, Taco Bell, a Cracker Barrel, a 4-story 1-corridor hotel with indoor pool and fitness center that offers free copies of USA today in the lobby, a 2-story discount motel where the room doors open to the parking lot, the dine-in restaurant open from 6 to 10, two gas stations or truck stops across the road from each other, each with their own bustling convenience stores that sell sausages, egg rolls, and round tacos that cook on the hot dog roller, with 128-oz fountain drinks, all for $4.

If it were too interesting, people wouldn't want to leave, and the transit dimension would clog up with loiterers and squatters.

You can take a photo of Highwayland from anywhere in Highwayland, and see all the same features, but you can also strike out in a random direction from Highwayland, travel 15 minutes, and find a place unlike anywhere else on Earth, with its own local character that is instantly identifiable to anyone that has ever been there.

Sometimes the local character is strong enough to overwhelm Highwayland, just for a few miles (Highwayland abhors kilometers), and the uniqueness seeps in. Maybe you can see the city skyline, or a university campus, or a hospital. It doesn't happen often, though. Highwayland craves sameness. Mostly, it is the realm of the consistent, the predictable, and the reliable.
Both sides, Democrat and Republican, are now anti big tech.

Love it or Hate it, when you piss off the most powerful governing body on the planet you're in for a bad time.

My question is more timeframe: Google obviously won't be broken up tomorrow, but probably earlier than a decade from now.

I guess the timeframe depends on who wins the next presidential election?
I sympathize but wasn't that an advertisement targeted at you specifically? Meaning, the platform didn't know you were with your child. Should targeted ads change their age appropriateness with the content of the viewed material? I imagine not...
Quantum computing curious -Important beyond theoretical computer science?
It might be more appropriate to link to a indepdent article about this rather than Gabbard's site. Here is one from The Verge [1].

It sounds like Google's fraud/spam algorithms automatically triggered the suspension (maybe due to a large increase in spend meant to build on Gabbard's post debate momentum). The account was unlocked after human intervention. Gabbard insinuates the initial suspension was politically motivated, which seems hard to believe. But either way, it highlights a long standing problem with Google giving algorithms so much power. It is also potentially more damaging for the all of us who aren't presidential candidates and can't get our accounts quickly restored if we mistakenly anger some unknown Google algorithm.

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/8930373/google-tulsi-gabb...
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Most people don’t even know when they conceive. A significant number of pregnancies end in miscarriage without the woman ever knowing. Lack of a catalog of issues is only the first obstacle to any kind of “correction at conception”.