skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many places Papa John's gets away with illegally taking tips away from delivery drivers. KenM is actually smart because by not tipping he forces PJ's to make up the missing wage if the driver doesn't hit minimum wage.

Oh! But PJ's screws that over by trying to call the employee an independent contractor. Oh yea, they try the same crap as Uber and Lyft and the other rideshare and delivery companies. In fact, they're practically the modern pioneers of the new 'independent contractor' scam. these 'tech companies' are just copying what the pizza industry has been doing for ages.
Ok, switched to that from https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/8930373/google-tulsi-gabb....
1) Neither vegans nor meat eaters want to be tricked. But are we to conclude that some vendors just don't care which customers they trick?

2) It wouldn't be weird, though it might be hard, to create a regulation that says, "'veggie burger' means burger made without meat". What would be hard is getting restaurants to stop acting like they have to trick customers into buying food they wouldn't voluntarily buy, like vegetarian burger == beef-based burger accompanied by vegetables, or as legend has it, mahi mahi that turns out to be dolphin fish (has gills) but people think it's the air-breathing, womb-having, mammal dolphin.
Yeah, Google probably has no legal obligation to be an equal-opportunity ad platform however they really should be more careful when it comes to internal procedures like this. For instance whitelisting all potential candidates would have been a better idea.

Besides, if they are so eager to make algorithms decide things like this only to be fixed later by a human, they should at least set better thresholds or include some heuristics to find correlations that might legitimize the increase in spending or clickthrough.
Some people still cling to the 10-year old image of "good guy Google."

I used to be one of those people.
Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday
Wow. I had absolutely no idea! Thanks for sharing that link, learned something new today
Traditional AC is heat pumps, they're the same thing and no efficiency difference.
How would that work for those Russian toy videos my kid likes so much? Are we going to force American laws on Russia or just segregate the videos?
It seems not too difficult to turn them on equally for every candidate that made the debate and had to qualify with either a polling or a donator threshold.
Kind of sad you're being downvoted for a completely frank comment that pretty much answers almost everyone's question in this submission.
> but most states have similar state laws

Which are addressed in the part of my post after the first sentence (which is entirely consistent with your link): they don't generally apply to all email from a public university address, or even (because of both express exceptions in the state laws and superceding federal law) all university employee communication using such addresses.
The Playtime Audio Blipblox might fit the bill. It's a proper synth, but it's built like a Fisher Price toy.

https://blipblox.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s98te0b4bo

From a more music-oriented perspective, I might suggest the Casio SA-77 - it's a whole bunch of fun for $50.

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-SA76-mini-Sized-Tones/dp/B00Q83...
> So in america, if something is on my private property, it becomes mine?

No, I think the argument is the same as with a car being impounded:

1. You left shit on my property.

2. It's still yours, but I had to move it off my property.

3. The problem you created has cost me money.

4. You need to reimburse me. I'll hold onto the item for collateral.
Man, legally doing some scummy things with paperwork is one thing. Maybe they should take the money back.

But violent crime is another thing entirely. The payoff matrix is totally different and hinges on the neutralization effect. And the damage done by the crime can't be reversed, unlike pure monetary losses. You can pay back stolen wages. You can't un-kill a murder victim or un-rape a woman.

Anyone who's ready to point a gun at people and engage a dangerous police chase needs to be of the street for a while. Ideally, until he ages enough for his hormone balance to calm him down a notch.

Also note that this dude likely has a record already. If that's the case, letting him out basically means signing up not innocent citizens to be terrorized and possibly killed in his inevitable future crimes. Perhaps you're okay with that risk of you think you won't be the one getting shot. If you knew you would be his next victim, you'd be asking for more than 17 years.
Changed to that now. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20528797.
YouTube is aware that multiple people watch videos under one account. They are also aware of the nature of the content of the video and should be able to adjust ads based on that as well.
The YouTube Data API is a bit...arbitrarily fussy. (example: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1154482894850498561)

I'm tempted to revamp my old scraper for it and open source it.
Or hollow gourds
You can already opt out of that system, but you have to pay for that privilege.

There is already a good number of lending options available to the many (millions?) of people disenfranchised from the traditional banking system. Usually that means offering strong collateral.

But the terms of those options aren’t too great because trustworthiness and risk have a strong negative correlation. And those who can prove their trustworthiness almost always prefer to do that rather than pay extra.
“Their app specifically says you can ride it ‘anywhere’ and leave it ‘anywhere,’” Borelli says as he pushes a Bird scooter through the Pacific Beach neighborhood. If he sounds slightly bitter, it’s only because he owns a bike shop nearby and believes that dockless scooter companies are trying to steal his customers.

But to Borelli, it seemed that the scooter industry was really trying to replace bicycles. He threw the offending scooters in the dumpster, but they were quickly replaced by more scooters

So a bike shop owner didn't like the competition, and decided to start stealing scooters and throwing them in dumpsters? I have sympathy for people who don't like the scooters on the sidewalk (I'm one of those people), but don't act like you are taking some kind of honest businessman just trying to help the public. This whole thing is just a way to justify eliminating competition for this guys bike shop. Started out throwing them in dumpsters, and moved to "impounding" them and issuing them tickets (not sure why he thinks he has the authority to do that) to try and justify it.
>2) young children often do not have ad blocking software installed

Is it common for young kids to own the devices where they look the videos at?
I imagine they mean food that was still alive either while you were consuming it or when you cooked it.
How do I know if I get something from this?
Of course the videos are "among its most popular". You know those inane autoplaying videos after you just watched something where everyone rushes to stop the countdown? Well, kids don't. Lazy parents all over the world park their kids in front of YouTube, and they will happily watch whatever inane crap YouTube throws at them for hours on end. Except for the lack of spending money, they are the perfect viewer. It's disturbing watching young kids "use" YouTube, watching repeats or slight variations of the same mind numbingly stupid video for hours, lulled into an algorithmic trance hitting their brain just right, without the maturity to break the vicious cycle.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, call names, or take threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Some of those buildings will never be fully occupied. Remember 2008? 2001?

Aren't those buildings fully occupied today?
Honestly, none of the 2.0 stuff is really all that interesting to an outsider. And ironically, often times the "wow" factor of other frameworks are old news to Mithril users. Mithril has had "modern" "zero-cost" features like closure components (similar to the recent svelte v3 data "API") for years. Some things _still_ don't exist in major frameworks (e.g. css selector support in hyperscript API, lifecycle hooks in fragments, or as event handlers, or true POJO-as-a-global-data-store support).
They just did
Every domain I register is registered with WHOIS protection as well.
This is the main reason I became a vegetarian.
additionally SSDs use garbage collection algorithms so are fraught with the possibility of a write taking an unbounded amount of time, even if nothing is malfunctioning, which is pretty scary.

To head off replies about fixed time garbage collection, sure it exists, but you cant guarantee it will reclaim enough space in a fixed timeslot (think of a massively pathological case where 99% of every flash chip is full, but super fragmented and data needs to be shuffled around perhaps hundreds or even thousands of times before enough space can be reclaimed)
Really nice and thorough article.
Would they? The whole point of a polluted commons is that no one actor is able to make an impact from their own choices. Only collective action can make a difference, and that requires an enforceable agreement to cooperate plus enforcement to make sure that no one cheats.

In a world of unbreatheable air, the most rational individual action is not to reduce polluting; rather, it's to pollute as hard as possible in order to make lots of money with which to buy purified air.
> Youtube should not be allowed to monetize any videos with children in it until they comply with the same conditions that movies that employ child actors have to.

Yes. If Youtube monetization model rewards parents psychologically abusing their children and profits from it. It is cleary that Youtube is at fault.

Google does not want to take responsibility when they host the video, promote the video, and profit from the video. And that creates an incentive to reward bad behaviour and shock content.
http://archive.is/AM6iY
Photographs: Evening Walk
Would this have been fair if their contract had said. “We pay $1 per delivery plus you get to keep all tips. If the total you get from delivery + tips is less than $10 we’ll pay the difference”
TV is rubbish these days. Not only the last mile delivery but all the content is so watered down it will rot your brain.

My two favorite networks Discovery and the History channel are dead.

I cut the cord in 2008 over shady billing practices from Comcast. I pay Xfinity for internet because I have to. Never again will I pay for TV.
They lost US customers in Q2, which is probably what OP is referring to.
The Monologue is a delight to play and experiment with. After years of using software synthesizers exclusively, I decided to dip my toe into hardware, and after some research, the Monologue became the clear choice.

At first, its feature set seemed very limiting, coming from the world of software synthesis, but I quickly found the Monologue to be a prime example of constraints breeding creativity. While it’s not about to replace Synapse Antidote in my recording work, it’s still a surprisingly flexible instrument.
>...increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten

When I hear stories like that I always wonder what was the thought process of the sales people that managed that account. Probably something like that:

- Hey, do you remember our old customer CERN, a world-famous scientific non-profit organization that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge about the universe?

- Yeah, what about them?

- Let's charge them 10 times more for our software licenses

- Can't see anything wrong about it, go ahead
For this to be malicious, it would be an incredibly risky decision by Google from a simple risk/reward standpoint. Gabbard is a huge long shot to win the Democratic nomination let alone the presidency. Putting their finger on the scale at this point in the election cycle to slightly disadvantage a candidate that in all likelihood won't matter is a huge gamble.
I think the important part of the parent post is

"It's a stretch to call something opt-in when it's unavoidable in modern life."
A few hundred million dollars: https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race
But life becomes much easier when someone/something else decides what you should think!
When I’m traveling between destinations on a long trip, it’s non-trivial to find something local. Unless it’s well-advertised on billboards or close to an exit, I’m not going to find it, and I’m more interested in speed than quality.

And browsing Yelp while driving is, well, not ideal.

I love local dives, but laughing at someone for having different priorities on a long trip is rude.
thats the (ingenuity?) of this whole digital realm

media: youtube/instagram are by far the easiest ways to reach kids with the most effective ways to influence kids/teens being influencers. see: JUUL marketing flavoured nicotine to highschoolers

gaming: loot boxes. comesetics, using kid friendly youtuber/streamers to sell FOMO; and then we get to game passes

it's disgusting how effective its been and how frankly retarded government has been to recognize the laws they made for television arent effective since kids dont watch TV
http://archive.is/Ry0Db
>totally reasonable for Google to draw the line somewhere in an exceptionally crowded presidential race

She is a congresswoman, and you are politically clueless.

Good on her for suing Google, even if the fault is on terrible auto suspension. Something needs to be done to improve their god awful heuristics.
My toddler gets very angry whenever an ad comes up. Actually, he gets angry when we take the phone away from him, it’s just not worth it to even start a video anymore (yes, he becomes content for now but at the expense of heck later). We’ve basically gone with zero screen time now and bring books to the restaurant instead.
The "kid demographic" is Youtube's most profitable demographic. Though the lawsuit may appear as impetus, this has been in the works for a long time.
Passive house owner here. Outside we had 38 degree today. Inside it’s still 25 degree without air conditioning. The house has blinds outside, massive concrete walls and ~25cm of thermal insulation.
Gnome may be (historically), but other DEs like KDE were never associated with it.
I think most people would be surprised if premium gas actually made their cars run worse, its hardly common sense.
I think it takes something on the order of 2+ million gallons of water to frack a single well, once. Some wells need multiple fracks.

I will say, though, that in North Dakota, they get a significant amount of their fracking water from Lake Sakakawea, i.e. Missouri River. The amount of water used for fracking is a rounding error compared to how big that lake is. Might be more of a concern in more arid areas, though.
NBCUniversal Plans to Launch Streaming Service in April 2020
There's a company here in Austin that is an agency/consultancy type for software dev. https://praxent.com/
I imagine for the generation brought up on an infinite supply of cracked VST waReZ getting ahold of a physical piece of gear, and being forced to focus on a single piece of kit with limitations, is a revelation. Volcas have the right price point to make that happen and the right balance of features/limitations to make it interesting.
Lots of kids watch on old phones or tablets where ad blocking software is kind of hard to install.
The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration
I often wonder what is causing us to have such a hard time killing people without pain or distress or the perception of cruelty (as much as that's possible when killing a person). Why aren't prisoners put to sleep with gas and then killed as cheaply (and non-gruesomely) as possible thereafter?
>What else would you use 400 for?

400 is "bad request"; you might use it if the request body was not valid JSON.
I feel like we've forgetton how to propose and discuss common standards that should apply in encouraging and enforcing public speech. It looks like a unwinnable game if there aren't standards - but our media and our politicians rarely ever couch discussion in those terms, only in individual conflict terms which makes it more difficult to pull a common direction out of the mass.
It’s opt in, in the sense that you can refrain from participating in the modern financial system if you want to avoid it.
As said above, that's what I do. I drink it through the day but that's a conscious choice and not something my body tells me to. If I waited to be thirsty, I would only drink before bed.
Just to add to the other comment, I suggest you look up what the temperatures of the nighttime side of Mercury are (which receives max solar radiation intensity about 10x of Earth at ~14.4 kW/m^2 vs our max of ~1.4 kW/m^2 outside of atmosphere and ~1 kW/m^2 at the surface). Now reflect on the relative importance of absolute energy input vs retention.
reads like a great parable to be written afterwards:

the algorithms, successful 99.8% of the time, misfired on a US presidential candidate, who went on to lead the eventually successful efforts to break up Google, neutering its algorithms' effects upon the world.

the algorithms giveth; the algorithms taketh away
This is the most relevant part:

> Open architecture appeared to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and interact instead over email and IM.

As we all knew, all along.
Haha - only someone in the bay area would say something like this.

I used to live in the "slums" of the bay area back in 2008. Trust me - by now even those slum houses are going for at least 2008 prices before crash and better and the neighborhood I lived in in SF is crazy expensive.
It seems like everyone here is in the wrong? A service that moves scooters to proper locations is necessary but these two are clearly in it for the money. It would be easier, cheaper and better for everyone involved if they just moved the scooters to the sidewalk. Holding them ransom behind razorwire is just an attempt to get money while hiding behind a thin veil of public service.

Lime/Bird meanwhile trying to get their property back while minimizing potential PR nightmares that spotlight the harm they cause.

Standard case of humans being humans and trying to get money while maintaining the moral high ground.
At this moment in time 0 cars can utilize this "premium gas".

This isn't communicated well, the author points out that it's marketed as better, but you have to dig into the technical details to find out the host must support it as well.
I honestly initially read the "it" in this headline to imply "the Government", figuring Facebook finally had enough and was going to try and break down its regulators.
My (uninformed and possibly wrong) guess is that YouTube wanted to maintain the fiction that, to the best of their knowledge, everyone using the service was the person who signed up, so that it could argue it was not intentionally showing videos to children. When YouTube knows kids are using the app, it's supposed to be doing lots of things to protect their privacy (which it has not been doing).[1]

Building an algorithm to guess when children were likely using YouTube on their parents' account, in order to show age-appropriate ads, would show that YouTube does know that kids are using the app. So my (again, uninformed and quite possibly wrong) guess is that YouTube did not try and fail at creating such an algorithm; they deliberately decided not to try.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/19/ftc-app...
Human infants also don't eat (what is considered for adults) a healthy diet or get any exercise. We shouldn't be taking health advice from infants' habits.
I can confidently admit that when I was a stupid teenager, I had consisted on Soda & Coffee and potentially only getting raw water content absorbed from foods for multiple weeks on end.
Also, this amount was too small to even be transferred, given Bitcoin's transaction fees!

Wouldn't the device simply mine as part of a mining pool? The pool can then manage custody of the funds, similar to what NiceHash and other mining pools do. Granted, if the amount is small then it would never be withdrawn on the main chain.
Google is a monopoly. Fox News is not.
No. A CEO runs every aspect of a business. While it might be a bad call outsourcing everything, they obviously want expertise rather than having to either rely on their current team that fucked up (which would be viewed as negative), or take some time to hire new people. Hiring new people takes time & isn’t reactionary. Everyone will want them to be seen to be doing something. Hiring an external company is possibly the best short term thing they could do.
James O'Keefe claiming something doesn't make it a fact. On the contrary, I'd be inclined to doubt the claim in that case.
YouTube the app (or web site) is not great for kids, however, there is an immense amount of content on YouTube that is wonderful for kids.

I curate content for my five year old daughter, and she can easily browse it, without descending into the rabbit hole that is YouTube-at-large. It's easy for me to do, but only because my main project (https://pianop.ly/) involves embedding YouTube videos into web pages, and I have a ton of tools that make it easy (for me, not necessarily for anyone).

I don't understand why there isn't more of this. I wish there was a large community of parents that wanted to curate content -- educational, musical, etc -- that kids could enjoy without parents having to worry so much they'll either stumble into truly awful stuff, or more likely, just spend their time looking at completely inane timewasters. (opening eggs to reveal toys, etc)

A side benefit is that if a video is embedded into a web page, the only ads YouTube ever shows is a banner. (although, I pay $10 a month to have YouTube without ads, so that isn't an issue for me. We don't have Netflix or cable or broadcast TV, by the way)

Incidentally, my daughter and I have friends (another dad and daughter) that are YouTubers, and while this girl is only 8, their content is good (in my opinion) and is a creative outlet for them and they have a lot of fun with it. The dad is an excellent videographer/editor, and the daughter is an excellent skateboarder, and they combine those things and share it with the world. (we met via YouTube and the four of us meet up at skateparks...my daughter is also really good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrrgcqyvF4 I just don't see the problem with this.
Thread aware, exceptions, traditional OO. Guessing because it has features that might line up better with c++?
Rbfx – Multi-platform C++ game engine with C#, built-in editor and PBR support
Sure, sell more of a product that kind of sells itself without proper advising. Some of these allegations seem predatory. How does this affect the reputation of McKinsey and its future business? Would there actually be any impact? They are good at their job. Is McKinsey attracting the same talent it historically has or are other kinds of companies getting what would be their talent?

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McKinsey recommended “targeting and influencing” doctors who specifically treat back pain in the elderly and those in long-term care. The consultants also advised the company to move physicians who were “stuck” in prescribing less potent opioids into prescribing stronger formulations.
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I was able to find that with your instructions. However, I would not have discovered that on my own. I went to "Nearby", it said "Looks like there are no dishes near you, we have launched..."

If you think having new users organically add dishes is useful, I might just put a big "Review a dish anywhere" button in place of that message. I didn't realize that you had restaurants in there outside launch cities, so I just gave up. If the button had been there, and I could have discovered that I could review a dish at the restaurant I went to, I would have.

Maybe it isn't realistic to expect organic growth outside of launch cities. Still, right now the search functionality seems very prominent, but the add a review functionality does not.