skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's loads of articles and videos(on YouTube, ironically) showing that YouTube Kids is just using algorithmic filtering to figure out what's safe for "kids" and it's trivial to find content on it that's not child friendly at all. If it was manually curated then it would be a product maybe even worth paying for, but as it is it doesn't guarantee safe content at all.
Its part of Norway...
Tiered pricing seems like a decent compromise.

Scaled pricing is stupid. I didn't work my ass off climbing the ladder just to get screwed out of the same fraction of my money by the government as when I brought home a few hundred a week. If you want to cut the poor a break then make fees and fines tax deductible.
This is a very good report.

Makes me wonder why such data has to be generated by an external “fact tank” when, with some caveats, such could come directly from YouTube.
Baby Shark, du du du....
> I want a way to legally opt out of other such companies collecting and aggregating private data about me.

Compare a desire to legally opt out (after checking a box, agreeing to a privacy policy you never read, having your data from 10 years ago - with a chain of custody/dispersal that's probably untenable, if not impossible, to map by now - synthesized by a third party) to GDPR's concept of consent:

"The key point is that all consent must be opt-in consent, ie a positive action or indication – there is no such thing as ‘opt-out consent’. Failure to opt out is not consent as it does not involve a clear affirmative act. You may not rely on silence, inactivity, default settings, pre-ticked boxes or your general terms and conditions, or seek to take advantage of inertia, inattention or default bias in any other way. All of these methods also involve ambiguity – and for consent to be valid it must be both unambiguous and affirmative. It must be clear that the individual deliberately and actively chose to consent."

Source: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't realize.
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What would these companies invest into if Tesla hadn’t proven long range BEVs to be viable? What could the public and policy makers point to when the old car companies keep stating that there are no current alternatives, that we have to wait another decade or two for their R&D projects to pan out?

Besides, I was replying to a post that said Tesla was unimportant. Well, I personally doubt it, but yeah maybe what VW did -braking the law and harming the health of millions- was even more important.
For non-technical: I've always thought Buffer[0] and Hubspot[1] were fantastic resources for SEO, marketing, etc. Hubspot even writes extensively on how to write content for SEO/SEM, which is sort of meta.

For technical: Stripe[2] is a popular answer to this question. I also like Auth0[3], especially b/c they often have content that isn't just meant to market their services (eg this tutorial on k8s[4])

[0]: https://buffer.com/resources/

[1]: https://blog.hubspot.com/

[2]: https://stripe.com/blog/engineering

[3]: https://auth0.com/blog/

[4]: https://auth0.com/blog/kubernetes-tutorial-step-by-step-intr...
This is a big deal right?
Oh cheers thanks mtmail. I didnt know that was what that was for!
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To be honest I suspected that and was going to say something about it but then I tried to verify my suspicion and couldn't immediately find a reference for it.

From what I did see about 50% of domestic use is watering plants. Getting rid of conventional lawns would be a good start.
What can Canadians do?
You think they would have learned since the breach. Right after the breach was disclosed they made their information page equifaxsecurity2017.com. It had the same prompt for last name and last digits of the visitor's SSN. Then just said something along the lines of ~"Thanks for the information, we'll have more details later".
Ow wow ! pretty much exactly that!
Probably because it would be gamed for SEO purposes? Not that it's impossible, but crowd-sourcing stuff is not that easy at scale.
You mean to make writing the Linux kernel possible. RMS wrote gcc compiler, gdb debugger, and the shell tools first.

Edit: to say nothing about the GPL, which is what really got the momentum going.
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Up to some absurd temperature (i.e this probably isn't true if you're standing in a bunch of exhaust from a jet engine or a metal casting operation) increased airflow will make sweating more efficient enabling you to shed heat faster than the difference between static and moving air heats you up. Even before air conditioning fans were (and still are) popular in the tropics for this reason.

Feel free to go up in your attic or some other 100+deg (freedom degrees, obviously with a box fan if you don't believe me. I assure you it will be more pleasant with the box fan.
Exactly... and what about the losses that I may suffer in the future from this? If I take the $125 now, am I no longer entitled to free identity restoration? The effects of this are going to last longer than the class action suit. It's just a huge waste of time for everybody except the lawyers.
This includes U.S.-based startups running Sales Engineering[1] in India. So Redis Labs has been included.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_engineering
Although a lot of people would shy away from them, Behringer has all sorts of cheap, interesting synths (read: knockoffs) that would be fun for hobbiests for a while.

While I don't trust their stuff to last, a nice modular or SH-101 ripoff for $300 is hard to compete with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JBFoXgtHvE
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Cute as it is I'll take the extra knobs and the motion sequencing on the Volca any day of the week. It's a very interesting contrast to Yamaha's modal UI approach (where you can easily switch between parameter sets but have only two soft parameters available at any given time).
> The result isn't saving 3 people but rather making it possible (profitable?) to do the same for anyone with these sorts genetic transcription errors.

The amount of work that goes into making sure that any single treatment isn't going to have unknown side effects is non-trivial. Just because there is a common toolkit doesn't make this safety testing go away. It automates the design of the safety tests somewhat, but doesn't make them any less important. This means that for every... single... anti-sense oligo that's designed, there needs to be significant testing done to make sure that it does what is expected and doesn't have any adverse side effects.

In many cases, it's the first part -- the design of the treatment -- that is rate limiting. The benefit of something like these N-of-1 ASO trials is that you're streamlining the first step in the process. But that doesn't mean you can just skip the other steps. And yes, these steps are expensive.
You should not ever, under any circumstances, apply the 'next big thing' to your project if your criteria for success is "other people are using it".

You should evaluate your needs and pick a tool based on those.

There aren't "winners". There are tools. Some of them are more effective at certain things than others.

If you are asking how to evaluate "which framework is going to win", then I'd argue you have no business making these decisions.
You wouldn't put a card number in the path anyway (for obvious reasons). Far more sensible to put that in the request body.

And who's to say you can't put the reason in the body and still keep the code? What are you hurting by sending back 400? Unless you have lb's taking out nodes because of excessive 4xx's (which sounds like insanity) I don't see a reason _not_ to send 4xx's. At the very least it's a useful heuristic tool.
Some apps do this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-a...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/some-apps-were-listening-t...
If you want the almost exact opposite of Breezewood visit Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I tell people it's like time travelling back to the fifties. I can remember when there wasn't a single fast food restaurant up there.

Even today it's been voted the most McUnderEndowed area in the United States.

http://www.datapointed.net/2009/10/distance-to-nearest-mcdon...

It does have some pretty cool taverns and in fact a father-son duo wrote a book just on the U.P.'s bars.

https://www.amazon.com/Yooper-Finest-Michigans-Peninsula-Sep...

If you go have a pastie and if you're brave go out at night hunting YooperLite rocks that glow in the dark.
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5-second glance at the the stuff in the <head> shows pixels for: Google Ads, Facebook, Twitter, a bunch of other slimy stuff.

What the actual F. Who does that?

Edit: also, no content security policy, no subresource integrity for 3rd party scripts. Is there such a thing as filing a class action against the party handling the class action? This is downright irresponsible.

Edit: I see a couple of the 3rd party scripts have integrity, but most don't.
Their first client was Borelli’s frustrated landlord. From there, more business followed.

“We did not seek anybody out, those property owners came to us,” Heinkel says.

I looked at one of the pictures and counted 19 scooters. It's hard for me not to think that this is an externality that the scooter company should have thought of and planned for, to preserve goodwill.
There are plenty of solutions, but none that people would willingly participate in. If you can't think of something, ask Thanos ;)
Or not, since if something fails you have to ship it to TE and pay them IIRC $125 to look at it. I bought and own an OP-1, that still works great, however, the sequence you execute on boot up to get numbered list of options, such as update firmware, or factory reset cannot be reached. So now I am stuck with the last time I upgraded the firmware, and I can't get it back to the original state, so I can mess around with it again. I don't know, but to spend $800 on a synth, and have to ship it to Sweden, and pay that large a fee to simply look at it is a bit much. I then tried to simply buy a new board, so I could pop it in and be done, but they were sold out! I am sticking with Orca [1] and Extempore [2] for now.

[1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
[2] https://github.com/digego/extempore
No, the Canadian forest would basically reclaim as much land from the tundra where it's currently to cold for trees as it would lose to agriculture. I expect it to be more or less a wash. Also the same goes for Russia's boreal forests.
Its not just vanity though, in these two cases "the authority" is the industry as a whole, thus many "authorities."

For example:

>OptOutPrescreen.com is a joint venture among Equifax Information Services, LLC, Experian Information Solutions, Inc., Innovis Data Solutions, Inc., and TransUnion, LLC (collectively the "Consumer Credit Reporting Companies").

>[annualcreditreport.com] is maintained by Central Source, LLC. Central Source, LLC is sponsored by Equifax, Experian and TransUnion so you have a single site where you can ask for all three of your free credit reports.
"they should have proactively said he would repay the wages taken from their workers. Instead, DoorDash will have pocketed millions of dollars taken from customer tips."

They didn't really 'take wages' from any of the workers. All of the money coming in is owned by DoorDash. They are now choosing to give a portion of that to the drivers (the tips).

DoorDash doesn't have a monopoly on gig jobs. You can choose to do something else if you don't feel the pay is fair. The reason they didn't really care about the drivers' opinions is because it obviously didn't stop many from driving.
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You can always give it incorrect data to train with :) I've been muting ads from the twitter account of every ad I've seen on twitter and the tweets I get are really, really weird and often more interesting than the tweets it gave me to begin with (because now I'm mostly down to the ads that some random person spent $5 promoting as a joke). But there was a weird 2 month period where twitter was trying to determine what I did want to see and actually had real inventory to play with, and it was hilarious how wrong it would get me sometimes. As far as I can tell, this is the only way to keep your privacy - to confuse the algorithms by overloading them with random data.
>If YouTube isn't for kids, why do they host videos that are clearly and explicitly targeting toddlers?

Because parents would never ever turn on videos on Youtube for their toddlers to keep them entertained while the adults are doing whatever adults need to do, right?

Once you realize that kid content on Youtube is very valuable to parents who find it better than TV, ads aimed at adults start making sense. Because it's adults who go on Youtube to find these videos.
Perhaps from a utility's perspective, but as a consumer I hate mine.
Legally, the settlement administrator must be totally independent from Equifax, so comparing their hosting providers, cert providers, etc. you'd only expect them to match by random chance.
I'll just say, "I hope you old people die soon, please die faster" (paraphrase) is quite a hateful thing to say. Especially since roughly half those older people you want to die actually agree with your preferred policies.
Just sign up for Credit Karma or something similar. It's free
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A friend did something like this a while ago (thesis + code) called Redink: https://github.com/evlrbot/Red-Ink

Maybe there are some ideas in there for you. I really wished it got completed.
Yes if you read /r/doordash there seems to some workers lamenting that they will expect the pay to go down because of this. If you live in a area where tips are not much it might be worse of.
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A company can't reward workers without being punished:

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/29/15471634/american-ai...

>American Airlines agreed this week to do something nice for its employees and arguably foresighted for its business by giving flight attendants and pilots a preemptive raise, in order to close a gap that had opened up between their compensation and the compensation paid by rival airlines Delta and United.

>Wall Street freaked out, sending American shares plummeting. After all, this is capitalism and the capital owners are supposed to reap the rewards of business success.
> That seems no different from any other exit

The "avoid the turnpike" part refers to the fact that the segment of road in the picture, which has to be traversed to get from the turnpike to I-70 or vice versa, is actually US Route 30, so hypothetically someone coming off I-70 could just stay on that route instead of being "forced" to get onto the turnpike. There are a couple of other interchanges on the PA turnpike that work similarly: the one with I-79 north of Pittsburgh (US 19 is in between) and the one with I-81 at Carlisle (US 11 is in between).

Most freeway interchanges between toll and non-toll highways don't work like that; you just go straight from one to the other.
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Or just read about Syria and Turkey.
I wouldn't call anyone a 'psycho' for not adhering, but personally I'd typically pour a pint (568ml) of water, at home.

Of course, at any restaurant glasses given with water for the table are going to be somewhere much nearer your 236ml, so there's really nothing psychotic about it.
Sure, but now you have to support the idea that the person in the article was blacklisted. Getting a bad recommendation and getting blacklisted are not the same thing.
If true, yes, it's a very big deal.

And a very expensive big deal - it's literally made out of gold and silver. People have been critical of the value of gold because "it's not an industrial metal"; well, that could change... if this is true.
> No, we'd be making progress toward eliminating the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere, but making it slower than if they'd also embrace nuclear power.

Ehhhh... We might be making progress on eliminating the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere from the US, but that's a rather different statement. Unless you can get everyone else to agree to emissions restrictions far more restrictive than the Paris Agreement, we'd be worse off than before. (yes, this is a tragedy of the commons problem)

This is part of why I mentioned geoengineering as an option, because unlike with emissions reductions geoengineering may actually be sufficient to prevent climate change without the cooperation of the rest of the world.

> > making sure that Africa never industrializes

> Is that even part of the public debate? I mean, outside of Ron Paul's newsletters or something equally crazy?

Perhaps not to ensure it never industrializes, but a refusal to limit the emissions growth of the third world soon is part of why the Paris Agreement was insufficient. (How to get the third world to agree to this is, of course, a wee bit of a problem)
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If Scandinavia is anything like Canada, the Pine Beetle.

We need a week or two at -40C (fun fact, -40C is roughly equal to -40F) to really thin them out. We haven't been getting that cold weather, so large numbers of them make it through the winter, and then ravage the trees.

It's related to the dramatic increase of forest fires in Western Canada, because dead trees dry out, provide little coverage to the area they're in (which lets the area dry further), and then burn very easily. All it takes is a lightening strike or some idiot deciding to violate a burn-ban, and then everything goes up.

I've heard the warm weather has led to a "tick-pocalypse" and resurgence of ticks and mosquitoes, particularly on Ontario and Quebec. I don't know about termites, but wouldn't be surprised if the warm weather is doing a poor job suppressing them.
Whenever I read articles like this, a couple of questions come to mind. Cumulative probability of being struck by one of these things within next 10, 20, etc. years? What would we do if we did see one coming that was going to strike earth given 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc. lead time?
F-Droid never bans apps like that – F-Droid also allows Fedilab and the FreeTusky clients which let you connect to gab.

But just like F-Droid would never allow a Stormfront app, it won’t allow a Gab app.
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I think in this case it's referring to how early the asteroid was detected. Either it travelled so fast or our detection of asteroids is poor, because we only just detected it before it passed us.
Yeah it was like that even before! I want to actually play the game! Not just see an image :)
That's why they've been chosen first. So people won't say "wtf, but instead say 'good riddance'". That gets people over the shock of the state beginning to execute people again, and will make the road to broader applications of the death penalty easier.
There are two reasonable answers, ignoring whatever is specified in the legalese which of course takes precedence:

1) It must be a third party service that you have entered into a business arrangement with, where the arrangement in clear and specific terms provides you with credit monitoring.

2) It must hold up in a court of law if challenged.

That second one is the anti-loophole provision of law, and protects against the kind of loopholes people try to find to get around the clear intent of the requirement.

You can choose to use any service that would hold up in a court of law. There are no clear answers on whether "any" service would. Time established, diversity of customers, active or inactive business, frequency of credit report inspection; all could be factors in a judicial evaluation of whether you complied with the terms or not. Capital One? Yes, they plausibly do offer credit monitoring as a service. Joe Bloe's Credit Woes? Entirely possible, if they've been around a while and can demonstrate that they pull credit reports on a regular basis and audit them in some manner.

Can you monitor it yourself? Only if you already operate a credit monitoring business. Otherwise, it'll fail the plausible test, and you lose your $125 + lawyer fees + risk angering a judge.
It may be the case that they do it with sufficient accuracy to stay in business, but insufficient accuracy to provide quality content streams for children.

My above comment seems a bit unpopular, but I really don't think youtube is deliberately trying to show inappropriate content to kids. I think it's happening despite their efforts to do something about it. In other words, they are trying and failing. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but you've got to remember a lot of youtube employees have kids too.
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> keep the pee as white as possible

That's a symptom of overhydration. Pee should be yellow, as everybody knows.
Hang on, you want me to pay the local government for water under my land that they don't treat or pump for me? You're going to have to adjust some property laws in the US (and at least England and Canada I would guess) to do that.
Have they announced what the new model will be?

IIRC, it's true that when restaurants shift to a tipless system that (a) charges the true price up front and (b) distributes the revenue more evenly to both front of house and back of house, servers end up making less.

It seemed to be the most straightforward thing to do is to charge the customer the "guaranteed minimum" that they're promising to pay the delivery person, then add tip on top. The higher sticker price would probably drop demand, but the people who do deliver would earn more on average. It's also possible, though, that people will simply stop tipping, leading to a small drop in average revenue per delivery.

I wish we got rid of tipping for these situations altogether, but I realize it's useful as a price discrimination mechanism.
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I'm starting to struggle with this on Twitter. Got frustrated enough to uninstall it a few weeks ago, still haven't put it back (though I continue to be tempted).

So many promoted tweets and the uncanny feeling that my feed is being shaped in strange and unwanted ways.

The straw that broke the camel's back was the banner where twitter declared that it was doing more tracking and targeting so that I would be served better ads, both on AND off of twitter. "Great!", "Learn more" were the two buttons.

I want my mindshare and my thought direction to be in my own control. The feeds are stealing my self control over my own thoughts. I hate it.
That was a rhetorical question. But, yeah, wow.
aren't those ads targeted to the viewer (you) rather than the content of the video? if you watch it in incognito do you see those same types of ads? I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, just curious. Also, the uploader of the video certainly has made a conscious choice to monetize a video targeted at children. YouTube certainly didn't do anything to help the situation, but some of the blame should probably go toward the uploader of the video.

As an aside: my kids occasionally watch videos in the YouTube Kids app (version of youtube curated for kids). That app certainly never shows wildly inappropriate ads (though it does have ads).
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Nope, he walks them out in the middle of RMS speech, rude².
> Let's let the price of water reflect its scarcity.

You say that like it's the easy solution. It'd have to be regulated on a federal level. Good luck getting that to pass, well, anywhere. With the way humans discount future consequences, and the amount of money companies can use to lobby or bribe politicians, it's going to be way too late when it'll become politically feasible to do in many places.
"Ten years"? Come on.