skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should know that regardless of how they consume TV, , their viewing habits are logged, tracked and ultimately sold. Cable, satellite, IPTV, web, mobile etc. Its all being gathered and parsed by dozens, if not hundreds of entities. The only exception is over the air...

So getting upset at Samsung and plugging in a Chromecast or AppleTV or ROKU or whatever, is silly. They're all tracking you everywhere.

But there isnt a lot of demand from a lot sources. So the ads are not nearly as tailored as digital. But they can be. And eventually they'll be as creepy as the banners you are served after browsing thingamajigs. For now, you'll likely just get served Direct Response scatter and the same branded ad over and over...
No, not just on the box. Every time the TV boots. One person might see the box. Every person that uses the devices needs to know it is full of bees.
It's a waste of time and mental bandwidth to even think about this. The impact is just too small. Better to focus finite energy, attention and political capital on things that actually move the dial.
My ICU physicians friends are in unanimous agreement that for most patients with advanced symptoms, staying at home with supplemental oxygen and observation is best. This is a sign that more serious and invasive procedures are required.
They definitely need to use more clear language. Current numbers are well above the previous peak, so it doesn't make sense to refer to "the" peak without at least qualifying it with a relative date. And "the" peak is different for each demographic area.

In Canada a few months ago, there was a lot of talk about a "second wave" well before the first one had even peaked. It was frustrating hearing how we were "entering a second wave" just because there was a slight levelling out of numbers for a (short) while, and then it started rising again - but well before it subsided enough to say that first wave had completed. People seem to glom onto certain phraseology without understanding the meaning sometimes. It definitely adds to all the confusion.

Having said that, we're most definitely in that second wave now, but several months later.
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What is the exact Bolt driver version? Memgraph v1.1 works with Bolt v1, and the last working version of Java Bolt driver is v1.6.4. Memgraph v1.2 is going to be released soon and it will include support for Bolt v4.1. Could you please provide more details about the actual setup?
Isn’t your question an inherently philosophical one? What is truth, when all you will ever have in science are models, experiments, and results?
Fair point, fair point. It wasn't thought through. Sorry.

But it leads to the question of why it matters - should it? If we treat all equally, should it matter? I don't see myself as female, but neither a 'man', as I don't much relate to common cultural depictions of men, which I find distasteful. I am what I am, names won't change that so I don't care. Why do you?

BTW I know a few trans people and I suspect most of them would roll their eyes at this excessive care not to offend anyone with wrong pronouns. They expect people to get it right but it's no disaster if someone got it wrong. None of them are snowflakes. Consideration towards trans people needs more basic considerations such as not being called a freak on public transport (this happened to a tgirl I know).
I agree with the sentiment but you’re only hurting yourself by choosing a worse TV at a given price point compared to just never connecting your TV to the internet.

If you want a competitive display market where the best options are still dumb then look at getting a projector. The price and quality are comparable and I really like being able to “put away” the TV by just rolling up the screen.
In an email sent to the address linked to the account.
Salary has nothing to do with it. Finishing one's education for the foreseeable future has everything to do with it.
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unfortunately the best "dumb tv" these days is obtained by getting the "smart tv" that you _wish_ was dumb, and never connecting it to the internet.
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The fact that the award was rare is precisely the point, it's a highly politicised decision to give it, comparable to a military award for exceptional valour. At a lower level, 5-year plan medals were handed out like candy. So, yes, individuals of all kinds were recognized at all levels.

In Soviet Russia you worked for people. At Amazon you work for the Machine.
A good password reset page would not disclose such a fact (it would return a successful response with a message "if this email exists, we'll email you" regardless of whether it actually exists) however attempting to create an account would disclose that fact by rejecting an account creation attempt with an existing email, unless they use emails purely as communication channels and accounts are uniquely identified by username/account number instead.
It should’ve been sent via email to the registered email address. That lets the account owner reject it (I didn’t request a password reset!) or use it.
The token should only be accessible to the user requesting the password reset, meaning that it would be sent via email (this is the standard password reset flow).

The flaw here is that anyone, even if they did not control the email of the user, could reset the password, because the reset token was returned in the browser, where anyone could see it. Essentially, just by knowing someone's email (not having control over it), you could reset their password.
> If virtual book sharing becomes very common online, the majority of public libraries will die.

As long as their mission is allowed to change with the times, I don't see this as an inevitability. Supposedly my local public library has seen usage of library resources continue to increase even as people check out fewer physical books. My cousin, who is a librarian for a different city, reports the same thing - at least pre-pandemic, her library was busier than ever.
Exactly, and this is just pragmatism at work.

Sometimes I think people who blindly continue their enviro-rituals are somehow worshipping — it’s more about what it costs them than how much it actually moves the needle.

Caring for the environment is not a religion, and the earth is not a god who demands sacrifice. But it is a precious resource worth protecting.
I present for your consideration, Quantum Bogosort:

http://wiki.c2.com/?QuantumBogoSort
If we can convert current pastureland into forests and use the forestry products for building materials, you have effectively created an economically incentivized carbon capture system. Pulp plantations are not forests in the ecological sense, but pulp plantations are not the entirety of modern forestry. Current forestry practices lead to a new increase in tree counts (and eventual carbon capture...) and due to these practices the amount of trees in the USA has been trending upwards since we stopped using trees for charcoal.
You'd want the inner pane to be actual glass, too, so you can clean it with water or handle humidity. But at that point, the gap in a double-paned glass will insulate better.

I wonder if you could sandwich this in to one piece, like automotive glass -- glass/wood/glass?
> Indeed a service contract for recycling should be enforced, unless health & safety reasons preclude. Apple is in the right here, I think.

With current law: Very likely.

But should it be that way? Should it be allowed to order the destruction of perfectly good devices people really want?

Apple's reason for wanting this is "we can extract more money that way", which sounds like an inefficiency of an unfree market to me, actually.
> Is the article talking about something different? Would you say they're incorrect? Is their data old? Etc.

It's probably a combination of a couple things.

1) the article's editorializing of the data doesn't match up with the actual raw data -> https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N. This raw FRED data is basically as close to the "primary source" as you can get with this sort of thing.

2) the article looks at total benefits costs and compares them with total wages and salaries, which should set off a couple alarm bells: in the US total compensation is what we need to look at. Basically, they're double counting healthcare costs by ignoring the fact that employers pay the majority of premium costs (https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2019-section-6-worke...), while also counting the full cost of those benefits against the after-wage dollar amounts. In other words, we've all been receiving huge phantom raises, and we just don't know it because it doesn't show up in our bank accounts.

3) They don't take into account taxes and transfers, which median earners broadly enjoy. To give you a sense, here's what the median disposable income looks like after taxes & transfers, by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

> My interpretation is, who cares if there's a 50% wage increase from $10/hr to $15/hr if neither of those is a decent living wage to begin with, and the folks at the top of the pyramid are just making staggering amounts of money?

Because that 50% wage increase from $10/hr to $15/hr tells us very little about a single earner's pay history — it presupposes that a single person stays at that level for the entirety of their life (which we know not to be true). Those numbers show us the snapshot-in-time income numbers for everyone currently at that salary level, but does not account for people actually moving income levels as they progress in their career. The data isn't "here's the life of Joe over the last 5 years", it's "here's the life of people without college degrees that are X years old with Y years of experience with X & Y held constant over 5 years". I suppose "the lowest quintile wage has modestly increased over time" has a different ring to it than "the entry level starting salary has modestly increased over time".

Also, this is a bit more debatable, but one can also argue if it really matters if the people at the top are making staggering amounts of money, if people in the middle tier (again, not a static group) are also doing better, despite being of (predominately) lower skill — especially since that staggering increase at the top doesn't happen in a vacuum, it's because our system rewards those who play an outsized role in providing goods & services that increase our collective standards of living.
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> …I'm not sure if any of the wood I use comes from the Amazon.

Wood comes from a place where a forest (like Amazon) once stood.

> …can be forced by strong regulation with the ability to enforce some rules and stop imports of things not meeting.

I doubt that any of the above is possible. Businesses can always weasel their way out and do what they need to do to make money.
Because universal healthcare is not a thing in the US, and this article is specifically referencing US hospitals.
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This only changes the "position" of the electrons. It doesn't help with the repulsion of the nuclei.

(Perhaps this may help to induce electron capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture ???)
The exchange lost a lot of revenue. Trader's and investor's time was wasted, you can't just change the open time without screwing up a lot of systems. Risk management would've been an issue too, a lot of people crossing the spread to derisk and transferring wealth to market makers.
Does everybody really have healthcare?
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But it leads to the question of why it matters - should it?

In theory, it shouldn't. In practice, it does.

People who think I am male speak to me differently than when they know I am a woman. Since I am trying to establish an adequate income, my experience is that if people have an issue with me being a woman, it's better for that to be sorted before they interact with me, not after.

If someone is willing to meet me in person, thinks I'm male and then meets me and sees I'm a woman, that's likely to go badly. I don't want to waste my time on that, much less risk facing potential drama because of it.

The reality is it ends up mattering whether I want it to matter or not. So I try to make it the least drama I can arrange given the tools available to me. I find that a quiet heads up is better than trying to hide my gender and is also better than putting people on the spot and correcting them in "public" and in a way that will make them feel attacked for simply not knowing.
How does it compare with pappy proxy?
I feel like that's kind of a manager-conversation thing, plus, like many policies, will depend on the workplace culture to begin with.

IMHO the tricky bit is that, there is both an honest and genuine way to express concern around using "precisely the right language", so to speak, and, a malicious, not-an-honest-partner-in-the-conversation, gum-up-the-works way.

And also, I guess a "this-is-all-unpleasant-and-I-just-don't-want-to-think-about-it-or-think-about-the-historical-context-for-why-we-are-talking-about-this-in-the-first-place-I-have-enough-on-my-plate-as-it-is" kind of way.

Of course there is also virtue signaling or what have you; that's a thing. Human foolishness has no bias.

Obviously HN is not the right place for discussing specifics, but, IMHO, that's maybe the only way to have a real conversation around this stuff. Which takes trust and a shared safe space.

Which can be hard to come by these days.

That said, IMHO my patience decreases a bit, sadly, every day when I read the news. There's a context to all this, after all. And a very real history.
Using your phone as a remote is awesome. If your HDMI has CEC/ARC you can switch the TV in just by pulling down the remote widget and pressing the screen. And you can fill password and search fields. And anyone can use it once they’ve paired
An untested failover system is indistinguishable from a box burning power and doing nothing.

On a failure, it might work. But there might not be a failure. Same difference.
Title:

> Single episode of heavy drinking tied to Brain Atrophy in Young Adults

From the first paragraph:

> However, it was unclear whether and how a single episode of extreme drinking in young adults could affect brain structure. The study, assessed participants before and after a single episode of extreme drinking — consuming more than four to five alcohol-containing beverages in a single episode — scanning the brain for changes.
The skinny, slippery, round cornered, black AppleTV remote seems to be designed to be as easily lost as possible. Weeks often go by without finding it, during which we use other streaming devices instead.

The Amazon FireTV remote is quite easy to lose, but I stocked up on spares when it was on sale for $15.

The TiVo remote is not only too big to lose, it has a remote-finder feature where you can induce it to play a tune. Genius.
That site makes only a back of the hand assumption about how much energy use is a renewable or clean source.

My work with large miners - who all rely on clean or reducing pollution by using unused energy - and the economics of all miners would say that 75% of all mining is renewable energy.

You would therefore have to divide all their problem metrics by 50-60%.

Regarding "e-waste as much as Luxembough", is that really a lot? I don't actually know what to compare that to, all I see is "gasp a country!" and no quantitive metric compared to say any other industry or even other jurisdiction's use. With that in mind, I also am not sure it is accurate. Bitcoin e-waste doesn't really result in more machines, it results in the same amount of machines being replaced and doing more. This is because the economics has already pushed people to renewable energy sources, and the people that can already have. People that are just catching on are using people's "wasted" machines and mining with those.

Ah the source you ask? All the private details about my clients. Hm, yeah not going to happen, there might be a few press releases, and there might be a few court documents that have nothing to do with mining but normal business disagreements in companies that do mine.

The balanced answer is that this is something to remain vigilant about. Nations mining at a loss and printing currency to do so will absolutely not care about the power cost or source, and this is where we are headed. The private sector is not capable of doing this as uneconomically as that site suggests, pay attention as that site's assumptions are intertwined with facts. Just notice where they don't have any facts and be willing to balance that with other accounts like mine.
Humans don't remember things so much as we re-create an imaginary scenario based on clues to keep us on track.

So it's entirely possible that your memory--the replay simulation being done right now by your mind without drugs--is what provides the internal chronology, because that's simply how the re-simulation process works.
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I'm more concerned for the libraries. They lose their ebooks after 2 years or 26/52 checkouts? Physical books can last for decades and innumerable checkouts if you have respectful patrons -- long enough that libraries eventually sell off old books to get shelf space for new ones.
I remember reading that E=mc^2 doesn't say that it's impossible to go faster than light, but rather says that accelerating something from less than the speed of light to the speed of light will take infinite energy.

The subtle difference is that if something just, uh, is going faster than light then everything works out. They're are two implications though, one is that it could never be decelerated below the speed of light and the other is that it'll probably have to be traveling backwards in time.

Making something that goes backwards in time and faster than light (without using infinite energy) is left as an exercise for the reader.
Forestry competes with soy and beef for Amazon land use. Prohibitions of forestry lead to clearing the land for cattle.

CITES has been effective at sustaining forests through maintaining their economic value while reducing production to sustainable levels. Shannon Rogers podcast on the lumber industry has several episodes dedicated to this if you want to learn more.
> Is Facebook responsible for keeping your (and your friends) data out of 3rd party hands or not?

They are responsible for the activity that they directly facilitate on their own platform. They have legal authority over the interactions they directly engage in (ie with users). They have no say (legally or otherwise) over what goes on outside the bounds of their own platform and thus no responsibility for it.

Regulators, not individual actors, are the ones with authority over the broader ecosystem. GDPR and CCPA are examples of such.

What's next, should Google be permitted to publish a ToS forbidding access to their services with non-Chrome browsers and then legally pursue other browser makers for facilitating the violation of their ToS?
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Any capacitive stylus would probably work.
There are a lot fewer rules and regs around the sale of detergent, than in the world of medical data / experimentation / research.
The original comment seems to be referencing the fact that's it's a private enterprise, rather than the lack of universal healthcare in the US.

>[...] for a private healthcare enterprise.
Computer industry in general, but network providers specifically.

It's not about <100ms latency, it's about a <100ms outage

I know I can't rely on providers to not have outages on 100ms -- a link fails in Sudan and BGP flaps on a peering it cane take seconds, let alone milliseconds, to respond.

I have to be very careful, because if I want a two-way communication at that 250ms round trip time to NZ, that means I have to ensure my packets get there and back in 250ms, and not drop in the middle and require retransmissions, which rapidly escalates latency from 'barely noticable' up to 'painful' levels (1 second or above is meaningless, may as well send a fax[1])

0ms : send packet containing informaiton
125ms : receive packet
135ms: process informaiton, send response
260ms: receive response
270ms: process response

Job done.

Trouble is, a 100ms outage from 0ms to 100ms means

0ms : send packet containing informaiton
125ms : fail to receive packet
135ms : notice packet missing, issue request for retransmit
260ms: receive retransmit request
260ms: retransmit
385ms : receive packet
395ms: process informaiton, send response
620ms: receive response
630ms: process response

Given I therefore need (630-270 = 360ms) of buffer, that's more than doubled the response.

But it gets worse

125ms : fail to receive packet
135ms : notice packet missing, issue request for retransmit
(request gets lost)
395ms: notice retransmit request not received, issue request for retransmit
405ms: issue retransmit request
530ms : receive retransmit request, retransmit
655ms: receive packet
665ms: process information, send response
790ms: process response

So to cope with a 100ms outage my application needs to insert a 520ms buffer on a 270ms conversation - practically tripling latency, and converting a near- real time convertsation into near-catastrophic talking over each other.

Now this is fine, I can have two circuits, send the packets down both, and the chance of both being broken is minimal -- assuming the links are really separate (which is another challange. Hint, both patchs down the same undersea cable on different frequencies is not separation)

However getting network providers to acknowlege, let alone measure, outages of 100ms, is practically impossible on a country basis, let alone an intercontinental basis.

[1] hyperbole. Just.
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Do students and families have any legal action to take? The school failed to protect personal information under their watch.

If I was a parent, I would be livid.
Came here to post essentially the same thing. Considering how much of most people's Excel usage (in my work experience) is basically making very simple tables/databases, the stuff in here should be required.
Gerard is a postdoc in my department. I am going to need to needle him about his 15 minutes of fame on HN.
To fake how johnson looked at that announcement to the nation

To fake going into hospital

To fake going into intensive care

Without a single person leaking it?
Good luck, I hope it works out great :)
Considering Egypt is using apps like this to persecute LGBT people, this is absolutely horrifying.

I'm so glad I've gone social media free, all the big players in this space have shown repeatedly they don't care about the safety of their users. Grindr was already caught sharing HIV status information with 3rd parties. Eventually these horrible companies will be regulated, but tons of people are going to be harmed before that happens.
It would be nice if this level of negligence and incompetence was somehow punished so that it stopped happening so often
This will continue to happen as long as companies aren't given any reason to care. The incentives simply don't work out, and I highly doubt the market will ever change that at this point.
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This is made of balsa wood. If the final result has remotely similar properties to balsa, it is not going to be able to come anywhere near cutting you - balsa's a very soft wood.

Of course if the final result has remotely similar properties to balsa it would also mean that you could just about break it with a hard enough sneeze. Balsa's a very soft wood.

(Though now that I look at the actual abstract it's probably stronger than the chunks of balsa wood I learnt to carve as a kid: "high toughness (3.03 MJ m-3) that is 3 orders of magnitude higher than standard glass (0.003 MJ m-3)" - so maybe you could indeed do some serious damage with shards of clear balsa.)