skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object.

You've obviously never used a proper washlet.
I've been finding I actually need to pace the baking. Otherwise, I'd end up with way too many carbs in the house.
I'm specifically talking about CSRF as I've found that to be quite widespread and some analytics providers have had flaws that can lead to your account being deleted or stats sent to someone else's email address, etc. I don't know if there's a similar problem with XSS, but I trust Google's security practices more than most other companies.
> 3 feet transmission is extremely unlikely

Not at all. This is what makes COVID a pandemic.
Youtube is actually an excellent resource here - search for "intro to Synthesis" or "intro to synthesizers", and move up to "advanced synthesis" (or related terms) and there are boatloads of excellent videos teaching you more than you ever thought was possible.
I don't think so - they're saying you could work for them if you wanted to and it's an achievable goal. For a lot of people the idea of working at somewhere like Amazon probably seems an insurmountable challenge if they don't have access to quality education. Try to see the good in things and not be a cynic.
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I programmed javascript 15 years ago, while you're technically correct, practically speaking today's JavaScript looks nothing like that written even 10 years ago.

Like Crockford's "Javascript: The good parts", which is when people really started using it without utterly despising it, was published in 2008.

Also, before V8 came out, JavaScript performance was a joke, a loop of 100 items could hang your page for a second. Think that was around 2008/9 too.
They should be able to answer reasonable questions about how the company operates, surely? That one doesn't seem out of line, under the circumstances.
I never understood why we should be expected to subsidize ranchers by giving them nearly-free* access to vast quantities of land. If they want to keep cattle, let them buy their own land and graze on that.

(And by 'nearly-free', in 2015 the cost per head/month was $1.70 on federal lands).
> IMHO CPATCHA is a lazy way to protect your service as you shift the burden to your users.

What is the non-lazy solution to having a basic website contact form that _doesn't_ receive hundreds of spam submission per day?
So, my identity records got mixed up due in part to the impedance mismatch between (first name, last name) and (first name, middle name, last name), resulting in my legal name suddenly changing until I could get the issue sorted out.

Two fields works in the sense that most people are going to be have something to put in them, but what that is and what they mean isn't always going to match what you intend. Either the system is going to be tolerant of such things (in which case you can probably get away with some variant of (display_name[, external_name]), or you're using it to interface with some other identity provider/consumer that requires a specific format, and that's what should be asked for.

Names are personal and hard to get right.
You can self host your own analytics, like matomo. [0]

[0]: https://matomo.org/
For personal projects, what about basic usage data from something server-side like nginx logs?

No JS, no tracking, just basic analytics. Even if it's only a personal blog, knowing what people care about is helpful

If anyone has recommendations for something self-hosted like this, I'm in the market :)
You're being downvoted, but this is absolutely correct.

Paying for a cheap BLM grazing license just entitles you to let your cattle graze on BLM land. It should not (and does not) entitle you to exterminate wolves living on that land.

If a rancher wants wolf-free grazing land, they're free to buy their own land, fence it, and manage the grass on it.
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If all other communication software will fail just as horribly under the same scrutiny, then it’s fine. With the quarantine, we definitely have the time to make something better.
Tesla's injury rates were 30% higher than the average car company, and close to double in the case of serious injuries: https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is...

And that's not including the evidence that Tesla has left many injuries off the books.
Unlike the downvoters here, I applaud the fact that you have ethical and morals standards and can afford to stick with them. If more engineers did that, the world would be a better place.
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Yeah, that's pretty much in line with what every report has said, and that's even keeping in mind American car factories have higher injury rates than their foreign competitors in general.
> For universities the ISP entry is often "X university"

Actually Google killed that report earlier this year. It's kind of a big deal, a lot of companies were using ISP dimension to distinguish external vs employee traffic.
Not really. MechE courses are really theoretical, and the labs are focused on just being enough to demo the theories. Most of my professors had never worked in industry, they had been in academia their entire lives. Even they wouldn't know how to bridge the gap.

In an ideal world, we'd have separate tracks for people entering industry versus academia/research, but that's a long way off.
I don’t think you need to argue that fax is not technically secure on HN. Pretty sure we are all on the same page there. What matters is legal precedent and existing policy in various countries.
Humans don't produce a lot of usable energy that way. Let's say you burn 300 Cal riding that stationary bike for 30 minutes. That's barely 0.3 kWh. Most of that energy you burned is just heat. The rest is minuscule. After subtracting inefficiencies of the alternator, and transformers, and all the rest of the hardware required to convert human power into electrical power... you're not left with much. It would take far, far longer than the lifespan of the exercise equipment to pay for the operation.

And, most modern cardio equipment consumes more energy as electricity than the user of the equipment is producing.
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Can anyone explain what EXT.NET is/does? On the product page it doesn’t describe itself.

Did you used it? What was the experience? Etc
I doubt it is a complicated conspiracy. Someone probably pushed the wrong button on the HR site.

I’d guess the one opening you saw was coming out of a US manager’s budget, and the manager wanted some physical presence in China to help work with teams that are based there.

It’s not surprising that they wouldn’t target China-based positions in fluent Chinese language offices at their US based English language site.

Also, I’ve been using Zoom at work for years. They’re more popular with younger firms (“anything but Cisco”, maybe?).
Expectations for security/privacy are higher now than in years past, Zoom is being evaluated with a 2020 lens.
To handle single page sites or more specific actions
"Reading the link" isn't quite poking around, is it?
Which might be fine for things like web cams but for critically and immediately needed sanitation products, it proves a fatal flaw in markets. The reward for quickly buying up commodities and reselling them at enormous markup always out weighs stockpiling them for years and potentially never selling them at the same mark up.

Not to mention destructive hysterical hoarding. There is someone in this thread who noticed an extreme shortage in webcams so when only two were left in a shop, he bought both.
It is not 80% alcohol, it is 80 proof which is 40%. Article is wrong about effectiveness.
Seems cool. Have you talked with the developers of SQLite to add your code to SQLite? (Difference in license may be an issue though.)
Due to the structure of Congress, ranchers are disproportionately represented in the Senate and House.

Also, it's part of the food overproduction thing we do to make sure we have enough food for natural security reasons (like with soy, corn, milk, etc.).
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Starters from wild yeast has been how bread was made for thousands of years prior to the introduction of commercial yeast relatively recently. (And, of course, sourdough starters are still used to make sourdough bread.)
I'm not sure there's anything ethical about berating a line recruiter.

If you don't want to work there just politely decline the offer. Don't take it out on someone just trying to put food on their family's table.
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I'd like to read about that! Is that described in the book you mentioned, or elsewhere?

The UK also got early warning of air attacks from Chilean radar installations in Tierra del Fuego or thereabouts.
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> Nothing is “free”

Can we stop with this nitpicking? You’re not paying any money, so it’s “free”. That Google analyses your data is another story: it could do it whether you’re paying or not.
You could use a VPS with hetzner or scaleway for $5/mo with decent specs, or use an older raspberry pi 2/3. I had metrics services like prometheus, grafana, and matomo analytics running on my old pi before I migrated them to a VPS.

It's a little more complex, yes, but running a VPS with a few services / docker is not really that complex in the grand scheme of things. It opens you to the world of open source and/or just running long-lived processes. You also could host your site on it, removing a dependency on github offering free static hosting forever.
Done. I'm working with them to hammer things out.
When people say tech company they mean tech margins. There is no indication that Tesla will ever be able to achieve that.
They put it up willingly. Why the hate on copyleft?
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This is why, if we software folks were going to organize so we could do things like effectively support less-fortunate workers, the time to do it was any point in the last ~8 years when times were good. Oh well, maybe next boom. We'll have little ability to affect corporate and government behavior in this downturn.
What do people suggest if you have a website that sells something?

Knowing where your traffic is coming from, if your new redesign helped or hindered users in finding content, and knowing which traffic sources result in the most sales sounds business critical to me.

I've seen lots of situations where when we look into analytics, it becomes obvious users are having trouble finding content or don't know the content is there to be found (e.g. putting an important link behind a navigation menu was a bad idea).

I feel people can overly focus on the more manipulative side of A/B test, but analytics is useful for improving your UX as well. Not everyone runs a personal blog without a care for monetisation or viewership either.
Why would IBM and Microsoft be in FAANG?
"as many as 380,000 people die of the infections in LTCFs [long-term care facilities] every year."

https://www.cdc.gov/longtermcare/index.html

An increase of a several percent would not be noticed.
Yep this is exactly the sort of mutant we want to look for, but ideally we want a strain with a gene deletion not just point mutations to lessen the chance of back mutations. It does prove that there are less pathogenic strains out there, there just needs to be an effort put into finding them.
In theory, everyone left of Biden will vote for him anyway, so being just a tiny bit left of Trump is the ideal winning strategy.

But in reality, it's more complicated. There is no clear political spectrum on which everyone falls. Not everyone has the same enthusiasm about politics. Not all candidates are equally competent/likeable/trustworthy. People get disillusioned with their own party or excited about a new party or platform.
Isn't that kind of exactly what GPU companies have been doing all the time with game-optimized drivers? And since they cannot just skip work, but merely re-prioritize things, these cheats should be easily detectable by a reduced battery life.
That doesn’t mean you weren’t damaged financially by their misconduct.

It probably doesn’t matter much for a small company like Zoom, but I imagine it would for MFAANG and friends.
And I think scale matters. We are living in an eavesdropping-on-steroid era
This is what is occurring, and the transition isn't necessarily easy. For example, there's no easy to way to take say 30% of all beer consumed (from kegs) and just on-demand convert that to canned.
> If there's one thing I'm sure of is that China won't share their spying data with my own government.

They'll just share it with their allies; Chinese-state hackers, Russia, Iran, and North Korea so you'll have blackhats after you instead of your government.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Cool. Thanks for the excellent feedback! Bridge was so much fun to build. Hopefully, we'll get to take another big crack at the project again.
And of course, this is why C++'s 40 years of backwards compatibility is so important. The same compiler can maintain the same code. The new features are there, but they do not necessarily need to be used.
Younger me learned remixing with acapellas off ccMixter. It's a great place for finding royalty-free music of all kinds
> Isn't the whole point of the upcoming election to get rid of Trump?

For approximately half of the country, yes. For approximately the other half, no. It's that tiny slice of true independents in the middle that have been deciding the results for a few cycles by now. The DNC does not like Sanders because he's too far to the left.
Both the iOS and macOS Wireguard client are functional but they aren't shining examples of great UI, UX or feature richness. Often 3rd party clients (as happened with OpenVPN) will fill that gap.
I've never used clojurescript (but have used perl, php, java, prolog, oocaml, js, python, ...), so to me that: looks like a clusterfuck.

But of course, if I had a need where clojurescript was the best fit, and I had to use it daily for an appreciable amount of time, I'd acclimatize to it and consider this perfectly fine syntax. The same goes for ES6: it's objectively just syntax. If you think it's a nightmare, that's because you're the one doing the judging. Not because it is.
But what are the alternatives for websites with a small audience? not many choices out there.
Now imagine if that ReCAPTCHA was served on an equal opportunity lender's website or on a job application form.
Absolutely - our vision is that one day frontend devs will be able to spin up entire backends on Paragon, and just need to plug in their database / email provider / etc. of choice.

Appreciate your feedback on our onboarding flow, you're right and I apologize for any misunderstanding. We'll update our flow to better reflect our pricing.
Dude, my basic bidet has a knob with 9 levels of pressure, but after 3 it's basically sandblasting your anus to the point it physically hurts and does damage. You can get mostly everything off, but you can still use toilet paper for clean up on the nasty ones, which shouldn't be all the time. You just reduce your TP usage by a lot and have more flexibility. Also, just wait 30 seconds after use then wipe once or twice and you are dry, ta da! Best $70 we've spent; if you don't like it, don't use it, but I guarantee it's worth the experiment if you don't have one or haven't really tried one. The bidets I refer to are the washlet type, not those weird separate sink looking ones.
Seriously - I never expected or need e2e in my video conferencing (I like transport encryption fine and always thought the lock meant that).

But this would be a huge issue if true.
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In my experience, relatively easily defeated by `await Promise.delay(randomDelay())`
If you enable desktop mode, it'll with (in mobile Firefox, at least).

...but not well. I can see why they disable it by default, even if I wish they included a button to proceed anyway.
230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
Some weird things I noticed:

There are at least two typos in the abstract:

#1

> [...] Danmark, Sweden, Germany [...]

Should be "Denmark"

# 2
> [...] crypto analisis [...]

Should be "analysis"

There's a "cryptanalysis" later in the article.

The author's list of papers: http://www.cs.ru.nl/~bart/PAPERS/index.html doesn't mention this article, even though it mentions another not-yet-published paper.
What a beautiful page.
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I'd say the conical suffix reference - like all else in lang. - is dynamic & arrived at by rough consensus.

And the long term trend is for folks to search (and perhaps say) cryptocurrency more than cryptography:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F01l...
I have managed to successfully solve the audio CAPTCHA before (even though the pictures are impossible to solve), although now they must have disabled it because it doesn't work.
Didn't Privacy Pass help here?
It is actually extreme simple. You suggestion of injecting virus into people’s gluts is a vaccine, just one that is unlikely to work well and be dangerous as well. I have explained why vaccines are not the answer.
There are several papers and theses (including this one about the Greenland shark http://www2.bio.ku.dk/bibliotek/phd/Julius%20Nielsen.pdf) looking at the isotopic profile of the different layers of fish eye lenses, down to the embryonic nucleus. Maybe all those researchers are onto something. Or maybe they are all wrong. I have no dog on this fight anyway.
> Normalization was built for a world with very different assumptions. In the data centers of the 1980s, storage was at a premium and compute was relatively cheap. But the times have changed. Storage is cheap as can be, while compute is at a premium.

Normalisation isn't primarily about about saving storage, it's about avoiding update anomalies i.e. correctness.
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Damn. I was thinking just a couple days ago that serum therapy might be a potential treatment avenue. For whatever reason, the plot of a Dragonriders of Pern novel came to mind, and I realized the similarity of the situation to the COVID-19 pandemic, and found myself wondering if the solution there wouldn't be workable here in the real world.

<Spoilers>

In Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, a viral disease (a flu strain IIRC[1]) jumps from horses to people, and quickly begins spreading. A quarantine is implemented, but too late, and the illness becomes an epidemic. And this is Very Bad, because the dragonriders and everyone else find themselves with people falling ill and dying just in time for Thread to return.[2]

One of the master healers is infected in the line of treating others. Once he recovers, he realizes that his blood can be used to produce a serum to treat others. And so begins the work of producing the serum and logistical problems of getting it everywhere needed fast enough.

One thing we have over the fictional Pernese peoples is that we have a more advanced medical medical establishment that could probably produce a serum quicker and more precisely, with less secondary infection risk. (Although, a brief shortage of blood-work needles wouldn't surprise me.) And while Pernese dragons can teleport, they also tire, whereas our planes and trucks need only refueling, and each does not require a unique psychically-bonded pilot/driver to operate at all -- round-the-clock shift work is possible.

</Spoilers>

And I just realized, I recalled almost all of those details from memory without the aid of Wikipedia. I read that book back in middle school. Damn.

[1] I might be wrong about this detail. I know I am recalling this from an interview that I read, but I might be mis-remebering. The author might have been stating she took inspiration from the 1918 flu pandemic.

[2] If you're unfamiliar with the Dragonriders of Pern books, the general premise is that periodically, "Thread", a hostile organism which eats all organic matter it can reach, falls from the sky. The dragons and their riders protect everyone else by burning the Thread from the sky before it makes landfall.
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Today is day five on my forcast list (8-4-2020):

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And so you believe web developers are like the paragon of critical thinkers this country really needs a massive influx of?

You know a vast majority of us can’t critically think our way out of using cookie cutter bleeding edge stacks right? Frontend development alone is chock full of people that use flavor of the month tech without critically thinking about why. We are not this elite group of critical thinkers just because we do a perceived ancillary “science” related profession (as in it’s not related to science at all, it’s just technical).
Kinda like all those "buy gold (from us!)" ads on AM radio.
You don’t think a recruiter should have an answer to a question a lot of people are asking about the company these days? I would 100% expect something from an in house recruiter, or one of the better third party recruiters.
Is there a Firefox extension to fold threads containing that kind of recurring generalities? Sinclair's quote (not even quoted here), "If you are not paying for it, you are the product", "Government are bad", etc. ?
Maybe the site was updated, but I definitely heard somebody chomping on celery without closing their mouth about 1 inch from the mic.

I hate chewing.
>Is it still legally binding?

Not in the EU country I live in.

1. We have digital signatures we can use to sign documents and they are legally binding for gov. organizations and optionally every organization that accepts em.

2. For internal documents, metadata is sufficient after organization issues an order.

3. Between orgs, metadata is sufficient if you address that within contract.

At least I remember it being that way few years ago.

This pdf viewable signature stuff is void. Only to make feel some people better.
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There is the innate immune system, and the adaptive immune system. If I understand correctly pathogen specific antibodies are created by the adaptive immune system, so maybe if the innate deals with the virus quickly the adaptive is not triggered.

There was a good TWIV podcast talking about this.
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Don't worry about it dude, just get one. You can always just not use it once its installed, they are like $70 and take 15 to install yourself, but trust me, it's a game changer and worth the cost even just to try it a few times.