skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Germ theory also covers stuff like non-airborne transmission (food/water/bodily fluids).

First, that's not correct; the germ theory of disease is simply the statement that diseases are caused by germs as opposed to being caused in some other way. Transmission is not a part of it.

Second, if you believe that small creatures too small to see can make you sick if you inhale them, it's not really a stretch to think that those creatures can make you sick if they get into your body by any other means.

(Note that not all apparent diseases are caused by germs; some are caused by genetic conditions, some are caused by dietary deficiencies, some are caused by inorganic poisons, and some are caused by creatures which are easily large enough to see with the naked eye. Does this make the "germ theory of disease" incorrect?)
I am a bit confused, is Google dying or dead?
Sure. Many people (both commentators and friends of mine) express extreme forms of race and gender essentialism, regularly referring to groups like "white men" or "black women" as though they all have the same thoughts, feelings, and desires.
I think that is being overly harsh, there are more than a quarter million Americans that would certainly disagree with you were they still alive to do so.
My recollection is that before around 10 years ago or so, there were these same kind of conspiracy theories and similar nonsense, and I saw them aimed both at conservative and liberals. None of them got much serious traction.

So what do you think changed between then and now to lead to such a dramatic rise in disinformation in conservative circles compared to liberal circles?
Chickens raised for meat are different breeds from chickens raised for laying eggs. Male chicks of the egg-laying variety are good for neither meat nor eggs (being unable to lay them).
> I learned Java

Did you have working projects you could show them? Usually the reason companies are looking for someone with job experience in a technology is because they want to see if know how to get things done beyond the syntax.

Showing a web application you are running for fun, or other hobby projects where you've demonstrated your ability to deliver is a good way to do that if you don't have the job experience to point to.
I find the mentality around TypeScript to be bizarre.

"It's just a type checker for JavaScript" - not really. It's a language that transpiles to JavaScript and it happens to be a superset of JavaScript (namespaces and enums, anyone?).

But saying that it's just a layer on top of JavaScript sounds like saying C++ is just a layer on top of C.
it's actually a good thing for democracy that as many doubts are settled as possible

Under what circumstances do you believe that the doubts actually get settled? A court can direct the government to accept one outcome or another, but it can't direct that people stop expressing their doubts. And as long as the doubts are prominently expressed, I don't expect any investigation to settle it. Doubts are free, both libre and gratis, and you can expect them to be indulged in accordingly.

We should, by all means, pursue the investigations, because it's legally required. But I don't expect it to provide anything except more evidence of a conspiracy, because that's how conspiracy theories work.
This looks like a really nice and well-made tool. Kudos and thanks for open sourcing!

One nitpick: Why do you use a Makefile without using any of the features of Make and then even requiring a special GNUMake feature to make things work like a shell script? Why not simply provide shell scripts in the first place?
Yes, it's unsigned software.

Several of my virtualenvs are broken on Catalina - apparently the binaries installed by my requirements.txt are not signed for use in Catalina. I had to accept an amount number of dialog boxes by hand to make that work.

There have been others, too, beyond the virtualenvs, which I do not remember offhand.
And that would be the difference between a CS curriculum and a Software Engineering course that someone might attend anywhere other than a Top 100 university. They are discrete curricula and the criteria to get on to SE tend to set a lower bar.
I think it's likely they'll add new types of exercises as this starts to happen.
Not keen on hcaptcha because I'm almost always need to solve 2 sets of the puzzle vs 1 with recaptcha. Theres a thin line between privacy and convenience, most of the time I've felt hcaptcha to be on the least convenience side.
What's a traffic meter? Maybe it's just important that the car doesn't drive into it.
I'm not super surprised? I think often centrist dems like to think of themselves as different from moderate republicans. (And vice versa.) More extremist right wing types tend to think Pelosi is some sort of progressive bogeyman and that she's nothing like folks like Reagan or Thatcher. I think all of those groups would disagree with my assessment enough to downvote it. (I suspect a lot of people are upset I called Pelosi a neoliberal.)

That said, my view is only one lens, and there are others. Many don't consider Clinton/Obama/Pelosi and their ilk to be neoliberal. Many do.

Edit: Also, I told someone they were wrong, which is usually a few downvotes. :D
10 years ago if you had pitched this idea to Steve Jobs, he might have embraced it and pushed for a cross-platform app container standard that can run productivity apps, games and more. Perhaps we would have been living in a world where Apple does not take a 30% cut from all sales happening on the iPhone.
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Is in-house CPU printing a (future) possibility? I don’t know a lot about manufacturing, but is a an etching machine a possibility to make custom boards or chips? Even if it’s not up to today’s tech.
Definitely not a good use of your time in many languages! Because `if (!foo)` is only equivalent given a language where foo can only be a Boolean type (I’m guessing you were using Java?).

In more weakly typed languages null/NaN special cases and type conversion rules make it very hard to safely rewrite `if (foo != true)`.
Blockchain indicators shows Bitcoin entering the greed zone
Did you have much tech experience before the bootcamp?
I'm guessing the next "M2" chip will be fabbed on the upcoming TSMC 5nm process, 2nd version. In 2022 there is projected to be the TSMC 4nm process. Thus, there will be room for more transistors.

Expect also a density increase and capacity for DRAM chips (and SSD chips).
> Rural white Christians greatly outnumber urban Jewish Christians

Well, yeah, Jewish Christians, urban or rural, are pretty rare. Black and Hispanic Christians are more common. And if you look at regressive attitudes on race, it's mostly White Evangelic Protestants where those views are concentrated. White Catholics and White mainline protestants are fairly evenly split, and non-White Christians (what usually has big enough samples to show up in broad surveys are Hispanic Catholics and Black Evangelical Protestants) tip strongly the opposite direction as White Evangelical Protestants.
ah, i'm stupid
The podcast attached to the article talks about it in more depth.
Certainly, what I mean here is people that have been helped out to get where they are, then not pay it forward or in fact go out of their way to not help out their peers.

I've seen this happen many times. Not just to friends, but co-workers and people that I have met along the way.

In one case I had a friend who was hired by a former classmate to a local firm. After a year there they started hiring more programmers company wide. This friend refused to interview people who had graduated from our department or pass along resumes. Instead they started hiring other people from non-engineering departments that they thought they could train to program. This guy is now a C-level and still refuses to hire people that graduated from our department.

I'd wager that it's just a feature of my particular network and people I've come across. As my partner is the opposite, and their network helps each other out.
Neither is correct.

Actual answer is: commercially, meat chickens and egg chickens are completely different breeds.

In "broiler" chickens, they put on muscle at an astonishing rate; for laying chickens, they output eggs prodigiously.

The male laying chicks grow so slowly, with a small ultimate body size, as to be economically uncompetitive with broilers.
We found that the dual purpose breeds were pretty mediocre at both purposes. Not great at laying eggs, and scrawny birds when prepared. When we switched to egg layer breeds our egg harvest was substantially larger. I never did try to raise meat birds.
oof i'm stupid
I think I spent more time watching video snippets and reading portions of other articles to give myself a lightning course on weaving jargon, just so I could understand what was being talked about in the OP. And suddenly, why looms look as complex as they do and are able to weave complex patterns makes sense. Why looms were automated makes sense, and I find myself with a new sense of respect for those who learn and master operation of a manual loom. It's not a trivial task.

Still haven't been able to figure out what a "differential sett" is. Searching with quotes on google finds a bunch of stuff talking about '"differential sett"lement'. Or stuff about Egypt. Best guess is that it has something to do with using a number of threads per inch that is different from what is set on the reed, or differs across the breadth of the warp.
Theres a very faint outline around the circles that controls perceived motion. If you pause the vid it becomes noticeable...
Why? Haskell doesn't even have runtime type information. So what would you call the stuff that runs after I compile my Haskell code? Not-Haskell?
> We use it in invisible mode and it does a great job at finding bots while getting out of users' way.

Interesting didn't realize this was a thing hcaptcha did[0]. It's basically recaptcha in terms of tracking which sites you visit then, no?

0: https://docs.hcaptcha.com/invisible
You’re pretty far off base, my dude.

API quality varies from product to product. Base APIs object retrieval are excellent because tons of people use them so they received incremental improvements even after launch. More niche APIs like Communities or Chatter unfortunately don’t get as much love or attention.

Documentation, on average, is great. Light on practical examples, perhaps, but Salesforce has made huge investments into education materials for the tech side of their products. If you think THEIR docs are bad, I urge you to share what big company (Netflix? FB?) with regular users as the dominant customer has docs that do are think are better.
Is there still a reason to keep them on a separate vlan if they can't access the internet? I'm genuinely asking, I can block the thing's internet access but vlans are still on my list of "things to learn and do" :)
I absolutely loved this, and I will show it to my boss in a couple of hours, who I already know will like it more than me.

This is a game changer for online workshops and conferences, if not anything else for the ability to prepare several "shared screens" and switch between them as if switching between presentation slides.

The only feature I was surprised is not included is the ability to "save" the video size and position for each slide, so it automatically appears in the right place, out of the way.
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The "rules for thee but not for me" on display by elected officials is maddening. It's certainly not unique to the US. Here in Canada the mayor of Windsor recently had "an unfortunate accident" (ate at a restaurant with a group of people hours after calling for zero tolerance) [1]. Earlier in the pandemic the premier of Ontario Doug Ford drove to his cottage after asking everyone else to stay away from theirs. There's never any consequences and leaves people (me at least) increasingly frustrated, angry, and feeling a complete lack of faith in our politicians.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-mayor-dining-...
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-cottage-covid-19...
The exercises are dependent on what researchers are paying for. The spammer needs to keep up. Which they can do by sampling hCaptchas and figuring out what tasks are being done.

The question is how much value spamming provides. If it's significant, then it pays for the arms race. Given the investment in beating reCaptcha, it seems that spam provides high value.

Edit: And! And! hCaptcha could become victim to a malicious bot that feeds bad data into other researchers' training sets. The bot would need to reply to an overwhelming number of hCaptcha captures, such that it becomes the dominant validation set. It would be a self-fulfilling model. It'd even be performed at the expense of the legitimate researchers, who must pay ethercoin for every hCaptcha response. Much like cryptocurrency networks, hCaptcha is susceptible to a cartel. In this case, it'd be a bot-cartel, feeding bad data. Humans could be locked out, as hCaptcha might be convinced the humans are bots and the bots are human.
I've often half-joked that the road to JIRA is paved with other project management tools and ticketing systems.

I don't think anybody really sets out with the intent of using the one reputedly cumbersome tool that can do anything - but after growth and pivots and new requirements and new teams and special workflows... you end up needing a combination of features that is literally impossible to get with any other tool, and who wants to fracture into multiple tools?

So you get JIRA. And it just does it all, and even if nobody is overjoyed, nobody feels like they lost, either. There's value in that.
3 things: MBAs, Finance and Consulting.

Engineering filters heavily for analytical skills and is math heavy.
In Ireland we're busy trying to figure out how to get rid of a Supreme Court judge, after one broke the lockdown rules and then refused to resign: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/government-see...

From the _same incident_, we also lost a minister, a senator, and the EU trade commissioner. Those all helpfully resigned without too much shoving.
Title should be changed, this is a widespread AWS issue, it’s not specific to Cognito.
Just to correct slightly incorrect perception: there is nothing inherently insecure or vulnerable about X.500/ASN.1/BER/DER parsing, in fact it is probably more sane format to parse than JSON. The perception that it is somehow fraught with parser vulnerabilities comes from various implementations that tried to implement BER/DER parser by transforming something more or less equivalent to ASN.1 grammar into actual parser code by means of C preprocessor macros, which is somewhat obviously wrong approach to the problem, at least in the security context.
My one gripe with the IH forum is it seems like everyone on there is doing the millionth note taking / project management / web analytics app. Or even worse, a product for other Indie Hackers.

I wish there was more originality, better yet solving real problems for real people - not other indie hackers. Not that it doesn't exist, it just seems the signal to noise ratio is so low.
There are no "floodgates" to open. FYI if you're an RN, you can get an EB-2 I-140 approved without any sponsorship, under the National Interest Waiver. They're considered to be in perpetual shortage.

The fact that people still aren't flooding in should tell you something.
From personal observations of people around me and reading a bunch of random articles on that topic in the past (cannot be bothered to find sources now, so all I am about to say can just be counted as anecdata), it isn't true that the US and UK have even more loneliness, but it is true that it is trending upwards and would eventually get to the same level if it keeps going.
> Pele was great, but I doubt he would have been that great in modern football.

This argument has never made any sense to me, in any sport or discipline. If you directly bring a 25-year old Pele or Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky to 2020 using a time machine, they won't measure up to their peers. If you send an average math professor from a mid-tier college back to 1680s England, they'd dazzle Newton. Because standards and the base level of skill have gone up across the board since then.

That doesn't mean average math professors today are smarter than Newton. And it doesn't mean the average professional footballer today is actually better than Pele or any of the other greats of the past. Bring baby Pele (or Jordan or Gretzky) to 2020 and (barring injuries) he'd be a world-beater in 20 years.
Ok, so I don't really care about the politicians (politicians gonna politician; what can you do?), but any word about the "with a group of prominent lobbyists, including several who represent the California Medical Association"?

I assume the AMA is going to deny all involvement, because they probably weren't involved, but I'm sure hearing the lobbyists justifications would be entertaining.
We actually spend quite a lot of time on this, and regularly work with blind users to test and improve these flows.

Most vision-impaired users have no issue in our testing, and it is a much more accessible option than audio challenges, which discriminate against those with auditory processing impairments.

(disclosure: work there.)
I totally agree with you.

However, all that the various Agencies are saying is - 'Yeah sure, it's in there but it isn't something we cared about enough to have looked at so we haven't' (paraphrasing here obviously). Whether that is true or not is another matter entirely of course.
Ignorance runs deep in America --- and coal country is no exception.

Trump just took advantage of the situation --- making promises that people wanted to hear with no intent to deliver.

The truth --- the times they are a changin' and no politician can stop it. What really killed the coal industry is fracking and cheap natural gas --- which by the way, Trump is also a big fan of. Less pollution and less cost --- sold!

So which side of Trump's lying mouth sounds sweeter to your ignorant ears? Or are you ready for some truth now?
I hate hCaptcha, those pictures are messy, they pop up everytime and theres 2 slides of them...
Why not just use the honeypot method?
it is hard to overstate how important Maradona was and still is for people in Naples.

To this day you can see representations of him all over the city, he was almost as revered as a local Saint, possibly more.

It's a pity the city is "off" due to COVID19, I would expect some big celebrations.
> The latter case really aggravates me. It almost makes me feel their charges of hypocrisy are hypocritical somehow. At least, I wish the difference would be pointed out more often. It really is a different phenomenon. I think the former case has more moral authority, and the latter case is bad faith.

It’s not bad faith at all. It’s a way of saying “look, even the governor doesn’t believe this is as serious as she says it is.” That’s a totally fair criticism.
I've been watching some mainstream media with my father in recent weeks. It's amazing to me how concerned they tell their audience to be, and how excited they are that our deliverance is at hand thanks to the imminent availability of a 90% effective vaccine.

Never mind that the vaccine has not been shown to do anything to help people who are deficient in vitamin D or zinc or any other kind of malnourishment, nor to help deal with the darkness that happens the same time every year.

Some people think the Asian countries did well because they're mask ninjas. Another theory is that the countries that have done well just have more exposure/cross-immunity [0] to coronaviruses (from bats/etc), or there may be some protection from TB/pneumonia vaccines that are commonly used in Japan/South Korea/etc.

I'm more likely to believe those who say the response to COVID-19 is much more of a problem than the virus itself: https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/133150652391538278...

Governors are more likely to be skeptical than their plebs, but they have to balance managing their party's partisan hysterics with their actual risk factors (less likely to be malnourished, etc).

> Fewer Republican governors have been caught violating their own orders — in large part because they have not implemented the same kinds of restrictions that public health experts say are critical to curbing the spread of a deadly virus.

Floridians and North Dakotans and Swedes are fortunate to have more enlightened leadership that question the supposed "public health experts".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-reactivity#In_immunology
> what a scam. who can hold them accountable for cheating those who paid for uptime guarantees?

Never trust that. Deploy in multiple regions (and AZs within those regions) if you really cannot tolerate any downtime.
Off-topic: one of my favorite dev environments had a half terrabyte of memory, and it was _fantastic_ for prototyping -- we rarely had to be bothered with disk spillover or any of the other time sucks that arise in low-RAM environments.
I think parent means hCaptcha enterprise in passive mode, where hCaptcha is detecting bots in the background using ML:
botstop.com
Is hCaptcha less of a pain for users who block tracking (with Brave, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, etc) than reCaptcha is? I'm not sure I've ever solved an hCaptcha, but I find reCaptchas to routinely be incredibly time-consuming, and I suspect it's because I block their trackers.
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Me too, and I'm pretty sure they actually do move. When I place something on my screen covering the arrows, I can see circles moving (since the shape of the gap between covering and edge of circle changes).

EDIT: Or at least something in the edge changes.
Middle-eastern United States area.

Our rubric is for deciding who to interview. We definitely have new grads who have resumes with meaningful programming projects who get into the interview pool. We have hired new grads over experienced candidates on the strength of the interview.

During an interview, we usually have a whiteboard abstract design and pseudo-code guided exercise. I also very much like to ask candidates to walk us through one of their projects and experience with that as well. Occasionally, someone who doesn't do very well with other parts of the interview will really open up on a school or personal project and show unexpected insight and ability.

I wish we could do a blinded work-sample test, but there are HR policies that prevent us from using one.