Readit Newsgabriel34 commented on Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins? · Posted by u/neltnerb
Are there no viable alternatives more respectful of privacy than Google's recaptcha? Seems like an anti-user choice to me.
Hcaptcha does pretty well in privacy for general purpose sites
gabriel34 commented on Brazilian vote counting (real time) resultados.tse.jus.br/ofi... · Posted by u/frozenlettuce
Any details on the infrastructure behind this? How are they handling security?
Security audits and supervisors from all parties in all steps for starters.
The voting machine prints a total for that machine at the same time that the votes are transferred to the central counting, this process is public, the supervisor from each party get a copy of the total, and one copy is publicly affixed at the voting place, so parallel aggregating from the partial counts is possible (and has been done by sampling).
Internal counting on the voting machine is somewhat validated by picking random voting machines out of the voting places and conducting a parallel voting, publicly broadcasted, on which known amount of votes for each candidate are input and the result from the machine is compared to the expected. Only thing missing that I can think of is actually doing this parallel voting on the same time and place the voting was expected to take place.
It is worth noting that some “nations with fewer scientific resources” provide their students and researchers broad access to scientific papers through their public universities and research institutions. That part of the article seems to be affirming the autor’s prejudice without a shred of confirmation
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That's why bar raisers have to be from a different organization than the team hiring.
As an Amazon Bar Raiser, our community takes our unbiased position and ability to veto hires EXTREMELY seriously.
We hire for Amazon, not for the team.
Could you share the metrics on which you as a BR are evaluated? Employee retention? Time to hire?
gabriel34 commented on Ivermectin is effective for Covid-19: real-time meta analysis of 45 studies ivmmeta.com/... · Posted by u/andrenth
The same site sugests hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a viable terapeutic option (hcqmeta.com). For all I know the scientific consensus is that HCQ is not useful for treating COVID-19. This seems like pseudoscience stemming from cherry picked data/papers with its weakness hidden behind complexity and the large amount of references.
n.b. I have not delved deeply into the claims or the sources