skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could certainly imagine that some of these children grow up without a fundamental grasp of the basic sciences as well as the entire idea behind scientific enquiry. While this is also occasionally the case in secular schools, at least I feel most students do get exposed to it and that it is enormously beneficial for childhood development as well as teaching kids how to think rationally.
LD50 only tells you acute lethal toxicity. LD50 can be astronomically high and a compound might still have long term, non-lethal toxic effects like injuring specific tissues.

No one is even suggesting lethal toxicity is the issue here, so how is it relevant?
Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if the sizes are not quantised at all. But if you look at the histogram in [1], most synapses fall into the low number of states range. This is probably related to the aforementioned sparsity of certain neural network layers. Pruning outliers from the brain is really difficult from an evolutionary perspective, but the approach linked in this post where you simply treat them differently than other parts seems like a reasonable way to go for artificial neural networks.
> the fact that certain ethnic groups consistently fail at dramatically higher rates than others

I'm having a lot of trouble with this statement. It leaves the reader to guess at which are the groups in question, and for no good reason. If it is indeed a fact why not link a credible source?
I wonder if anyone has made a font based on his handwriting.
I witnessed a watered-down version of an incident like this a few months ago on the road between Campos dos Goytecazes and Rio de Janeiro - traffic slows down, then stops, and as we look ahead, trying to see what causes the jam, we find that several people walk along the roadside carrying beer cans and kegs, laughing and being in an excellent mood.

Just our luck, driving right into some festivities, we think. Then, minutes later, we find the origin of the beer - a truck has veered onto the road shoulder and toppled over, the locals helping themselves to the free beer strewn all over.

I imagine that village still being collectively tipsy...
The article hardly dives into the why.

There could be many more reasons, for instance just the fact of being more grouped together then villagers next to them. Even though they had better sanitization they didn't have access to modern cleaning technology and also not the awareness of it's importance.

A shithole might be more sanitary than a group toilet if less are using it.
I'd argue that this will absolutely help filter out abysmal codebases made by people who have no idea how to code. I've seen companies like that, I've seen people who don't know how to format code, how to write proper function names in English, hell, I've seen people making Polish comments in an English codebase with grammar errors in their native language. But I agree with other comments, doubt anyone would actually show you code during an interview due to legal reasons.
It seems to me that this would be a fair strategy (the immediate rejection or acceptance part, that is) if N is very large.

But for smaller and more manageable N, I would assume you're better off with just ranking them all, and work out some decision threshold afterwards - when you have all the information at hand.
Sorry, I am not following: “Skype chat interview”. A “chat” interview, not even a call?
Big new incentives for clean energy aren’t enough
Right. This is an utterly bizarre thing to rebut: it's clear in context that the "bug" is a humorous reference to a common term (one that predates computers entirely).

The only false part of the entire story is the claim that Hopper invented the term which, to my knowledge, she never claimed. It's just computer apocrypha; the kind every field has.
It's quite hard too dry out faeces in the British climate. It's common in hot countries.
Long long time ago when Asus introduced the netbook I purchased an the Eee PC. I installed Linux on it and felt like one of the cool kids, sitting there in my university class typing on my tiny keyboard into the tiny vim window.
Hah, and now the Windows help just opens a bing search results page in your browser. It is like they've fully capitulated. I find opening the browser to a search engine is very condescending; if I wanted to do that I very well could.

Always look for adequate docs before adopting any library into a project. It is a lesson you need taught only once.
That’s like saying you can be a New Yorker without living in New York.

Just ain’t possible. Culture comes from circumstances, weather, geography, history and so many other things. Something is always lost when you try to copy it without the context.
$6.75 USD per second based on Cloud Armours billing rates.
I haven't had any issues on the RE end, mostly because I didn't need to do a whole lot of it, as the librespot people have already paved the way. But I've still gotta figure out the new protocol the Spotify client uses for playlists and such, so... there are bound to be issues up ahead.

Most of my issues stemmed from a lack of proper documentation.

One time I screwed up the packet format and was pulling my hair out when the only response I got was "Invalid username/password" from the Spotify API (or something along those lines. been a while).

The other times were more related to the Switch. Figuring out how networking and audio works, mostly. Hunting through the shit documentation and the source code of libnx to find out what I need to do. My audio implementation was either not playing anything or crashing for a long time in the beginning. I still have no clue what I did to solve it, which is unfortunate.
Was it worth it? In what languages?
> Furthermore, I produce comedy sketches at the request of my boss, who likes SNL and thinks funny content going viral will be good PR.

This is some Michael Scott level of delusional.

> Additionally, my boss complains about how producing live-action videos takes time and money. However, it's frankly difficult to make videos without buying a memory card to record footage on camera.

Good, make him complain more. Don't spend a penny of your personal money. Get a budget or don't move a finger without one. Make the whole thing more expensive, not less. Make it as stupid as possible (your boss deserves it).
As this page makes very clear, it's actually pretty hard to make a robust webhooks implementation!

What alternatives are there? I've looked at:
* Publishing AWS EventBridge events to other accounts.
* /events instead of webhooks https://blog.sequin.io/events-not-webhooks/
* ???
Something - but apparently not enough in this case.
Gbatemp once saved me when i bootlooped my friend's phone trying to root it. I needed a stock rom to flash but who the fuck hosts a stock rom for an off-brand android? Turns out some russians do, and a gbatemp user linked it at some point and google scraped it.
How does this comment add anything to the discussion?
What are you talking about, all of Silicon Valley saw the red flags and passed on investing.

It’s the old school, non-tech East Coast investors and DC political connections that failed to do their diligence.
Yeah I think you're stretching it here.

Yes, technically, 'very accurate' may not be good news, but that's not all CNN is. They are 'above bar' and a decent news org.

Yes, just 'breaking news' can be inaccurate, but that's not just what they are.

They're Cable News, and again, relatively decent.

Even though they are biased, if you had to pick 'just one' - I think they'd be a fair source.

I share your view on 'deep news' - but most people don't have time to go in depth.

CNN is not great but won't lead you too-too far off, most of the time.

Either MSNBC or Fox ... creates some unfortunate bubble thinking.
They most likely breathed in the vapor.
Thankfully, the "men can't find a clitoris if it hit them on the nose" or the G-spot joke stopped being funny 30 years ago.

Sorry to play the generation card, but it was a boomer thing.
Can I assume all things remain constant so, for example, the quality of applicants doesn't improve over time as they finish their year at the local college?
I am using a Dell Mini 9 netbook daily for various reasons. Interestingly, its (cramped) keyboard causes no noticeable strain in my hands -- whereas I got carpal tunnel syndrome from heavy trackpoint usage on a beloved Thinkpad T42.

When using the Mini 9, my wrists are not on the palmrest: the keyboard is so small that my palms extend above its edge. So, the wrists are not relying on anything, I keep them "in the air" while typing. This appears to give the wrists constant movement and flexibility, thus resulting in less tension.

I suppose this wrist position must be closer to "correct ergonomics" as shown on e.g. this photo: https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/...

The Mini is 8.9". Interestingly, with any bigger machine (even a 10" netbook), I cannot constantly keep palms "in the air" the same way. When the palmrest is bigger, I'm leaning on it, and can't help it.

I emphasize that this is anecdotal, though. I'm an end user; do not make ergonomics decisions based on what I say. It just seems to work for my body.
Celsius bankruptcy hearing: court approves setting more customer funds on fire
A bit off-topic but since many Seinfeld fans are here...

Here's something I discovered here on HN and want to share: https://watchseinfeld.net/
the pinephone with the keyboard case is an option then
Plenty of land that was previously farmland is currently desert or otherwise almost useless. It just takes a different amount of time in different regions.
Hot housing market with constant stream of options and where the good ones are barely on the market and require an instant decision and full commitment to a quick decision.

Unsure what part doesn't meet the criteria, I consciously used that approach to make the decision.
This is some serious tin foil hattery you've got going on.
You do need a quantum explanation if you are considering it one photon at a time (since photons are are part of the quantum mechanical model), but that doesn't mean you need quantum mechanics to explain the phenomenon. Every classically explainable phenomenon in principle has an equivalent quantum proof because otherwise quantum mechanics would not be a complete theory.
The fact that this is news, is news.
The (Opinionated) Way We Interview Engineers
List of Psychological Effects
At the same time, I wouldn't callously discard that these women are simply making up stuff because they're "gold digging".

"Innocent before proven guilty" is an important concept, but, I wouldn't pin the women as guilty of lying either
I would lean toward the £ means sterling, as Ireland used that from 1868 - 1928, the period in question (and the punt was de-facto pegged to it until the 70s).
What if you're using ids and two organisations merge? Whatever solution works for organisation ids will work for organisation names.
> Looking at other countries is unproductive,

IDK, this is a variation on the good old "The USA can't do this proven common sense thing that delivers benefit to citizens in many other developed countries, because ... uh ... USA special!" (1)

There's a chance that it's correct, but institutions that cannot learn from examples right in front of them are "special" in a different way, not a good one. Being able to learn would set a better trajectory towards greatness.

1) e.g. see The "FedNow" thread, yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32510581 Also, any healthcare or gun control thread.
Without proof that's defamation not a fix
You’d throw the clerk’s intern in jail? Seriously?
There has been plenty of those accusations like waterboarding his ex-wife and usually no smoke without a fire is pretty good thumb-rule about these things.
I think the question was "are humans the only animals that find sex actually pleasurable, enjoyable and as such might do it just for the fun of it?" Without a clitoris it might be as enjoyable as scratching an itch. Hard to resist the urge, but not a great pastime.

The second question scientists will pose is "do dolphins masturbate?"

The third question: "would dolphins enjoy dolphin porn?"
It's all about the user experience.
Whatever happened to Peak Oil?
The double-slit experiment is no proof for the existence of single photons. It can be fully explained (at any light intensity) by assuming a classical electric field. The "clicks" of a "single-photon detector", such as a photomultiplier, only require the existence of quantized charges (electrons).
I find this a lazy, western-centric, summary of religion's decline. Nietzsche does not a consensus represent, however deep and insightful his statement. It is this kind of casual dismissal of faith that provides one of the fuels to the populist "God and country" crowd exploited by Trump and his ilk.
> An economist walks by a twenty dollar bill on the sidewalk but decides not to pick it up, because if it were really there someone would have picked it up already

I think many farmers do what has worked for the last X decades; often copying what their forebears do with small adjustments.
Thank you HN. Another thing I'd never hear before. The wiki article also linked to "List of non-water floods".
I'd say it's more than just for testing little things out. If there is a lot of state in the application that takes minutes to prepare, or if some bug situation has been reproduced that is difficult to get into that state, it's useful to be able to try things, including a complete bugfix.

But nobody in their right mind just types code into a REPL, not recorded in a file, performs manual testing on it, and ships an image. Lisp people are sane, and put things in files like everyone else, under version control such as Git. And write unit tests and all the rest of it.
This doesn't really answer its own question though. Using human feces as fertilizer is a plausible method of transmission, but if the monks were doing this, surely the villagers were doing it too? Or is the difference that monks were communal and thus more likely to ingest each other's feces, while the, uhh, blast radius would be smaller for a single-family household?
Class action lawsuit: https://www.johnsonbecker.com/firm-news/greenpan-class-actio...

It should be obvious to anyone at this point that anything that promises to be a "healthy" alternative to teflon and is not stainless steel / cast-iron / carbon steel is most probably a scam.
They might even combine sex with getting high too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5aGLybXEs&t=120s
The salmonella you get from undercooked chicken is less dangerous than the parasites in under cooked pork.
I hate these stories, because we have no idea which side is true. The reckless drive is the only charge than can be proven, or at least have vitnesses.

Criminal charges really should be kept out of the media until there’s enough evidence to jail the suspect. This is to protect both sides.
Why is an algebra exam multiple choice in the first place?
On a somewhat related note, for some time now some people have decided that the proper way to integrate English words into German sentences is to leave off the trailing `-e` in words like `to like` and so on, so you get to read stuff like, `gelikt` instead of `geliket`. The latter is an abomination in its own right, but what can you do—people really say "das hab ich gleich geliket" ("I 'like'ed it immediately"). But the former... looks like I licked the post... /ew
Indeed. Directly from the CDC[1]:

> Sometimes, raw fruits and vegetables contain harmful germs that can make you and your family sick, such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria. CDC estimates that germs on fresh produce cause a large percentage of foodborne illnesses in the United States. The safest produce to eat is cooked; the next safest is washed.

How large of a percentage? About 45.9% of US food poisoning in the US is attributed to produce (of which 11.7% fruit-nuts, 34.2% vegetables), vs 47.8% to animals (of which 6.1% seafood, 13.8% dairy, 6.0% eggs, 22.0% meat-poultry)[2].

I suspect there's quite a bit of risk-compensating behavior at work here. We tend to hear a lot more about the dangers of raw meat, eggs and seafood than of raw vegetables, which probably makes people much more wary about them.

[2] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/3/11-1866-t1

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/steps-healthy-f...
And of course Wikipedia loves lists, so there is also a "list of non-water floods": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-water_floods

The most recent of which being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_fruit_juice_flood from 2017 - thankfully no victims.
Funny that it made it into national public radio news (Germany) but not much discussion on HN or elsewhere with more details. Seems to be rather easy to exploit (any website??)
Can we stop with this unfounded speculation please? These are real human beings we are talking about with serious allegations. Let the court follow its due process and come to a decision. The jury is still out there. Innocent until proven guilty.

All this armchair criticism and judgement on HN is turning out to be a very poor reading experience.
Did not know about Tex, that is actually an amazing suggestion for my use-case.

Considering the embarassing amount of money I spent on other mechanical keyboards this is definitely in the affordable category.

What switches are you using? I am always afraid of the noise level with mech switches but I have used silent reds and they were ok for me noise wise.
This is not why “people want to cast it as something non quantum”. If it were the case, we would see “nice, classical EM and QM are consistent here”. Instead we have “classical EM works, therefore photons are bullshit and QM is not real”.

The fact that we can understand a macroscopic phenomenon using classical EM theory is thoroughly uninteresting, as the vast majority of what we see every day is a combination of quantum objects that we can understand macroscopically with classical physics. Of course people had EM theory before Planck. It’s still just a bunch of photons.

It is as not a personal attack of your knowledge, just that I don’t think your conclusion about people’s behaviour was right. My Physics PhD is as relevant as yours here :)
This makes me think about a pipeline leakage somewhere in South-America a couple of years ago. People flocked with vessels of all sorts to fill them up, until the leakage ignited and exploded at some point incinerating the people... there are some horrific videos of the said event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlahuelilpan_pipeline_explosio...
How long before the Nikola Tesla fans turn up to tell us that his bugs were more catastrophic than Edison’s anyway?
I did the same thing, so obnoxious and redundant
Treat your Terraform code as an app for others to use
These best practices revolve around abstracting your terraform code away, favouring inputs over code changes.
Yeah it is a common misconception. There is also a minutephysics video on it (https://youtu.be/zcqZHYo7ONs) that portrays the effect of polarising filters in a misleading/wrong way, leading to further confusion.

Polarisation is used in many books and courses as a familiar classical system, which we then use to springboard into Stern-Gerlach, which actually is an inherently quantum effect.

Polarisation already appears when writing down the full solution to the classical EM wave equation. On the other hand, the similar effect seen in the Stern-Gerlach experiment with the angular momentum measurements is not: the non-commutivity of the angular momentum operator for different measurement axes is a purely quantum phenomenon.
I can't bear the ideological stench.

https://panamaupclose.com/2020/05/25/farmers-learn-not-to-sl...

This entire article is about abandoning traditional methods and replacing them with organic agriculture.

You're just creating a straw man to defeat when your original position doesn't even make sense.

Continuous no till, cover cropping, crop rotation, managing mycorrhizal fungi and things like system of rice intensification are hardly traditional and they are also orthogonal whether they are used for organic farming or not but they massively reduce the need for synthetic inputs. This rubs a lot of people proud of conventional agriculture the wrong way because it means their products are really just there to take a shortcut to save money in the short term. The fact that these newer practices are trying to work by understanding the plants and the entire ecosystem you are building rather than treating them as a blackbox which need specific inputs and the recipe is done. Imagine doing something for 30 years and then some new guy comes along and uses a new method that reduces his yields by -10% but saves him expensive inputs and thus results in greater profit while his soil gets better every year and the conventional farmer's soil gets worse. This is particularly annoying to the Bill Gates types who think they are some sort of Messiah because they have a lot of money and push people around.
I think the consensus now is that we'll never "run out" of oil, because we will always invent more and more creative (read: expensive) ways of drilling for it like fracking and sideways drilling and deeper drilling.

The catch is that oil will just get more and more expensive. So while we'll never run out, it might cost 10x or 100x or 1000x what it does today, which for many practical purposes is the same as having none.
Ask HN: Modsecurity Alternatives
Does anyone know of a good mod-security (WAF) alternative for nginx? Specifically an open source project that isn't riddled with memory leaks.

Naxis seems to be dead.
Emails maybe ? But it means you have to regularly check your inbox. Or use a webhook called by your email provider when you receive an email :D
It exactly reminded me of softmodems, except just maybe here there's room for innovation. Apparently getting the raw sensor data allows you to do clever AI-based enhancements to the image. A bit different from softmodems because there you were always limited by what the other end of the phone line (ie. your ISP) would accept so you couldn't invent a better encoding system.
Wanting to do good and talking about doing good in proportional amounts to the (a lot of) bad you are doing (as well as a solid way to gaslight everyone and drown out the negative sentiment) are not the same thing. Virtue signaling refers to the latter, not the former. No need to invent strawmen to "dunk on conservatives", conservative politicians give plenty of actual legitimate reasons to be disliked.
> “He said it is so hard being him in the world because of his intelligence,” she later recalled.
Without commenting on the actual story, human morality isn't a single switch (or even dial) with evil on one side and good on the other — it is entirely possible to be a demon in one aspect and at the same time an angel in another.

For example: Washington bought slave's teeth, with circumstantial evidence those teeth ended up in his mouth. By the time he died, he was against slavery but didn't seem to know how to approach the abolition of the practice.

People are complicated.
Parent did say it was LinkedIn, yes. /j
We are not talking about quantity, we are talking about severity. Plus, you can't use modern data for this because modern stock raising methods mitigate a lot of the dangers from pork.

The parasites from undercooked pork can be very dangerous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873887

(“Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II”)
> Most of the places where cows graze grass can NOT support human eatable plant food growing.

This is pure propaganda. Do people know that when they repeat it? Or does it just soak into the collective unconsious and become 'common sense' even though it doesn't make any sense?

Who told you these were the only two options? Why would you believe them? What other alternative uses for the land have you explored?
> usually no smoke without a fire is pretty good thumb-rule about these things

No, that's exactly the reason why trial by Twitter shouldn't be done, you don't know what actually happened.
(satire)