skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want people to get the wrong idea from your immune system analogy.

From what I recall, exposure to environmental antigens as a child helps train the immune system to not go off on them later (as allergies).

Exposure to any particular disease is only a positive in your adaptive immune system response to that particular disease (and may cause problems such as antibody-dependent enhancement of related diseases, as seen in Dengue, and some Flu infections). For particular diseases such as chicken pox it's better to get them as a child as they have worse symptoms if first caught as an adult. For other diseases I don't know that it matters much. It's probably best to just never catch them at all. And then for diseases such as measles, you don't want to catch them ever (at least before vaccination); definitely not after you've caught other diseases.

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/Covid19-immunity-Yasser

> Does our immune system get stronger with every infection we fight off?

> To answer this question, let’s first discuss the two types of the immune system. Our immune system is composed of two arms, the innate and adaptive immune systems. The innate immune system acts fast (in minutes) after it recognizes a pathogen and, in most cases, eradicates the invading pathogens. During this process, the cells of the innate immune system, and their derived immune mediators/proteins, also activate the cells of the adaptive immune system which then develop memory immune responses toward these pathogens. Therefore, upon reinfection, the intensity of the innate immune system remains the same. In contrast, the adaptive immune response is much stronger than the initial exposure to these pathogens.

> So, to answer this question, our immune system doesn’t get stronger with every infection but the response of the adaptive immune system is much faster and stronger upon reinfection.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/how-measles-w...

> Reporting today in Science, the researchers show that the measles virus wipes out 11 percent to 73 percent of the different antibodies that protect against viral and bacterial strains a person was previously immune to — anything from influenza to herpesvirus to bacteria that cause pneumonia and skin infections.

> So, if a person had 100 different antibodies against chicken pox before contracting measles, they might emerge from a case of measles with only 50, cutting their chicken pox protection in half. That protection could dip even lower if some of the antibodies lost are potent defenses known as neutralizing antibodies.
Would be great to have a flag to perform this chain:

- Remove background

- Replace background with white

- Upscale image to 1000px
Odd. The lancet link loads fine for me with all javascript (including first party) disabled.

In my experience, disabling all javascript fixes websites more often than it breaks them (most javascript only exists to create nuisances), so I leave it all disabled by default.
Ask HN: Why is Google forcing webmasters to switch from UA to GA4?
It boggles my mind how frequently Google breaks old systems and asks their customers to move.

I can't understand the technical reason that Universal Analytics will stop working on July 1st.

Google takes for granted that customers will remain loyal during each migration.

I'm looking to migrate.

What analytics platform are you migrating to?
It’s so refreshing to be reminded that history is still lying around us, waiting to be found. Waiting for the right folks.
What is better about the writing? What about the argumentation?
Wow I actually drive a Bolt pretty often in a shared EV fleet and I always wondered what the hell the "L" on the shifter was supposed to mean.

The biggest issue with the brakes on the Bolt is the way the brake pedal software works. In every other car I have ever driven, a steady pressure on the brake pedal will bring the car to a halt. But on the Bolt a steady pressure on the brake produces (inexplicably) proportionally less braking as speed falls, meaning to bring the car to a normal stop you need progressively more force on the pedal. It makes the car feel as if its brake lines are full of air, even though it's all computer-controlled regenerative braking and the hydraulic system only engages at the very last moment.
Sounds like terminals as they existed for most of the life of computing. Honestly I’ve never found color added that much to my experience with a terminal and often ended up with poor contrast for certain things and a bunch of time tweaking color palettes.

Since eMacs and vi has been two color for a lot of its life, I’d say it’s more like writing code with pretty bog standard code editing tools.
Well, AFAIK it's not clear that in the US the courts have the right to compel someone to modify their software in that way. The FBI holds that it does, but so far it's been fought and they've given up when they've tried it. I think if such a thing were to happen, the fundamental ability to secure any software goes out the window. Even package signing, etc go out the window because they can just compel you to produce new software, signed with your existing key.

But let's step back a moment and presume that they do have that ability to compel. The first step here is that none of the PyPI Administrators are the legal owners of PyPI, so such an order would not be sent to any of us, but rather to the PSF itself. The PSF would then be on the hook to either comply or fight said hypothetical order, but individual members of the administration team would not be, and would be free to quit. They may not be able to say why they've quit, but quitting AFAIK would be entirely possible.

The PSF, while not having Apple's war chest, does retain counsel for dealing with things like this, and I can say personally I'd spend myself broke before I'd be willing to do so.

We are going to be implementing signing, and I'm hoping we'll be able to make strong progress on that soon.
except for the forever part

ints(8-128) will either wrap around (repeating) or will overflow error in any language I've ever used
PAC-3 MSE could probably take out an ICBM during its initial ascent, assuming it was in range. But that's an extremely small window for interception.
Have someone drive behind you and ask them if your brake lights come on during regen braking, or do what TC did and attach a camera to the back of your car.

Based on other comments in this thread, your hybrid probably triggers the brake lights during regen braking. It seems only Hyundai got it wrong.
There have been billions of organisms that have not reproduced during their life. Almost all of them didn't choose that path. Evolution cares about the survival of the species, not the individual. You can contribute to that without having your own kids.
Put an online backup in a another location then.
The comment I replied to specifically said "The Patriot missile is proven to defeat Scud missiles in real combat". That is a false claim, as I asserted, and none of what you mention says anything about defeating Scud missiles in real combat.
AFAICS PEP 301 linked only to a demo site until April 2003:

https://github.com/python/peps/commit/c773b1b2ce0a2817
I don't know how many times I have to make this clear but as I said, this is what they say.
According to the graph at the beginning, overall referral traffic right now is higher than it was in April of 2018, and it is currently trending up for the last 9 months.

Later in the article, There are graphs that start at a different period of time from April 2021, which was in the height of the pandemic.

Without comparing twitter referrals to all other social media referrals, the significance of twitters decline from april 2021 to now doesn't really mean anything on its own. We don't know from the information provided if all social media referrals have declined since April 2021, but I would assume they all have.

This gives the impression that the data was picked to represent the peak of social distancing and widespread social panic compared to right now where all people want to do is meet in person and go outside after being cooped up with no social contact for 2+ years. This strikes me as nothing more than riding the current trend of musk-twitter sensationalism.

If it were an honest look into twitter as it fits in the space of all internet social media, it would at least compare it to other social media growth. Its pretty clearly cherry picked data without meaningful comparisons for context.
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron.
Am I the only one that doesn’t think these look hard to solve? It shows you an example of what it’s looking for, who cares what word it uses to describe that thing, can’t you just pick the similar pictures?
That hardly makes it false. That's actually almost exactly the point the article is discussing. In the U.S. policy decisions, in this case encouraging living in suburbs, is a major contributor to the lack of walking.
My oldest book dates to the 18th century. It’s not my most valuable book (I’m not sure which is, but my guess would be the signed limited edition of Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote would be it).

I keep the valuable books on a special shelf so that after I die, my kids will know that those books should probably not be sent to the library book sale.
Can AI now finally solve the 'branching narrative problem' in interactive video?
It's crucial to offer meaningful choices that lead to diverse outcomes and provide a sense of satisfaction and curiosity to the viewers. Budget constraints and production limitations have always impacted the depth and complexity of the branching narrative, such that it risks failing to have mass market appeal. Until Now.
Violet Verse Drops Digital Fashion Unlocked Podcast
The first sentence I quoted. They used thousands to train the AI, and then ran the AI on a similar sized list. Perhaps with reuse it will be worthwhile. Or the second list was harder to synthesize?
Digital Fashion Unlocked Podcast is a audio series focused on digital fashion and its impact on traditional fashion. Hosted by Julia Pepper and Violet Verse, DFU invites guests to share their insights on emerging technologies like blockchain, AR and NFTs. With interviews from people across the fashion industry, our goal is to create an inclusive space for community members to share their voices with each other and the world.

Learn more violetverse.io
Administrator Samantha Power at Diia (Ukrainian E-Gov Platform) in DC
Most images have excessive margins around the foreground. By allowing you to crop it instead of just shrinking it you get an effectively higher resolution result.

If you don't want to manually crop it, just press "ok".

That said we could probably improve the messaging in that dialog, thanks!
> A part of me hates Alien 3 so much that I just pretend it doesn't exist.

Agreed. Though I still count it as part of the original Alien trilogy. It felt like the story was a poor mix of the preceding two. The setting was confusing - a desolate forgotten prison colony that were miners or metal workers - a mill of some form? Worst one of the three BUT I will watch it any day compared to the next three turds which become more and more painful to watch. It was boring.

Resurection was forgettable - I dont remember much save for Ripley is bought back from the dead, captive aliens escape from their inescapable pens (tired trope), Film finishes with Ripley fighting a hybrid human-alien on the space ship made from her DNA (it has a ma ma moment) and must have been made of boogers as it gets sucked out a little hole by a modest pressure differential. Basically another boring remake of Aliens.

Then there is Prometheus and Genesis. I can't even begin to explain the seething hatred I have for these two - genesis being beyond infuriating. Basically the plots of both films are moved along by all the characters being awful at the jobs they are experts in or completely oblivious. But, hey at least the visuals were "breathtaking" or at least that's what the critics said... I wish these two steaming piles never existed.
PolyAI: Massively Collaborative AI Research
The field of AI Alignment seems to have a long list of hard problems that could be publicly researched openly. Inspired by The Polymath Project, Sir Tim Gowers & Michael Nielsen.

I am wondering where this could go, write a research prompt(leaf) and another person continues? How does this look at scale?

Page: https://progress-studies.org/polymath
Playground: https://progress-studies.org/polyAI
Polymath project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project
If you scroll down past the second photo, right after the heading "Artificial intelligence".
Marxism turns to fascism

Capitalism turns to oligarchy

People argue that these systems are wrong but maybe it's just that humans will corrupt any system they're a part of
I'm driving a Honda. I looked it up and people online say that it has the same issue. However, I plan to observe for myself.
That's covered in the video - GM uses an accelerometer to detect braking. Once you stop decelerating, it turns off.
Pretty sure that price for D-5 doesn't include the cost of the W-88 warhead. I would assume at a minimum those would be $10M a piece. Still doesn't make it more expensive than THAAD however.
Roguelike Tutorial – in Rust (2019)
What is thought demanding about it?

I feel like I spend more time trying to coax it into staying focused than anything else. Not where I want to spend my time and effort tbh
That's fair. Can you point me to more reasoned AI doomers? Maybe someone that doesn't think there is a greater than 99% chance humanity will be wiped by AI out very soon. I honestly want to understand the risk.

If you believe something wild to that degree of certainty, there's no other word for it. It's religious. That's the certainty that makes it religious and hysterical.

"I believe with certainty the world will end very soon because [reason]"

Fill in UFO, revelations, etc
A road trip across the cradle of civilisation
Could be as simple as "the controller doesn't have wheel speed on its can bus"
Absolutely. Newark airport is a food desert disaster because of this. I've learned that if I need to stop through Newark, always buy enough food for the layover at the previous airport since it's impossible to get anything in Newark. Thanks for the Starbucks tip, I hadn't noticed that (as I don't drink coffee).
If you're running the text-generation-webui (https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) it has the ability to train LoRAs.

It'll require a beefy GPU but I've seen some fun examples like someone training a LoRA on Skyrim books.
Thank you for the summary. I understand how creators are incentivized by YouTube to produce longer content, but it is a bit ridiculous that this 30 minute video could have been 6 tweets.
I own a Canadian Ioniq 5 and it is indeed quite dangerous. I have been honked a few times in my year of ownership. Now, I usually release the pedal completely to at least flash the brake light to show people behind me that I am decelerating. But my wife hate the sensation so I usually don't use 1-pedal when I am with her. Which is sad because I really enjoy driving in this mode.

I totally agree, when you are decelerating at more than x/(m|k)ph light should come on.

On a different matter, first generation car, and there is a huge flaw with a high percentage of Ioniq5/Ev6/Genesis GV, have a ICCU (Integrated Charging Control Unit) failure at around a year of ownership. My car at the dealer for over a month without an ETA on part delivery :(
Things people get wrong about the debt ceiling saga
https://web.archive.org/web/20230525154103/https://www.thela...
Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy
Clutch state would be lost on at least 95% of drivers in the USA.

Honestly, I'd wager that half the people driving a manual car that's not in a sports car doesn't even know what the clutch is actually doing. They just know they need to press it while shifting and hold it halfway out for a second or two when coming from a stop with no concept on why they have to do that, other than "That's what you do in a manual transmission".
W.r.t artists and creators not getting paid well - how could it be otherwise? There's tons of content already produced and it's not perishable. After everything got digitalized and is available all, all the time to everyone, how could you expect to get paid well for producing more of it?
Growing demand for travel poses green transport challenge
The root of trust for uploads is the listed of signatures maintained by the archive administrators, flat out.

The requirement for having individual keys signed by Debian Developers just makes it easier for the archive administrators to decipher which keys they want to add to their root of trust. The upload system does not check those signatures at all, they do not need to exist in the slightest as far as the upload system is concerned.
Slightly off topic - does anyone know a 'reader mode' for PDFs?

I frequently look at PDFs online and am looking for a tool that reformats the PDF into a single column, so I can just scroll, absorbing the content.
Understood. Thanks a lot for your time documenting this. Super valuable!
Keep enoug distance to be safe and someone will just change a lane to be in front of you, removing any safe distance you decided to keep
Just because the table scan is under some threshold doesn't automatically make it better. If a table scan takes 250ms vs 0.01 for a indexed lookup, you're still gonna have to justify to me why making silicon work that damn hard is worth even the electrical use. Are you inserting and deleting so many rows that maintaining the index is prohibitive? Do you have space concerns, and are not able to keep the index in memory, or maybe even on disk? The Bash history thing makes sense, because indexing is a lot of work. But otherwise, just use an index and move on to the next problem.

EDIT: Has anyone else forgotten to add an index, then noticed the performance regression a year later? That's always fun, because now adding the index could mean downtime, and even knowing if or how much is difficult because putting that much data somewhere else to test isn't trivial. No thank you.
The whole construct of atomics is for speed. I've never seen an argument against it. On the contrary, there are plenty of misguided arguments for speed that doesn't hold in reality; badly written atomics is often slower than mutex.

Lock-free code by itself doesn't guarantee forward progress. I've seen way too much atomic code where the author sprinkles a seemingly infinite loop that only breaks when compare_exchange_strong succeeds. How would you reason that those loops will in fact terminate? When you use a mutex, there are no loops anywhere. Afraid of deadlocks making in mutex code? There are many good deadlock detection tools that you can use without directly reasoning about each section of atomic code. That's infinitely better in terms of productivity.
Piql and Silica are interesting at a civilization level but they aren't useful for personal archiving. You won't have a reader and you probably won't be able to build or buy one.

For the economics of storage see https://economicmodel.dshr.org/ and DSHR's other writing about archiving.
American Airlines Flight 191
The accident on this day in 1979 proved a landmark in effecting myriad changes in subsequent aircraft systems designs.
Thus flows the money of venturous capital
Growing up on a farm we used to call this "Silence of the Lambs".
>Basically China would need to abandon an administered financial system, and move to a market based economy.

I don't see why. It just needs to be making enough stuff that the rest of the world needs to justify holding their currency in reserve.

He repeats the thing about them running a deficit which I've heard a lot but doesn't make any sense. When the US became the reserve currency it didn't run a deficit. It's a benefit of being a reserve currency that you can do that, not a prerequisite.
> The original use case was really trying to turn secret key systems into public key systems by hardwiring the secret key into the program and then obfuscating it.

Wow, that definitely qualifies as a "crown jewel." I, for one, would not look forward to a future in which software running on my hardware is able to hide secrets, like one-off media encryption keys, from me!
LinkedIn Locks Account of the Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
Considering how much data is written to support redo/undo/wal logs, a single index for user id is very little overhead.
Traditionally the way startups entice people is by giving them equity
The Linux Foundation then, clearly needs help in the marketing department. "Tux" icon, vintage 1994:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)

https://www.kernel.org/
Going uphill isnt a problem because the car behind you is also going uphill. The point of brake lights is to warn driver's behind you they need to brake, which is why it needs to be a measure of negative force being applied by the car, not just the resultant acceleration vector.
https://twitter.com/secondmentions is a collection of instances of said "elegant variations".
That's the scale argument, yes.
I actually agree, but it seemed extremely obvious that he had no real desire to run and really wanted to step away from politics. But the current political system has become such that the only way one can become the top official is via "celebrity" status (i.e. we treat politicians as an entertainment commodity in the US); it's very arguable this became an issue with televised debates and the Reagan presidency (he was a very popular actor).

Basically we're past the point of finding extremely qualified individuals as leaders, now it's much more of a popularity contest
Show HN: Flowshot
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Another intelligent and insightful comment from the local socialist.
Kids could fill labor shortages, even in bars, if these lawmakers succeed
If the need is there, AWS will park a 45' long shipping container outside your place that can hold up to 100PB.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Or you can get a Snowball that holds 80TB. These you just ship via UPS.
What does 26.2% effective mean in this context?
What you’re going to have to work on is discernment.

You can’t, and shouldn’t blunt or callous yourself to criticism, after all it’s the important feedback that you get from your environment that informs where your attention should be for learning or applying lessons learned.

Rather, the key task now is for you to increasingly categorize and label this feedback in ways that allow you to appropriately evaluate whether the feedback is valid and perhaps does require introspection.

The more you can evaluate things like this, with curiosity as to other reasons that may be contributory, the more you’ll realize at least in my experience that “it’s not about you” in most cases.

Finding that saddle point of anxious introspection and detached boundaries tasks a while so, be patient with yourself and give yourself grace. I know I’m still working hard on it myself and I’ve been in senior leadership a long while now
Hell, yes: younger Britons more likely to believe in damnation, study finds
> Nobody trusts encryption built into tape drives for the same reason nobody trusts encryption built into hard drives.

Source? Last I heard many companies rely on the encryption supplied by tape drive systems.
The important part is that if you don't copy VanJS into a script tag, or use it all, you're still doing Vanilla JS.
https://archive.ph/bDxZF