skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it depends on context. From experience I know that if I wake up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night and interact with my partner (say a simple sentence or whatever) I rarely remember it in the morning. I'm pretty sure I have at least some conscious awareness while that's happening but since short term memory doesn't form the experience is lost to me except as related second-hand by my partner the next morning.

I've had a similar experience using (too much) pot, a lot of stuff happenrd that I was conscious for but I didn't form strong memories of it.

Neither of those two things bother me and I don't worry about the fact that they'll happen again, nor do I think I worried about it during the experience. So long as no meaningful experiences are lost I'm fine with having no memory of them.

The expectation is always that I'll still have significant self-identity with some future self and so far that continues to be the case. As a simulation I'd expect the same overall self-identity, and honestly my brain would probably even backfill memories of experiences my simulations had because that's how long-term memory works.

Where things would get weird is leaving a simulation of myself running for days or longer where I'd have time to worry about divergence from my true self. If I could also self-commit to not running simulations made from a model that's too old, I'd feel better every time I was simulated. I can imagine the fear of unreality could get pretty strong if simulated me didn't know that the live continuation of me would be pretty similar.

Dreams are also pretty similar to short simulations, and even if I realize I'm dreaming I don't worry about not remembering the experience later even though I don't remember a lot of my dreams. I even know, to some extent, while dreaming that the exact "me" in the dream doesn't exist and won't continue when the dream ends. Sometimes it's even a relief if I realize I'm in a bad dream.
How to Tell If You’re a Super-Achiever (2019)
Or just, email me when... or call me when... At least it gives me a hint about the best way to contact you about something.
Have never owned a smartphone, did have a Facebook account for a week before deleting it.
Influenza? The one which kills thousands of people every year despite widespread vaccination?
How would this look like? Specifically, how do you know if something has been deleted? Do you compare the primary keys in your materialized view (the last snapshot you have of the data) with the source data to know what changed? Isn't that really hard to do if they're not in the same database?

In real life most people prefer taking a full snapshot each day because they don't have good solutions to these problems in batch systems (CDC is another story).
The joke was that they barely exist any more. Maybe at some bigger train stations.
You would be surprised at what people do with screen readers, but yes, that probably won’t work for first person shooters.

Realistically, however, even if this is only/mostly used for games (if so, why doesn’t https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear even mention the word game?), many, if not most, of them probably will be turn-based, because it’s much easier to write such games.

Also, accessibility doesn’t imply screen reader. It also includes high-contrast, larger fonts, tabbing through controls (e.g. to support users with Parkinson or motor disabilities), etc. Nowadays, a GUI library should pick up settings for those from the OS.
This sounds awfully a lot with stagflation.

How can money which can't be spent hold value?
Arguing against their position by saying that they kick puppies is textbook ad hominem. Saying that they are not an expert isn't a strong argument, but it is a valid criticism.
Because you look at similar cohorts at the same time. So if group A has received the vaccine, but group B has not, and they're being observed during the same time/geographical area, and the groups are sufficiently randomized otherwise, then you would expect to capture the effect of any other confounding variables.

Given the large number of people vaccinated so far, and the magnitude of the effect it's pretty safe to say that the vaccine is causing a significant reduction in hospitalizations independent from the broader background trend towards lower prevalence of the disease overall.
The UKs adoption of First Dose First is amazing and inspiring in a time when governments worldwide seem unable to operate effectively.

There are 2 things every country can do to save lives that have effectively zero cost and zero negative externalities:

- lifting lingering vaccine bans (the US's ban of AZ is most glaring)

- first dose first - the evidence is overwhelming at this point.

These two things, which could be done almost certainly by Biden alone (in the US), would allow possibly everyone who wants a vaccine to get one by the end of March, instead of July with the current projections. And this decision is effectively zero risk.
bullet three is pretty fascinating for all kinds of flame-war inducing reasons that I'm just going to leave out.
>That's what technology has gotten us. Accounts get closed down due to automated systems. Something gets flagged as "fraud" and you lose access/money. Your previous business selling apps gets cancelled when your app is deregistered and removed.

Automated solutions do not preclude having human reviewers, and I do not think it's unreasonable for the government to step in and mandate quality (such as subjecting the automated solutions to a small claims court style jurisdiction).

>With the hawaladars, their word, ethics, and livelihood is on the line. You have a real human who can handle the squishy and nigh-unautmatable parts. And they can talk with the person trying to transfer money in case there is problems unforseen.

While there's plusses, there's also minuses. What happens when something goes wrong with a $100M+ transaction? What happens if your hawaladar or the other one burns you? There's 7B+ people in the world, eventually some organization to manage reputation will develop, maybe even by the hawaladars themselves, and you end up back where you started.

>But this seems like a veiled way to attack a way of moving money around solely because the name is Islamic.

I specifically wrote "etc" so I didn't have to specify each and every instance of discrimination, and my example of "gay" would certainly include the KY county clerk, so I don't see how you could claim I was attacking an Islamic concept because it's Islamic.

I'm not even attacking it, it's a perfectly valid way for transactions to work. In fact, my family has done it many, many times when they immigrated and they did it between various African countries, UK, USA, AUS, NZ. But that was during a time when transferring money was more costly and they didn't have another option. Now they might choose to use transferwise.
Good question, but IDK. Current price is around $37/Filecoin, falling from $45 earlier in the week, but I have no idea what one Filecoin buys in terms of storage. Let me know if you find out more, and I'll do the same
"the stark drops we are seeing do seen surprisingly sharp"

Surely that suggests an unnatural cause, such as millions of vaccine doses being rolled out, specifically targeting the most vulnerable (LTC residents) and those most likely to catch/spread the virus (medical profession, first responders, front line workers)?
You assume that not only was there a bug in the software (in that it had not been updated to follow the law) but also it was terribly designed in that it could not cope with manual overrides.

Not a terrible stretch. You are probably correct.
How you’d narrow it? We tried post-seed Saas product companies but it seems no need to do that since it doesn’t has enough differences to justify the shrink
The regions that did quarantine themselves like that (the Atlantic provinces) are in fact doing much better than the rest of the country. Newfoundland is in near-total suppression. Though unlike some others in this thread I do believe being an island is helpful, even if just psychologically.
"Op-Ed" literally means "Opposite the editorial page." It's a place in the newspaper specifically reserved for opinion, not news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed
Had to google Burial.

My hipster inspection is way out of date.
An example:

The 4th paragraph from the end of section II talks about optional deltas. It's like ifdefs in a version control system: many version can be checkout with or without some of the deltas. While not part of many version control systems, it's an interesting idea explored in Andreas Zeller's Feature Logic PhD work 20 years later [1].

[1 - currently, SSL cert expired this morning; notified] https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications/files/zeller-...
The Safari one was only fixed about a year ago: https://webkit.org/blog/10031/release-notes-for-safari-techn.... I remember being excited about the release specifically because of Jake Archibald calling it out.
I wouldn't put too much confidence in that. SARS wasn't known to be contagious presymptomatically, but neither was COVID-19 for many months. Levels of presymptomatic transmission similar to COVID-19 are entirely consistent with the evidence we have from SARS.
Somewhere I got the notion that if you're doing translations for Brazil you had to support Portuguese and Spanish, which is why you need internationalization instead of localization. It turns out that there are maybe half a million Spanish speakers in Brazil, but plenty of other languages, especially in the western half.

> Brazil’s immigrant languages include Catalan, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, North Levantine Spoken Arabic, Turoyo and Vlax Romani, as well as more mainstream European languages like German, Italian, Polish and Ukrainian.
Is there any definitive source on this? I get lots of conflicting information from my brief google search. Equities and Cryptocurrencies are not treated the same for tax purposes by the IRS. It seems like they are treated as property and do not qualify as a "fungible" asset like stock or USD.
Also things like EISPAC, BLAS, LINPACK and so on, for FORTRAN. Back in the 70s my dad worked a bit with them when he was employed for UTHERCC: The University of Texas Health, Education, and Research Computer Center. You can find references to UTHERCC in papers from that era.

Come to think of it, something like UTHERCC might be exactly what is needed to help the current situation.
Is it really necessary to invoke the spectre of the Holocaust just because you don't agree with direct stimulus payments?
> It seems really dumb that they are stackless

Why? C/C++ already has stackful coroutines. And that seems extremely wasteful unless you know you'll run the coroutines at the same time... with single threaded stackful coroutines, you'd get two stacks and only ever use one at a time. that wastes megabytes, requires heavier context switching, makes cache misses more likely, etc.
It's the fastest we currently have but pretty unlikely to be the fastest allowed by the laws of physics. Evolution isn't quite that perfect - e.g. the fastest flying animals are nowhere near the top flying speed that can be achieved. Why would the smartest animal be at the very limit of what's possible in terms of speed of thinking or anything else?
We were experimenting with Go as a "fast" backend language to implement stuff like data services and high throughput systems in.

Go has proven itself disappointing in many ways. Rust however has only continued to evolve and get better as the community matures. 2021 is definitely the year of "rust" for us - and we will be using it in many more places. Both on the backend but also on the client - where we embed native modules written in rust.
It's a pretty big deal to ask somebody to shut off what might be their only form of social connection. It sounds like you have the privilege (not pejorative) of having a decent social network irl if you have a wife and family, as do I now that I'm later in life, but I can remember being an only-child teenager in the middle of nowhere with no social outlet other than online.
> I much prefer this situation where the user must provide his own implementation and think about equality.

But that doesn’t scale beyond the first user. Every subsequent developer now needs to read implementations to understand what the code does thanks to a lack of standardization for these functions. Consider if there was a smaller standard library with fewer interfaces and conventions, it would become a lot harder to understand a number of concepts in Go, by design. That’s fine, but conventions are what made Ruby on Rails projects so successful that they scaled up to being the monolith monstrosities most of us with startup experience ended up knowing them to be.

Note that I’m suggesting something akin to C++’s standard library where algorithms are already written for you to use and compose with. Yes, the drawbacks are a slower compile time, and some conventions like constexpr can really complicate things, but… I can’t say that a larger standard library or a larger set of conventions would make Go harder to use assuming the implementations hide a sufficient amount of complexity to outweigh the overhead of learning of them in the first place.

What functions provide more value than the overhead required to learn them? Delete is one such function, mutable immutable data structures generally are likely another. Yes, the documentation needs to specify big O complexity, but it can still be easy to read. For example: https://immutable-js.github.io/immutable-js/docs/#/List

The only way to get easier than that would be to use the same syntax for immutable operations as mutable ones: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/docs/introduction

I recognize that the Go community finds the built-in standard library restrictive now, but that’s no reason not to support a versioned standard library that ships separately but contains common functionality. I can only point to TypeScript for how such a system might work, given the large community project that exists to provide and publish types for that language, without actually publishing them with the language or compiler itself, excluding browser dom etc.
Looks like we're currently hovering around 21.39% and were at 15.26% on 2021-01-31.

6% in ~22 days

At what level are we considered herd immune? When 50.1% of the population is immune/recovered?
Agree. I like to think of a), b), and c) as:

a) "epistemic arrogance" -- you believe you're smarter and know more than everyone else;

b) "heads, you might win, tails, everyone loses anyway" -- so you might as well gamble on heads;

c) "f*ck it, load up!"

And there's also d):

d) "wait it out" -- if you're already rich and infinitely patient, like Mr. Buffett. Maybe find a hobby to occupy your brain -- e.g., play Bridge online.
Why would you respond like this without accounting for the rest of my very short comment?
Yes, Wyndly at-home allergy drop immunotherapy does help with cat and dog allergies! Many of our patients come to us because of a small baseline allergy that impacts their quality of life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

A lot of people buy art not because they like looking at it, but because they want everyone to know that they have lots of money to drop on worthless art purchases. This motivation is reinforced if a.) everybody knows how much money they're dropping on art purchases and b.) the price keeps going up, yet they still win the bid. They want the price to go up, since a higher price just signifies how baller they are.
I’m an engineer from the other side of researches or science, but somehow interested in the topic. Recently, I’ve learned about great work done by Grigori Fursin and entire community of reserach engineers with the goal to make research software more applicable to the industries by doing it with some kind of framework inside. I want to leave some links here, if you don’t mind to watch it – the talk is called ” Reproducing 150 Research Papers and Testing Them in the Real World”:ACM page with webcast https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2942043/9C904C7AE045B5C92AAB2CF...

Also, source docs available here: https://zenodo.org/record/4005773?fbclid=IwAR1JGaAj4lwCJDrkJ...

And, their solution product https://cknowledge.io/ and source code https://github.com/ctuning/ck

I guess it should be helpful to the researchers community.
I can't find the article, but there was a rant a little while back that essentially panned C++ as veering into the "move fast and break things" mentality. Their recommendation was something to wait on the order of 7 years, where one should expect C++14 features to be generally solid and performant by now, but to treat everything else with caution. If you're supporting 4 year old distros, you might stick with C++11.
I think that it'd be pretty easy to generate parser code in other languages besides C, but it would be a lot of work to do to port the core library itself[1] to those other languages.

[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/tree/master/lib/s...

I agree about the Objective-C grammar! Although it looks like somebody's started work on it:

https://github.com/merico-dev/tree-sitter-objc
In the situation where the argument being put forward relies on the explicitly or implicitly stated expertise of the orator - such as an article which says "Take heed of my opinion of the important medical factors here, for I am a doctor" - contending that said orator doesn't have that expertise is entirely valid, and not ad hominem. Ad hominem is such when the attack on the orator is orthogonal to their argument.
Peak dystopia is close.
Seasonal viruses often peak before the official end of winter. The key date may be the winter solstice in late December when sun exposure reaches its minimum.
That’s great and all but for people who are gamers or doing heavy work with the GPU they’re going to be plugged into power most of the time.

I’d rather have a chip that scales to high performance when plugged in and lower GPU performance when I’m on say an airplane or in a cafe, then one whose GPU performance is a half decade behind.
Does it make a difference? It certainly sounds different (on my very midrange Audioengine speakers).

I certainly can't consistently identify which one is lossless in a blind test, but there is an audible difference between the same song in Vorbis and FLAC.

I don't know how useful this distinction is though.
This is not close to a borderline call.

If you don't want to use HN as intended, or learn to, it's hardly a surprise if we've been banning your accounts. That's what banning is for. Other HN users have no problem staying within the site guidelines, so I assume this is mostly a choice.

Why not use the site as intended, not get banned, and contribute to making it better? That's in your interest, our interest, and the community interest. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is just how bureaucracy typically operates. Everyone knows that the system is messed up, but no one can override the system without potentially huge personal consequences.

As a former prison inmate, I honestly think that most of the people affected will be quite happy with the monetary compensation that they'll receive once the courts get done with this.

> seems like most of the employees of the Arizona correctional facilities are now guilty of crimes worse than the majority of their inmates.

This is destructive thinking. There are surely some employees without relevant authority who are thinking "screw those animals", but there are surely other employees, also without relevant authority, who are sympathetic to the affected prisoners and want to see their cause prevail. None of the employees who work on the actual prisons have any responsibility for this. Releasing a felon is a huge deal and can only be done when ordered. Only the top people at the DOC, at their headquarters, have any authority that could possibly help in this situation.

About the "crimes worse than the majority of their inmates" part: If you compare to the crimes inmates were actually convicted of, perhaps they don't look so bad. But quite a few inmates have claimed to me to be guilty of crimes much worse than what they were convicted of. People get caught on the drug charges, but often get away with the violence. What percentage of rape in the hood do you think gets reported to police? 1%? Less?
This advice appears based on deficiencies in programming however. Programs operate on algorithms to process data. When the programs or algorithms fail to be able to do so properly the program is at fault.

In your cases you have items like: accounting, building codes, tax codes, automobile codes, etc.

While it makes sense to try and harmonize with the general policies, every state, every municipality, and every business is going to have special cases. Even software has edge cases for protocol behaviors.

What would be nicer, imho, is if all of these laws were written in domain specific languages that specify the law and then the software could just pick up the definitions signed into law. Lawyers as they are feel like a combination of legal interpreters, combined with a combination of being red/blue security team members depending on what they are doing.
I apologize to UCLA for continuing to wonder if Harvard students would have discovered her.
Pardon my ignorance, if I'm using using AirPods which use 256kbps AAC, will I even notice a difference here? My guess is no but I'm not super codec savvy.
> 2. Yes.

This is sadly a non-answer to the question posed.

I am asked this question all the time by people I know, and the best I can come up with is illegal activities, super niche tech applications (e.g., DNS name reg), and libertarian fantasies.

You have an audience here at HN who is more than willing to advocate for cryptocurrencies if they/we can be shown a compelling use case.

“Yes” is not an obvious compelling use case.

Please elaborate.
We don't, but a challenge trial wouldn't change that.

Best you could do with a challenge trial is to get faster to the results we already have. These vaccines work. We know that. This is just observational data supporting that what works in trials also works in the real world (which is not particularly surprising).
A digital mcguffin doesn't have the properties of a unique painting on a canvas.
I would love such a kind of service if as an expert, you could pair yourself with another expert who needs your service, and you need their service. Like bartering.
Gorillaz have always been more popular than Blur in the US at least, where their only hit was Song 2.
I think you may have this backwards? As testing rates increase, we would expect the positivity rate to go down, as you are now testing more people who have never contracted COVID. The more testing we're doing, the more we expect the positivity rate to approach the actual percentage of infected folks.

If you're only testing people in hospitals and reporting systems, you're going to have a much higher positivity rate.
It’s pretty much guaranteed. Live long enough and you witness the cycle of one generation’s legacy become taken for granted by the next, followed by rejection and rediscovery by each subsequent.
In this case, the requirements should be as simple as implement the law.