skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this article gives the pro-"Junk DNA" arguments fair treatment.

Check out Larry Moran's blog [1, 2] if you want to to hear the other side of the story. He maintains that most of the human genome IS junk, and I find his arguments compelling.

[1] A representative article: https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2013/07/five-things-you-should...

[2] Rabbit hole warning, all of his Junk DNA posts:
https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/theme-genomes-junk-dna...
I don't mind Stephenson's endings. I feel like there are to many authors out there that write until they lose interest in the story then force themselves to bang out another 50-100 pages in order to give the story a 'proper' ending. Steven King comes to mind, I find most of his longer books just reach a point were the stories momentum just stops and feels like it is being dragged to the finish line.
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I think all nighters are bad idea, because my college mates who done them had ... less then smart answers to even simple questions.

They were smart, as people. But not sleeping whole night makes you dumb. And they inability to figure what was not memorized harmed their performance a lot.
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I'm not even close to an expert on economics, either... but I think what you're describing sounds similar to what's called "Modern Monetary Theory" or MMT.

If I understand the very basic gist of MMT correctly, it's basically that the government "invents" currency simply by spending. If the government wants to finance, e.g., an enormous infrastructure project, all it has to do is will it into existence and the money will get printed - mostly because the full faith in credit of the United States Treasury will make sure the right people are paid.

If this is true, what then is the point of taxes? Taxes are a buffer to "sop up" excess cash in the economy to keep inflation under control.

Another central tenet of MMT is that the end goal of tuning these knobs should be 0% unemployment, because that's when your economy is producing maximally.

I'm sure I got a lot of that wrong, because (like I said) I'm not an expert, but what you described reminded me of the MMT Wikipedia rabbithole I ended up in a few years back.
I just switched to a Framework from a 2018 MacBook Pro. My take: the display is comparable, the keyboard is much better, and the trackpad is fine, but not as good as Apple's.
I'd have characterized Zodiac as 'pollution porn'.
If anybody is to reveal secrets, somebody named Teller ought to be the one.
As much as I'd love to have alternatives in this particular Simulation, there are none. You either use Apple and minimize your suffering, or you don't use Apple and go live in hell, provided by companies running their product design & development by teams of chimpanzees (obviously & unfortunately).
That's one way they make you put chips in the pot.
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It will invalidate all existing git:// links to repositories hosted on Microsoft GitHub, in the name of "security".
This seems on par with the process - SpaceX submits a proposal that is open for public scrutiny, and Amazon, which has the incentives to do so, submits feedback on that proposal.

Whether the feedback/concerns from Amazon are warranted, that’s up to the FCC to decide. If they decide incorrectly, that’s when I’d start to bring the torches.
One good source of Mac mechanicals is Matias, e.g. https://matias.ca/quietpro/mac/. In fact, it's the only company I've found that makes a true Mac layout: that is, a full symmetric set of command, option, and control keys on each side.
People who believe plants can talk
I’m surprised they aren’t blaming US astronauts for the first problems again.
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Personally, I found both STEM and social science classes at University to be fairly useless. I went back and took STEM classes in an area I had self-studied, based on the amount of people who claimed that people who self-study miss a lot. I didn't find that to be the case at all, and was surprised at how much the classes felt like a waste of time. Going back when I was older, I was also very curious about the education system in general and would often survey my classmates to see how much they were retaining semester to semester. The results weren't great. I should add, this was at a University that ranks fairly highly (top 20 or so) in this area.

The market might demand someone with experience in a certain field, but that doesn't mean that college is a useful way of preparing them for it.

Likewise, with the humanities I've learned much more outside of the University setting than inside of it. I never delved into primary sources or academic papers when I was an undergraduate, but often do both now that I'm out (as a hobby, not for work). I would say that I knew almost nothing about historiography coming out of college, and almost all my knowledge of it is from self-study after graduation.

People talk about the importance of discussions, but discussion groups I've had outside of university have been much more fruitful than inside - a group of people with ages ranging from teens to retirees, who've had a variety of life experiences and come from different countries is going to be a more varied discussion in my experience than a group of 19 year old college students.

I think people really have to start discussing what goals we're actually trying to achieve, if college is the best way of achieving, and what other alternatives might be available. In my experience, the college system is a pretty poor system that has survived as long as it has because of inertia.
> However, many people have also reported permanent hearing loss and tinnitus after contracting COVID

Thanks for pointing this out. It's definitely sad that people are having side effects to the vaccine, but most of the discussion about it seems to be implicitly asserting that the choice was either to get the vaccine, or go on without it while staying healthy indefinitely. Obviously that's not the case, the choice is to get the vaccine or eventually catch Covid unvaccinated and roll the dice with what might happen in that case, which by all indications is much more likely to lead to serious side effects than the vaccine.
I believe the objection is that "SDUI" amounts to re-implementing a poor man's "browser" except that it calls JSON.parse instead of HTML.parse, and it doesn't bother implementing a layout constraint engine. i.e. there's not much difference between `{"label": {"text": "Rocky Mountain", "fontSize": 11}}` and `<label text="Rocky Mountain" fontSize="11" />`

The general problem that arises from "reinventing the wheel" is that people implementing these SDUI things don't necessarily have experience with layout engine design. Case in point, look at the example:

...
{
"padding": [7, 14, 7, 14],
"image": ...
"label": ...
}
...

This doesn't strike me as a schema that someone poured a lot of thought into, with regards to encapsulation/composition principles. It pretty much looks like a case of shaping things on a as-needed basis, only to later realize that a change to the rendering code is needed if, say, you need to tweak the space between the label and the image, or flip them around or bold/superscript some text or whatever.
Blokada blocked every ad on my Xiaomi. Even on some apps.

I've also blocked manually a lot of domains with Blokada.

It's amazing and it doesn't require rooting your device.
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Wondering on the same thing. How is it valued at $5B? I know Yahoo Finance is popular. But not sure about other parts of its business.
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Yes, I realise that datacenters do care about power consumption too, and that is why they find the idea of a ARM server cpus so attractive. My point ofcourse was directed at home users of Desktop PC - I don't like the idea of sacrificing performance to save a few watts, when the ARM cpus are already very efficient. (I mean, when you are rendering a 3d scene, or encoding a video, or compiling a code, no one I know is going to appreciate the longer times it takes to execute these tasks because not all cores are equal).
I like Econtalk, but I wish Russ would talk less. He sometimes goes on his own digressions that don't add much.
> it's incredibly hard to write custom firmware

I remember how it was with programmable GPUs.

When programmable shaders were introduced in GeForce 3 (2001), nobody really understood what to do with them. The consensus was that it’s incredibly hard to write custom shaders. OpenGL consortium refused to support shaders for almost a decade (GLSL 1.0 released in 2008), that’s one of the reasons of the success of Direct3D https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055

Yet look at them after 20 years of evolution. People no longer coding shaders in assembly, we have quite a few higher-level languages for them. People have built better APIs to interface with programmable GPUs, both low level close to metal (D3D12, Metal, Vulkan) and high-level (CUDA, TensorFlow, game engines). People built debuggers and profilers for these shaders. Overall, people embraced programmable GPUs, leaned to use them, and the results are amazing. Visual quality of games and other real-time 3D skyrocketed, despite the increase of pixel count and density in the displays.

I can see how the same path is possible for the rest of the programmable chips and pieces inside modern computers.

> and the benefit is very slim

Better products in very broad sense. For instance, when idle, a smartphone OS could power off not just the screen, but also CPU, RAM, and a few other components, and downscale itself to the slowest and the most power efficient core in the system.
Wow that was awesome and so easy to do.
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Yeah, same thing with communism and the assumption everyone will work for the best interest of the state. It just takes one bad actor and the corruption cascades and ruins the system. At least capitalism uses human greed as a motivator. I do think humans can be selfless, if they are mindful and educated, unfortunately with current poverty levels and disinformation, people arent smart enough to realise whats good for you is good for me
> The separation between documents and programs assumes we know ahead of time all the things people might want to put inside a document. The evolution of the web shows this not to be true.

> Is Google maps a document? Obviously not. But a document can still embed a Google map meaningfully and sensibly.

I would argue that websites would be better off embedding an image of the location that links to a dedicated map viewing service like OpenStreetMap.

I might be in the minority here, but I always hate trying to use interactive maps in tiny boxes on people's websites.
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I think you over estimate how many people would use the sliders. Or how many news sites have anything more interactive than video ever. And text the length of a news article should have something worth reading without the sliders.
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Because the vaccines are political now, so there isn't any room for uncertainty. You're either for or against.
I can't. Fails every time. I'm on T-Mobile - maybe that matters.
Out of curiosity, have you ever spent any significant period of time where you wake up every morning and the first thought that goes through your mind is, "I wish I were dead"?
> You can't authenticate over HTTPS anymore

You can, just no longer using username and password. Instead you must use an access token.
A lot of people don't work completely from a terminal, and remote-desktop can be a pretty mixed experience. Also, this way companies don't have to issue each person two different devices (and have IT manage twice as many devices, with two different form-factors).
This also started with the upgrade to Big Sur. It was fine before that.
You make a good point, but I'd like to add an adverb: he can speak in a seemingly intelligent way about many topics.

Also, he is mostly a commentator, which is much easier than be a "creator" of something tangible, he is never put on the spot by anybody because he is TC and he has quick obscure comebacks that are challenging to address, like "I like Vietnamese cuisine", and he comes back with "but how has it changed since Vietnam moved to a more capitalistic society?". I mean, how come you answer that?

I am not hating on TC, he is a brilliant man, but for the life of me after his interviews (both as an interviewer and interviewee), I cannot remember a damn thing.
Deno doesn’t execute TS directly - internally it is still JS executed by v8. Having v8 support direct TS will be a huge effort
> The market can easily take a dump at any time and fail to provide a positive return for years.

...or decades: "Nikkei index hits 30,000 for first time in three decades"

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Nikkei-index-hits-3...
> Train the exact same system on a dataset from Senegal, and everyone will look African.

In other words it would still be broken. That's not much of a defense.

I don't think there is dataset that would make the PULSE algorithm that produced that image deal well with skin color, the hill climbing it does is going to find it easier to take an averagish face and tweak the lighting.
I just pulled that from the link I was responding to!
People like to share their experiences. Sharing them with people who experienced similar things gives that warm fuzzy feeling of community. One that we're not getting enough due to the pandemics.
There is not much utility in memorizing proofs. The primary work should be in trying to understand them. The amount of memorization should be small in math.
"micro-aggressions", lol... i know that argument...

By liberal standards, being asked what your accent is, becomes the equivalent of being beaten to death by the KKK. Stop wanting so hard to be a victim.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive (and/or flamebait) comments to HN? You've unfortunately done it a lot already, and we ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Depression is amazingly difficult to reason about when you are on the outside looking in, especially when you throw in sickness.

Especially when you're a sick family member with depression and want your family to just let you die, but nobody wants that for you.

Going through that right now with a relative.
It's not an either/or, both of these angles are extremely important.
Well, Lenovo just lost my business forever.
You've very clearly never been to an actual third world country.

Having homeless people and a high crime rate does not == 3rd world. In fact, it only means many, many people want to live there due to the overwhelming economic prosperity that is clearly not equitably split.

Also fun fact: the three "third world" states you mention have a combined GDP higher than EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD after the US, China and Japan.
There are ways to predict what will happen besides randomized controlled trials.
One thing I did in school was sleep early and wake up early to study before the exam. I wonder if that was actually effective or not.
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> Otherwise you have just created two different classes of people with a near impenetrable barrier between them

> anyone who does not have a National ID gets removed from the country.

From what can tell you inadvertently already solved the problem you're proposing.

Of course you framed the problem wrong. National ID only works if everyone who is supposed to be inside the border has it. It doesn't work if Appalachians can't get it. But it works like a charm if illegal aliens can't.
Ah yes, and now they'll move to an even more permissive platform which cares even less what they think.

Oh, and wouldn't you know: those more permissive platforms are also where actual white nationalists, racists, and violent extremists hang out.

Just an absolutely pathetic, counterproductive, downright stupid decision on behalf of reddit.
Plato and object-oriented programming as guides to the political zeitgeist
Gosh, that is so terrible, someone noticed your accent and asked where you came from... sounds like the IVth Reich is coming fast !!
I like the consistency of HN's style, instead of being pushed to a random website that may have all kinds of pop ups and distractions. I wish there was like a "HN Reader Mode" that would convert the content of the website to look like a HN comment for me.
Cloudflare works with Privacy Pass, a browser extension through which you can solve CAPTCHAs in advance to accumulate tokens that let you bypass CAPTCHAs served by participating services (including Cloudflare, but not Google) as you browse the web. One pre-solved CAPTCHA gives you 30 tokens for ReCAPTCHA or 5 tokens for hCaptcha:

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I didn't encounter any serious CAPTCHA issues when I tried out Mullvad and Mozilla VPN. Windscribe is probably worse for CAPTCHAs because of its free tier and the lifetime membership that it previously sold for a low price. VPNs that require ongoing paid subscriptions tend to have higher-quality traffic.
My banks' phone apps suck. Logging in to the website is way faster. I still get mobile alerts, but if it's something I need to take care of I take care of it when I get home anyway.

home projects: I'm not entirely sure what this means in terms of computers, but for me it conjures images of designing things in CAD. I'm not even sure if that's possible on a phone

hiking: Looking up trail information and maps is 1000x better on a 27" 4k monitor than a tiny phone screen. Actually out on the trail, the only electronics you're likely to find with me are a PLB and a Kindle.

gardening: Likewise to hiking, looking things up and reading/learning are better done on a proper screen. I don't need a computer of any kind in the garden.

It seems like where this is going is that I feel the need to have a computing device/internet access readily at hand far less than you do.
Yes, only that doesn't work. You are discounting the influence of regulators and the central bank. What you are proposing would be illegal under the current European financial oversight model.
You should take a look at Ahmdal's law. "Every little bit helps" type thinking is a detriment to the fixing of most problems that should be tackled on the biggest contributing factors first, always. This is a rule of optimisation that can be extended for most other things.