skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lefts in drive_on_right jurisdictions are privileged because they cross lanes of traffic. Privileged means they have to have priority on signal change - start and stop. In driver's Ed, it is taught that the first queued vehicle making a left turn can take it even though a light may have just turned to red when the opposing traffic has stopped. Similarly, a left turn signal is activated before the through signal to allow any queued left to turn and provide a gap to the traffic behind it to turn to any right lane if additional cars become queued in front unable to make the left turn. Further, drivers cannot be expected to keep track of and attempt to predict the movements of a crowd of people, only avoid hitting obstacles in their direction of motion. If any pedestrian cannot get across in 5 seconds, then a change to green on the parallel vehicle traffic lane could be mistaken as absolution from liability. The point is to reduce confusion. At crosswalks, pedestrians really only have one rule: Don't run out in front of a car, making it impossible for the driver to stop in time. Any start "delay" along with accelerated stop should occur on the pedestrian signal as people do not move in single file "lanes", but rather as a group that is able to handle a decreased queue elimination time with the expectation that the duration of the parallel through green is long enough for all queued pedestrians to cross.
This looks like a PR disaster in the making. Always unlocking when it sees your face is not a security feature since there is no intent necessary. And then the camera is always on for potential malware as well. If only there was a toggle switch to change the defaults.
But you're the one who called it sexist. Even though it is merely a statistical likelihood.

As others have pointed out it is really a serious consideration for a lot of people so I don't think it's an unnecessary remark, and the OP went out of their way to make it not sexist.
Ask HN: How to be my own genetic disease researcher for my partner?
My partner was diagnosed with a rare condition/disease with unclear cause/pathology.

I feel like it would be impossible for a doctor to stay abreast of all of the possible links/data unless they focused very narrowly on a patient.

I'd like to try and fill that gap - look at the data and relay any potential links/causes to the providers.

We have the full genome in CRAM, CRAI, FASTQ, VCF, and TBI data - is there a way that me, a medical layman but well informed person could leverage this data to mine for possible matching genetic variants?

e.g. I have started finding genes associated with my partner's condition in the NCBI website and the ClinVar Miner (https://clinvarminer.genetics.utah.edu/variants-by-condition)

Is it sufficient to identify variants by searching for the SNP string (e.g. "rsXXXXXX") in the VCF file?

Are there "hacker's guide to genomic analysis" resources out there?
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's definitely aliens. I mean, if the aliens are hiding the first places we should look are deep in the ocean and on the dark side of the moon.
The old /. friend and foe idea. You only see stuff from friends+ n degree of separation, and/or reverse for foes. Add in some meta modding based on the quality of one's pixel submissions. You might be on to something.
Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients
they delivered on their promises

meanwhile zig still isn't self hosted

both projects are interesting, i feel the later gets way too much credits compared to V
True, but handing over a check in person ensures you “got the payment in” at a specific time if you’re trying to beat another buyer. But I guess you can do a wire transfer in person.
My friend uses an M1 as a power user for about a year. Great battery life, almost never uses the fan, super fast, no battery issues, no Linux support with graphics acceleration yet and he cracked his screen and Apple care fixed it. I don’t think the butterfly keyboard is around anymore.

It’s fabulous but so is my much worst Lenovo x250 with 16GB I got, and a new 1080p screen on recently, still very happy with it.
No, they are the same as everything else, people constantly say they are superb on here, but looking up reliability surveys says otherwise:

https://www.geckoandfly.com/6311/the-most-reliable-laptop-su...
It was 100% content marketing from the start. It’s just been wildly successful beyond what they imagined. There’s nothing wrong with marketing and advertising!

Your comment is very on brand for HN. By which I mean if there’s an ad you like it magically doesn’t feel like an ad campaign. But if you don’t like the ad, you better believe it feels like an ad campaign.
caches are hierachical. Even your local machine most of the time now with recent OS releases will cache records, then your home router or some other DNS server on your network will often cache things before then referring to your ISPs or Googles DNS server.

Invalidating the cache at one doesn't invalidate the cache downstream of them if they already looked the record up recently. But it does mean that anyone who hadn't looked up the record will get the correct result straight away.
Well the article says we are not sure what Tesla did, and it is quite common to have a prototype with hardware and software much different from what actually ships to customers.
Maybe they don't browse the web either, I mean... unless it's 100% justified for work...
> Bitcoin can be just as much manipulated

indeed. decentralization of mechanical infrastructure =/= decentralization of human control over said infrastructure.

if anything, the former serves mainly to obfuscate the latter, rather than eliminate it.
That sounds amazing!

I hiked up to the rim of MSH a couple decades ago, but didn't go down into it. I can attest that it's pretty big in there. And the sight of the giant blown-down trees for miles around is incredible.
With deeper pipelines, architectures with branch delay slots had to start emulating them for compatibility -- turning the performance/design advantage into a disadvantage.
> I don't doubt that experienced lispers are comfortable structuring their information as lists of lists and atoms.

I'm a very experienced Common Lisper and I very rarely use lists of lists except for small, incidental purposes. The Common Lisp Object System (as well as defstruct, arrays, hash tables, etc.) exists because lists -- while quite flexible -- are an extremely poor data structure for anything complicated because they make code almost impossible to understand and maintain. Using lists for everything is considered very poor Lisp programming practice -- at least by me.
With a _personal check_? Nobody I'm aware of, having done a good 10+ transactions myself.

But everybody is happy with a _cashier's check_. Admittedly you have to go physically get those, which kinda sucks. Or wire the money to the title company instead, which I personally prefer over carrying around a piece of paper worth $75k (or whatever).
Jony Ive’s reign of terror is over. Butterfly keyboard is gone too.

Charging
DisplayPort
Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)
Headphone
That looks like a great kit! It's that Senseair S8 a real CO2 sensor though? It's a bit cheap, most in that price range are just estimated (eCO2)
For those of you who still have your account blocked, I would recommend the following:

- Call Apple Support at 1-800-275-2273
- Tell them your account has been blocked in error. Explain how you've been in communication with others who have also been erroneously blocked including those like myself. You can say that we received confirmation from “Isabela at Corporate Executive Relations” that there is an acknowledged glitch that the engineering team is aware of and working to fix.
- If the support person isn't sympathetic to your case, gracefully get off the phone and call back later and speak to a different person.
- Post your story on social media, tag Apple.
- Continue lobbying for an alternative to the App Store and monopolistic walled gardens.
This is a very big deal if the math is right and it's possible to build.

A practical negative vacuum energy device, even on a small scale, that you can hook up in the lab and experiment with?
It will before your eyes stop growing at age 25 or so.
This is real old news and the article even mentions it later on. In essence China is copying the US military and following it by 6 decades plus:

Though areas of the United States and other countries have tried to use cloud seeding technology to change the weather, professional China-worriers have expressed concern that the CCP may use it for nefarious military ends — even though the US military has been trying to make it rain since at least 1967.
Juicy bit, cut from the end of the abstract:

> a toy model consisting of a 1µm diameter sphere centrally located in a 4µm diameter cylinder was analyzed to show a three-dimensional Casimir energy density that correlates well with the Alcubierre warp metric requirements. This qualitative correlation would suggest that chip-scale experiments might be explored to attempt to measure tiny signatures illustrative of the presence of the conjectured phenomenon: a real, albeit humble, warp bubble.
Still, I think it means we’re likely in the early/mid stages of the exponential curve. I saw estimate of ~5 day doubling time. Meaning that even if 3 weeks ago there were 100 people with Omicron in Boston, there are still only like 800 now. Takes another month or three for it to explode to a large case load.
Try the galaxy buds plus they’re much better at everything for me. This firmware update probably kneecapped the pros too, either a patent issue or worries about people walking into traffic.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21069953/apple-airpods-pr...
Many/most car ads are fully CGI, this agency even built a rig that can shot a commercial for any type of car.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/digital-transformer-the-m...
Except the only thing it did was cause me to wonder if they were a new site. And then when I saw this my opinion of them dropped dramatically. It's a dark pattern and I don't want to support that.
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used by Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group 'Nickel'
Of course you're right in cases of a cold start. But if I understand the benchmark in the linked post correctly, the TTFB was measured assuming that the VM was already hot & and the code optimized through TurboFan already. (Hence "assuming the function is hot.")

Also, I don't see Rust + WASM on the linked benchmarks. WASM code still has to run in a VM and probably uses the Node.js runtime for syscalls. (Based on a quick search, it seems like most people compile to WASM and create Node bindings with wasm-bindgen.)

Third, my claim isn't that JS can reach Rust+WASM speeds; just that it's not as slow as you might expect because you do have type information.

Anyway, the whole point is moot because we're arguing over microsecond differences.
> If you needed 0.5% of the world's economy to run a node...

Sorry, I meant "to run 50% of the nodes" (the same as the Bitcoin case: it isn't that you needed 0.5% of the electricity to run one node, but to run as many nodes as already exist combined).

> That's already pretty expensive, so cryptopunks will be deterred, yet the NSA could easily spend a few million and run thousands of nodes.

Sure, but they are competing with not one "cryptopunk"--which is a problematic description here as even bitcoin miners aren't "cryptopunks": they are probably mostly "serial entrepreneurs" who found a cheap source of electricity--they are competing with (one would presume) at least 10-100,000.

Like, the premise in the "if you want to beat the NSA you have to go big" version of the argument is that you actually "went big": Tor is fundamentally at odds with itself because it simultaneously needs to be big for intrinsic reasons (to ensure that algorithms like what XKeyscore was using--did you access Tor? ok, you are on the watchlist--aren't sufficient: you need actual cloaking cover from real traffic) and yet you are considered an asshole if you use a ton of bandwidth from it (to watch movies or whatever) as it is all donated service that should be reserved for important use cases.

Instead, imagine a world where every time someone wanted a VPN or a TURN server or an HTTP cache or whatever, they considered using this shared decentralized market for bandwidth to build their client. Sure, you could use a service like AWS, but they ream you on bandwidth costs! A world where all of these use cases and all of these normal people doing normal things were all using such a market--which I am not at all claiming would happen in the near future, as it took a long time for Bitcoin, but the premise is that it isn't insane... and also, again, as I said before: the NSA is the least of Tor's worries currently--would be a world in which it might be large enough to be non-trivial for even the NSA to buy in and take control.

> Aside—sorry you're getting downvoted.

Yeah, well, it is way too cool to be knee-jerk anti-crypto at this point, as it is entirely fair to say that the majority of the ecosystem is filled with scam artists, and even some of the largest funds in the space--such as now even a16z--are peddling awkward BS constantly as part of their portfolio. I have entire diatribes about how a bunch of the stuff in this ecosystem is inane or even evil, but the reality is that decentralized systems without some form of monetary incentives are going to be subject to all of the same stuff we see in real-world bazaars without some kind of strong government influence: cryptocurrencies are doing something important for the space of distributed systems.
ETH's current scalability problems are beyond terrible, but there are alternatives. You can use chains like Polygon or Avalanche that are EVM, so you get all of the capabilities of Ethereum, but without insane gas fees.

There are non-EVM solutions as well like Solana, which has substantially higher throughput while transactions cost a fraction of a cent.

Try out other chains than ETH before ruling out web3 imo. There's a lot of engineering and incredible products outside of the main ethereum ecosystem which is being masked due to ETH's scalability problems.

There are also standalone computation solutions that are under development such as Truebit, which if successful, could allow for smart contracts to execute complex calculations off-chain, avoiding both the increased gas fees due to complexity, and bypassing the gas limit altogether.
1 micron and 4 microns, not 1 meter and 4 meters. @dang, is this an HN bug?
> You'll have almost no reports of "systemic circulating virus" load, because there's not really an accepted definition for how this measurement would be taken.

Wait, what? This seems completely at odds with the literal definition of viral load per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_load:

> Viral load, also known as viral burden, is a numerical expression of the quantity of virus in a given volume of fluid, including biological and environmental specimens.
The best part about this is that it should be experimentally testable, and the paper seems to focus on that aspect. Bravo!
Great comment, right q.

Imo the message is at least delivered early. It's the subtitle. My read: you have to be uncool to be good.

> Science’s biggest breakthroughs came from unpopular people
There should be Ada in Linux kernel
Any physicists wanna throw some cold water on our hopes and dreams here? Compared to most papers with far-out results, there didn't seem to be any obvious caveats here. What's up with worldline numerics? Could there be any issues hiding in the numerical methods there? How established are those methods in the field?

Also, to be clear, is it correct that they haven't actually built such a device, this result is still just in simulation?
I imagine it may be hard and they don't have incentives to "fix it", but I think the single most important disadvantage of airpods is the battery life... no matter how long it lasts, there's no way to replace it, so they became essentially discardable items. [1]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
It is also pretty fundamentally broken on iPad, since whether it reports itself as a mobile or desktop device depends on the size of the browser window.
Frankly almost everything to do with finance I would rather live without and crypto is just more of that. To me, everything blockchain related is people popping a boner over an ever increasing bureaucracy of money.
When I visited Yellowstone, the only thing I wanted, literally the only thing, was for an enormous eagle to fly down and attack a bear, and then for both to fall into a hot/acid pool with a cry and dissolve. Is that too much to ask? What are my tax dollars being used for anyway?!
I wouldn't expect everyone at Cloudflare to be intimately following every competitor's blog posts tbh
That case was an example of when they believed women, white women to be more specific, over males, black to be more specific. The white female accuser repented 50 years later for her accusations to the lynched and murdered 14 year old boy. This case was one of the first well documented #metoo cases with no due process at all.

https://www.nola.com/opinions/article_34ff92ed-b4aa-5e99-a17...
Very cool; takes me back down the memory lane.
We spun our own SH4-based SBC for the first prototype of this robot back in 2001: https://www.netl.doe.gov/node/3037

It was a fun architecture: 16-bit instruction set; 32-bit bus, and 64-bit vector instruction set. I actually got Linux running on it, but ended up running the code without any OS. We switched to an off-the-shelf ARM-based SBC for the next version of the robot.
That’s very cool, thanks!

I have most of it disabled this is what the firewall options are for OfferUp for example. https://ibb.co/SVbyybC Aside from analytics I can also block the ads from Bing in the app.
Depends on what your cpu microcode and OS has been programmed to do.
country's state departments (or their equivalents) often give guidance to their citizens travelling abroad about what sorts of safety concerns they might face.

Edit: oh i just realized I wrote "unsafe", I meant "safe".
Whenever I hear “web3 will never be …”, it usually already is.
As a contractor I account hours spent on my own without providing evidence further than the work done.
consisting of a 1
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m diameter sphere

nah. it's just a strange rendering decision to use an image for a standard extended-ascii character: μ
It would seem that Tesla has already predicted that there will be whistle-blowers, and even have gone as far as to manufacture their own "cyberwhistle" [1].

[1] https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberwhistle
I’d love to be able to (affordably) spin up a low-latency Windows desktop for a few hours at a time, that I could use for applications which don’t run well on my bottom-tier M1 Mac
> There’s no mental model for owning this inmaterial thing that is pegged to a digital file that can be duplicated infinitely without your approval.

We have been dealing with this since the dawn of Napster. I'm pretty sure people understand ownership of digital creations and the ease with which they can be duplicated/pirated.
I'm laughing because it seems every company has some variation of this kind of madness. They're like flavors.

>Why didn't they with full access to the branch, just submit the commit? Or open a PR against the branch (did you know you can do that?)?

As for some of these why questions, I think the answer is that they want to enforce that you follow the process. I've seen people get cartoonishly bent out of shape over exactly this kind of stuff, "you're supposed to do x!". It's part of how devs are "automated".
Some filter vendors like Xiaomi offer active carbon filters to capture formaldehyde. Not sure how well it performs but I notice it captures odours well too.
Dr. Robert Westphal Supports Richard Godfrey’s MH370 Location Research
I actually really don’t like my AirPods… constantly dropping the Bluetooth connection during calls, poor battery life, expensive. I’m now back to using my corded earpods.
It looks like the article includes the greek letters as image, not as unicode character, so they got lost while copying.

It should be 1µm and 4µm instead.
Unlike with crypto where the money is always lost forever, mistakes with wires can usually be corrected. If you don’t understand Wires then you may be unaware of this.
Bison move surprisingly quickly and are very good at breaking things.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6511a5.htm
Thats how people work. That’s not a particular HN “brand”.
Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks.

I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase.

I've also owned other brands of laptops and I've not had any with the amount nor the severity of faults I've observed on Apple laptops.

I write this on my own ex-lease Lenovo X1 Carbon which has survived a 1m drop with a corner hitting a hard surface. Thankfully the only issue is the occasional black/darkening of an area of pixels on the lower-right corner of the LCD. I can 100% guarantee if it was a Macbook it would have been the end of it, no question whatsoever (given I've seen Macbook die from much less impact).
FB crypto engineers raise $36M from Andreessen Horowitz for Mysten Labs
This is easily the best use of "scrolljacking" I've ever seen. How, exactly, would you like to interact with the 3d CT scans? A video? An embedded 3d viewer to let you control the orientation?
> This is all about MAKE MONEY FAST.

Which area of modern tech is not about "make money fast" ?
Lol
You're ngmi amigo
and Haskell
I guess Rust is far better choise for that.
First blush is that this is one of the best articles of 2021 for me. Havent reached the end yet.

The compunding, of the honor of having witness & belief, & the necessity lf having language, legibility to enter; these are strong ideas. They mean a lot in a lot of dimensions of life to me. One of the many places I feel yhis is tech, where I feel like there's a failure for tech to even launch a minimum general legibility to start to be enjoyed, witnessed, partook in.

For much of the enlightenmemt tech was a means to measure & witness better. But this modern software has fallen worse & worse away from being illuminating, from showing. Tech has become unattendable, stands alone, all too much.
Lol, part of me likes the effort taken just because, but the kernel devs _really_ do not want C++. One hint: "struct class"

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux...
>the distribution happened because of communities and families emigrating en masse, so you get Irish towns and Polish towns and Italian places

why dont we see as many british or french neighborhoods?

>but they're not white for any reason except genetic happenstance

:hmm: i dont agree that one could accurately describe the evolution of racial diversity in american communities as "not white for any reason except genetic happenstance"
I'm in India and if you're on the free CF plan, you often seem to get served from the Singapore POP instead of the Indian ones. I've seen other people on various groups complain about this too.
Scott Adams pointy-haired boss quote: “Everything that is centralized must be decentralized, and everything that is decentralized must be centralized.”
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