skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMART disk monitoring: no longer fit for purpose in the SSD-era?
Depends what you mean with ordinary people. It might take a construction worker around 1 billion years or so ;-D On the other hand, I have to admit that it would take me with my fragile body also 1 billion years to build a house.

I’ve played club level chess in my teenage times between being 15 and 20 years old. I’ve even won a regional youth team title, but only at the 8th board (out of 8). But hey, still glorious times! :-) :-)

After learning the first rules, I became interested about chess. I think it took me half a year up to 1 year of studying by myself (reading a basic book about chess and re-playing multiple games) before I decided to enter a chess club. Then I pretty fast was playing tournament chess. And I believe this title I got finally maybe two years before learning my first chess rules. So that’s not too long.

My basic recommendation is: If you’re really interested in chess, you must buy a basic chess book asap or learn from similar resources. A basic book which covers all the basic topics will be enough. I’ve got a book of 200 pages only. That’s enough. With that knowledge along with studying other players’ games (those games will be in that book, too), you’re ready to be a club chess player.

There’s a huge difference between someone who has read that book and someone who has not I can tell you. Without learning about basic strategy and tactics and principles, it will take you years before you really get a certain playing strength. There's really a HUGE difference between someone who has read that book and someone who has not. Theoretically of course, you could learn all this by yourself. But it would take you ages. So you can really forget about that.

You must of course be willing to invest some time. I think in my first year after learning the first rules, I’ve read this book and re-played really a lot of games of other people. It became a dominant hobby at that time. But you also need not to do it the whole day or so. If you’re interested, you will do it anyhow regularly. Just like a normal hobby that you’re interested in.

Finally, just to mention, before entering that club, I actually had nobody to play with (that was in the 90s by the way, so no internet chess available). I bought a basic chess computer, but I didn’t play with it too often. Actually I was most of the time studying theory and re-playing games within that first half a year or year before I entered the chess club. But despite having not much own playing practice, I at once defeated a lot of (weaker) club players there. So basic knowledge and analyzing games seems to help a lot, even as a beginner.
It’s a symptom of a broken industry, you didn’t disprove a thing except telling us all you didn’t know what symptom was referring to

I intentionally didn’t offer solutions as that’s not necessary to point out that there is a different problem where trying to shame everyone into compliance is a dumb approach
The same thing applies to the genital mutilation endured by girls in some parts of the world. But in that case it's generally agreed throughout the Western world that we're talking about "mutilation" and "abuse". Somehow circumcision managed to escape these labels despite being essentially the same.
So this isn't directly resultant from 23andMe but it's hard to overstate just what a revolution has happened in genetics in the last decade.

The specific subfield I'm talking about is genetic genealogy.

In the late 20th century, genetic testing was a revolution but it was a simple test. Given two samples X and Y it produced a boolean function:

f(x, y) -> { 1 if they match, 0 if they don't

This led to a number of convictions and exonerations. it has been a huge boon for both criminal prosecution and justice.

So what happened in the last decade is the development of a more sophisticated function:

f(x, y) -> [0, 1] showing how related they are

This most famously led to the identification of the Golden State Killer [1] and also helped identify victims of the Bear Brook murders [2].

In the space of 10 years this went from not existing to being a massive labour-intensive process to a trivial process. The use of this is now almost routine thanks to the likes of GEDmatch [3]

Beyond this, there's a whole bunch of ethical implications. Privacy covers things like what a DNA testing site can do with your data. This may potentially impact health insurance access in the like, particularly in the US (sadly).

But the really interesting part of this is that a person may be identified criminally or for insurance purposes without ever having uploaded a DNA sample through relatives who have. For example, if two cousins on both sides of your family have the recessive gene for Cystic Fibrosis, it increases the probability you do too (though simple Bayesian reasoning).

It's going to be interesting to see what comes of this because it's still early days.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Brook_murders

[3]: https://www.gedmatch.com/
There seems to be a cottage industry of folks scraping places like ProductHunt and hitting them up with these emails. We posted to ProductHunt twice and got multiple "beg bounties" along with someone claiming they could get us to #1 product of the day, for a nominal fee of course.
You can tell that someone is not discussing in good faith when, after having one of their arguments dismantled, they conjure up a new one and carry on talking condescendingly.

Accept that you were humiliatingly wrong with your last comment, and I will engage with this new set of inane reasons why cutting up baby penises is totally fine.

That said, here's a teaser: which sex is more likely to get UTIs?
Interesting that you decided that the OP:

1. Is upset

2. Interpreted the parent comment as being smarter than OP

Serious question: where did you infer these things from?
Just reminded me of lobotomy. Both circumcision and that one have a lot in common.
Ask HN: Any indications Copilot scans your local files?
A client of mine is just about to launch a startup. There's nothing public on the web yet. Today, while hacking a very minimal prototype of a HTML page into VSCode, I got a strange suggestion from GH Copilot. When I entered the client's name Copilot prompted me with a ready-made <article> block containing a marketing claim of their company. So far so nice.

Strange thing is the claim is not public and not contained in the codebase I'm currently working on, in no codebase I know of and to my knowledge, I'm the only related dev using Copilot. It's also not listed on Google, thus I assume it's not leaked somewhere else that could be indexed by GH (which is an assumption of course, but appears likely). But it can be found in a completely separate local folder with project assets that is not published on GH.

The marketing claim is about the length of a tweet and is not exactly generic. It requires understanding of my client's business (which again, cannot be derived from my codebase). So it's not GPT3 output that matches coincidentially.

The GH „About GitHub Copilot Telemetry” page [1] does not indicate that your locale file system is scanned though.

Can anyone explain that or observed a similar phenomenon?

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/about-github-copilot-telemetry
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I usually put this at the top, so it raises a syntax error if using an old version.

f"Python 3.6+ is required"
Ask HN: IC Designers/Architects: Why did you choose your process node?
I'm writing an article on the semiconductor shortage and would like to understand some of the factors used to choose process node when it is close to, but not the leading edge node.

If you have been involved in an IC design that started in 2020 or 2021, and is in the 10nm - 40nm range:

- Which market is your project in? (automotive, communications, IoT, etc.)

- Which node did you use?

- Why did your project choose that node?

Direct messages preferred (my twitter account handle is in my HN profile), but if you want to post publicly, that's fine, too.
+5 for the posse acroymn.
but are the ones that are not already in the covered snps interesting ?
I don't know much about the services 23andme offers, but genetic testing is used extenstively and effectually by functional medicine practictioners every day, to do things like checking a patient's predisposition to certain illnesses, or to see if their body requires an unusually high or low amount of certain foods / nutrients, etc.
Somehow Keynes is very popular during the bust and somehow falls out of favor in the subsequent boom.
An accident? An assassination attempt by another party member? A hit launched by an organized crime organization? A revenge thing between powerful families? Not every grenade or bomb attack is terrorism. That it was delivered by drone is interesting but could easily be based on other motivations.
A 9 person exit is not at all unusual. We used to do a 10-way angle track at sunset every day. Larger formations are both possible and routine. As long as the pilot is aware of and can anticipate the weight shifting there's generally no issue at all.

You are right that there is a clear limit to the number of people allowed on the outside step set by the DZ. In the original video you can count the heads on climb-out and these jumpers are exceeding every guideline that I've been subject to. My formations adhere to five outside and one crouched, max - but do note that several bodies may follow the exit with as little delay as possible. We try to exit as a unit. I'm only a coach with ~500 jumps, by no means an authority.

This model plane in particular is less forgiving and the airspeed is high on jump run. As skydivers we are cautioned about the exits and take extra care to maintain a forward CoG. I have experience with aerodynamic modelling and private pilot training but won't speculate other than to say that structural integrity is not an issue. It's more like capsizing a boat than overloading a trailer hitch.
The Biology Revolution: a computational perspective (2017)
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When questioned on why the event's organizers had allowed so many people from the industry to attend, COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "At the end of the day, It is up to [attending countries to decide] who gets accreditation as part of their delegations."

Our governments decided to shape the nature of climate talks by embedding a crap ton of fossil fuel lobbyists.

Pols trade federal power for campaign funds every day. Maybe press/voters should stop being okay with this.
Gaza City has a higher density than NYC (34k per sq mi vs. 29k). Now imagine trying to run an anti-mafia campaign using only air power.
> What reason do you have

The document itself. Look at who/what it cites or supports. For example:

* Eric Kaufman at CSPI (three cites for two documents) rails about "left-wing authoritarianism" and "far left activists" while Weiss's own accompanying text specifically mentions "discrimination against right-leaning scholars".

* Challey Institute, whose founder is a pretty major Republican operative - https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=robert...

* FIRE Institute might have been involved in the Florida case, but also on the top of their "about" page are gems like "Under the guise of “nondiscrimination” policies" and non-specific complaints about diversity training.

* Dorian Abbot and Peter Boghossian are specifically right wing martyrs. Kathleen Stock describes herself as a "gender critical feminist" or what many in the trans community would call a TERF

* Weiss oddly does not mention the Florida case, even though it's highly topical (but it involves suppression by the right wing)

The concern with supporting one political faction - not freedom itself - is obvious to anyone who actually reads the OP instead of reflexively taking sides.
Making a to-scale mockup and then targeting it with ballistic missiles would help them understand the actual accuracy of their missiles under ideal conditions. Of course, hitting a moving carrier with active defenses would be much harder, but if you can't even hit a static carrier under ideal circumstances then you have no chance of hitting a mobile one.
You dont have to look at sci fi. Look at what happens to dad and mom brains and hormones after a kid arrives.
I'm referring to the proliferation of hate groups, that flourished under the defense that they represented "free speech". I don't think it's quite what Swartz had in mind, though even if he felt it defensible at the time (as I would have) his feelings on the matter may have become more nuanced (as have mine) since then.
> would your employer care (if they found out) if you copy/pasted a small portion of code that’s not considered critical IP

Who decides what is "critical IP" and what is not?

This is a terrible advice, and no, you should never copy code from a work project without being pre-authorized to do it.

It's not just common sense, but you also might trip up over unexpected legal issues (licences etc) that you may not even be aware of.
The type of technology used has no bearing on the designation of "terrorism".

Any form of violence can have various motivations.
I think the most common thing to implement is the perceptron algorithm from scratch.

I would recommend Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop. It assumes no previous knowledge of pattern recognition or machine learning.
AFAIK you do have to use a phone number to sign up with Telegram, but you never need to expose it to other users. I assume that's the kind of anonymity that OP means.
Interestingly, thermal and electrical conductivity is highly correlated. You don't see a lot of materials that conduct heat well but behave as good electrical insulators, or vice versa. Both mechanisms benefit strongly from the availability of highly-mobile electrons, which is another way of saying "metal."
Holmes wasn't poor and unconnected. Quite the opposite actually
> he is punching down.

Sure. A scammer is probably substantially less well off than a Microsoft executive. Scammers are often not very well-off. That doesn't make their behavior acceptable or impolite to call out.

> He _could_ try and educate/correct the actor by firmly rejecting his request and clearly stating what the issue is without trying to embarrass him, let alone publicly shame him.

He did try this -- firm rejection, explanation of the issue, and invitation to behave ethically: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1456944080936599557

The response was exactly the sort of response you'd expect when calling out someone committing petty crimes.

I suspect if the response had been a sincere apology this blog post might read differently. Or at least not include the bit about this person.
The same one that caused YouTube to try to bury the video titled "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization" < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI > and a three letter agencies to visit the author to investigate "anti-american sentiment" < https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/132335626258786304... >
yes, some genetic testing is useful. very little of it makes an actual impact on human health, compared to far larger contributions from other fields. It's just oversold.

Note: I have 25+ years experience in this field, I'm not just spewing out random beliefs.
funny how we all changed our minds when our time and money was on the line
I wonder if Apple's hardware people are going nuts from the fact that they created a world record chip and its potential is being wastes by subpar OS.

Further, I wonder how much of their vast resources might Apple be pouring into making a new OS without these problems.
Mostly sea lions.
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For Good Evidence you mean low quality photos and videos that proves nothing ? Why an advanced civilization would travel half way across the galaxy to show itself careless in our skies ? I think if some alien civilization already discover us they will : attack or make contact or study from distance without we even know what they were doing.
It's about professional women athletes, not the general public.
The podcasts "Bad Blood" (by Carreyrou) and "The Dropout" (about the currently ongoing trial against Holmes) cover these questions and more. I can highly recommend them.
You stop xo
The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage
Not sure I would expect an optical guidance system... Would be pretty much useless >50% of the time (during night, or cloudy periods). More likely to be infrared. Carrier's are big and probably have an obvious thermal contrast against the ocean.
The sync is so great, especially if you're trying to message with in-flight wifi. In-flight wifi usually only works on one device at a time which means you can't use Whatsapp from your iPad or laptop on the plane.

You do need a phone number to register (I use my google voice number), but you can select who can actually see it on your profile. When you join groups, it isn't exposing it to others unless you add them as contacts - and even then you can disable from sharing with those contacts.
also https://hn-saga.com/?q=aaron for past number one posts about Aaron
I bought this book based on your comment and I can't put it down!
Thank you! If you ever find the way back to Luxembourg you can easily reach out and I’ll invite you for a private tour of our Parliament.

I’m a hacker at heart so it’s my pleasure to lurk here and comment on an issue I’m actually involved in.
The press would improve drastically if they could just get their "journalists" off fucking twitter.
There aren’t enough trees to offset carbon emissions – and there never will be
The really rich have city homes sure. But they also have beachside cabins and vacation homes in rural and suburban areas, so they can enjoy both worlds. If you're still in the realm of merely moderately rich mortals who can't own both a penthouse apartment and a generously large villa in the suburbs, you'll have to choose one or the other -- and in most cases in America, they'll choose the suburban home.
> Privacy advocates have been warning for years that the spit-tube deal is lopsided

Does that mean we could get to the point where they’ll pay us to get access to our DNA (+ medical history?).
Photographing a Raspberry Pi 2 with Xenon flash makes it power down (2015)
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Can you tell us more abuot your health reports? My full genome sequence (superior to any exome panel or SNP marker test) more or less said "you don't have any risk factors that we know of". WHich is about as non-actionable as it gets.
Wait until you learn what was said about Mandela.
Really?! But it all seemed so innocuous!
You used to be able to do `git clone https://codemirror.net`, which was kind of neat. But the constant barrage of emails from "security researchers" who had found a "vulnerability" (an exposed git directory holding an open source codebase), have made me configure my server to deny all .git paths.
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I disagree. There is still investigative journalism and plenty of good news sources. They are imperfect but you get to know where they excel and where they don’t, plus perfect news sources have never existed in the history of history.

What happened instead is that the bottom fell out. There are so many newer sources of information today but most of them are very poor so the average quality of news has precipitously dropped. But as it always goes, the good stay good.

I currently pay about $40/month in news and magazines (but borrow Netflix/Hulu/HBO/etc. from friends, lol) and I enjoy the news I get. It’s a range of current events to policy analysis.

I think a bigger change is that previously what people thought of events didn’t honestly matter as much in day to day policy dealings either. People weren’t any more informed back then — they just didn’t even know what was going on, for better and worse.
USA already had its genocidal expansionist moment as a nation before the great World Wars. An entire continent ethnically cleansed and replaced with Anglo settlers. Of course, there was no one to hold it accountable as with the Germans and Japanese. This greatly inspired 20th century fascist thinkers around the world, including Adolf Hitler.

Lebensraum, spazio vitale, manifest destiny.

Even ignoring that, if "nationalism" does not include the massive public projects and social cohesion of 1930s-50s USA, then frankly you have a bizarre definition of nationalism.
>so around 20+ years.

Right, but if there's anything below that that would cause a syntax error, like an f-string, that Exception you created never happens. The end user just sees a syntax error.

It's unfortunate there's not a better way to handle it, especially with so many people still having /usr/bin/python linked to a 2.x version.
Ah, I see the distinction now, thanks.

It's an interesting subject, I think, since poetry has so many forms it can take and you need the output to capture the idiosyncratic aesthetics and "inner world" of a piece of verse.

I've actually tried using GPT-3 to generate poetry and the naive approach of just sending prompts and text snippets through the API had wildly varying results. Some pretty good, some that were basically word salad and nonsense.

But I also run a poetry journal on the side, so maybe that skews my understanding of it!
Only once there was blood in the water. If it hadn't been for one journalist in particular (Carryrou), the scam would probably still be a going concern.
It is indeed true to some degree in Germany.

If you give your friend money for some help he provided you would need to pay taxes (otherwise people could always pretend to be friends and exchange money behind their back while not paying any tax because it wasn't a business exchange)

There is a low amount of such work that is free (pretty low, around 300$ per year).

In practice people often ignore it. If you give away your gaming console to your friend helping to renovate the house, you might theoretically need to pay taxes. But I think you only get into real trouble if you conduct real business or there simply isn't any enforcement possible anyway.

There are similar rules for gifting since it would equally enable you to evade paying tax by declaring mutual gifts instead of service and payment.

edit:
I think the legal term is "Gefälligkeit", it would you net sources in German of course. The law is also defines claims for both parties. What if your friend painted your house blue, but you wanted it red? Who is responsible for the damage, etc. pp.
If it can be argued that it is done to avoid paying taxes, it is probably illegal for that reason, and you should look into local laws relating to business taxation.
It feels like everything is moving toward using super low-quality Chinese drivers/firmware

You must be a Broadcom user. My sympathies. =)

But I totally hear you. I'm not as pessimistic because I tend to follow parts that the automotive sector uses (yeah, not great right now) and they typically don't put up with random Chinesium parts and code. And yeah, it seems more and more like everyone is just throwing Linux into the mix and hoping that some OSS developer and/or Otavio Salvador swoops in and fixes things up.

RISC-V may be a way out of this. Maybe. Or it will make things ten times worse.