skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I found at least one article:

No, you found one article.

> Not 50k a pop, but shows that it does happen.

It shows it did happen, 13 years ago.

Compare with the claims made by Anjahealth's CEO.

(1) an 'NHS hospital in the UK' is not 'doctors in the EU', (2) it is universally condemned, (3) the beneficiary is apparently a US company (4) Consent was obtained but for different reasons (medical research), which put the hospital in hot water, as it should. (5) the amount is nowhere near the one claimed. (6) it is a donation, clearly still a quid-pro-quo. (7) this is outrageous enough that it made the newspaper. (8) 2008.

To use this in a commercial setting, to pretend it's an ongoing and common thing and that doctors in the EU profit from this is absolutely disgusting. Besides that I sincerely hope that that hospital had the book thrown at it, and suspect the company is at fault and not the hospital.

Accusations like that against doctors should not be made lightly, especially not for your own personal financial gain.

Finally: placentas are used for good research, they are a rich source of stem cells and hard to come by proteins, some hospitals do collect them for this purpose (as the hospital in the article pretended to do), and by making the argument that they are mostly used for cosmetics manufacture it harms the main reason hospitals will pass them on: to help with various medical research programs, which the company is essentially in competition with.

It's a straight up case of FUD with unsupported accusations of insane profits on unethical behavior against a group of people that have taken a pretty expensive oath as well as operating under strict regulations.

edit: some more research later:

It appears the hospital was unaware of what the company did:

" She added: "We have spoken to Sigma-Aldrich already and asked them to revise the consent form so it is more explicit. We partook in the scheme on the understanding that the placentas would be used for medical research."

She added mothers were given information about the process during ante-natal care and placentas were only ever taken with their consent.

She added: "We do receive a donation for this service, but we are not paid for it as such. The distinction is that even if we didn't receive a donation, we would still offer mothers the opportunity to donate their placentas for research, rather than have them incinerated."

Sigma-Aldrich, which has a facility in Fancy Road, Poole, denied its human placental by-products are used in the manufacture of any cosmetic products, but a spokesman admitted they may be used in their development and testing. "

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2279703.placenta-ange...

Based on the information available the hospital made yet another questionable call here, revising the consent form isn't the solution, the solution is to stop working with this company because it clearly can't be trusted.
How's the compiler speed? I've been so burnt out on hobby programming on SwiftUI because of the horrendous long compilation times.

Makes me long for some Pascal. :)
Wow, I just spent half an hour reading all of those. Thanks.
Check out Appsmith. It can be used to visualise data using charts or tables. There's an integration for MySQL/Mariadb that you can use. You can also write SQL in Appsmith.
Yes! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! Would love to get your feedback on the product.
This is not what I read from historians about Poland at that time. So what is your source for this affirmation?

However, the US policy of publicizing any alarming event is... well a policy, so it's difficult to know the actual current level of danger for Ukrainians.

And what Ukrainians feel is nothing more. As quite a few commentators said, nobody knows what Putin's plans are today. He certainly had a plan when creating this crisis. Today he maybe doesn't know what to do anymore.

Putin is a super clever guy but that doesn't mean he had planned all scenarios like a mastermind.

OTAN's very unified reaction and Biden threats may have forced Putin to reconsider.

Nobody knows what Putin will do.
Production network activation takes about 10 mins. Staging network activation around 3 mins.
Bad news. I have great experience with Linode, but had horrible experience with Akamai. Will need to change hosting soon, most likely.
Wow that didn't take long to break: https://twitter.com/0xPARC/status/1493704577002049537?s=20&t...

As long as "crypto" requires absolute perfection, and even experts have difficulty achieving that it isn't reasonable to suggest crypto for everyday use. This always annoys me when people blame victims for not simply "reading the contract" to verify it's correct. People don't have to carefully audit everything a bank does when they open an account, people don't need to be expert auditors to have a reasonable sense of security when depositing their paycheck.
I usually convert PDF to raster and draw over. White or light gray box overlay will save ink/toner for everyone and is just as opaque as a black box.

I still do pixelize with huge pixel size when information is not that important. I think it better conveys that there was something there, and redacted areas look more organic.
that are easy to see while still operating the vehicle
Polkadot: The Blockchain that will finally bring us together
the Unicode codepoint with hex value 202E says "from here on, render the rest of the text from right to left" (something that's useful for Arabic scripts, for example).

Duckduckgo shows infos about the codepoint and the codepoint itself in a box between the search field and the actual results, and in it, the text is rendered reversed (right to left), because that's what the codepoint tells the browser to do (and DDG doesn't have extra logic yet to either inject another "now render from left to right again" marker, or otherwise prevents it from messing up the info box).
It's completely frozen for me (after downloading), but it's very cool for sure
Mailspring Mail User Agent
That's the reason why paying for a domain and custom e-mail adresses is the best option in my opinion.

Changing infrastructure / hosting can be done quickly for myself if necessary.

Apart from that, knowing that every e-mail I get or send is being processed by google and potentially read by US authorities simply makes me cringe - even though there's nothing special in my e-mails.

I'd love to self host e-mail and love to read HN posts about it, but I think self-hosting e-mail can become a time sink quite easily.
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30353690
Convert to ASCII, normalise whitespace, normalise spelling, normalise word choice hope, there are no word or paragraph based watermarks present.

Or just summarise the content yourself and hope there are no event/story/narrative based watermarks present.
The idea is certainly interesting. But given the dependency on an underlying query to doc click log it's not the most obvious solution.

Inverted indices with fuzzy and boolean matching are pretty boring, but they're still pretty trivial to stand up and do not require anything beyond the actual corpora to be built.
* Python Distilled by Dave Beazley - "this concise handbook focuses on the essential core of the language, with updated code examples to illuminate how Python works and how to structure programs that can be more easily explained, tested, and debugged"

* Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho — "takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time"

I have more such Python resources here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/intermediate.h...
No, you’re not missing anything. Tailwind is a disastrous anti-pattern that the whole web dev community should be fighting against. (Web dev here since ‘96.)
That reminds me of working with my Dad as a kid who's senses were pretty much shot from years of working on heavy mechanical equipment. He asked me to do smell/listening tests when he fired up one of his repair projects.
TBH, "In a browser" (like here) is pretty different from "on the Internet" (like google docs). Except that if someone was to make slight changes to the hosted application, it could leak everything.
Why is this the best interview question?

Maybe it's the best interview question for Thiel, since he was / is looking for contrarians? [0]

But is it the best interview question for other organizations?

Love or hate Elon - but I prefer what he said... basically:

"Describe a few of the hardest problems you solved & exactly how you solved them."

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[0] He seems to be a contrarian himself - I mean he was voting and supporting Trump... very 'courageous' indeed and such a smart move.
Get the python cookbook and inhale it.
Likewise with Hetzner. Great prices with decent support.
What's your environment? It feels like incredibly poor performance for me (Firefox on macOS)
An Empirical Study of Real-World WebAssembly Binaries [pdf]
Hahahah #metoo!
> As someone with 20 years of C++ experience... I really don't understand the hatred for OO programming

Well, where should I begin:

std::cout << "Hello world";

Is just a nice way of doing things...

As the other commenter said, it's not so much OO, but more GoF and how the 2000's OO went.

Please tell me why any basic library adds 3 or 4 levels of inheritance just to do something basic like vector or array. "Oh but this is to make things more generic" and yet nobody uses all that generic stuff. STL is often replaced by more "serious" users.

C++ (and Java) are 2nd systems syndrome gone to 11

I've just taken a look at the Vector implementation at my current system and it's an exercise in frustration. Meanwhile I can understand most of this https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/vec/mod.rs.html#400
Are we looking at the same website? There's a big green button at the bottom of the page that takes you to a pricing page with three pricing tiers and the price in USD.
Speed, so I can prove it out quicker. Building this on my own, after work, will take me a while. Wouldn’t need much to prove it out. Maybe $250k. I can do product design and engineering myself. Would be nice to hire a contractor to handle a few things I’m weaker at.
It depends on what you're doing. Rust is not uniformly slow to compile, the slowness is associated to a few specific features like generics and macros. (Good generic code should delegate to a less-generic implementation as early as possible. Hopefully full "const" generics will soon make this feasible in more cases.)
This sounds as silly as the claim you're refuting.

Can you please provide links to any evidence that it's false? I'm curious.
Do you think?

Using the radio metaphor, I think I could edit the radio so that the signal would be heard differently. Just turning up the volume is a sort of alteration of consciousness, as would be increasing/decreasing the bass/treble.

These are alterations to the way the sound is experienced, but do not affect the signal itself.

Maybe taking drugs would be akin to running the received signal through some sort of special effects board? Ie a different/unusual type of alteration to the signal.
Lovely Survey :)
Note that most of those elements are artificially created in the lab and have a very short half-life.
How is this not just an ad?
Contrarian opinion ahead: when everyone is skating in one direction, I try to look the other way to see what they might be missing.

With the rush to ML and AI in search and recommendation systems, I think there are huge opportunities in curation.

Curation is the opposite of where tech has been heading. Why? “Curation doesn’t scale!” People cry, but this ignores two important points: (1) it can scale via the crowd, and (2) it doesn’t necessarily need to scale to be valuable.

Regarding (1), others in this thread have suggested website up/down votes. Just one example of a scalable system. There are so many sites I’d tag as spam for my friends to avoid if I could. It’d be great if we could work together to eliminate the code spam sites, for example.

Regarding (2), I would happily take book recommendations from someone like PG even though he’s only read a tiny tiny tiny fraction of all books written. Critics don’t read everything, but they use their experience and social graph to find great culture. I’d value a domain expert’s opinion on great books over any number of Google queries.

I feel like there’s a massive opportunity here to “take a step backwards” towards curation and the high quality content it has traditionally provided. There are dozens of huge curation startup opportunities waiting for those willing to go against the wind.
Searching “Wordle” in Google
I like the idea of aligning on properties. Does not exclude to value certain principles as well.

However, like with all abstract "code quality" properties (modularity, predictability, robustness, encapsulation, etc) how can you quantify/measure how modular an application or how predictable a code base is?

It often comes down to a subjective "feeling".
How to read it?
And incidentially the field has a huge problem with pseudoscience, with studies that are not replicable, lying with statistics, theories which aren't falsifiable...

The problem with consciousness is that the only evidence it exists is that individuals claim to experience it, without even really defining what it is they experience. This "evidence" has a much simpler explanation than the existence of an almost-magical consciousness.

It's not that there can't be something like consciousness, but there is currently nothing to indicate this.
Maybe replace the text with lorem ipsum before pixelation? It will look roughly the same without leaking anything useful.
Step by Step Tutorial with screenshots on how to run automated UI tests on iOS
Not if you are using privacy coins like Monero or MobileCoin (Even better with Signal.) or services like Tornado.cash. Not even a single mention of either of them in this article.

The title (and parts of the article) is an extremely silly attempt at generalising the anonymity problem to all cryptocurrencies. No where in the white-papers of Bitcoin, and Ethereum which are the cryptocurrencies mentioned in this article ever addressed the anonymity of the sender and the receiver in the first place.

There is only pseduo-anonymity, due to linking up the addresses in the blockchain.

Anyone who believes that those cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum) had ever addressed anonymity have indirectly proven that they have been successfully misled.
I've worked on a few different games and the one thing they've all had in common is that they are all still fun when you carve them back to their basic core loop. If your project wasn't fun at its core, it's unlikely to be fun when you've wrapped it in layers of other features
Your comment is just getting into plain dishonesty.

Like 5 seconds into looking they found the speck of thermal paste Newegg is talking about...

It's not much at all, but Newegg was (wrongly) under the impression someone was pulling a fast one on them, so it makes sense even that speck of thermal paste is a smoking gun that "no, you did use this thing"
Compared to levels of 2001-2003, the jingoism knob was definitely turned down. Even the popularity of "America first" is an indication thereof: people are no longer interested in forcible export of democracy and American power abroad. The Zeitgeist of the Bush era was one of empire building. The Zeitgeist of the current era is one of de-globalization. This is a huge difference. The former one was certainly more bloody.

As to the woke, whose self-definitions you seem to be taking at face value. (Why?)

Tell me how destroying an old man's career over a 33 years old article [1] can be labeled as an increase in empathy, tolerance and understanding.

Or running a Twitter death gauntlet on a random Mexican driver [2].

These incidents embody "wokeness" to me, not a nicely sounding definition that was constructed to make the movement look better than it actually is.

You seem to put a lot of trust into nicely sounding definitions. Always look at practice: do those people practice what they preach?

Anyone can put together nicely sounding definitions and theories. In theory (= the Constitution), the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, where I grew up, had solid protections of personal freedoms and human rights. In practice, it didn't. It was a totalitarian state that just didn't want to state "we rule you and we will crush any dissent" in writing.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-resignation-idUSKB...

[2] https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...
> Apple cannot prevent competition from arising outright, just as RIM could not, just as Microsoft could not.

On the contrary, it is actively doing so. It does so in the same way that Facebook prevented Instagram from becoming a competitor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

The tech giants have such warchests that they can afford to simply buy out any competitor that has a chance to compete with them. And unlike Cronus, they're unlikely to be deceived into swallowing an omphalos.

> Do you really think that failing some public intervention Apple will be around in a century, undiminished? If it is, wouldn't that mean it is continuing to provide valuable goods and services people want?

Is that belief of yours even falsifiable?

Is there any observation that would make you conclude that a given company, despite being profitable in a free market, is nevertheless representing a net negative for the world?

Or is it an article of faith for you that an unconstrained free market always leads to an eventually optimal equilibrium?
tokens are separated on parsed input, where the token needs to be explicit, like two numbers in a row a space can separate them. An example from the manual. the first ten values of n!

[la1+dsa*pla10>y]sy0sa1lyx
Buy locally. Stop supporting huge corporations. They are not your friends.
There‘s nothing on mobile.
What I love about Streamline is consistency. Choose a set and it has enough icons or illustrations to fill a website of any size. At the same time there are numerous sets so you can find one for any use case.
Zero is not just a really small number. “Little” or “less” are relative to current size at time of critique and stand in opposition to “large” and “more”. I’m simply saying that libertarian thought should not be straw-manned as anarchy, nor would it be accurate to treat libertarian-leaning people as a monolith with a dialed in prescription. Government, and governing, are highly complex particularly at the federal level. You could spend a lifetime just trying to fix the government’s relationship to the finance sector alone with libertarian principles which would still allow room for regulation, attempt to house expertise and manage corruption and count yourself lucky if you made any sort of improvement/dent. Giving catch-all advice about what should be done across the entire spectrum of government in a sound bite is foolish no matter what your political principles are. It’s never as simple as “go back to the gold standard and eliminate all regulation”, but sadly it’s easy to caricature the libertarian critique as this because there literally are nincompoops who spout this drivel. Judging any worldview by its worst examples is not intellectually honest, though.
I love these icons, great work.

I also found the licensing confusing. You say it's under CC 4.0 but don't specify. When digging deeper it appears you mean CC BY 4.0, but then you link to another page that places specific restrictions on the type of attribution, which CC BY does not do.

What's more, some of these restrictions are onerous, e.g., requiring attribution in an image's text description or requiring a link to your page. Again, that is inconsistent with the license you claim to use, and what's more is you don't have a policy posted on referrer tracking, so for all we know you're essentially requiring telemetry.

In my estimation, you won't get a lot of people using these until you clear up the licensing. While your icons are beautiful (again, great work!) it isn't worth the legal risk.
Yeah I don't know if you listen to Jon Stewart's podcast at all, but he talks a bit about Rogan and the difference between disinformation and misinformation. Rogan's definitely the latter. I don't think he's actively trying to spread lies, and he's frankly fun to listen to sometimes. It also annoys me that the woke train have suddenly gotten their panties in a knot over him when they've probably never listened to him. But as someone who has listened to him, I think where I got pissed off is exactly what this author is talking about... it's not that he has lousy people on his show, it's that he plays this role of the naive supplicant, and puts his guests on a pedestal where it seems like they're exposing some amazing secret truth. It's like old time radio, except that was at a time where it was accepted as fiction. Times where these kinds of conspiracy theories are widely aired on the radio as nonfiction or more than ghost stories are like, Rwanda, and Nazi Germany. I don't think he's malign (or like, maybe he is now? I don't think he used to be malign a couple years ago)... but it's like, you can't be that big and act that credulous toward crazy people on air for an audience of millions at the same time without their smell tainting you. I can see him having Louis Farrakhan on and being like "No way... Jews are the synagogue of Satan?" Or equally having, IDK, some supporter of the Myanmar military or someone who says Blacks were happier when they were slaves. And maybe it's okay to air all of those things in the name of free speech. But a dude who's willing to nod along with any of them, in the end, deserves to get some shit.
Impressive, although much slower compared to the native one, at least on this (admittedly not stellar) 4300GE machine: the about window takes like 5 seconds to display, and page scrolling is a lot slower. Also caching doesn't seem to work: if I close it and load it again it seems to start the download/compilation process again, which is both a network and resources hog. Didn't wait for it to complete though, so I can't be 100% sure.
Nonetheless an impressive result; I believe we still have to find a killer application for the technology; simply porting native apps to the web, to me beyond the technical accomplishment is the least interesting one, and also dangerous if misused because it encourages the transition to remote applications, which would take away from the users any control on which software they run.
Love that you did the math. This is the kind of content I come to HN for.

Although, I'd do it differently since I didn't work for 24 hours a day. I'll also account for our open-source illustration and emoji sets.

So, (12 years * 12 months * 4 weeks * 40 hour work week )/(104600 icons + 2322 emoji + 24863 illustrations).

Streamline now has a team of 15 people so I'm not the only one doing it all by myself :)
Apparently we'll never know... My comment was entirely too prescient: just today the FAA pushed decision back by another month:

https://www.space.com/faa-spacex-starship-review-delayed-mar...
Intel has a clear strategy of becoming a big player in the semiconductor industry in the next decade. I honestly think it will work. Many people have observed that it is a cash-intensive industry with tiny margins, but once these huge investments have been made and there are only two or three companies that can dominate the market for five to ten years, you can extract huge value before any competitor catches up.
Ask HN: How can I create a recurring subscription in Bitcoin?
Hello hackers,

I'm planning to accept BTC for my SAAS platform, so my users can start paying with BTC. How can I do that? Any pointers to that is appreciated.
Everyone agrees with me that asking ideological questions during interview is a waste of time. We are there to get validated for work, not to experience nirvana..