skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The donor is anonymous but their characteristics are heavily marketed. In cases like this one, parents feel like they were intentionally misled: promised one thing and sold something else. I haven't had time to read the full article, but in many cases the decision about which sperm to use is made based on donor characteristics that are considered desirable: height, hair, skin colour, intelligence, lack of self-reported mental conditions, etc. The sperm they are provided tends to be from donors who don't measure up in these areas.

Furthermore, several stories resemble this one where a fertility doctor used his own sperm and that is considered particularly egregious. Not only for the reasons mentioned above, but because doing so is considered lying by omission. There are also notions of fairness with respect to fathering children: don't father too many and fulfill your responsibilities towards the ones you do. Biologically fathering dozens if not hundreds of children and having nothing to do with them afterward is considered unfair to the children, even if they happen to have a real father who raises them.
I assume a competent HM would dig deeper than that with a reference. It’s not perfect, neither is an online coding exam. It’s a tool that should be used in the process, that’s all I’m saying.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615432
That would not be a correct presumption. Americans who travel to New Zealand are not at all representative of the general population. For one thing they are significantly more affluent on average. I suspect they're also older, and less likely to be suffering from severe chronic co-morbid conditions. For example, end-stage renal disease patients were heavily overrepresented among US COVID-19 deaths. Not many such people would get on a 16 hour flight to Auckland under any conditions.
That is our goal. There are a few different use-cases where no account is great and a few where you may want to create an account.

Buying something from an ecommerse website could be either or. You may want to save some specifics or preferences. Others may need you to create an account to come back, especially if there is critical data being stored. I agree that passwords are dangerous.

We used our own auth to create a "try it out" page on Webflow. We do need an email (but it does not have to be validated) so we can go to our backend and create an App key so you can try the snippet. If you come back, you also do not have to validate, but if you want to go into our app deeper, we have you validate because otherwise, you will not be able to get back after the tokens expire, you use a different browser, etc.

What is really exciting is a world where you can validate without an email or phone number. So you can come back without needing more data.
I haven't played a FIFA game in probably 20 years so please excuse my potentially uninformed question. Do loot boxes improve the play experience of the game in any meaningful way?
That works, since the hospital is getting paid for it by society (although via health insurance companies via the now neutered individual mandate to purchase health insurance).

The important thing is the price for a hospital being able to provide highly qualified team of workers and equipment 24/7 to treat patients should not be obfuscated. It is valuable information for how many more hospitals/doctors/research/ whatever is needed and which kind of work society should incentivize people to do.
I don't think we would be facing these problems, but I'm also objective enough to admit that we would likely be facing others.

On foreign policy - specifically, with regard to the tone of the US's involvement in NATO - I believe Trump was much better than Biden. On other issues, Trump was often... "suboptimal".

The biggest issue I have with Trump is what the person you're replying to said: "He was a dumpster fire." It's difficult to lead a country when the very tone of your rhetoric angers half of it. He anger the Democrats enough that many voters would have elected _anyone_ to replace him.

On the other hand, Trump's bombastic personality and over-the-top rhetoric is probably the only way a Republican could have been elected in 2016. I'm not sure it was a solvable problem.
Just read whatever has a question mark after it with the intonation of a question, and it flows naturally.
Yep. I find it really amusing how those people are constantly policing other people's language and life, while they spend their free time complaining that it's them that are being policed. Textbook projection.
At the last job I left, I liked my coworkers, and wanted to leave my work in a good position for them to pick up, knowing we were now understaffed. I was working right up until 4pm on the last Friday, and only stopped because I had my own going away party to attend. I believe I put in some after work time in the last couple of weeks, to get everything documented and ship-shape.

At the previous job, I quit because the management was awful, and I was more or less working by myself. So, I absolutely did not put in much effort after giving notice. I didn't feel I owed anybody anything more than the minimum.
In a way maybe it should stay that way. Some of the research being done is right down scary:

"Spanish scientists create human-monkey chimera in China"
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/31/inenglish/15645...

"...To avoid ethical issues, the scientific community has traditionally set the “red line at 14 days” of gestation, says Raya, which is not enough time for the embryo to develop a human central nervous system. All chimera embryos are destroyed before that period expires. “In no case is the gestation brought to full term,” adds Núñez..."
I have been working on a .net wrapper for opencascade (https://github.com/veggielane/EngrCAD) but opencascade interop from .net is a pain. I also fell in and out of love with SDF, as most CAM tools need BREP.

I agree with people in this thread, the world needs more CAD kernels. I also think that we need a language agnostic markup language to represent the BREP.
Yeah, on one hand I don't think admin are to blame for the delays in acquiring space and development. They have to compete against the enormous cost, enormous time delays, and even their student body who despise gentrification. That said, these delays have definitely contributed to the tensions, as we can see in the difference in relationships with admin held by BME, neuro, and CBS, who were granted space in Manhattanville, vs everyone else.

I don't know too much about NYC development, but Manhattanville seems somewhat unambitious in height, I don't know if that was the limit to Columbia's air rights or what, but it seems like a waste of limited footprint.
Ourboro: Home Ownership Co-Investment
Even having a credit card reader isn't as convenient as knowing the price in advance before you get in and then having that price automatically charged, without having to do anything when you arrive except get out of the car.
> As the original commenter noted, the person who was honest about what they really thought was the one laid off when the time came

It could have been for any of 100 other reasons.

It really boils down to whether your manager is bullshit or not. If they are, switch teams or switch jobs. If you can't be honest with your manager, it's not going to work out.
Would it make sense to be able to select your Tor exit node, in this case from a bunch offered by Twitter?
>There was cold war and we could have defeated the opponent.

What does that mean in concrete terms? An invasion and occupation of Russia after the fall of the USSR?
An extermination of the Russian people?

What would a more complete defeat looks like?
FairPlay DRM was an utter breath of fresh air compared to the DRM we were using at AT&T. There were other companies like InterTrust competing at the time to build incredibly-restrictive powerful DRM, and despite all this crazy work (many PhDs in cryptography!) the labels kept asking for more before they would begrudgingly put a few titles on sale. FairPlay DRM was "just good enough" to satisfy the DRM requirement while also being pretty easy to break, and it remained more or less regularly "broken" for many years. This didn't matter because it turned out that very few people pirated content by breaking the DRM (especially when you could just rip a CD yourself.) As you pointed out, Apple eventually got rid of it.

In my later security evaluation career I saw a similar dynamic play out for other DRM companies, and even saw how corrupt the industry was. If you knew the right people or had enough market power your DRM would be "good enough", and if not: tough luck. Technical evaluation didn't matter.
Same. But ‘references’ from coworkers are still a key factor in promotions at big tech companies. Go figure.
Just because you are legally allowed to do it, doesn't mean you should do it at the drop of a hat.

Slacking off during the hiring process with the intention of firing a large portion of the people you hire is a violation of the social contract and a huge asshole move.
2 week notice is common in US & Canada. I usually give 1-2 month's notice but I've been told it's generally not necessary.
This is not a real problem as tweets and their replies are all publicly available. Likely brought on yourself by using ad-blocker or something triggering it (which Twitter has every right to try to encourage you to log in or use the site more regularly)
Ask HN: How do you securely self-host a server?
Every few weeks or so there is a post on HN pleading with people to consider self hosting their own services. As enticing as that sounds, I'm sure I'm not the only one that has no idea how to secure said services. Spinning up a server is no problem, keeping it secure on the other hand is a feat I have no idea how to accomplish.
This is a good idea. Similarly, we use dinner plates that are more like appetizer plates: 50% the size of a "regular" dinner plate.
Thanks for the correction vips7L. The main idea I wanted to convey is that with every release, Java keeps evolving and improving in the expressiveness and usability departments.
It is. I had one of those three month notice contracts. Negotiated my start, gave my notice, and the company chose to part ways immediately - but did not pay out the three months. If I am ever in that situation again, I'll give two weeks and they can sue me to make me stay.
I just open my AirPods Pro case and stick the buds in my ear and audio automatically switches to my AirPods.

Even with my $59 Beats Flex, I just press a button and turn them on and they automatically pair. When they are taken out my ear and stuck together via the magnets, audio returns to my phone.

Not to mention how they seamlessly switch from my iPhone, iPad and Mac as I change what I’m doing.
I wish other software projects would take a similar approach such as Open AI, making the service and software totally free to use.
> Distro's is shipping binaries that aren't build from source all the time

Only because the sources aren't available.
Also, if I understand correctly, exit nodes have vectors for attacking your security that are eliminated by an onion address.
According to LG's website, the only 27" 5k display actually on sale is $1300 (and it is out of stock), and it is not adjustable, does not have a 12 Mpx camera, and does not have fancy speakers. Given how impressive the 2018 MBP speakers are, I expect the Studio Display probably sounds pretty good. $1600 seems like a reasonable price for all that.
Definitely worth it. As it's a visual tool you won't learn by reading about it, nor can you learn Blender knowing everything about it's features (it would be like getting good at chess by reading chess rules)... what I mean is you have to learn by doing many small experiments and using visual guides.

I recommend doing the Doughnut tutorial by Blender Guru first, then move to CrossMind Studio, another really great one is Ducky 3D. Default Cube is great, but some of the stuff is a bit advanced. Polygon Runway is good but got bored of the same style. The best for more advanced users I've seen so far is Polyfjord, just next level stuff, can't recommend that channel enough.
Though I see your point (that it's good practice to assess logical arguments independent of an author's credentials), brudgers's comment was still quite useful.

I skimmed the comments before deciding to reading the article, and likely would have skipped on this submission if I didn't know about his work at Santa Fe (which was also mentioned in the article itself), as I associate McCarthy with his literary work. I had no previous awareness he has been working with scientists on technical writing.
23andMe and similar services, though creepy to a degree to have your genetic information linked and profiled, have spawned a minor industry of social and familial alignment. Half-siblings and half-aunts/uncles are being found to be more common than people realized.

The convergence of technology and society is fascinating. This was an interested read on the mispractice of a fertility doctor.
How can it simultaneously be the hottest job market in anyone's memory, and yet the process still looks like this? These don't look like companies struggling to hire; these look like companies being exceedingly picky and not suffering one bit for it.
This is obviously fake news. Are people on HN really so gullible that they believe that the Russian military uses CELL PHONES for military communication? They use encrypted radios and satellite communication, like every other modern military. Just because news makes the Russians look bad and the Ukrainians look good doesn't mean it is true.

This article's source is a tweet from a random Twitter user, and his (unshared) audio proof is something that could be fabricated by any Russian speaker (and in its text form could be fabricated by anyone with access to Google Translate). He can't even get the name of the system the Russians are supposedly using right: he claims it is "Era" but one of the article he cites on its development calls it "Aurora". Aurora is just the name of an Android distro that Russia uses, and has nothing to do with secure communication. In fact, the source article is talking about how letting soldiers have access to phones is a source of leaks and that phones are vulnerable to being hacked/backdoored, and that Putin passed a law to curb that, which is why most of the phone camera footage we've seen during the war is from Ukrainian forces/civilians. Here's a Reuters article talking about using Aurora on Huawei tablets to conduct the Russian census [1].

Era seems to be the Era Military Innovation Technopolis [2], which is just an R&D campus, not the name of a secure cellular telecommunications system.

The other article he cites [3] talks about Era testing two projects: Quartz and "Passport" which sound more like a military intranet. This could be construed as a communication system, but this is not the sort of thing used for real-time communication in a war zone.

Considering all the details that this "analyst" got wrong, I don't believe that his interpretation is likely.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-russia-partnership...

[2] https://forceindia.net/cover-story/lofty-goals/

[3 https://twitter.com/methodicjon/status/1500976833646497797
Funny, I am typing this on a Mac connected to an MST Dell 5k display....MacOS supported this setup since at least 2015, when I bought my display.
I think it is. I started few months ago and I really love the journey so far.

I dont think Blender itself is that complicated, what is difficult is

1) Find what type of 3d you want do.
2) Do it nicely

The 3d field is enormous and you and depending what you do you will follow a specific technique and workflow.

You don't need to learn everything just with a 1% of Blender you can do pretty great stuff!
> The idea that I can take 4 hours of your time for a half-day whiteboard interview but not a "do a simple task that should take 30 minutes at your leisure" is weird.

It's really not that weird at all. If you give me 4 hours of face-to-face time 1:1 with one of your engineers, I have a guarantee that you value my time as highly as you value your engineers'.

If you give me 30 mins of "homework", I have no guarantee at all, that you don't have 100 other candidates in this stage of the interview process, and one of your engineers is going to dismiss my application after 5 mins of looking at what I've produced and give me no chance of responding to any judgment they are making that I disagree with. For example I once got "I don't like the fact that you use semicolons in Python where they're optional". If someone thinks that's a valid reason not to hire me, I want the right to face my accuser.
One while loop. Maybe you need to memorize again :).
Doesn't gender lose its meaning if it's not tied to sex? As in, it is just a person's psych? I am not saying it negatively, I am all for sex having no predetermined effect on someone's behavior. But if there as many genders as there are people, it is no longer a useful term.
Ask HN: Which are the best computer science MOOCs?
I'm finding the current MOOCs sites to became very bloated due to the high number of courses. Now it is difficult to find the good ones. Which are your favorites?
Not in the literary space.
Hilla is a spinoff from Vaadin - previously called Vaadin Fusion:
- TypeScript + WebComponents based frontend
- Autogenerated strongly typed endpoints
- Automated server-client communications
- Seamless integration with Spring
- A rich set of UI components
- Built-in customizable design system
Right, I remember you used to be able to sign up for Twitter solely with a phone number (and post tweets via SMS, a feature which I used every so often). You can see that if you look at an old archive of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20061203201128/http://twitter.co... (heh, also gotta love that the site was so small they can just show some random recent tweets and users right on the homepage)

This was in the days before legit smartphones so running an actual "twitter client" was out of the question. Of course that all quickly changed with the advent of smartphones like the iPhone.
A few years ago I finally managed to lose (and keep off) about 70 lbs after years of trying and failing. I think understanding nutrition is the biggest tool you can give yourself, which echos what most of the others here have said.

Track your calories for a few days. For me what was really helpful was trying to do the whole if it gets you the macros "diet". You should avoid thinking about it as a diet though. Diets are things people do briefly to lose one or two pounds and tend to be things like Atkins, etc. You're looking for a lifestyle change.

Understanding what you currently eat is hugely helpful in this. I went through a phase where I weighed everything I ate with a food scale and entered it in to MyFitnessPal, aiming for 50% carbs, 20% protein, 30% fat and a loss of ~1 lb a week. Pretty quickly I started to find myself surprised at things that in hindsight seem very obvious: fibrous veggies have very little calories, and especially if you steam them or prepare them in a reasonably healthy way, they can make you feel full without going over your daily calories, oils are incredibly calorie dense, 93% lean ground beef is much higher in fat than you think it is, etc.

Paying attention and tracking your calories for a few weeks is a great tool at understanding your current habits and how you can make an avalanche of small changes. Cutting out one can of soda every day is the difference between losing .5 lb a week and maintaining your weight.

You don't have to do the calorie tracking forever - within a few weeks I'd started to make small modifications to a lot of recipes that I cook or things that I eat out to make them much healthier.

Also, get a good scale that does BMI and measure your weight every morning after you go to the bathroom but before you eat anything. Ignore small daily changes, you're looking for the trend over a week or so. Seeing your progress in real numbers helps immensely at keeping you on track.
Yeah, good point about dishes. Weirdly it seems like even dish sizes for home use have been inflating over time

My go-to easy lunch meal is just some sliced cheese, some crackers, and a good-sized piece of fruit. The fruit fills my stomach, the cheese provides some protein and combines with the crackers to feel tasty and satisfying

I also want to emphasize the "eat whatever you want" aspect. It can be quickly demoralizing to try and give up all of your comfort foods; for me it was really helpful to be able to keep all those in my life and just get used to a new normal when it came to the amount
What would Putin do if the planes were delivered?
It can depend.

If I've been with the company for a while and there are still projects that actually need wrapping up or documenting, sure, I'll fill my final days with work.

In other cases I've done very little during the notice period because there maybe nothing I need to "wrap up", the only thing left for me to do being general tasks. No, I can't say that I'll work very hard in my last days in this case.

I'm of the belief that, if you have nothing to do for your final days, you should just quit without the whole "2 weeks notice" thing. Some good employers will say they don't mind if you don't work 2 more weeks before you even have a chance to explain why you are quitting immediately. Surfing HN 8 hours a day for 2 weeks doesn't do you or the employer any good.
if we are to be a space faring species, we will necessarily have to find ways to procreate in environments that is not Earth.... time to push the boundaries.
You know it IS something America would not recognize: they are trying to avoid innocent civilian casualties because long-term, that's bad for Russia who has to live next door to Ukraine for all eternity.

America has demonstrated since WW2 that anyone who's not American (and even many who are but are only the wrong side or have the wrong color - e.g. ) is 100% expendable - F- the Geneva Conventions or any other international agreement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

This has been true from Korea to Vietnam to any conflict in the Middle East or Latin America. Our doctrine is "kill everyone and let God or the Devil sort them out" so it's not surprising that this seems bizarre to us and/or our government.
I missed a v-if in react/JSX. My code is so hard to read in JSX.
This is not exactly the same thing, as it just renders the output, but the following uses markdown and asciimath for quick math notetaking.

https://vedthiru.com/tools/notetaker

Disclaimer: I wrote it.
would be interesting to do western + eastern, or at least another with just eastern.
The school of life. Seriously. Build stuff and play around. And play around some more. :)
I think 50:50 equity was their personal example. But in the OP, the partner leaving seems to want total compensation that amounts to 50% of a very high valuation that may only be possible if the other founder keeps working at a discount and finds a new developer at an even worse deal just for the distribution to stay as relevant as today; unless they have very different luck or market conditions than in the past.
If everything were statically linked, getting your daily security update would basically involve redownloading the entire distribution, since when a core component were patched everything would have to be rebuilt. This wouldn't be practical. Therefore, dynamic linking is the norm on binary distributions.
I don't have a reference handy, but I recall reading that Poland had already begun to transfer R-73 air-to-air missiles to Ukraine. Those are Russian missiles designed for use on the MiG-29.
I'd write it like this

const gridComponent = {
image: GridImage,
video: GridVideo,
copy: GridCopy
}

const Grid = (gridItems) => (
<Grid>
{gridItems.map(item => {
const GridComponent = gridComponent[item._type]
return GridComponent ? <GridComponent {...item} key={item._key} /> : null
}}
</Grid>
)}