skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement that free speech is a right is, itself, an ethical statement. Claiming that ethics is arbitrary is basically saying that free speech is inviolable is an arbitrary claim that holds no weight. I'm constantly annoyed by the unfounded post-modernist claims of arbitrariness and subjectivity in ethics. The truth is that ethicality is a "Hard Problem" of philosophy (also an oft-devalued field, but one without which there would be no math or science).

I agree with both you and Voltaire, that freedom of speech is an important right that is "inviolable". That is, it posible to infringe that right, but doing so is wrong, and infringement of free expression is ethically subject to defense against the aggression represented by that infringement. In short, even if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about with your use of the word "ethics", and even if you contradict yourself by saying that free speech is a right (an ethical claim) and that ethics "are totally arbitrary", I fully agree with your basic assertion that free speech is a right, and anyone who wants to claim otherwise had better be able to provide a valid, deductive argument from apodictisms (or at least agreeable axioms) -- especially because I can provide such an argument in support of free speech -- before I'll give that claim the time of day.

Just to restate, in brief:

1. Yes, you're absolutely correct in your statement that free speech is a right, and it should be defended, and not deprecated by claims it's a "privilege". Yes, there is responsibility associated with that right, but that doesn't make the right into a "privilege".

2. Your statement that free speech is a right is an ethical claim, so maybe you should re-examine your dismissal of ethics. Thanks in advance for thinking it through.
We need cultural changes.

More self checkout.

More automatic sliding doors.

Better designed public bathrooms similar to Walmart bathrooms: No door at all; choice between paper towels and hot air hand dryer; touchless faucets and automatic flush toilets.

Hand sanitizer at every cash register.

Better training for cashiers. Cashiers who do things like lick their fingers to open bags have long been the bane of my existence because I have a compromised immune system.

What we are doing now is not the way it has to be. PPE is not the optimal solution.

I think we have our priorities backwards. We emphasize the hell out of hand washing. It's number one on the list of "five things" the WHO is encouraging people to do to stop the spread.

Number three is "Stop touching your face." That should be the top priority. It's prevention.

Emphasizing hand washing as more important than "stop touching your face" is implicitly telling people "It's okay to expose yourself. Just use soap afterwards and everything will be okay."

No, it won't. You need to stop touching your face. You need to stop licking your fingers to separate grocery bags.

On top of that, you should also wash hands frequently. But washing hands frequently isn't enough in the current culture where people are oblivious about the things they touch.

When I ask cashiers "Please don't do that" or "Please use hand sanitizer now that you have licked your fingers" they sometimes tell me they didn't do what I just watched them do seconds ago. They do it so habitually, they aren't even consciously aware of it anymore.

In some cases, they get belligerent with me. How dare I ask them to practice germ control! How rude!

Yes, this was mostly before the pandemic. I've been trying to protect myself from infection for a lot of years. It's largely irrelevant to my point.

My son told me he saw two people hugging in the parking lot of the grocery store and one of them confusedly asked "Aren't we supposed to not hug?" and the other, an older person, dismissed that with "We aren't supposed to hug strangers!"

Even with their lives on the line, people are failing to get the memo that you can't run around touching everyone and everything. This needs to somehow stop and I'm appalled that the WHO is part of the problem here in that they are emphasizing hand washing as the top priority rather than emphasizing "Keep your hands clean to begin with by not touching every damn thing, especially not your face."

And I don't know if the WHO is that stupid and honest to god doesn't realize that not touching stuff is the more important thing or if they have studies and yadda and they believe that it is a lost cause to tell people "No, really, stop touching stuff!!!" and hand washing will get more compliance, so they emphasize that.

But they have their priorities backwards. We can get this under control, but we have to practice germ control and the messaging we are getting is insufficient.
Yes, due to radon gas from the ground which is really a big problem in Scandinavia. Just making sure nobody thinks a big part of the accumulated dose when living here is due to Chernobyl.
I absolutely love Fish, but it's worth warning anyone who's taking a first look and excited to try it, that some syntax differences from more familiar shells like Bash may cause frustration, both in terms of muscle memory and anytime you need to copypasta. It hasn't been enough of a problem for me to switch back (or to ZSH), the benefits far outweigh the frustration, but I do think it's worth a small warning.
20 year old article? still fantastic content. wow.
Make testing of websites easier during development for agile teams
I'm creating a service that will allow teams that are developing web applications and websites to better collaborate by making versions of the application available for others to test without making it live for customers or spending time replicating the production environment.

You simply add a configuration file to your codebase, connect your code repository and on the next time you create a pull request, a new staging deployment will be created. A URL to that staging deployment will be shared with you and your team via email, your Slack channel, and/or agile project management tool such as Pivotal Tracker. I am hoping this kind of solution could help more companies be more agile.

Please take a look and let know what you think. If you feel like you could benefit from something like this please reach out as I am interested to know what problems you experience and how I can help.

https://www.valist.dev/
That must be the richest accountant in the world.
JQuery 3.5.0 Released Security Fix
If I disable Bluetooth I don't expect these features to be working...
NREL Six-Junction Solar Cell Sets Two World Records for Efficiency
> stink of design-by-committee

Design-by-programmer is a more accurate phrase here.
'That's the Way the World Goes 'Round' (2016) [video]
That's the point. For the purposes of HN threads, there's no difference.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22445850
Modeling Your Stock Portfolio Performance with Python
I would bet on it performing better too, since Webpack/Babel/ESLint/TSC/Terser/Prettier all have to parse/process/pretty-print the code, using Javascript as the intermediate representation between each tool. That's very wasteful.

With a unified tool you can use a single AST. Or even better: an intermediate representation. You only need to parse and pretty-print once.
Flagged for totally misleading headline!

36% of severely hospitalized patients in a small study of 234.

A small number and in line with other illnesses that lead to pneumonia and ventilation. Secondary encephalitis is not unique to Covid-19.
A French 64-year-old ejected himself from a fighter jet in midair – CNN Travel
That is nice if it's doing that. I setup a shortcut so that I can fully turn off bluetooth when I leave the house, but it's a bit flaky: sometimes it works, sometimes it fails for unknown reasons and I end up having to go into settings. If this mitigation is sufficient I'll switch back to the control center toggle.
>Also interesting is that they don't see race as a factor. Other reports seem to indicate that African Americans are doing significantly worse.

We are quickly discovering through this pandemic that a sizable proportion of the population is prioritizing political correctness over human life. The risk tree doesn't even ask about race beyond establishing whether the patient is white or not.

As we tiptoe around the bush, black populations are some 5x overrepresented among covid deaths in multiple unsurprising communities: Detroit and NYC come to mind. Apparently we'd rather see these people die than admit that there is a consistent cultural issue in US ghettos where people are far less likely to listen to authority (and quarantine) and far less more to have multiple comorbidities (obesity, diabetes, smoking).
This is easily one of my favorite monthly services I subscribe to. I will say that a good reason why I believe it has been so successful, 1 best its a good idea, but 2 because your brother has responded to all of my questions and issues immediately and gracefully. That is the sign of a business that cares.
Listening to capitalists, one would think that wages would just increase and safety would increase to equilibrate the labor supply. It's interesting that doesn't happen, but instead these major retail companies are taking out huge ad buys to performatively praise their workers in front of third parties.
every news outlet is doing that. every political leader (garcetti in LA particularly) is doing that. it foments fear and hysteria. it's infuriating.

news sites post infection/death numbers for covid front and center, conveniently ignoring the 98-99% of non-covid deaths that are just as tragic and heartbreaking. they did that during 9/11 and for every mass shooting since. it's sickening.
How is this article fear-mongering? And how are they "straining to wring every last drop out of COVID"?

To me, these seem like natural articles to write in the middle of a pandemic, and their coverage has also seemed appropriate to being in the middle of a pandemic.
Isbgpsafeyet.com
Mind blowing as this is, I feel the video would be much improved if it gave some visibility to the birth/death transition in the second order cells while still zoomed in enough to see a bit more of the workings of the first order elements.
Google pay works on many different devices, something apple and garmin don't need at the same scale. I have google pay on a couple different laptops, phones, and tablets and wouldn't want to re-enter details 10 times.
Tools with Export to Curl Option
That chart does not look reassuring. The infections in or related to dorms only showed up at the start of April, presumably in part because they started mass-testing those workers around then. The number of non-imported cases has been going up exponentially for much longer than that. Also, they're likely to have a much higher detection rate for those workers than everyone else right now given that's where testing attention is focused, so they probably make up a much lower proportion of actual infections than the figures suggest.
I'm a long time user of quicksilver. Open source. Long time loyal users swear by its ux for efficiency. Development has slowed down recently, but it still runs great for me.

https://qsapp.com/index.php
https://github.com/cloudflare/isbgpsafeyet.com
A tangent, but Vectornator is completely mystifying to me. Not the application itself, which is a very accessible vector illustration tool, but the company. It’s a Berlin-based startup with $5 million in venture funding, and they don’t have any kind of externally-visible business model for their free, no-IAP apps for MacOS and iOS.

(Further muddying the waters is a recent update to the iOS app that adds achievement badges. I don’t know what kind of product roadmap for a creative tool ends up prioritizing that, but that’s where they are.)
Edison Chen Photo Scandal
BT Whole Home WiFi AC2600 Review
I read your story on the history of Gumroad and it's inspiring, and a great service!
If $1 = 100 Homeland units through Bitcoin but only 75 Homeland units through currency conversion. Why don't you move 1000 dollars over and bring back $1333.33 and repeat?
I doubt mail volume is driven by hand written letters at any point.
> Caol has obvious issues but the failure modes aren't catastrophic.

If we don't recognize global warming as a catastrophic failure mode then people are going to disagree on a fundamental level with no space for agreement or understanding of the other persons view.

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is pretty large. Add a few order of magnitude and you get the desert that global warming is causing to grow. It would take quite a few nuclear accident to cause global starvation, but with global warming we are on track for just that future.
As a resident in Japan, I was thinking about putting online a small website to sell some items (not candies) to Europe and US residents, however a friend warns me it would not be as easy as I think.

Could you give me some info about how you started? Especially about the legal and taxes aspect. More precisely, can I start without a company? If a company is needed, 個人事業主 or 合同会社? Is this even compatible with student visa? The tech aspect in not a problem, but starting the business side seems super tricky.
On its face, this is probably true. But when the process is showing exponential growth, and quality data (i.e., deaths) is lagging by weeks, it's not unreasonable to be very conservative in one's risk estimate.

Once the exponential phase has clearly passed, I'm guessing we'll start treating this more like traffic fatalities. As in, Yeah, tens of thousands die each year, and we could easily cut this in half, but why bother?
been there many times. Now only visit in winters. The solution is really simple - for a fixed supply (e.g park) the prices should just go up enough to lessen the demand
Show HN: Wiremock, async HTTP mocking to test Rust applications
YES, please correct the title!

Per an AP article[1] on the confusion surrounding this issue:

> Companies are supposed to state that their tests have not been FDA-approved and cannot rule out whether someone is currently infected.

I see no language like that in the article. But lots of quotes implying efficacy of the test:

> we no longer have to put health care professionals at risk for infection

> we can preserve precious personal protective equipment

> we can significantly increase the number of people tested each and every day

Sadly, I think we are about to see more of this, as companies jump at the chance to get some PR and stock price bump.

[1] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/12/fears-wild-west-covid...
Roughly 1/3 covid tests are falsely negative[1]. I'm not sure any have been cleared/approved by the FDA yet, but some are authorized for emergency use due to the circumstances.

"Testing was performed using the cobas(R) SARS-CoV-2 test. This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by LabCorp Laboratories. This test has not been FDA cleared or approved. This test has been authorized by FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). This test is only authorized for the duration of time the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of the emergency use of in vitro diagnostic tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 infection under section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the authorization is terminated or revoked sooner."

[1] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/questions-about-accuracy-of-cor...
I know this is tangential, but I would love for someone to talk about writing a more visual type of book, full of images, tables and charts for the business world.

A table like the one in the first screenshot of this post works well because the author is not repeatedly iterating on it, there's very little text and information flows top-to-bottom very neatly. That's great, but it's also extremely basic.

Take a look at something like https://www.jpmorgan.com/jpmpdf/1320605428574.pdf and imagine writing that. How do you lay things out on a page? How do you make content fit a layout? There's no grid.

The reality is people use PowerPoint to do that, but PowerPoint is a slide authoring tool that assumes you have a few bullets, maybe one or two images per slide.

Dense presentations make its shortcomings obvious and quite painful.

It boggles the mind that with all of the resources dumped into CSS/JS and web development in general, nobody has leveraged that experience to build an authoring tool that's 21st-century ready, with version control, with a clear separation but nonetheless linked relationship of raw data, actual content output and formatting and final publishing into PDF.

What am I missing?

EDIT: one more example for good measure https://www.jefferies.com/CMSFiles/Jefferies.com/files/W%201...
>Make sure your todo system is a keybind away at all times

This point here I think is incredibly useful in general. When accessing your full to-do list feels like its own todo, you're gonna have a bad time
I run yabai just fine with SIP disabled.

You only need to disable SIP if you want features that require it like window opacity/stickyness/...
Hong Kong and plenty of other cities have had the same exposure to the virus as NYC but have handled it better. There are plenty of places that are much nicer to live and have a medium density but are much more friendly to other ways of getting around than cars. The only options for getting around are not public transport or a car. Biking, electric scooters, and so many more.
This has been a great service for our family to keep in touch with folks who aren't tech savvy. Thank you!
Ask HN: Signed options letter was for wrong % of ownership
I own 10% of the company I helped co-found. After a round of funding last year, I was given and signed an options letter to adjust my number of options to maintain my 10% equity. However, unbeknownst to me or our CEO, the number of options in the letter was ~100 more than what accounted for to maintain the 10%. These options have a strike price of $0.25.

Our accounting team set up our options in Carta and I noticed there was a different number vs my signed options letter.

We've just gone through another round of funding and so new options are being granted but the new strike price is set at $0.7. After I raised this problem with the CEO, they have suggested 2 different ways to fix this:

1. They own the screw up since the letter is the legal agreement that I'm owed the ~100 options at $0.25. They will have to get board approval for this and they seem a little reluctant about this. If they do this, I'll get less options at $0.7 in the current round to make sure it stays at 10%. I'm also a little worried that they'll hold this dumb mistake against me since they were really trying to downplay this.

2. They re-issue the letter with the fixed number and strike price of $0.25. I get the ~100 options at the current round's strike price of $0.7.

Doing the math, it's only about $45 difference in strike price:

- Old: ~100 * 0.25 = $25
- New: ~100 * 0.7 = $70
- Difference: $45

Obviously, I was only ever supposed to own 10% equity, so in principal I'm OK with option #2.

Is there a reason I shouldn't go with option #2 to make my CEO's life a little easier? Or, there something major that I'm missing about this situation?
I think this line of reasoning oversimplifies what those of us that want to see economic impacts addressed (at least some portion of us) really are expecting.

I have been cautiously supportive of the lock downs, but I'm greatly concerned that policy makers are simply not playing the long game. I hear far too many speeches in the "think of the children" category of emotional appeals, talk of sacrifice, and very little else other than wait it out. Really? I want to hear the plan about ramping up testing so we can actual get a sense of the real level of danger of the disease. I want to understand how that testing can inform who can go back to work and under what conditions. I want to hear the plans related to scaling up how we deal with the sick. Or, I want a clear expression of why locking down and just waiting it out doesn't lead to civil breakdown.

But indefinite lock-downs are not a plan. They aren't insightful nor are the particularly clever, though they are more clever than just ignoring the situation. That we needed to buy time I get. I am increasingly thinking that the time we're buying is being squandered by policy makers that simply aren't up to the task.

I found the study you linked interesting, though I wish it discussed more the differences in what they called NPI (non-pharma interventions) between then and now. Also, I'm not sure how far the economic comparisons hold; we have much longer and substantially more integrated supply chains than we did back then. Information flows are also significantly faster now and this allows for much less inventory keeping (think just in time manufacture), so I would expect higher resiliency in some sense to disruptions in the past than we have today. I'm armchair quarterbacking this a bit, I work with companies that make or distribute stuff so I can make some educated guesses, so I'm less convinced how far the previous pandemic can inform our economic actions for the current one.
Sure they committed these crimes, but those are the reasons why ZFS is better than the alternatives.
USPS volume is said to be down in the US, not total residential mail & shipping volume.
Wait, how did you arrive at that conclusion? All nuclear accidents so far have resulted in very low doses to the average individual. Of course this doesn't apply to plant workers in the direct vicinity of e.g. the Chernobyl accident, but since those are very few compared to the population of a country, the number of estimated cancer cases should go down.
The history of FreeHand is actually quite interesting [1]. Adobe acquired it in 1994 when they bought Aldus. The FTC then ordered the product to be returned to Altsys which was subsequently acquired by Macromedia in 1995. Macromedia developed it for a number of years before being acquired by Adobe in 2005. Finally, Adobe had successfully gained control of FreeHand whereby they immediately killed it.

One wonders why the FTC did not block Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia or at least require FreeHand to be spun off into a separate company. The market has really suffered since Adobe became dominant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FreeHand
Some people believe the populace should have their heads in the sand and that any information about the pandemic is "fear mongering".
I'm not saying precisely that (I don't think the UX is impossible to solve; merely hard), but you've just given the kind of argument a product manager would give on prioritizing feature sets for a commercial application: by the logic you've laid out, centralized key management provided by the service provider likely attracts more users and is the feature "we" should implement first.

... which is why we see a lot more people using Zoom than using something else, and we see few solutions available that offer any client-side e2e encryption support at all (and if they offer it, it's almost always in addition to their server-managed key options).
Easy english could be a reasonable excuse if the precise terminology would be indecipherable to laypersons, but I don't see that here. "FDA grants emergency use authorization [...]" would give the exactly same diffuse "they allowed something on some level" information to people like me who are unaware of the specifics, but without ruining it for those in the know.
I run an aftermarket board game accessory business.

https://burgertokens.com/

Last year, I shipped nearly 4000 packages. My customers love our products, and most of our growth comes from word of mouth.
World’s oldest yarn hints that Neanderthals had basic math skills
Yeah... for a company that want to be a service company in the future, apple sure is still a pain in the ass to deal outside the ecosystem.
Oh fun I haven't heard of this book - worth a read?
This is nice, but I bet you the moment SIP is lifted Yosemite is going to be absolutely flooded with people and will receive an all-time high level of visitors. Enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasts, animals.