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SBA loans are backed by personal gaurantees. In other words, the business owner is on the hook if the business goes bankrupt.
Yep. The fact that XHTML lost to HTML is all the proof I ever needed of this. XHTML wasn't perfect, but it sure as hell was easier to process than HTML. I guess this is the new Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: Embrace, Expand, Monopolize. Basically make it too complex for anyone to compete.

An example would be Chrome: why would anyone choose to run the All-Seeing Eye edition from Google when it's F/LOSS and de-Googled alternatives exist? Because modifying it is complex and expensive, testing it is complex and expensive, keeping up with changes is complex and expensive (Microsoft basically owned the desktop because of introducing changes so fast the desktop application competition was always spending a significant amount of their budget just supporting the latest change), distributing modified versions quickly and reliably is expensive and complex, getting the community to agree on which anti-features to remove is impossible, and marketing it to end users is expensive. Thus we end up with obviously user hostile open source software, which would be impossible with simpler software.
Just switched from Heroku in just a few clicks and now I am running in 5 regions with auto-scaling for free :)
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Yesterday or the day before IIRC a fellow "WilsonPaige",
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wilsonpaige
posted much earlier on Hacker News and, right in front of us, deduced that the combinationn of chloroquin + zinc lozenges would stop the covid-19 virus dead in its tracks. He announced it as such.

In return, ycombinator moderators hellbanned him and deleted some of his posts.

Now it seems WilsonPaige was right and everybody who contradicted him are, at the least, looking foolish and simply wrong.
It seems to me the author would only be satisfied with retrospective population serology tests (which determine if individuals in the population have ever been infected with SARS-CoV-2), as opposed to RT-PCR, which gives you a single time point as to whether the individual in question currently has viral RNA in their respiratory track. Serology tests seem like they take longer to develop, and population studies take even longer (at least, I haven’t seen those kinds of studies coming out of China yet, correct me if I’m wrong). So it sounds like the author wants a wait-and-see approach, which seems like it turned out horribly for Italy. So I’m not buying his argument yet. Are there any flaws in my thinking?
LOL minus the diamond princess or the obvious one from like the woman from Iran? people were falling thru the cracks like candy, i happen to know 1 or 2 people that were confused they weren't even screened at the border.

i suggest you do more than just take any announcement from the WH at face value, especially when there are numerous sources saying otherwise.
Anyone know what other countries have done in terms of economic stimulus?
With that money, a bank checking account would make you a millionaire in months.
Using the same methodology here, I get 3.7°C or 38.7°F.
The S&P 500 has a market capitalization of around $25T, compared to Euronext and the London Stock Exchange which are each less than $5T.
I disagree for the following reason: Unless we get terribly lucky we are going to have a prolonged period (6-18 months) of social distancing and travel restrictions. There's no fast rebound from that so not a big win even for those of us holding enough cash to buy the bargains (real estate etc).
Techstop and CorpEng have been absolutely amazing through this situation -- I wish them them the best.
How is that useful?

If they are getting much less than one applicant per job it's clear they are doing something wrong.

Jobs get spam applications and it might be that anything from
50-90% don't get a second glance; if you are a fit for the job that won't be you, your odds will be much higher.
Why tho? Why not just use a laser pointer yourself? This literally takes minutes, unlike this project which probably took days. And it's much faster once you get it up and running.
By saying the brand itself has value, aren't you saying that if the owner gets into debt and has to sell it off to someone else it'll be just as good? That wouldn't give you pause?

In many cases small businesses derive most of their quality from the actual owner. They don't respond well to drop-in replacements of key staff members and owners.
Why is that a dog-whistle? The virus did in fact originate in Wuhan. And I think there is some value in factually pointing that out, and not letting the government of China create some it-was-some-US-soldiers fairy tale.

I agree with you that this needs to not become any kind of a racial thing against Chinese people. But I'm going to stick with the facts, especially when someone is trying to paint a counter-factual lie of a narrative.
Science or Science Fiction magazines?
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More on this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-pauses-chrome-and-chrom...

Apparently they released some blog posts yesterday but changed their mind
Please do not take post political, nationalistic, or ideological flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do those things, and you've done them repeatedly lately. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not the loan that's the issue, it's the loan terms.

If the terms are zero or near-zero interest for say 5 years then the effects to the business's bottom line would be mute.

If the loan is like some loanshark credit card company charging 27% compound with a three month payback, then yeah, bankruptcy is your friend.

Remember, countries take out huge loans to pay for wars that are paid back over generations, the UK just finished paying back it's loan for WW2 just recently.

These are the kind of loans people/businesses need.
> I don't have a better solution though

Don't host in such a way that you're paying for traffic... Hetzner, OVH and Packet all have dedicated servers where you don't pay for the traffic, inbound or outbound.

Edit: judging by other comments here, it might seem like US zone of Fly.io is in fact hosted in Packet so they are probably themselves not paying for the traffic. Maybe they are using Hetzner for the EU zone (or OVH for that matter).
Stanford ramps up coronavirus testing to help other hospitals
Rationalizing your failure is just good marketing.
I have a real problem with studing
I used to be a good student, but after working for 5 years I didn't find much use for what I have studied. I still love CS very much, but something feels wrong, I don't have a peaceful mind for studying as I used to, I can't see any hopeful outcome or even meaning from studying again. I feel like the world is messing with me, making me angry and scared at the same time. Sorry to bother. [Excuse my English, I am not a native English speaker]
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Light Flow on Android, a notification manager app, has this. "Alert Throttling". Max of one notification every X seconds/minutes.

I wish Slack had this, too.
Ok. That's been the opposite experience of me. I got rid of the Surface Pro because it's a kludge. No matter how long Microsoft worked on touch/pen support to slap onto Windows, it still fails in being a good environment, at least for me. Plus, at the time, the battery life was abysmal. I'm not sure if they ever got better at that with the newer models. AND, no matter how much they played up that fricken kickstand, it was terrible in trying to use it on my lap. But then again, the iPad was the same.

Enter the iPad, which was built from the ground up as a touch interface. but now it looks like they're coming at it from a different directly....a touch interface incorporating mouse/touchpad support.

But, I'm for people using what they want to use. My use/need isn't the same.
Hiring remote workers at scale is super complex if you want to comply with local laws (and you must).
Hiring contractors is easy but if your contractor should be indeed classified as an employee you will be in trouble one day or the other.
You have to set up a legal entity in that country/state, provide workers' comp, health benefits, unemployment, comply with various laws on leave, vacation, medical, etc...
This is quickly a nightmare and it is why true good remote companies hire only in handful of states/countries.
One has to wonder about the carbon footprint of millions of developers running these monstrous IDEs.
Which is also what has happened in large swathes of the animation industry (though, importantly, not Pixar).
Being a programmer will make me a better doctor
> If society were to collapse I don’t think anyone would be hoarding gold or silver

But people have hoarded gold and silver to successfully preserve value over the collapse of countless societies and civilisations for many thousands of years.

Why do you think our society and the one following it would be any different?

> I find owning large amounts of gold to be a silly proposition

I literally can't think of any more reliable, safe, enduring preserve of value across all of our existence.

If you dig up one of their hoards in a farmers' field today the value of the savings of a Roman from two thousand years ago are preserved to this day.

Can hardly describe it as silly?
As a distributed systems guy I'm partial to Nancy Lynch. But that's distributed systems, a field which has already had awards.

Search engines getting a couple of awards seemed like a no-brainer.
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I have absolutely no problem with any of this but I am wondering about those who foam at the mouth against "socialism" and if they realize that is exactly what this is. You can call it anything you want to feel better "bailout" etc. but it's 100% socialism

I wonder if the hotel industry is also going to get only loans or instead unfettered cash with no need to repay, let's see how that one works with double standards.
Toilet paper? Even if one believes the president to be incompetent, that's not news. (The details of how that incompetence plays out today may be...) But toilet paper, last week, was making an actual difference in actual peoples' lives, right then, in a way that was new.
Separate DB user per application user makes connection pooling difficult. And PostgreSQL has more costly connections
It's just a purely personal preference thing. :)
With the amount of people who believes vaccines cause autism, pardon me for being pessimistic..

but don't confound my pessimism with giving up, I sincerely hope we'll gain the upper hand, but it will require a lot of work to get there.
It's a significantly worse conductor than gold.
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> After a little nudge the has USA jumped on board with other developed countries

We've had to warn you many times not to post nationalistic or ideological flamebait to HN, including just the other day. Really, would you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Advice: stay where you are now in the cushy job
DuckDuckGo is a great product and it's great you're doing well, but apparently I'm conditioned now to feel sick after looking at exponential graphs.
Similar notions from a few years ago:

https://speakerdeck.com/akosma/cocoa-is-the-new-carbon-the-f...

https://smallduck.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/the-new-carbon/
Which VPN providers offer WireGuard today?
The USA only has two hospital ships, it's good to have but it's not going to make a big difference outside of two cities.
Hotel industry for example.
I am running those at native 4K resolution. Frankly I do not get a point of buying 4K monitor to run it at lower resolution
No lawyer worth his salt will take a wrongful termination case without the prospect of being awarded punitive damages and that is a very high bar to clear.
I don't really disagree with you! I didn't go into this blind, however. I'm on the autistic spectrum and had, perhaps unsurprisingly, meticulously researched almost every factor I could before going ahead, including the illogical sounding (to the layman) statistical issues regarding false positives and negatives.

There are few people to whom I would directly recommend similar testing, but I had medical motivations to seek it (it wasn't solely curiosity - but this is a topic for another venue) and felt psychologically and educationally equipped (whether or not this was truly the case) to handle any dilemmas that would arise.

All that aside, being able to see your aorta and circle of Willis is really cool, and being able to see my heart beating from the inside out even cooler :-)
Eh, good for hemorrhoids I suppose.
No, (6) is a direct attempt to distract from the Chinese government's own screw-ups and defuse the outrage it caused within their own population. It was originally aimed at their domestic audience and appeared in the Chinese-language state press and social media before they started spreading the same conspiracy theory in the West.
Those are popular science magazines. They had both scientific content and some science fiction too.
> A lot of open listings, but curiously picky requirements for who would be considered for a role. I definitely got the impression that companies were just idly trawling for fresh meat, without seriously pursuing any senior talent

This has been my observation for the last decade or so. A lot of companies fishing but not many actual worms on the hooks. I expect it to get even worse now that we're back in a bear market.
what should we be doing instead?

we can’t just magic wand our way to a cure/vaccine, so i’m genuinely curious what else we can do...
I use one in Toronto. Cold in winter.
Fixed! Thanks for the heads up :)
I've given up writing on the iPad pro, because you can't really hold it on your knees with a keyboard and because the screen is not well positioned (back pains).

This new keyboard thing is amazing. Really expensive but I think I might take the bullet on this one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22617087
should expect 1/5th news atleast then.

in australia, media is now not even carrying market news on main headlines. yesterday I had to search for latest in market pages which was infested with 1-2 day old news.

Only booming news reported I guess.
Great to hear others getting same mileage as me - my late 2012 Air bought in March 2013 still going strong with only a battery replacement done so far. 4Gb RAM, 128 Gb SSD. Used daily for browsing, watching videos online, building IOT software, playing with unikernels. The only time it hasnt performed was when used last year as a work machine while waiting for macbook to arrive - and that was down to the collection of corporate stuff required. Once got new work machine, i removed all the work stuff, and the Air went back to being the solid daily hack it has always been. In the same time my friends with other laptops have had several cycles.
At that point why not just get an actual laptop - MacBook air for $1k ?
The virus also originated from bats - and yet I don't see folks going around calling it the bat flu. The Chinese government absolutely mishandled this flu and the fact that they tried to suppress it will need to be addressed in the future - but calling it the "wuhan flu" and "chinese flu" appears to have begun by a concerted effort to deflect attention from the administration's mishandling.

Please don't propagate this term, I understand your feelings but this term was absolutely intended to divide and using it can cause harm to Asian Americans.
Yes. What kind of work do you do that prevents you from taking the MBP home?
> Instead of seeing op-eds with "stop raiding stores for toilet paper," all we saw (and still see) is "this president is incompetent."

I've seen a LOT of stories about the problems of hoarding, pleas to stop hoarding, etc...

I just assume bad cases of confirmation virus when I see claims like this, now.
Yeah, the fixed cost of a VM context is on the order of kilobytes in the host kernel, megabytes in the guest kernel. And with VM balloon paging a guest VM acts much like a regular process in terms of memory usage. It's not VM usage that hogs memory, it's the applications, regardless of VMs.
> The standard definition of inflation is a standard for a good reason: it's what effects consumers!

No, what affects consumers is how consumer prices have changed relative to wages. The CPI doesn't tell you that, or really anything else of value. Hypothetically, let's say the CPI indicates that prices are double what they were ten years ago. Is the median consumer better or worse off? Who knows! Maybe wages are the same as they were ten years ago, and everything takes twice as much work to acquire. Maybe wages have tripled in that time and goods seem cheap. Without a fixed money supply, all it really tells you is that someone set a CPI target that resulted in doubling the prices over ten years. In other words, a tautology. Which is a shame, really, since the fluctuations in general price levels would otherwise tell us useful things about how much investment is needed and what the minimum return should be for a venture to be considered worthwhile.
Yes. Hendra Virus was acquired by horses grazing under trees that flying foxes hang out in. That seems nothing like a wet market.
Move in and don’t pay anymore rent.
Prices increase when there is more demand for things than there is supply. If the economy collapses by 10%, then it’s likely that people will be offering deals on products to stimulate demand. That means prices going down, not up.
FWIW, I love CloudRun and when I went to try and deploy Docker images in different places to see how we stacked up, it was the best of the big cloud offerings. I'm not sure any AWS PMs have ever even used Fargate ...
I appreciate the information! Really enjoy the way you and your team have laid out your company information and resources in the links above.
Fly.io is the service I’ve been most excited to see make headway in a long time.

Pairing this with a global sql (cough cockroach cough*) is literally the app platform I’ve been dreaming about.

I would like to see more documentation around push based architectures. That is I want to build a system where a process pushes to the Redis in fly but is not running itself in fly. Basically something that may be unrouteable for pulls.

In any case congrats fly team!
I think there's reason for optimism. Myself and a few former colleagues, all at different companies now, are all seeing a big uptick in usage because their product is being used more as the world goes remote. That will take some time to translate to new job openings and of course time for folks to actually get through the pipeline. Personally I've started lobbying my company to start hiring sooner than later. We have the demand and I know a lot of great engineers are in your position or will be soon.
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Thank you. No this is not an unpopular opinion. yes, global depression.
Veteran of dot com crash here. You are spot on. I can't believe that some folks still don't realize what is happening.
You need to include number of infections, because 1% of a very large number will overwhelm healthcare systems.
It's more likely that the CCP is responding to a more general allegation of Coronavirus-related racism against Chinese people (e.g. stereotypes about Chinese people as a race and/or culture being universally unsanitary) than specifically to the use of "Wuhan virus" (which is accurate) or "Kung Flu" (which is little more than a silly pun, though I'm partial to "Fluhan" myself).
Right, I think that makes sense.
Massive drop in demand leads to a massive drop in pricing
Seconding this; you don't need to pimp yourself out with a showcase, website, or linkedin (although linkedin does help you connect with a lot of recruiters and many of them will have contracts that are probably suitable).

Until a month ago, there was plenty of work for everyone. We will see what happens now, but don't waste time building a fancy website; go to some meetups (oh wait.. maybe don't) or speak with some recruiters and I'm sure the snowball will start to form :)
No, the worst case scenario is not medical system to help the people who become seriously ill, which 20%, according to WHO and multiple other authorities and statistics.
This is ridiculous. Oriental Review and Geopolitica are niche blogs with a very small reach. We are not talking about Moon of Alabama or Unz Review size here, they are really small.

How is the fact that they will post articles with all sorts of differing and not very well thought of opinions about the corona virus any indication that a Russian government campaign is going on?

You go all "there you go buddy" like you are Jordan Peterson and I'm Cathy Newman, but all there is in that article is hot air. They have a crapton of links to their own pages, but what else is there besides a couple of barflies blogs? They even talk about Dugin! Dugin!! All that is missing is a reference to Potemkin villages.
I had the worst cold around christmas and it really does make me wonder.

Fever, body aches for a couple days. Felt like I was going to cough up a lung.

but no real sneezing or congestion.
"Mr. Zhao’s remarks were spread on China’s most prominent social media platform, Weibo, under a hashtag: #ZhaoLijianPostedFiveTweetsinaRowQuestioningAmerica. By late afternoon on Friday, that hashtag had been viewed more than 160 million times, along with screenshots of the original Twitter posts."
Yeah I think that makes sense. A lot of wet seafood market in South East Asia doesn't have that luxury so it is really just fresh catch from the sea.
Tesla continues operations despite a dwindling workforce and being told not to
I agree. I'm an a 2012 15" MBPr, and and I can see myself using this laptop for a long time still.
Thanks, I've applied. Didn't know Sourcegraph is a remote company. BTW, I've used it on one of my projects before and it was really easy to set up and proved great for onboarding new developers, so thanks for developing it :)
i think this is a you problem. after moving to japan, i've been using bidet exclusively and it's much much cleaner.
Don't forget we have massive campaigns to immunise against flu.
> and more importantly, to turn around and look at where I'd just been so I could recall it on the way back because it's a completely different view.

This is thing I always forget. I have a pretty good sense of direction and spatial memory and knowing where I am and where I'm supposed to be going.

But I realized that if there's a road I'm often driving on back and forth, mentally, for me, the two directions might as well be two completely different roads. If I'm going in one direction, I have a really hard time knowing where I would be if I would turn around in the middle of it. I can't "connect" my two mental maps of going in each direction.

...compared to if it's a road I would walk along, because I turn around more often, look around more often, and then my mental map isn't two disconnected "tunnels", but a whole area.
So you're self taught, now what?
There is no comparison to Mad Men. MM was good all the way to the final season, with both professional view of advertising world and personal growth of characters. Was perfect balance. HaCF only had that in 1st season, in rest it lost its balance becoming a soap opera, which I can't stand.
Mark Cuban says bailed out companies should never be allowed to buy back stocks
Have been building a similar project in the past few months called Valar (https://valar.dev, it uses gVisor instead of Firecracker and is still in private beta), but I prioritized university studies so it took too much of my time to actually release it publicly. Great to see a similar product being released, really looking forward to test it. Best of luck to you!
What's a better alternative? Although loans are a bad solution for the type of restaurant you described, they are great solutions for small businesses that have predictable profits, of which there are many.
Just don't. They will lie about financials by giving empty promises.