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Save Your Local Restaurants and Small Businesses – Show Them the SBA Advance
If you love your local restaurants and small businesses (or are an owner), if you could pass this on to them (and potentially even translate it for them if English isn't the best language), it would be greatly appreciated!

http://covidadvance.com (set up a simple redirect so people can remember it easier)

I really, really don't want to lose the amazing restaurants and other small businesses that make living in San Francisco as amazing as it is -- and after visiting a few owners today, I found that the majority of them weren't aware they could be applying for SBA loans, and more specifically, for the EIDL "advance", which is effectively a $10,000 grant (the SBA calls it an "advance", albeit it is completely forgiven) for them to use towards operating expenses, even if they don't qualify for the actual EIDL loan or don't end up taking it (part of the CARES act that was signed into law last Friday as stimulus for the COVID-19 crisis). If they were aware they could get it, they weren't able to fill out the form because the form had a ton of quirks that made it too difficult for them to handle.

After they fill out the form and submit it, they'll likely have the $10,000 deposited in their account within just a few days, based on what the SBA is stating on their site.

I hope this information and video helps a number of small businesses -- please do share if you can with those whom this may help to fill out the application!
Completely agree about tech signalling - and it is probably the only useful way to sift CVs. I certainly used Python as that signal from 90s through to 2008 ish.

please link to your old fashion writing - if they are as good as this Inwoukd love to read some.
Apparently a lot of it is just generated templates coming from commercial SDKs. Adding to that, a car is a set of distinct embedded systems interacting in a sort of a ladder network topology rather than a vertebrate analog like multi-core PCs, so a lot of code in a car would be redundant or has little footprint restrictions.
A hydraulic press could be useful here, I think.
I won't use web apps unless there is no other choice.

I don't want my data in the cloud, I don't want perpetual subscriptions even if my usage dwindles. I don't want big price increases when the provider is bought out and I'm locked in. I want a rich interface which matches the platform. I want decent performance. I want to work offline. I don't want third parties to have access to and sell my data.
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Americans are getting what they voted for. Politicians that run on identity politics and obscure meaningful issues with whatever popular social issue people stick to as single issue voters. American voting patterns are not going to change until the current younger generation becomes the majority.
I have a few theories on this:

- Lack of macOS staffing meaning that it's very much in maintenance mode (it was "make sandboxing work" in 2013 and "make dark mode work" recently), which parallels general pushes from Apple on iOS and iPadOS.

- Lack of need for new features: I think Omni could have pivoted towards Sketch/Figma style "export to mobile" (which would have actually probably meshed really well with the rest of the mobile app dev business, since we did mocks in OmniGraffle), but I'm curious what else Graffle really needs to be useful. I think historically there has been enough net new customers to not need to provide all that much upgrade incentive.

- In 2013 the codebase was a beast, and this was like v4 or v5... I can only imagine adding major new features to it.
Sure, I guess you can also do that. I'd still advise to not go out and "fix" everything the minute you boot up OS X. It's worth learning how and why it works before you hack it.
Another consideration is vibration; trying to press a virtual button while in a high turbulence situation can be non-trivial, for example.

Critical functions will (hopefully) always remain on tactile controls for these and other reasons.
To calculate the ROI of YC investments, we could find the terms of the YC investments (x for y%, preference) and find the exit rate (what % of companies exit).

We could search for 'ROI of ycombinator investments' and find valuation numbers from a number of years ago.

From the first page of search results, we'd then learn about "return on capital" and how the standard YC seed terms have changed over the years.

Return on capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_capital

From the See also section of this Wikipedia page, we might discover "Cash flow return on investment" and "Rate of return on a portfolio"

From the "rate of return" Wikipedia page, we might learn that "The return on investment (ROI) is return per dollar invested. It is a measure of investment performance, as opposed to size (c.f. return on equity, return on assets, return on capital employed)." and that "The annualized return of an investment depends on whether or not the return, including interest and dividends, from one period is reinvested in the next period. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_return

From the YCombinator Wikipedia page, we might read that "The combined valuation of the top YC companies was over $155 billion as of October, 2019. [4]" and that "As of late 2019, Y Combinator had invested in >2,000 companies [37], most of which are for-profit. Non-profit organizations can also participate in the main YC program. [38]" and then read about "seed accelerators" and then "business incubators" in search of appropriate metrics for comparing VC performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

ROI is such a frou frou statistic anyway. What does that even mean, ROI? In any case, YC itself is not a public company, per se, AFAICT, so, it's not so easy as going to https://YCharts.com, entering the equity symbol, clicking on "Key Stats", and scrolling down to "Profitability" to review [Gross | EBITDA | Operating] [Profit] Margin.

The LTSE (Long-Term Stock Exchange) is where people who are in this for real are really doing it now.
> flipped it thousands of times

This raises a question: how many times do an average pilot actually flip a switch over their carrier?
Look at the upcoming TEMPEST fighter to see touch screen displays in full force.
> Currently, the company is working to get its mini-brains—which so far are approaching the processing power of a dragonfly brain—to play the old Atari arcade game Pong

I'm surprised that no-one has discussed whether these systems could develop emergent qualia, and experience pain. No joke. Are there any ethical frameworks around this kind of research?
yeah "It's not like they slavishly follow the who" is what I said too. Probably should not have deviated there too, should have done it for masks. 0 for 2. How many lives will that cost?
Don't forget that you are still paying for healthcare even if it's not called a tax. Part of the revenue a company makes needs to go towards paying for healthcare, which comes out of the pockets of investors, owners and employees, and customers need to pay higher prices to cover it. Maybe it doesn't go to the government, but at the end of the day it is effectively a tax, as you have no choice over whether you pay it or not.

In 2017 the US spent roughly twice per person on healthcare than France ($10,224 vs $4,902) [0], the next few months will show how effective that spending has been...

[0] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
I can tell you've never run a company.

You're likely to lose your best employees because they know what they are worth and are unlikely to live with a pay cut because working with you is no more special than working for someone else. Losing great employees is not where you want to save money. It's extremely expensive to find, hire, and train people, and once you lose them you also lose their domain knowledge within your company.

If you lose the engineer that built the product that makes you money, good luck modifying or fixing any issues with it in a short amount of time.

Layoffs are about survival, doing what you suggest is a sure fire way to kill your company.
My take is that their core expertise is in the Apple ecosystem (from the earliest days), and a pivot to web would require major hiring efforts (effectively fire most of the people and hire a bunch of web devs). That's not really the company culture as I knew it, and I think that most folks are probably happy to ride this one into the sunset than try to rebuild the entire business.
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Or segment your product so you can extract the most value out of your customers.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
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I think that is a very valid concern, but how could this ever be assessed
I'd pay extra for a 1999-style car. That year was near the peak for car design quality. Fancy cars hit the peak around 1995, and cheap ones hit the peak around 2010 or 2015.
> What does Zoom offer that the other three doesn't?

We switched to Zoom from Skype and Webex simply because it was cheaper.
Normally, if be tempted to say "not many, probably"

but

The median fatal case in Italy is an 81-year old with 2 comorbidities (typically two of: heart disease, COPD, diabetes, obesity).

An 81-year-old has a ~10% chance of dying in any given year, and an 81-year-old with serious underlying medical conditions is even likelier to die.

If you're an 81-year-old with serious underlying health issues, you have a material chance of death generally in a 2-month period (which the coronavirus has been there). On top of that, for those folks, every illness is a high-risk occurrence (even a simple cold).

The situation in Italy now is bad enough that there are definitely many COVID deaths that wouldn't have happened without COVID. But it is almost certainly the case that a meaningful number of these patients would have died in those two months anyway. (Roughly 2% of all 80+ population would have died in that time if the virus didn't exist; it seems very likely that that 2% would be disproportionately inclusive of those with serious underlying health issues -- which are the people most killed with COVID.
Because of robo calls I forward all my calls to a disabled voicemail box. My phone hasn't rung in over 2 years
The new inventions, innovations and gadgets dreamt up to fight coronavirus
> It's about at the level where you could make a good attempt to replicate it as a hobby in your (albeit well stocked) garage.

Already being done: https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g

Doesn’t hurt to join forces with another ‘well stocked garage‘ featured earlier on HN: https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g
Their USP is their integration into the platform.
Today Google stops funding climate change deniers
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The only ones earning money on gig works are the platforms.
...and it was horrible for projection, fading quickly even as late as K14. You were generally good with slide viewers (Kodachrome can be found in most scenic Viewmaster discs), but light bright enough for projection would kill Kodachromes in no time at all, so you'd generally dupe to an Ektachrome or to a cine print film using an internegative.
Yes but they are not being provided with adequate equipment the choices for doctors and nurses is quit treating patients or take a chance get infected and die or bring their own equipment to protect themselves.
HN's front page is heavily moderated/curated; it is far from being purely vote-based.
Yowza,

Fellow falls hits his head, dies from head trauma -- but because he had COVID, he "succumbed to the virus"

Good grief
>Multiple compression streams? Why?

Zoom automatically switches between quality levels based on your connection speed, who's talking and the size of the viewport. 720p would look fairly rough when fullscreened on most non-mobile displays, but it's orders of magnitude more than necessary when viewed as a thumbnail on a mobile device. Making multi-user video work in a mostly seamless fashion is a surprisingly hard problem.

Using a single stream would substantially degrade the experience, which may be a worthwhile tradeoff for high-security environments but certainly wouldn't be a worthwhile tradeoff for most users.
Labels/filters. Read, take notes, reply and delete. This has a slight learning curve.
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Neat blog.
Gas is still over $3 in Seattle. This is dumb
Amazon is simply betting that the employee either can't afford a lawyer or their lawyer isn't better than Amazon's legal team. They can spend a lot of money on making sure of that.
Interesting article, but the devices would more accurately be described as "radio transmitters" than "wireless phones".
For an unsecured lender, this is basically the apocalypse. Let's do the math - numbers are US, but most of the major Western economies are going through some version of this.

- 30% household unemployment

- 90+ day shutdown of most retail / service businesses

- Implicit Mortgage and Rent holidays (no enforcement)

- Other household assets are tanking (stocks, real estate)

- Small business restart will be brutal, since the personal balance sheets & credit of owners are getting devastated

So... payment on unsecured loans... bwhahahahah. Speaking as a former banker, I'm guessing what - a 40% delinquency rate during Q2 and part of Q3? We're not just talking about the unemployed people - others have hours cut, money lost on investments, business slowdowns, etc.

Not to mention most of the population probably won't give a damm about you trashing their credit score at this point. What's the point? It's all crap now...

Oh wait... I haven't gotten to the best part. If a loan is 60 days delinquent, these guys have to buy it back per the terms of their deal. That's why they froze this thing...

At this point, it is a race between their cash reserves (what % they held back to support buybacks) and the unknown peak of a massive wave of 60 day delinquencies....
Which control do you exactly need to adjust in the middle of a turbulence?
Yes, I have side projects which are mainly for my enjoyment and honing some skills, and which a few people benefit from, so I carry on with them as a 'hobby'. But I put very little effort into most of them at any one time.
Indeed. I'm from the Netherlands and never, ever in my life received a robocall, and also do not know anyone else who received one.
They'll undoubtedly have new iterations of that, based on the same premise that they install and own the kit at each end.

I suspect Zoom just happens to be the choice this particular group has settled on. While across government people have been scrabbling to just make something work now that security's previous modus operandi is being trumped by the need to let people work from home.

Government even more than the private sector have been slow to allow for home working. I'm hopeful this will change that.
Sure, very common.

John Smith, John Smith Jr...
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Zoho's founder is an ultra-right winger. I recently cancelled all my subscriptions to Zoho.
/b/tard here. If you do public stuff on the internet, it's practically the obligation of the internet to show up and do something stupid.

As far as I can tell, somewhere over the last 15 years, people began to confuse "the internet" with "real life". It's important to know that hosting a public space on the internet is not the same as hosting a public space in real life.

I don't think this is even a so terrible example of trolling. A well run AA group could use it as a teachable moment to reinforce their message. It's certainly memorable.

And the people trolling are probably all hanging out on discord, making friends, having the modern equivalent of old-fashioned fun. Just a bunch of bored people seeing what they can get away with to entertain themselves on the internet.

When I was a kid, the neighborhood boys got caught throwing rocks at cars just because they wanted to see what would happen. They also stuck firecrackers in things. Once some teenagers took a baseball bat to every mailbox on the street while hanging out of a car window. Trolling an AA zoom meeting is significantly less bad than any of that.

I would argue that trolling is actually a bit higher-minded than previous generations of trouble-making. When you're restricted to operating only online, outside of physical space, you have to be a bit more clever in your trouble-making. Clever probing of the world to see how it responds is fun, especially with the constraint of "must be done entirely online". It's also largely harmless, because nobody can get physically hurt, and it leads to better safeguards in our online systems.

If you view trolling in that way, I think it's really a sign that our culture is advancing. If a successful troll is possible, it indicates some kind of weakness that needs to be patched. You can't stop the trolls, so you might as well extract what value you can from their work. Also what and how they troll is a sign of the times. The Trump presidency was fairly predictable if you watched the steady increase in what we'd now call "alt-right" ideology on 4chan. As goes /b/, so goes mainstream culture. I guess, in a way, you could say that trolling is a art.
I was wondering the same thing, then remembered that I have no expectation of privacy when using a phone anyways... that's where we are today. bleh.
Curious why you consider iOS to be a failing platform when the App Store consistently generates 2-3x more revenue than the Play Store even with considerably lower volume (and iOS developers can typically charge more for their apps). Fragmentation in the Android ecosystem makes it considerably more costly to develop and the lower average cost of apps mean you're required to hit significantly higher scale in order to generate the same revenue as a developer.

Omni's business model (small number of incredibly loyal customers paying top dollar for the software) likely wouldn't have survived on Android.
To the latter criticism, this has nothing to do with governments pumping up stocks.

It’s a pandemic that could put a third of workers out of jobs because everything is shutting down and the economy is coming to a halt. It’s not like 2008 when complex financial products f—ed it all up.

(Yes there are still bad policies, yes there is corruption, yes, yes etc etc etc but the point is that this isn’t “part of the boom and bust cycle.”)
I see the same issue on GitHub too. Recently searched for a Windows API call and neither Google nor DuckDuckGo nor GitHub returned any result.

Cloned a git repo where I thought I remembered seeing the function and 500 MB of downloading later grep confirms that I remembered correctly and that the exact keyword I had been searching for is present multiple times in the source code.

My hunch is that since coders use an ad blocker anyway, it's not financially viable to operate source code search on the public internet.
Sad they bet on a failing platform.

Mac sales aren't growing much but it's a stretch to say it's a failing platform.
Except that Google is quite happy to manually adjust things for their own ends, they just lie about it. They arrange search to make them money, not to help us find what we want.
People doing something all the time doesn't make it a good comparison.
Xor filters require all the members of the set be provided up front.

Bloom filters allow adding members, but not removing them.

Cuckoo filters allow removing members: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf

And just for completeness, storing everything losslessly in a btree, radix tree, or hash table would probably be under 300 kB. (80 kB just for the IDs plus, say, an additional ~2x overhead.)
Do people generally know area codes other than their own area?
Having a bad day? Just do a little legwork, there are enough context clues to find the story from the linked article.
That was one of the reasons (among others) that I never went beyond demoscene like stuff, always went too deep into engine stuff, and never produced anything really interesting as a game.

Anyone that wants to do games should use a pre-made engine, if the game is at all interesting, people will play it, even if the technology sucks.
> But who are those boards? Why are the people who go there so nuts?

I mean, in my darker, misanthropic side of my personality I think it would be pretty funny if someone Zoom-bombed my really, REALLY boring monthly electronic Database system update training I have to go to on Thursday morning at 7am for 90 minutes, and like... played videos of puppies or something. But I get a chuckle out of that thought and drink my coffee and pay attention to the training like I always do.
That sounds like a threat.
man, it is the reason i posted it. Sometimes people completely miss sarcasm :)
>Either you misquote him......

Not parent but no, I wish that was the case, he stated it numerous times and he compare it to scaling from Low Level C to Javascript. That was 3 - 4 years ago.

I was extremely sceptical of it because it was unrealistic, that is of course very much against the silicon valley optimistic view so it wasn't a popular opinion. But in a recent interview he has definitely rephrase and said it doesn't need to be the best in everything.

Now I have another problem, It is not the best at anything, what is it actually good at?

That is why I still think Objective-c is going stay for at least a few more years.
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> We are not using the computers to compute, but just to move data around. That just feels wrong.

That is because moving data around is a very useful thing.

In fact, our entire product is almost entirely about moving data.

Using it, our customers don't have to move data by hand. They don't have to look at invoices and fill in forms with a pen, put those in an envelope and send it to the government.

Instead our product can do that. And it can be smart about which data to move, when to move it, and where to move it. That's where the small bit of computation comes in.
For sure -- I've seen this at multiple companies. I'm not sure what causes this. I suspect there's a certain element of "pulling up the drawbridge" going on here.
> "The hiring bar there is so astronomically high that they're only hiring people at the very top of their field"

The average engineer at FAANG is less than stellar, let alone at the top of their respective fields. People who are actually at the top of their fields can often skip leetcode interviews and only get domain specific questions related to their field of expertise.
Personal care DTC; handsyhealth.com - wipes are next :)

Beneath the surface, it was a personal challenge to conceptualize, create, launch a brand, configure Shopify, get sales all in under two weeks. So far so good.
This looks like we are going to also feed our computers nutrients on top of electricity.
Ask HN: Have you adjusted your salary ask for Corona times? If so, how much?
The pcap-ng format uses 64-bit timestamps and has replaced pcap in Wireshark/dumpcap at least. It sounds like tcpdump supports reading but not writing pcap-ng.

https://pcapng.github.io/pcapng/
https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PcapNg
This team did an amazing job that will most likely go completely unnoticed if they are successful
Interesting. I did not think of the potential case that Asterisk could forward the STIR signature forward. Thanks!
Honestly, I don't know how much of this was COVID and how much was just a slowing of the business over the past few years and this is an inevitable consequence of that. I think the business has always more or less run on fairly thin margins (again, it's mostly designed to fund a lifestyle of building awesome Apple apps, not get the founders rich at the expense of employees/customers/VCs/etc.), and so even fairly minor disruptions could cause that to become a big issue.
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