skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The loans from the stimulus package are not issued by the SBA, they are issued by banks and other lenders.

There is a lot of confusion now, the loans were only launched yesterday (Friday April 3rd), and most lenders don't even know what the terms are.

A business owner I know filed for a loan directly on the SBA website on Tuesday (April 1st), following the SBA instructions. They still haven't gotten even an email back. They started calling banks on Friday and they were either unavailable (branches closed, phone numbers don't work), or they didn't even know how to process the loans yet.

Here's a New York Times article from yesterday that shows how messy this is: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/03/business/03reuter...

Banks are also adding their own conditions, so no one really knows if they will require guarantees or not. According to the SBA website, the loans to cover payroll are forgivable, but it doesn't say if they'll require a guarantee or not to give it out. That seems like it will be up to the banks to decide.

At this rate, businesses will be lucky if they are able to get a loan within 30 days. Considering that most businesses barely have about 2 weeks worth of cash reserves and that this whole thing started about 3 weeks ago, it looks like very few businesses will be able to take advantage of the SBA loans and that even fewer will survive.
On the other hand, the former is much more scannable, so maybe that doesn't matter.
Coronavirus is now the 3rd leading cause of death in U.S.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

You mean this one?
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My low tech solution: https://pinplz.com
You're more of a parasite than her.
Or it could be cancer. Sometimes families are private.
Hehe, my "fleet of crawlers" is a single machine in a closet so far :) I'll think about that kind of synchronization later.

However I do parse and respect the "crawl-delay" now, thanks for pointing it out!
We had a paid chat app for social media celebrities/models to earn money chatting with their fans years back. Apple argued that despite a human being doing the work it 'took place in the app' so that makes it a 'digital service'. That means we had to accept IAP and of course pay them 30%. Made it impossible to to pay our influencers fairly.

One of the many silly rejections we had was due to the images on our influencers profiles being too sexy despite being linked through the Instagram API. After explaining they were the same as you can find in the Instagram app we were told we had to actively censor them anyway. Shame on us for not being as big as Instagram, right?

After a year of making less margin from our own business than Apple they concluded paid chat was no longer appropriate for the app store and decided to just put us out of business one morning. Meanwhile, tons of other apps with the same functionality and far more sexualized are alive and doing well.

It can't be easy making every developer happy while curating the tidal wave of apps coming in each day, but it was a really soul crushing experience for us.
It was mostly a joke.

I spent some time in Canada, and yeah, it's "America, but civilized." ;-) The main cultural difference is that they never threw off English rule, they're still technically subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England (or something like that.) Quebec has this dual culture going on where the French were overthrown by the English and are still a little huffy over it from time to time.

I don't have any idea how CA stacks up to the USA on all the points the article raised though.
Financial truth is merely ideology

Past societies have legislated it away, soberly realizing the literal agency of people matters more than conformity to emotional gamesmanship of men with little imagination but “watch me trick people into idolatry with appeals to authoritative knowledge they can’t verify cause we won’t educate them!”
Yeah because being approved by NIST will carry as much weight to consumers as being W3C compliant...
We had some employees working from a coworking space last year, and we would receive invoices from The coworking biz addressed to "MR Company Name". They would frequently omit our VAT number as well. Of course, we could not pay those invoices, and whenever we got in contact with their support The response would be so delayed that we already had received multiple warnings and threats from their automatic invoicing system. They did eventually get their shit together and voided all The junk invoices they had sent us, but it took three months or so... And this was a huge player in coworking, not a small indie bussiness.
I said your "solution" would not help. You responded with outrage about your wife. But if your solution won't help, then it won't help your wife.

The best I can do is wish her the best. I'm sorry.
Ask HN: Who is streaming plays, operas, dance and music performances online?
The closure of theatres and concert halls around the world has led some venues and organisations to stream selected works online.

Please post links to the companies or organisations making performances available online during the lockdown.

Here are two from the UK:

National Theatre (London):

The are streaming productions every Thursday. Unfortunately, they are only making them available for a week before taking them down. Last week they showed the play 'One Man, Two Guvnors'. Next Thursday (9 April) they are showing a stage production of Jane Eyre:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ntdiscovertheatre/videos

Royal Opera House (London)

They're broadcasting a mixture of complete ballet and opera performances every Friday:

https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalOperaHouse/videos

If you know of more, please post them here in this thread so we can collect them all in one place :-)
There's even worse malware in side-loaded apps.
How many people can find success in life in the absence of money, such as with mathematical glory on the secret of the primes?

Without money I think unto the future of one’s children. In the opposite direction, the degree to which you have money is the degree to which you can be morally effective in your community. The very poor and the very rich, IMO, have a different slew of interesting moral choices.
The rationale I've heard from the hospital side seems self-contradictory: they are worried about liability from using an unapproved medical device (mask). But the liability from exposing a healthy patient to an unmasked sick worker, or exposing a unmasked healthy worker to sick patients, seems like it ought to be greater than that..
Markdown has similarities with CSV which is also underspecified and has varying implementations. Even simple things like quoting don't work consistently across applications.

That has not stopped countless applications from using CSV because it's so useful to have a simple transfer format. CSV corner cases usually don't hurt too badly because you can usually rule them out based on the source or sink of the data.
I tried installing VidCutter on Windows. When I enabled the re-encode mode, trying to render a video made the program stuck with no CPU activity, and did not encode a video at all.
In a way, oil reserves (even more so with precious metal reserves, for that matter) amount to prepping at the state level, don't they?

I get why in an economy that to a large extent depends on petrol having such a reserve might alleviate some fear.

However, I also don't want to imagine a situation where the US actually would have to use this reserve.
subjectively nicer language
This is the real conversation I want to have.
Everybody talk about indirections (jvm, build system, devtools) but the real interesting talk as PL enthusiasts is about the language features, semantics and syntax.
I don't follow the analogy. Social distancing restrictions are much more severe than condoms; unless you live with a SO, you're not allowed to even touch anyone right now.
I think the key qualifier here is "For those accustomed to the traditional urban civilisation." Sure, if you're used to living in a European-style urban environment, American suburbia seems like an alien planet. Just like if you're used to suburbia, living in a city is shockingly different. I appreciate that the author is just laying it out here and and describing it as different, trying not to impart some kind of good/bad judgment.
A suggestion! While logged in, when you want to track a trend, it isn't clear how I can track it after I search for it.

Instead of having a dropdown list menu for choosing frequency, it would be nice to spread them out. Like a normal list, or 4 types of buttons. Or you can also add a plus button which might bring a popup asking the frequency type too.
It's more a fact than a feeling though.
The IETF is a pita when it comes to the routing area. Operators aren't well represented there and it's vendors running the show (this is why Randy Bush calls it the IVTF, and he's right). I am happy to see folks like Job make some progress there (and a few others), but I lost taste for the pedantry when I saw real operators asking for decent BGP changes get shot down.
Elaborating on above, not all contracts are signed. Not all contracts are even written - some are verbal or implied.
I like this approach. Personally I wait an hour if I get an invalid response and use timeouts of a few seconds between other requests.
Lots of reasons that it could be omitted. Drug overdose, drunk driving, private family.
I did not know him or his work, but this helped give some color: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8UvpDEsAAAAJ&hl

Certainly a loss. RIP
Play HDR video on your Mac
In Italy it is the same.
Isn't this the standard argument for making names more specific as the scope where they are visible gets larger?

Something only used within a short function, so it only ever appears within a few lines of where it's defined, can probably be very short or even a single letter, and that conciseness can be beneficial.

Something used elsewhere in a file should probably have a more descriptive name, so it can be easily distinguished and located.

Something exported from a module and used elsewhere in the program should probably have both the more descriptive element and then, one way or another, some further way to identify that it's the version from that particular module that is being used.
I honestly prefer just using right alt as a AltGr. Even have a custom Windows layout to re-create (parts of) the "US International (with dead keys)" layout from Linux/X/GNOME/wherever it comes from.

Instead of having to type <Compose ' o> for a ó, I just type <AltGr+o> (or alternatively, <AltGr+' o>, and similarly <AltGr+` o> for a ò)
Music production software is currently booming in the IOS world, there are professional producers using the iPad to make music e.g. Madlib announced that he made all beats for the album Bandana on his iPad
The oil is from US producers, when they sell that oil out it won't be for $25/barrel when most of that oil will be from fracked wells costing $50+/dollars a barrel to operate [1].

"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in 2019, about 2.81 billion barrels (or 7.7 million barrels per day) of crude oil were produced directly from tight oil resources in the United States. This was equal to about 63% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2019." [0]

[0] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=847&t=6
[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-price-fracking_n_5e669a89...
You're probably lucky to have that use-case.

Most problems I had where with:

(1) deeply nested tree-like objects updates - model serializers have limited support for nested updates, but it breaks down fast, if your frontend-exposed data looks more like trees than tables you'll be fighting it all the way

(2) REST semantics can only get you that far! You end up doing some form of domain-driven-design sooner or later and your verbs are no longer (just) create/read/update - you have "approve", "reject", "approve with comment", "flag for review", "restore to version 123" etc. REST is not CRUD, you can have REST semantics with only R from the default actions and everything else can be domain specific.

In general I prefer to (a) not expose to the API the actual backend's data model in all its gory complexity and (b) figure out what actions make sense for the application domain, drop the CRUD handcuffs.

Once these choices are made, which I now prefer to do early on, pre-emptively, something like DRF becomes pure-pain, 0% gain: I use nothing from it, and it's too dumb to autogenerate stuff like validation or to offer some structural patterns from which to hang code for things like sub-object permission checks or anything like that...
Especially sucks if you are colourblind! I've pretty much given up on reading charts like this
The Race to Find the Backup CEO as Corona Virus Spreads
Who Runs the World? Microsoft Excel
China is almost a superpower. They have the beginnings of a blue-water navy, which a primary requirement for projecting force beyond your borders. So far as economics, they are indeed very powerful because they became the low-cost manufacturing center of the world. As seen in the past, those jobs can easily leave a nation for another country/region when it becomes cheaper. As their standard of living increases, this is more and more likely to happen.

> These are leftovers of ww2 and aren't for defense anymore

Ask the residents of Estonia (a NATO member) if they'd like to return to living under the Soviets.
I created my own keyboard. It based on the ISO English keyboard, but when I want to type Hungarian characters I just hit the Caps Lock (or alt if I only need one character), but every other character stays in the same space. I also moved the zero before one because I needed the space for the 9 extra characters.

Coding on the Hungarian keyboard is a nightmare, I don't know how others can do it.
The suggestions in the comments are excellent. One thing I would add is this: contact the site owner in advance and ask for their permission. If they are okay with it or if you don't hear back, credit the site in your work. Then send the owner a message with where they can see the information being used.

Some sites will have rules or guidelines for attribution already in place. For example, the DMOZ had a Required Attribution page to explain how to credit them: https://dmoz-odp.org/docs/en/license.html. Discogs mentions that use of their data also falls under CC0: https://data.discogs.com/. Other sites may have these details in their Terms of Service, About page, or similar.
Honestly, this misses the worst part of the ISO layout. PUT MY \| BACK WHERE IT BELONGS!
Too complex for our 7 inch diameter heads.

Enough data has accumulated in the last 20 years about our cognitive limitations. Which seem to compound as we construct groups and networks.

So "spreading freedom" fails, mass leaking info fails, "hope and change" fails, "self regulation" fails, bernie/corbyn et al bite the dust etc etc.

We need to reprove we can solve simpler problems, at smaller scales first. Those kind of people and groups are the ones I trust these days.
> And this "significant chunk" of the population assuredly would not include one's Armenian relative who immigrated to America.

Where does that "assuredly" come from? If you just immigrated (non-investment), probably not. If you're like my immigrant relatives who immigrated 20 years ago -- just run-of-mill Silicon Valley electrical engineers, they have been mortgage-free for a long time, and they live right next to 1 Infinite Loop where cost of living is pretty damn high.

This article is overall fairly objective but the hardships described in the housing section seem quite exaggerated, from "Armenians are sometimes under the impression that lots of Americans own houses, too. This is a misapprehension; ..." onward. (For one thing, unless I'm terribly mistaken, those who do own houses generally own better houses than Armenian apartments; same for those who financed houses.)

To be fair, I can understand the exaggeration, as this article targets those who are "righteously indignant about stingy relatives in the US". (Which btw I don't understand -- why are rich relatives obligated to help the poor? I guess it's a cultural thing.)
That was my first thought too. After thinking for a bit I decided that this sad news is meant to be about James, not about the cause of death. Leaving out the cause of death keeps our focus in the right place and I can respect that.
Yep. It's a ton of dirt
Honestly I think I learned more from this one comment that most of my biology classes. :D

Any materials you can recommend for complete novices in industrial biology processes?
Apple users are particularly susceptible to Marketing tricks.

You can see this by the fear in this thread.

But oddly they aren't afraid that iPhones are constantly cracked by the FBI and China has huge infulence over Apple.
My hypothesis is that a lot of the HN crowd is too busy living through this to take time to upvote the submission or leave comments.
Product Stories: How Reddit Achieved Its Product Market Fit?
I found how to trim the beginning of a video to an arbitrary amount without reencoding. I think the `-itsoffset` flag in ffmpeg causes ffmpeg to add metadata to shift the video in time, without reencoding or actually trimming the underlying video.

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -itsoffset 0.25 -i audio.ogg -c copy -y av.mkv
Minecraft: The Perfect Quarantine Playground
Yes, we should and do have reserves for other things too.
Coronavirus News and Verified Channels
And https://www.ontario.ca.
The JavaScript Framework That Puts Web Pages on a Diet
Reading hacker news has made me think the same thing. I'm not sure why people seem to have no problem with being bated and lied to to get their attention.
correct response for people like the above. the internet has weird shit, no gatekeeper. yet folks never stop using it. n apple is busy stifling web apps by only allowing one browser engine. I will only buy another iOS device again when I can run gecko | firefox on it
As I've aged, I've stopped giving fucks about work, promotions, rat race, work politics and triviality for minor gains in work. I find petty wins at work meaningless. I would much rather spend time with my family, kids, nature and cheap travel.

And I've become this once I saw people starting to die young around me, making me re-evaluate my priorities.

Am I alone?
I can't criticise the aesthetics but damn I can criticise the usability.

I've been on UC (edit: Universal Credit) a while and when I was first on it would lose messages (on both my side and the jobctr officials, and it has frustrated them because I talk to them Edit: and they have their own usability frustrations with it, with little or no way to feed them back up), log you out even before timing out, lose appointments or have them be set but not show up for you, and more.

There's plenty more I could say but I'll just leave something which sums it up. At the top it says "BETA This is a new service - your feedback will help us to improve it". Guess what, it's disabled so you cannot give feedback. It always has been disabled.

Visually pretty good but in terms of usability, not so good. Pretty sure no proper testing was done on it, though it has been getting a lot better recently.
oh wow, natural selection applies to non-living things?
We can't even get IPv6 everywhere after several decades. We'll be dead before this is a thing (and it won't be).
I don't provide apps to Apple users and I'm loud about it. They have to use web.

Irresponsible customers who are uninformed of Apple's evils.
For that stuff protocols such as CoAP might be more useful as it's a standard with pretty much the same benefits but less custom code.

It's even possible to translate CoAP directly into HTTP using a proxy such as Squid.

There's also MQTT, which was basically designed for IoT sensor reporting. This has even more supported libraries and has been around for ages.

The UDP proxy system has the benefit of not being able to fall victim to classic UDP amplification vulnerabilities (send a packet with a spoofed source and have the response bounce back), but it does allow an unsuspecting proxy server to turn into a HTTP-based DDoS. You can send a single packet towards a server and the server automatically does a full TCP handshake and payload delivery for you! That's a lot of extra traffic.

I'd stick with known protocols for IoT stuff instead of this. At least the risks have been analysed and firewalls can (should) be easily configurable to block outgoing DDoS attacks in the worst case. The same is not really true for this.
NYC sends push alert to all phones asking healthcare professionals to volunteer
Sound of Hope
Ancient secret to make a perfect spine back alignment and to relieve back pain
Two useful google searches:

- class responsibility collaborator

- John Osterhout a Philosophy of Software Design
The increased population is possible in part because staple prices have fallen enough to support that larger population. Not saying it's a perfect comparison but it can be used as a rough guide because there is no way that's perfectly accurate, the situation of the world has changed so much you can't account for every factor affecting any thing you try to use to create a meaningful baseline across centuries.
Yeah you have to wonder: Did they just not know about counter mode? The implications of that are frightening.
Not typical in the US afaik. In my undergraduate, I had one course taught by a graduate student, and he was somewhere around twice my age.
Recitation is typically taught by a graduate student, but taught is a loose word. Seems like recitation is really group office hours with one of the professors graduate students.
No it's the other 1st Amendment, the one about corporations and chat apps.
And yet neither you nor the companies selling to you have despite everone worried about the climate emergency
Clearly the result of lobbying by printers and owners of assembly halls.
I thought it was the elastic that broke down and not the filter?

If so you can basically fix a mask with elastic and a stapler.
Yes. At times I would like to be able to use italics in a code block to emphasize some portion of the code, and that seems very difficult, if not impossible, to do.

I realize this would conflict with automatic syntax highlighting, which is probably why it is not allowed.
We trimmed out most of our secondary indexes long before we moved to Aurora because performance of postgres writes with secondary indexes is always a bit rough. The few we have remaining do well enough.

Overall our workload is very read heavy. At peak, if we compare our CPU on the writer vs the aggregate CPU on the readers, we do about 10x more read work than writes.

Remind is an education messaging program, so our workload is partially user management (which users belong to which schools and which classes) and partially user generated content (messages being sent). Our user generated content (more like 2-3x read vs write) is all backed by DynamoDB and our user management is in a couple of Aurora database clusters.
Sure, but your rate limit would be for all conferences.

The idea being by separating the conference number and PIN number you could limit the ability to attack a specific user ID more easily.
Was able to emigrate is a pretty strong filter in a lot of cases. Was able to immigrate is an even stronger filter. Just gathering the resources to leave is one thing, gathering the resources to be allowed in at the destination can be even harder.

Most of the immigrants I know spent a lot of time or money or both either personally or by their parents to get here. At least recebtly even the ones who left everything behind to start here with nothing at least had some talent at getting things done in beuracracy which is pretty useful.
They’re up to 1000m deep. I expect that it’s rock salt that needs considerable agitation to free it up, and would be easily sieved.