skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of each PPP application with your bank, you get the same SBA PPP form to sign as the SBA has publicized on their web page. You then have to sign and pinkie swear that the funds are necessary and going to payroll.

The banks are doing jack shit in terms of useful work except shoveling application's SBA's way, with the SBA being the ultimate approver of the loan anyway! Bank are just in middle and limiting applications to their existing customers for no good reason whatsoever.
From the founder/CEO of ZecOps twitter directly: https://twitter.com/ihackbanme/status/1252990118945681409

Q: If a user turns off mail sync for their accounts into the mail app, is that a mitigation?
A: Yes. If a user is not syncing emails it would mitigate the issue.
I found Kimball's book to be interesting and helpful.

I think the Kimball approach gets bogged down in temporal evolution (Slowly Changing Dimension type 1? 2? 3? 4? 5?), but that's more about the underlying absence of meaningful bitemporalism than the dimensional schema approach per se.
Nothing is really permanent if there's an organization in control, particularly one subject to U.S. law. we can't predict whether in i.e. ten years, the U.S. won't get a law requiring companies to pass everything through automatic copyright filters. Those tend to be unreliable, so this is just one of the many ways our content may be lost.

The only network that could provide a reasonable guarantee of permanence would be a decentralized one, something like sia, but where the owner can pay for i.e. 100 years and lock the data in, so that no one can actually delete them.
Regulations to help with small business loans with maximum $amount per transaction. If the total amount then accumulates to $10bn or more, fine nothing to see here.

I suspect that is not the case here.
It may just be a change in the way that we work. This paper may just as well be titled "Are institutions getting less effective?" or "Are research institutions getting less effective?".

Lots of progress might be stymied by entrenched interests using laws, regulations, or some form of corporate bureaucracy/cronyism as a "moat" to ward off competition.

The short shrift paid to EVs by auto makers and car dealers before Tesla came along is one example. (Yes, I know that batteries also had to improve.) Intel's practices before AMD stepped up its game recently can be seen as another example. Then there's SpaceX.

Hell, it might even be that our smartest people aren't researching and the amount of brainpower we throw at research problems has actually decreased

Is research now a "2nd tier" career? Are you thinking this is based on economic competition from industry?
Since it is a bit buried in the comments, and not explicitly mentioned in the article, here is a working mitigation.

From the founder/CEO of ZecOps twitter directly: https://twitter.com/ihackbanme/status/1252990118945681409

Q: If a user turns off mail sync for their accounts into the mail app, is that a mitigation?

A: Yes. If a user is not syncing emails it would mitigate the issue.
We've changed back to that above. Submitted title was "C possibly gaining support for N-bit integers".
You're being clever.... except this shows you didn't both to even read the abstract.
Robots can help mint and deliver the money too! But never forget to tip your money delivery robot.

And sometimes humans can even borrow money from robots, if they're really nice to them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353666

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik

“Five cents, please,” his front door said when he tried to open it. One thing, anyhow, hadn’t changed. The toll door had an innate stubbornness to it; probably it would hold out after everything else. After everything except it had long since reverted, perhaps in the whole city … if not the whole world.

He paid the door a nickel, hurried down the hall to the moving ramp which he had used only minutes ago.

[…]

“I don’t have any more nickels,” G. G. said. “I can’t get out.”

Glancing at Joe, then at G. G., Pat said, “Have one of mine.” She tossed G. G. a coin, which he caught, an expression of bewilderment on his face. The bewilderment then, by degrees, changed to aggrieved sullenness.

“You sure shot me down,” he said as he deposited the nickel in the door’s slot. “Both of you,” he muttered as the door closed after him. “I discovered her. This is really a cutthroat business, when —“ His voice faded out as the door clamped shut. There was, then, silence.

[…]

“I’ll go get my test equipment from the car,” Joe said, starting towards the door.

“Five cents, please,”

“Pay the door,” Hoe said to G. G. Ashwood.

[...]

“Can I borrow a couple of poscreds from you?” Joe said. “So I can eat breakfast?”

“Mr. Hammond warned me that you would try to borrow money from me. He informed me that he already provided you with sufficient funds to pay for your hotel room, plus a round of drinks, as well as —“

“Al based his estimate on the assumption that I would rent a more modest room than this."
It seems a bit like the home console version of the Neo Geo to me. Once upon a time, I'd gladly shove large numbers of quarters into Neo Geo arcade cabinets. But when they stuck the hardware into a consumer model, with its huge price tag, my thought was, "If a rich friend bought one, I would enjoy playing with it at their house."

I suspect that the big difference here is, this being 1990, SNK didn't have nearly as much access to investment money from rich people who don't understand the what entertainment budgets look like for the other 99.99% of people. So it was never hyped as anything but a luxury product.
At least in Germany some huge consumers (cement mills, huge refrigerated warehouses) are classified as "Lastabwurfkunden" ("load shedding customers"), where the grid operation center can remotely shut them down. Information is scarce as Google has a lot of copies of the Wikipedia article trashing the results, but at least I found an insurance company that asks if the applicant is classified as such (http://www.energyprotect.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Risik...).
Nintendo is a well-established company with a solid platform for its Switch that sells millions of units. They've been doing this for a little while longer tbf.

I get the sense that "shifting focus" means that Magic Leap were so focused on the hardware that they didn't really think concretely about bringing a viable platform to market, or something like that. I just don't understand how a company raises that kind of money and gets totally exposed during a financial crisis like this. Did they really raise that much money without a concrete go-to-market strategy?
Author here.

I wrote a BitTorrent tracker in Rust a few years ago. A while ago, I found out about the dashmap crate (providing a concurrent hashmap) and thought that I could use it for a new implementation, which could be both performant and simple. I tried using it, but due to blocking, I had a hard time reaching good performance. My realization was that since BitTorrent tracker requests are highly skewed towards popular torrents, even a map which only locks on accesses to the same key would not scale well when used like this.

I experimented and settled on a design with many threads each opening a socket with SO_REUSEPORT and using mio to wait for requests. The requests are read, parsed and sent through a crossbeam channel to request workers, which collect a number of them before locking the mutexes guarding shared state and doing work required to generate responses. These are sent back to the socket workers, which encode them and send them back over the network.

This solution is quite performant and during heavy load testing, I couldn’t even get a lone request worker to reach full CPU utilization. (Adding more would likely not bring much improvement anyway since they would block each other most of the time). Results in terms of responses per second indicate that aquatic scales a lot better with more threads than the established project opentracker, being able to reach more than twice the throughout at best, at the price of using many more threads. (Benchmarks are available in the README file.)

I’d like to thank (in particular) the authors of mio, crossbeam, hashbrown and indexmap for making this fun project possible.
We've changed it now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22948380).
Calendar Blocking can boost developer productivity in Quarantine
> It's declarative, the primitives seem entirely non-intuitive, it often takes a lot of fiddling to get what you want, the behind-the-scenes execution is mostly a black box, and while it's supposed to work the same on different implementations (of browsers/databases), there are tons of little gotcha quirks.

My reaction to that is that it's similar in a different way: everyone needs to use it but many developers don't take it seriously, avoid learning how it works, and then complain that it's unintuitive (i.e. not something they had already known) and hard to use because they're basically just poking randomly until they get close enough to what they want.

It's true that not every implementation is the same but … where else is that not true? This is also true of operating systems, filesystems, every library implementing a standard format (“Why doesn't this PDF open in …”), etc. I would have trouble supporting the belief that databases are an outlier in this regard.
My point is that the Magic Leap CEO made it seem like there is a lack of consumer demand for gaming / entertainment products, due to a lack of job / financial prospects during Covid-19.
Using Docker Desktop and Docker Hub Together – Part 1
Think VR has business applications. Training for example for manual, complex work. Data analysis possibly (exploring this at work).
GitHub for mobile 1.1 brings branch switching, issue templates, user autocomplet
Show HN: ProphecyHub: Metadata Re-Invented with Git,GraphQL for Data Engineering
If your default approach is cynicism, how would you know the difference between let's say a topic being relevant to world events, and fueling agendas? Like did you consider that maybe people genuinely believe that discussion regarding UBI is especially relevant during this once-in-history, civilization-disrupting event?
We should be sceptical about the benevolence of billionaires
Carbon consumed in building a server is sunk cost and would be paid independent of whether the server does any kind of carbon-footprint-aware load shifting.

Assuming the server is "sitting unused for 23 hours a day" is the wrong model for what this work changed. You're assuming the server could be running at 50% duty cycle vs. 100% duty cyle. It isn't; since we're talking the batch load, there's a roughly fixed amount of low-priority work to be done and doubling the amount of CPU active-duty time alotted to doing the work doesn't get the work done faster (the details on that are complicated, but that's the right model for what Google's describing here). One should model the duty cycle as fixed relative to the processor (i.e. "This global datacenter architecture, over the course of its life, will do a fixed N units of computronium work on these batch tasks") and then ask whether that work should be done using coal to power the electrons or wind.
And the way to get any and all of this done starts with...

Voting.

Can't vote for the people who will support these agendas? Vote for the ones who are closer to them. Vote for the ones who are closer to supporting wide enfranchisement, transparency, and access. Vote for the ones who are more interested in good governance than good kickbacks.

It will take time. It will probably take more time than either you or I have. But it's much, much more likely to actually result in achieving the goals you want than any strategy that says "We need to change how our government works! Don't bother to vote, though, that never changed anything!"

I mean, it's still not impossible that revolution will happen, I suppose. We haven't seen the end of the pandemic and whatever changes come out of it, so a lot more is still up in the air than usual. But it's extremely unlikely that the outcome of a revolution would look like what you're suggesting (mainly because while I can certainly see the logic behind all your proposals, aside from #4, they're not particularly widely talked about, and it takes time to spread ideas like that).
Mirror:
http://archive.is/lEadj
Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience
Hey HN — I'm a software engineer (ex Amazon), and until last year I had absolutely no social media experience. But when I left my job to work for myself in early 2019, I realized that I was unknown to the rest of the world, and I became determined to try to emerge from obscurity.

After a lot of mistakes, I think I stumbled on an approach that worked really well for people like me, for whom self-promotion doesn't come naturally. Over the last 14 months, I managed to grow my Twitter account to 24,000 followers, and now I believe my audience is likely my biggest asset.

I've put everything I learned into a short video course, which unlike almost everything else out there, is not targeted to marketers and hustlers, but to makers and builders like us. I'd be honored if you checked it out. (Full refund if you don't get any value out of this. No questions asked.) Thank you!

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Sounds like hagiography to me. There were lots of ordinary, non-prodigies that built ARPANet, TCP/IP, the Unix/Windows network stack and HTTP. Plenty work at companies that build the network planes, like Cisco and AWS and Microsoft.
‘Cartels are scrambling’: Virus snarls global drug trade
I think we will see a cottage industry focused on getting companies and employees certified as essential so they don't miss out on income next time around. Also around limiting companies liability in the event their policies cause employees to become infected by the next pandemic.
The US has many levers with which to find out where a foreign national's money comes from, simplest being to tie them up in a review of them being a possible security risk or not. This might be applicable too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...
Python Threads don't propagate exceptions
The key point in the thread is that they're giving back their CARES Act funding as they know smaller colleges need it more than they do. Stanford has a $26B+ endowment... they'll be just fine.

Harvard, on the other hand, has a ~$41B endowment, and last I read they're taking the CARES Act funding. They're taking a lot of heat for not returning the funding, instead saying they'll "use 100% of it for students." Stanford is taking the higher road here.
While the green angle on this story is definitely good to highlight, I wonder if they're seeing any cost savings too?

Solar and wind on the grid increase supply, which should drive down price per KwH (of course, the equation isn't quite that simple, since demand in most of the world near human population centers is also highest during the day).
There is no reason that an optimizing compiler doesn't "optimize" your function to non-constant time.
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that they have 14,000 employees. Fourteen thousand. For a company that owns no hotels or motels, no real-estate (other than their offices, of course). The website is decent (but no amazeballs), which is all there is to AirBnB (other than customer service, of course). I don't understand why this all can't be done by, say, 1000 or so employees.
This list seems quite incomplete. Check for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu#Early_history

There are probably more cities like this.
> Companies will view this as a rare event that's not worth spending significant resources to prepare for.

Rare event? The list of pandemic/epidemic events of the last two decades alone is long. The world was simply incredibly lucky the last few times, only that the Western world ignored what happened in Asia. There's a reason why so many infections and deaths are in Western countries.

With superbugs on the rise "thanks" to abuse of reserve antibiotics in farming, it's only a question of time until the world is ravaged by another pandemic.
>There is vastly less pollution, people are spending much more time with their loved ones, people are spending much less time in vehicles and commuting, and people have much more time to explore their passions and hobbies like instruments and drawing.

Some people. We have to be careful not to frame the discussion exclusively from our own, respective positions. I'm very fortunate, for instance, to be able to work from home very easily. This is not the case at all for many. Some have seen their hours increase if they're in the "essential" (a word I hate, but it has become the norm) job category, and/or have taken on risks to their health. Many have lost their jobs entirely.

The reduction in pollution is good. Don't get too used to it.

>Calm down.

That wasn't necessary.

>I'm not "pushing" anything, certainly not UBI.

You may not be, but there is no question that there are many who are, and that's why this thread exists.

>Are you against discussions?

You've assumed something else about me, I guess?
1B a month just in employees is over 100k employees making 100k a year. i know the tech ones make more but i assume the customer support makes less. that's a lotttt of employees
I oppose the financialization, not the banking.
Ask HN: Late-bloomer engineers, when and how did you discover programming?
Personal curiosity as I am a college sophomore who has been programming for a year, self taught because I’m in a different major. Most stories I see on HN are “I started BASIC when I was 9” so I was curious for the other perspective closer to mine.
Because he is not talking about side project! “Side”-ness in this case is his service not being a necessity for someone.
> VR represents a potential opportunity in the times of social distancing.

I always assumed that Facebook is playing the long game with VR, with the end goal being a re-imagined Second Life.

They need to wait until the technology is cheap/mature enough though, which is probably 5-10 years out.
To what extent is this interesting if I'm not in K8s?
I had way less trouble in college with relational algebra, compared with SQL. SQL is by no means intuitive. Projection, which is what you do last, comes first in the select statement. Then there are all the join types.

Relational algebra, which is what SQL is ultimately based on, is much more elegant.
Xi'an (on this list as one of the oldest cities) has a fully preserved (but often refurbished) city wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_Xi%27an

It's complete so you can still walk the entire 4 sides of the wall in one hike, or rent a bike and circle the entire city in ~1 hour or so.

When you're atop the city wall, there's definitely a sense of being in two different times, both ancient and modern, at the same time as the modern Xi'an skyline makes up the background while you trek on stones that are hundreds (thousands?) of years old.
Well heritage is a double edged sword. From one hand you do feel proud and blessed to live in a place so rich in history because it's everywhere around you. But in the same time it's kind of a burden that drags society in worshiping the past. A lot of fellow Greeks live on the premises that because our past was so glorious everyone else is dipshit and we shouldn't even bother finding our place in the modern world.
> Perhaps there is a reason why DBA, SRE, Devops and Architects are separate roles?

It's mainly an artifact of the way we've broken up degree tracks, and the boundaries that each group is taught to stay inside, lest any particular group actually ends up culpable for a failure.

Make fun of the "full-stack rockstar ninja" all you want, but the reality is that it is possible to have a functional understanding of all of these areas. It's just a matter of having the confidence and doing the legwork.

To the extent that more of your people have a working knowledge of these domains, you'll not only have a better end product, but a much easier time getting stuff done.

There's room for hyper-specialized expert consultants in each field, of course, but the myth of the myth of the full-stack developer exists primarily for political convenience. Most of this stuff is not any harder than the rest of it, and can be learned by anyone willing to sit down and learn it.
Forgive me, but I don't understand your point. Is it that it's so easy to borrow money that there's no need to sift good ideas from bad? And if so, that seems like it would result in more bad ideas being funded, not fewer good ideas.

Yet the paper claims to present evidence to the contrary (sort of; they're talking about innovation gains, not "ideas")--that the cost of gains is increasing. I don't see how that would arise from low interest rates?
This is all on Congress. They wrote this law that created these incentives for the banks.
I sadly work for a company that claims ownership of any kind of "technical" thing I come up with. I have dozens of side-projects that I work on, but sadly they're all kind of stuck running in my basement until I leave my current job.
I am genuinely baffled because - from my perspective - any song becomes painful to hear after enough listens.

This includes artists I loved beyond measure - the same artists that I can no longer stand because I've since heard them so. many. damn. times. (once they got added to every playlist in creation).

I believe it's reasonable to be repulsed by overplayed music. I'm somewhat puzzled why this would be controversial.
Yes! Especially when you have multiple data centers participating in different locations. It might be cloudy in one place but not another, so jobs get re-routed accordingly.
There are still millions of eligible people who cannot use the get my payment tool to get their status on the stimulus payment. Companies like Ruths Chris Steakhouse who spent millions in stock buybacks and have millions in reserve are receiving millions when they don’t need it. Shake Shack got 10 mill. and even though they returned it due to public backlash, now it can’t be loaned out again until the next PPP-like loan funding is approved. PPP is depleted giving out to large, publicly traded companies...not small businesses.
Ask HN: Can a small scrum team support SAP at a midsized organization?
My Background is in Product Management and I run a small web development team for a consumer goods/manufacturing company. I have an awesome tech lead who doesn’t want to be a people manager, so I fill in that role. It’s a bit of a weird organization, but it works for us. The development team we’ve spun up is small, self sufficient and dedicated. I’m really proud of what we’ve built here. They care about our customers and understand our product.

Our company recently launched SAP and like others before us, launch was challenging. The company followed SAP best practice by shoving all the project team members into a room and running a giant waterscrumfall project. I wasn’t on the team but have inherited an integration with our b2b/b2c sites, which were rebuilt during that project.

We’ve made some internal changes post SAP launch, and I’ve won some executive support to become more involved, bring some product management experience to the project, and help shape the team. In the past I ran product teams responsible for a custom ERP for a large, successful ecomm site and this setup is what I’d like to mirror, and it’s what I’ve mirrored on my own team.

I’ve been looking for examples of organizations that use agile teams to in a small context to run SAP, as well as trying to staff a developer and product manager position, and it has been tough.

So, my question- Can an SAP project be run as a small self organized team, or is the product truly so complex that you need dedicated BA’s, DBAs, Functional Specialists, etc etc? Does anyone have experience with this that would be able to share? What’s the smallest team size you can get away with, and did the benefits of a small team outweigh the benefits of specialists?
ClojureRS: Implementation of Clojure in Rust