skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, this was not a loophole, it was a carve out. They specifically and intentionally excepted restaurants and hotels from the affiliation rule. It wasn't a drafting error, it was a clear and purposeful choice.

Personally, I don't have any huge problem with that, I think it makes sense to protect workers at both Ruth's Chris Steak House and a local family-run steak shop, and we should fund the program at the levels necessary to do that.

But I keep hearing the word loophole, including from Congress members. It is not that. This was by design, and it wasn't buried in some dense text. It was an unambiguous exemption in a two page rule. [1]

[1] It may not be perfectly clear to the average reader, but it certainly was clear for the rulemakers at Treasury.

"Waiver. The affiliation rules described above are waived for (1) any business concern with not
more than 500 employees that, as of the date on which the loan is disbursed, is assigned a North
American Industry Classification System code beginning with 72;"

Businesses with an industry classification code beginning with 72 include all restaurants and hotels.

https://www.sba.gov/document/support--affiliation-rules-payc...
I wouldn't call surgical intervention and long-term emotional cost a very effective "shield," would you? It's an unfortunate mitigation at best.
Show me that magic unicorn company that spins data centres like that with 0 documentation bugs and I’ll join you criticising them. As it stands with limited resources I am pretty impressed with the speed AWS keeps adding capacity around the world.
CDRoms were solving the problems of storage. So what is the problem 5G is solving for the world?
hi, i've authored a set of OSS CLIs in this space based on my previous experiences orchestrating VMs, containers, IaaS resources:

- https://get-ytt.io (for templating/overlaying)

- https://get-kbld.io (for image ref updates)

- https://get-kapp.io (for deploying)

i would be interested to hear your take on comparison with your current pulumi setup.

i've been somewhat spoiled by using tools above so here are some benefits of using them that might align with some of your points within your article:

ytt:

- start with existing YAML configuration and "upgrade inline" with necessary templating

- fully sandboxed configuration building with a python-like language (no accidental dependencies on time, network, disk, etc. like you would experience with "regular" programming languages)

- ability to use both templating and overlaying to "shape" configuration data quickly and reliably.

kbld:

- adds image references to make deploys more deterministic

kapp:

- deals with ordering of CRDs, namespaces and other resources in one go

- works with resources in bulk (tracks them automatically via labels, prunes them when they are no longer needed etc.)

- waits for common resources to complete deploy

- does not store any state except one configmap with generated label (no complex failure scenarios).
Add Amazon Comprehend to Spring Boot Project
Not really shocking, actually. The total turnaround time on the bailout bill was, what, a week and a half? Writing laws is complicated. I doubt anyone would be shocked if a large company cobbled together a hugely fairly complicated piece of software in two weeks and it turned out to have some major bugs. Writing a law like this is a bit like that, except with the additional downside that you can't really do any testing before release and you have people being paid to leverage the program for their own interests.

I actually heard and interesting interview [0] with one of the people in charge of the 2008 bailouts. He said the lessons learned were essentially don't worry about being too aggressive and don't worry about spending time trying to engineer a law that will target exactly who you feel like you should target. The most important thing is speed.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/818583204
As an italian I can tell you there's LOTS of people smoking in italy... so there's also that.
I think it's laughable that the American public (of which I am a part) expected anything but this result. OF COURSE the little guy was going to get screwed. OF COURSE politicians were going to overlook loopholes that would allow the money to go to more established businesses. OF COURSE the machinations of the whole thing were going to be a campfire thrown into a dumpster fire packed in bonfire.
Former Employee here : The company is in a fucked up shape and the management team just saw this opportunity to trim the organisation into the right shape and grabbed it. There are a lot of sales people and you can totally call Yelp a fuckedup org that's overrun by sales people rather than by actually making a product.

Engineering management is a dumb cult here.
> But if the water business fails then someone will snap up the assets

The time & handover issues involved with that would probably cause a lot of issues and service interruptions for people.

You probably don't want that - as that will cause knock on effects like unrest, reduced santiary conditions, etc.

And specifically during this pandemic, if your water fails, that means more trips to the store to buy bottled water. Which means more chance for spreading the virus.
Does that mean that we have to force them into any list even if they don't belong there, just to be politically correct?

This is a list about cities, not civilizations. Nomadic populations can be included in lists that talk about those topics. There can also be a list of "oldest nomadic populations" from which cities are excluded.
The harder question is does everyone get paid the same per view. If i only listen to one song, does that artist get the $5 from my monthly subscription? If I view a 1000 things in a month, do they all get $0.005? It gets hard to put a value on a listen. Is it maybe $0.10? Well over an hour that is $2 and I can get audio cheaper elsewhere. I think you have to have tiers where each month you get X credits (partial rollover?) and then that is what the artist gets paid. Allow people to upgrade to higher levels on the fly

The sibling reply points to discover and unknowns getting any views at all. I think that is solvable with a different model. People who are unknown essentially "advertise" with the platform at the cost of 2 "views". People who listen to the unknown's song essentially earn two more views. And they might play that song later and the artist gets paid back essentially.
It's from here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

Artifacts of data representation undermine the direct translation to deaths occurring on a certain day, but for the purposes of saying "middle of an outbreak" this is probably enough.
Massie's stunt was an obvious and dangerous troll. You want all of Congress to come down with COVID? What nonsense is that. Massie was rightfully pilloried. THe obvious answer is to vote for the party that actually believes in sound government. The one that is not constantly dismantling important institutions. I have a lot of issues with the Democratic party positions on a number of matters, but they would not have been so entirely inept at every step of the way as team trump and his corrupt cronies. I mean, what the heck is Mnuchin even doing? Kudlow? THese are the people in the executive branch who should be working day and night to craft the regulations as Congress passes the law. The law states the rule, the regulations state how those rules will be implemented. That is how it is supposed to work. This administration is completely incapable of anything requiring competence. These crooks need to get voted out. They are literally killing us and destroying lives and careers.
Great advice, until you run out of genres. I tend to get more excited about finding something I hadn't heard from an old album/band. It gets rarer, and takes a lot of scrounging around.

New music - as I age, most of the "new" music falls into a handful of categories:
1) Sounds like band/song from the past - in fact I get driven crazy by my brain's pattern recognition trying to remember where that melody is originally from. Or older favorite band/musician singing the same old thing.
2) Just another male emo voice.
3) Autotuned. It's like unrealistic movies with too much CGI. Nothing there once you take it away.
4) Instrumental/jazz/weird, will let it play through but very rare to add it to a playlist

But ultimately, it's 98% boring out there. I want to be wrong, but I don't think there is ever going to be another year like 1969 or 1991 where any one of 10 albums would have been album of the year any other year.

It was really refreshing when Guitar Hero came out and that generation fell in love with older music. I didn't have to yell get-off-my-lawn for a few of years.
If you are able to float free for 4-6 months, I encourage you to do it. It can be scary, but also liberating. Sometimes you need to grant yourself the freedom to realize that something isn’t right in your life, and it may take time to reflect, heal, and grow.

I quit a job that I was miserable at after 3 years out of uni. I traveled and I enjoyed life on my own for a few months. And when the time came, I ended up taking a job that paid even less than the job I quit (it’s not all about the money) — it set me up for real success later down the line, and I regret nothing.

Granted, now is not an appropriate time to be traveling, so that isn’t really an upside ... but if you have other interests such as your side project, that can be just as gratifying.
When I listen to the same music over and over it rapidly becomes deadened. When I have it fully internalized I stop truly "listening" to it at all. A static music selection becomes a wasteland. It can recover given time - if I don't listen to something for a couple years it can become fresh again - but like grazing land, I have to keep moving.
Masks Don’t Work – A review of science relevant to Covid-19 social policy
I think Fedora Silverblue takes a very different approach here - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/

It basically doesn't try to fix the building blocks with all their legacy...instead it simply makes the entire operating system immutable.

I wonder what are the pros and cons of each approach. Or are they complementary.
So if Facebook pulls out of Vietnam, their economy is likely to suffer because of their own internal politics.

Sounds like another excellent reason to leave the country and refuse to support the regime until actual democracy is in place.

(Of course, you could say that argues that companies should leave the US now as well, but that's another can of worms.)

Facebook doesn't have any requirement to be embedded in society, anywhere. And regardless of its spot benefits anywhere, it is still an overall negative influence.
Well, I assume the article isn't covering the whole story (because otherwise it'd be a long story detracting from the point, so fair enough.) The Netherlands has a lot of greenhouses. I have no idea what the ratio of flowers to vegetables in them is though.
> It's closer to the other way around. Everyone without a car wishes they had one

Where does this sentiment come from? I don't own a car because I don't want one, and the pandemic hasn't changed this situation at all.
Congress wrote the rules on this behemoth of legislation, not the President.

Second, Shake Shack actually gave back their $10 million. Whether that was due to Trump or just bad press, I haven't looked to see, but it can't hurt.

Finally, if there is one thing that Trump is good at, it is using the podium as a bully pullpit. So yeah, I want him calling out companies to give money back. Even if he's only 1/2 successful, it's a lot better than not doing at all.

Am I frustrated like you? Sure, but legislation like this is always messy. Always.
Not the OP but perhaps if only accounting cared about it you could assign these IDs separately as some asynchronous single threaded process. This would only work if insert rates were low enough or the assignment of the gapless sequence only needed to be eventually concistent over some window of time (i.e. before next payroll we must have assigned gapless IDs to all the new user accounts)
Which ballot is for JP Morgan loan officers?

Or do you mean voting in my non-battleground state for US president (D for the past 30 years), or perhaps senator (D for the past 20 years)? What effect, exactly, are we hoping for?

‘Voting for financial policy change‘ is like ‘participating in a moment of silence for those we’ve lost to the pandemic‘. The act is something a reasonable person should do because they are a member of society but it is not a solution to that particular problem.
Have you lived in much younger cities? How does the weight of history in the old city compare? Do you prefer to live in a younger city, or an elder one, and why?

I grew up in New Orleans and every other US city I’ve lived in has felt kind of... unmoored... in a certain way, what history there is in much of the rest of the country has been thoroughly torn down, and it’s not like there’s much history in a 1940s building yet anyway.
iPhone SE: great for buyers, even better for Apple
Byblos
That is true. Thank you. We want to empower ourselves enough to invest back into product and make it awesome.

Specially during Covid we need to figure out how to stay alive without necessarily fundraising.
I like VSCode but also agree. Once you've felt the speed of native, like Sublime Text 3, especially when opening and working with a lot of files at once, it's really hard to use anything else, IMHO

That said, there are use cases for VSCode that don't really apply to ST3, etc
I like SQL when I'm not writing reporting queries. GROUP BYs bite me (With MySQL 8 I end up reaching for the ANY_VALUE() function), and I end up with more subqueries than I feel I should need.

When working with time-indexed data I feel I'm forcing the database to do something it doesn't want to. E.g. if I want to answer the query "How many sales are there per day this month?" and I want an entry for every day in the month, even when there were zero sales. Or another query asking "Which days didn't have sales?" and listing the days. I haven't found a way to do this in-database. I end up answering in code based on the data I fetch.

Definitely feel it's me not SQL, but not found the answer.
We created a pattern that when they finish the speaker nominates who goes next, cuts a bunch of awkward lag from going around the circle. Maybe give that a try.
Flip the script in a different way:

How many people have their Geocities site pulled from them?

I think this foundation's mission is great. I'm not expecting things to be "permanent". I already know that there is no such thing as anything that is permanent, including our lives and our health. If there is no such thing as absolute permanence in anything, then I can throw that idea out and look at the rest of what they are offering. To me, it is irrational to think that just because someone _doesn't_ say their stuff is "permanent" doesn't mean you can trust them as well.

What I see in this foundation is something that supports the internet that is not controlled by Big Tech. I think about my children and where we are going in our society, and I think that is something that I value. I valued it enough to have already pledged a donation for the price of two latte.
I'm happy for you that you got two loans. We don't have a ton of staff and by the time we got our application fully filled out, all the money was gone. Less than 48 hours later. Seems like our story is the norm. How are you not understanding that?
Clinical studies should answer that pretty quickly but yeah that's the idea, to have medical staff put nicotine patches if Nicotine prevents Covid-19
>Notice how this mess of a paragraph starts with a passive voice claim.

Welcome to scientific writing. Please stop wasting your time and see yourself out.
The term that I think you are looking for is called "deaccessioning" and Wikipedia has what I believe is a good page about it. Sometimes there are conditions, and the museum may have to go to court to be allowed to move forward (and a judge may not allow it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaccessioning_(museum)
Is GIMPLE any worse or better in this regards?
Stanford CoreNLP v4.0 Released
No surprise here. Yes, these programs will help out small businesses. But, the rich need their cut first.

Hopefully investigative journalists will be able to find the corruption/fraud in a few years.
Because, "business". That is, sales will drop for anyone who does this.

That's friction that will reduce sales, and online sellers will move to a provider that does not do this. Stripe would go out of business if it made it more difficult to buy things.
Ask HN: Would you like your favourite celebrity read a book to you?
I'm working on a product where you can select a book, and a voice you want and I'd read out the book summary or review in that voice. Imagine Barack Obama or Morgan Freeman reading your favorite bedtime stories!

My questions are

1. I'm unsure about how to make it a good and useful product. What are some of the usecases? I can summarize blogs, books, etc, but what else?

2. What are the copyright implications here? Can I just take someone's voice and use it?
Sooo confused by this. This doesn't seem competitive at all. Is there some super secret special sauce that's not immediately apparent in the spec sheet? Who the hell is going to buy this?????
The US saw it as a good alternative to the cocaine trade .. "To offer incentives for alternative crops, the US under the administration of President George HW Bush passed the Andean Trade Preference Act in 1991, which dropped duties on agricultural products like flowers for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia."

So there's that.
It's hard for people new to programming or talking to a computer to understand how to be precise enough

And I think filenames with spaces is a great example of this
> The world has more than enough food growing to feed everyone.

That's quite a statement you made there, especially in the context of Africa.
If some likes to push a homebrew cask package for it, here is a possible source:

cask 'gui-tar' do
version '1.2.4'
sha256 'e11177b99a01d5cff666f68072fd2145cccda4678a8a98203d97929cbe53dea2'

url "http://www.edenwaith.com/downloads/guitar.dmg"
name 'GUI Tar'
homepage 'http://www.edenwaith.com/products/guitar/'

app 'GUI Tar.app'
end
I'm an English professor and I get email from predatory journals all the time. They often have weird, incredibly expansive titles (The International Journal of Business, Science, and Human Culture -- something like that).

I don't really understand how they manage to stay in business, though. We all know that there's a difference between Cell Biology and this kind of fly-by-night nonsense. In some disciplines, journals are quite explicitly ranked by "quality," acceptance rate, etc. Certainly, my colleagues would know immediately if I was publishing in some venue like this; it just wouldn't "count."

Perhaps this scam is intended for another group? Some quack scientist (say) wants to create a giant verifiable CV of their "publications?" Or someone needs some kind of scholarly credentials as a humanist or social scientist, but is unaffiliated?

The whole thing is a bit mystifying to me.

EDIT: I don't mean to imply, by the way, that "unaffiliated" scholars are somehow forced to do this. I know quite a few independent scholars who do excellent work and publish in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals.
sure, it's an easy fix, but it's one more hurdle to jump across.
I had/have dual MDA and CGA compatible video cards in my 8088 PC, and used it extensively for debugging. There were debuggers that would run well on MDA, while the program displayed on the graphics adapter. Additionally, I soldered a pushbutton switch to the NMI and ground on the CPU, and hitting that would break out of whatever might be locking the system and give control back to the debugger. For the 80s, it was a delightful setup.
I think US universities are forced to cover things again due to a failure in the K-12 system of schooling that precedes it, and the lack of adequate testing to weed out ill prepared individuals.

In many countries, these kids would probably not get into college in the first place due to failing preparatory tests. In the US there are many financial incentives to pull in as many kids as possible and that may cause a lowering of barriers.

An observation in the maths, many countries in Asia cover calculus at the middle school level and continue into high school, in the US I noticed many public schools categorize calculus as an advanced (sometimes elective) high school subject.
I'd assume not supporting JPMC as a customer (as well as the businesses that use JPMC for commercial and investment banking services), perhaps protests next. Are we in an era when JPMC senior leadership would be doxxed online? I would be surprised if we weren't.

Lots of actions available besides the political process where you can still remain firmly on the right side of the law but cause discomfort to the other party. Don't break the law.
Since when are small business owners "the people"? As of 2012, only 21.5% of small businesses even employed anyone; 73.5% of them were sole proprietorships.[0] Most Americans don't work for these companies.

I'm a little bit playing devil's advocate, but why is it a given that "small business owners" are a special class that the government should take extra pains bailing out?

[0] https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf
So, Lisbon is older than Rome, TIL!
The Worst Rebrand in the History of Orange Juice
I wonder what the role of this pheromone is in species where females can also get pregnant 24 hours after giving birth, and have 15 litters a year.

And how how effective is this pheromone at population control, in practice? The researcher quoted in the article says it might be useful in natural environments to keep resource competition and overpopulation down, but (anecdotally) I do not associate mice with conservation of resources and population control: they're infamous for devouring all available resources and breeding without any obvious signs of, umm, demureness.

Needless to say, I'm no biologist.
Is JP Morgan to blame that the guy you voted for gave it some money to spend on its biggest customers? You fail to see that JP Morgan is just the middle man.
Do they really? evercookie generally has a specific definition, where the application attempts to persist that chunk of data in heavy-handed, abusive, malware-like ways and repopulating it on removal with the same token when possible; usually used in fingerprinting concepts - it isn't just a normal http cookie with the expiration date set years out.
I always see Visual Studio Code trotted out as an example of a relatively fast Electron app. I do use Visual Studio Code (for complicated reasons), but if I were to describe it to someone, the first thing I'd mention is that opening a new window (i.e., the `⇧⌘N` shortcut) is incredibly slow. For this action, it's easily the slowest of any application I use regularly, I can count to three before the window appears, a normal application is ready for input practically instantaneously.
What's it like being a shithead
When do you have a handful of sand? If you take 1 grain of sand and put it in your hand, that's not a handful. Same with 2, 3. How many grains of sand constitutes a handful?
This is for spontaneous pentesting on the go, when you don’t want to get a laptop.
Remote Secures $11M in Seed Funding Round
As Android Wear still continues to flip flop on features and functionality, unsurprisingly Apple Watch continues to run the smartwatch and wearables show in 2019. [0]

[0] https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS46122120
I spotted Afghanistan which is pretty damn Central Asian.
Fair enough, though I'm fairly sure my computer, even when idle, draws more power than my fridge.